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It was January 31, 1968. The firecrackers, the music, and the cheers of the crowds gathered in Saigon to celebrate the Lunar New Year masked the bombardment and small-arms fire of the nearby Viet Cong and NVA troops that infiltrated the city and began attacking.
Chaos quickly overwhelmed the area, and as the Americans tried to strategically distribute their forces, they received an alarming call. The Embassy at Saigon was under attack, and enemy forces were already inside the compound.
Soldiers from the 101st Airborne Division were immediately dispatched to save the US citizens inside, but as the men approached the objective aboard their helicopters to land on the roof, intense Viet Cong fire forced them to abort.
Time was running out for the overwhelmed Marines and Military Police fighting the intruders inside the compound. It was imperative that the soldiers made another pass before it was too late…
Chaos quickly overwhelmed the area, and as the Americans tried to strategically distribute their forces, they received an alarming call. The Embassy at Saigon was under attack, and enemy forces were already inside the compound.
Soldiers from the 101st Airborne Division were immediately dispatched to save the US citizens inside, but as the men approached the objective aboard their helicopters to land on the roof, intense Viet Cong fire forced them to abort.
Time was running out for the overwhelmed Marines and Military Police fighting the intruders inside the compound. It was imperative that the soldiers made another pass before it was too late…
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Paul Hardcastle - 19 (Official Music Video)
Subscribe to Chrysalis Records' YouTube channel: https://chrys.lnk.to/SubscribeOfficial music video for 19 by Paul Hardcastle.Connect with CHRYSALIS RECORDS:...
This song came out in the 1980s. It was mixed in my last post but I had too many things attached and you couldn't see it.
https://youtu.be/0sajngb0W6I
https://youtu.be/0sajngb0W6I
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The irony of this all is that Vietnam is now our friend. It still may be communist but they make most of our sports shoes. Vietnam wants protection from the USA because of China and we are actually allowed back and our Navy ships can now visit the ports of call of our former Naval bases in South Vietnam.
Our open borders policy has also allowed fentanyl to come in from China and kill more people in one year than all we lost in vietnam. If we're losing 100,000 a year to fentanyl including recently druggie rapper Coolio, open borders has allowed the infiltration of fentanyl to come to the USA and our homeland security dunce
Alejandro Nicholas Mayorkas had the deer in the headlights look last week when being grilled by senator Ted Cruz.
https://murphy.house.gov/media/press-releases/murphy-fentanyl-killing-more-young-americans-covid-19
https://youtu.be/0sajngb0W6I
President Trump has been out for over 2 years and 3 months yet President Biden has blood on his hands.
Maj Kim Patterson PO1 William "Chip" Nagel
Our open borders policy has also allowed fentanyl to come in from China and kill more people in one year than all we lost in vietnam. If we're losing 100,000 a year to fentanyl including recently druggie rapper Coolio, open borders has allowed the infiltration of fentanyl to come to the USA and our homeland security dunce
Alejandro Nicholas Mayorkas had the deer in the headlights look last week when being grilled by senator Ted Cruz.
https://murphy.house.gov/media/press-releases/murphy-fentanyl-killing-more-young-americans-covid-19
https://youtu.be/0sajngb0W6I
President Trump has been out for over 2 years and 3 months yet President Biden has blood on his hands.
Maj Kim Patterson PO1 William "Chip" Nagel
Murphy: “Fentanyl is killing more young Americans than COVID-19”
Greenville, N.C. – Over the weekend, Rep. Greg Murphy, M.D. (NC-03) published the following op-ed in The Daily Advance highlighting the tragic fentanyl crisis in America which has become the leading cause of death among adults aged 18-45.
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Sgt Bob Leonard
It’s irony on top of irony when you realize that Vietnam wanted to be our friend in 1945.
Arthur Hale
US Information Agency
1945
“Nowhere did the coming of Americans (in 1945), in the case a mere handful of them, mean so much to a people as it did to the population of northern Indo-China. To Annamites, our coming was the symbol of liberation not from the Japanese occupation but from decades of French colonial rule. For the Annamite government considered the United States the principal champion of the rights of small peoples, guaranteed so promisingly by the United Nations conferences... Our prowess in the war, our vast production abilities, our progressiveness in technical and social fields- all were known by the Annamites, to a surprising degree. In their blueprint for self-government they envisaged American trade bringing them peacetime products.”
“Above all they want the good will of the American people and our government. From the top of the Annamite leadership to the bottom of the social scale in Tonkin, every person made a visible effort to please American officers and men. They offered courtesies and simple gestures of friendship at every opportunity.”
“The C.B.I. (China-Burma-India Campaign) patch on the shoulder of an American was his ticket to a warm welcome and good treatment... Annamites asked for all sorts of advice-how to run a newspaper, how to repair and operate machinery, how to run a street-cleaning department most efficiently-even though they were managing quite well indeed in operating utilities and other physical functions of government. They inquired about our schools, our courts, our elections, about the workings of both houses of the Congress. They seemed to feel that every American contained within himself all the virtues and accomplishments of the nation they wanted most to emulate...”
- Arthur Hale, U.S. Information Agency 1945 (not declassified until 1972)
America - “... the nation they wanted most to emulate...”
Arthur Hale
US Information Agency
1945
“Nowhere did the coming of Americans (in 1945), in the case a mere handful of them, mean so much to a people as it did to the population of northern Indo-China. To Annamites, our coming was the symbol of liberation not from the Japanese occupation but from decades of French colonial rule. For the Annamite government considered the United States the principal champion of the rights of small peoples, guaranteed so promisingly by the United Nations conferences... Our prowess in the war, our vast production abilities, our progressiveness in technical and social fields- all were known by the Annamites, to a surprising degree. In their blueprint for self-government they envisaged American trade bringing them peacetime products.”
“Above all they want the good will of the American people and our government. From the top of the Annamite leadership to the bottom of the social scale in Tonkin, every person made a visible effort to please American officers and men. They offered courtesies and simple gestures of friendship at every opportunity.”
“The C.B.I. (China-Burma-India Campaign) patch on the shoulder of an American was his ticket to a warm welcome and good treatment... Annamites asked for all sorts of advice-how to run a newspaper, how to repair and operate machinery, how to run a street-cleaning department most efficiently-even though they were managing quite well indeed in operating utilities and other physical functions of government. They inquired about our schools, our courts, our elections, about the workings of both houses of the Congress. They seemed to feel that every American contained within himself all the virtues and accomplishments of the nation they wanted most to emulate...”
- Arthur Hale, U.S. Information Agency 1945 (not declassified until 1972)
America - “... the nation they wanted most to emulate...”
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