Posted on May 3, 2019

Paris is chosen as site for peace talks

SP5 Mark Kuzinski

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After 34 days of discussions to select a site, the United States and North Vietnam agree to begin formal negotiations in Paris on May 10, or shortly thereafter. Hanoi disclosed that ex-Foreign Minister Xuan Thuy would head the North Vietnamese delegation at the talks. Ambassador W. Averell Harriman was named as his U.S. counterpart. The start of negotiations brought a flurry of hope that the war might be settled quickly. Instead, the talks rapidly degenerated into a dreary ritual of weekly sessions, during which both sides repeated long-standing positions without seeming to come close to any agreement.

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Paris is chosen as site for peace talks

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CPT Gurinder (Gene) Rana

Posted 6 y ago

Vietnam for many Veterans, who took part in the campaign, is a sore memory on the one hand and victory on the other. Victory because those that survived have returned home. A sore memory because most witnessed their comrades die on foreign soil and only some of those remains came home. The question remains as to why the US engaged in Vietnam; Vietnam was not a war against the US, but a war to establish the triumph of communism over Vietnam? It may have been a political decision, yet was Vietnam a threat to the US or its interests in the SEA region? Questions still inundate veterans who served in that era.
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LTC John Mohor

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I was chatting recently w an SF Veteran of Vietnam and he sees It as our need for rubber. Even after the French lost they still owned the rubber tree plantations in South Vietnam. Kinda reminded me of Mideast Oil reserves. It sure shed a different light on a why we were there and then leaving or trying to leave after DuPont created synthetic rubber in 1969

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