Originally posted by lada
im wondering a bit about Vietnamies veterans...
People still speak about them as Heros...
From historical point of view, they were nothing but people whitch caused big shame under US flag.
Or do you consider vietnam to be great won in history ?
All around world people mostly present war in Vietnam as lose and shame of US. Some how some people still belive in something else.
What else is it in your opinion, if you dis agree it were nothing but shame ?
The Americans in Vietnam fought as hard and died as painfully as any soldiers of any army before or after them. The difference is, they were not fighting for their own homeland, or for their own freedom. In truth, dare I say, they often fought for things and ideals they didn't fully understand, and yet they fought and gave up their existance anyway, like true men, like real soldiers. They fought and died and those that survived came home to hatred that they did not deserve. These men, who risked their lives, need to be respected and awknoweldged not because they fought for the righteous cause, and in many eyes, it was a righteous cause, but because they risked their necks when their own survival did not depend on it. They need to be remembered and honored and we need to learn from them and from the mistakes of the government that made their experience even more painful.
Judging by your words, you've learned nothing. You enjoy passing judgement. Unlike others on this board, I do not take lightly to your freshreshingly-liberated former Soviet-bloc ignorance masquarading as enlightenment. These are not your people, and you seem to be all the more happy to be dis-associated from them.
You sir, are an ignorant individual.
