Vietnam in HD
- Thread starter JRW (QOR)
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Different generations eh. I graduated High School the year the US pulled out of Vietnam. Had absoulutly no desire what so ever to be involved. Met a few american familes abroad years ealier who where loathing the thought of having to return to US as their sons were certain to be drafted.
Myself, I have always felt I have some how missed a call to duty as a RAF Lanc tail gunner. Yup, born too late. Good Lord who would ever want to voluneer for such duty! Strange eh.
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Yep and they open the first episode talking about the Gulf of Tonkin incident which has been proven to be false. Then they go on with the body count casualty estimation system that is now believed to have been overly exaggerated by the US military.
Today's casualties estimates indicates that the US forces inflicted a 3:2 ratio of communist combat deaths against US/South Vietnam deaths, excluding civilians casualties.
Still a good show to watch only for the footage quality.
You dont want to be in war..trust me. NOTHING FUN OR GLORIFIED HERE. I lost almost 75% of my family during the Vietnam War. I'm Hmong (mountain people of Laos & Vietnam) and my father fought in Laos, preventing the communist spread(pathet lao) & north vietnamese, and rescueing US pilots out of the Vietnam/Laotion border. Our people were exiled after the war ended when commies took over. It was genocide after that...thats why I'm here.
Ya'all might also be interested in seeing if "The Ten Thousand Day War" is available to buy somewhere. It was also a Vietnam documentary done in 1980 by Michael McClear (a Canadian). It had about 25 episodes that ran on TV at the time.
Yes. And its legacy in military tactics & weaponry is far reaching even to this day. Airmobile, Top Gun, M16 system, attack helicopter gunship, Recondo school, Navy SEAL etc were all born out of the Nam conflict. The war once again confirms how evil communism truly is as the world witnessed first hand the tragedy of Cambodia killing field, desperation of the Vietnamese boat people fleeing communism and widespread prosecution of minority groups in remote jungles & mountains of Vietnam, Cambodia & Laos after the commie victory. US was correct in stopping commie aggression in Indo China. It was the constant political interference from Washington & leftie media bias coverage that ended up dooming the US military mission in Vietnam, not the commie aggressor NVA & VC under Ho Chi Minh who took the victory credit they did not truly earn.
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Travis Bickle
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Is there any mention in it about the 30,000 Canadians who joined the U.S. Military to fight in Vietnam (110 dead and 7 MIA)?
I find it amazing that this historical fact goes so often unknown. we don't include it as part of our military history at all.
A Canadian was actualy awarded the US Medal of Honour if I'm not mistaken.
Very interesting part of our countries lesser known history IMO.
I find it amazing that this historical fact goes so often unknown. we don't include it as part of our military history at all.
A Canadian was actualy awarded the US Medal of Honour if I'm not mistaken.
Very interesting part of our countries lesser known history IMO.
The majority of Canadians who joined up were in for the green card. I imagine most of them ended up staying in US and became Americans after the war. I heard even The Legion would not recognize their service in their clubs. That's how little respect they get up here.
Travis Bickle
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"30,000 Canadians"
Really? I'm find that hard to swallow. U sure? A couple thou maybe.
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Look it up Sir.
I researched it pretty extensively when I found out about the whole thing maybe a year ago. I was shocked.
The is a book called Unknown Warriors: Canadians In Vietnam, the name of the author escapes me at the moment.
30,000 is the closest they can get with actual confirmation. There may have even been more because many of them when they crossed the border and enlisted lied about being citizens of the U.S. so they could go and fight.
That number also included Canadian born citizens who had moved to the States and became citizens but still fought in the conflict. They account for a larger number of the whole I'm sure.
Quite the untold story of this nations history.
Travis Bickle
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The reason so many joined was primarily because of the massive cuts in our nations military in the early 60's.
A lot of soldiers and service members were out of a job or disilusioned with our nations stance on not getting involved with Vietnam with our American cousins when only 10 years earlier we took a stance against Communist oppression in Korea.
It was a combination of the two that created the large numbers.
A small veterans club in Michigan actualy took out mortgages on their homes and maxed out credit cards to fund the North Wall memorial in Windsor and even still they had a fist fight with the government over building the monument on Canadian soil in the mid 80's.
Pretty ####ing pathetic.
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I saw that on a W-5 or Fifth Estate episode about 25 years ago. The Legion spokesman basically said it was a U.S. war that isn't "recognized" by the Legion.
I wonder what their current policy is.
"30,000 Canadians"
Really? I'm find that hard to swallow. U sure? A couple thou maybe.
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Travis is right, I even read figures as high as 60 000 Canadians serving in Vietnam.
