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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region Forums40 Years Ago Today, The Last US Combat Troops Left Vietnam
http://bigstory.ap.org/interactive/vietnam-anniversary
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40 Years Ago Today, The Last US Combat Troops Left Vietnam (Original Post)
WilliamPitt
Mar 2013
OP
Madness! I'll never forget the films of people surrounding the American Embassy
mountain grammy
Mar 2013
#1
Yet our "leaders" still believe that getting involved in civil wars is necessary.
Tierra_y_Libertad
Mar 2013
#3
People to this day still do not understand how horrific this war was on American families
MichiganVote
Mar 2013
#4
mountain grammy
(26,642 posts)1. Madness! I'll never forget the films of people surrounding the American Embassy
trying to get out. What a fucking fiasco.. My husband was a crew chief on one of those Huey's two years earlier. He said he cried for the Vietnamese when he watched the evacuation of Saigon. He left so many friends behind.
sinkingfeeling
(51,469 posts)2. Thanks, Will, now I feel so old cause I remember it.
Tierra_y_Libertad
(50,414 posts)3. Yet our "leaders" still believe that getting involved in civil wars is necessary.
And, we still keep losing them.
"The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary." H.L. Mencken
MichiganVote
(21,086 posts)4. People to this day still do not understand how horrific this war was on American families
datasuspect
(26,591 posts)5. and we still haven't learned not one goddamned motherfucking thing
Bigmack
(8,020 posts)6. What you said times 1000. nt
Paladin
(28,269 posts)7. X 1000, for sure. (nt)