Vietnam veterans end war protest by tossing medals away
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wash: vietnam veterans end war protest by tossing medals away:
wac 17106 "viet veterans" shows: vets on mall: vets in long line at capitol: pan from dome to new fence: sof vets rally before capitol: sof sev scenes medals thrown over fence: cu medals on ground:
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My dad served in Vietnam, he barely talks about it. When he drinks he opens up. I remember him telling me one of his best friends, got shot in the head right next to me, that shit broke him. He said when he got back home he threw his uniform in the trash. I respect all those Vietnam war vets, fighting a stupid war for no real reason.
Man, that is hardcore. Those veterans got such a raw deal in essentially all regards relative to the war.
How so, exactly?
@@terryvThey got maimed or mutilated, lost their best friends or many acquaintances they met during time overseas, witnessed firsthand the darkest depths of humanity to return home to be scorned and shunned, spat on and called murderers. On top of that many ended up destitute and homeless. What thoughts would a 19 or 20 year old returning from the worst moments of his life think? I completely understand the rage that the country’s treatment of these men may have instilled in them upon returning. Just a total failure we never scorned our soldiers returning from conflict EVER. These young men were well past fed up I’d guess.
@@bobertkallahan4392 - You scatter so many tidbits of unsubstantiated urban legend about Vietnam veterans that I hardly know where to begin. What, exactly, would be the "darkest depths of humanity" they experienced that exceeded experiences of any other war? Who, specifically, returned home to be "scorned, shunned, spat upon, [and] called murderers"? Any evidence of same, besides tired, worn, third-hand hearsay? Are you old enough to have witnessed (or inflicted) any of these transgressions personally? If so, did you step in to do anything about it? Or do you just regurgitate them without evidence? I’d ignore this sort of drivel for the silly nonsense that it is, but these boards are populated by impressionable readers who absorb it, and pass it on, gullibly and indiscernibly. They know no better, and lack the intellectual curiosity to insist on proof.
Personally I would shake all of those men's hands not for fighting a war they were forced to go to.Theu deserve way more respect.
EXACTLYT!! Our government is evil as evil can get...
Bet you want everyone else to be required to be a conformist.
Something like this these days would have the protestors cited for littering.
"A silver star, and everything else"
Looked like a Navy pilot ?
Sugar Spice And Everything Nice
disabled vet here,I noticed that none of them threw away their US Army/Marine etc tapes, or unit patches which represent their buddies; just the atta boy good job replaceable stuff.
Aussies, Kiwis, the ARVNS and South Koreans tend to get overlooked in Nam films.
Well they can have their own media make documentaries and videos about them in their respective countries. No one is stopping them.
@@DarkKnight-yz2wg One good film is The Odd Angry Shot, Australia, roughly '79. But the big budget films started with Apocalypse Now, same period. Of course, bugger all references to the Americans' allies.
@@Kelly14UK Probably true; I am sure you know the game. Keep in mind we inherited this nonsense from the French; our first and longest serving ally. We don’t mention that and I am sure the French don’t mention us in their documentation of their involvement in Nam. Just the way war works. I love my Allies, Aussies included. But, the game is the game. Nothing we, as citizens, can do about it.
@Big Daddy That fits perfectly in the Sino Soviet agenda.
@@DarkKnight-yz2wg Maybe, but the fact is is that the ROK Marines and Soliders and ANZAC forces fought tremendously and died for the US and South Vietnamese cause and deserve more recognition in America.
America still had not payed a dime in helping the victims of the Agent Orange or any reparation to my country.🇻🇳! It's about time we get our money!
I agree. Such a waste and harm to millions of people.
War is old men talking and young men dying
King Odysseus, Troy 2004 movie
Or collectivists lying.
Being a soldier it's either you dead on the spot on war or you live with some problem with mental and physical, it is why i have so much respect for our veterans they risk their own life for everyones safety...
Makes you wanna cry, all the suffering they went through.
True bravery.
American civilians (Richard Nixon's "Silent Majority") often threatened these veterans
Um... proof?
Ron Kovic was spit on in his wheelchair at the Republican National Convention and called a “communist” for opposing the war.
@@AJY987 Sadly, the very people who protested the war alongside Kovic would come back and spit on returning veterans once the war ended
@@rithvikmuthyalapati9754there are without a doubt isolated incidents of this, but the idea it is widespread is just an urban legend, theres a book written on this, the spitting image.
I was here that day.
These guys are my heroes.
Indeed
I suppose you don't work, and rely on the efforts of others to support you.
And I suppose you are a Neanderthal that talks out of your ass. There should be a law that prohibits people like yourself from commenting. But as the clown Vietnam veterans would say....they fought for your freedom to speak your mind. That includes the ignorant as well.
This is heartbreaking ..
damn where were those barricades on the Capitol in January 2021?!?
oh, they didn't need them. The feds rolled out the red carpet and LET them in. It IS the people's house, you know
My grandfather was shot in both Korea and Vietnam, he loved his country and was proud to be an American. I don't know how he'd have felt about these soldiers doing this act, but I personally believe it is well within their right to discard the signs of their own valorous conduct if those signs are not in alignment with their ideals. That is the right of every American. May God have mercy on the souls of all those who did not come home, and may he comfort the minds of those who did come home with less of themselves, mentally and physically.
Don't worry they trowed their medal away now they lost their "respect" because they where just hipster that where a waste to human life.
Eduardo .v No human is a waste to life my friend.
Discard them, and then claim the rights and benifits thereof?
Gee, I'm a Draft/Vietnam war resistor....and I have no medals to throw away. O well....it appears I didn't miss anything.
Finally they've realised. Good
No more war
What happened to those medals?.Were they sent to the military?.
They probably gave it to the next idiot who is willing to die for a cartoon character (uncle sam)
@Teresa Downes if you don't like freedom of speech leave America. 😁
Yeah just let everyone who died for a country die for nothing 😋
@@cameronkamdar110 Actually, we should let those boomers died for nothing. In fact, we have the responsibility to show the military that their war-mongering is for nothing.
The only way to destroy the military-worshipping culture in the West is to publicly denounce and discredit the actions of all the military personnels in the history.
@@cameronkamdar110 they did die for nothing
Man, as much as a patriot as I am, these men actually fought & pretty much said it was all 4 not.... who are we to tell them other wise (if you didn't fight that is)
I agree with you. Because these veterans actually served time in the military (in this pitiful war,) then they absolutely have earned the right to criticize their President and his administration.
Most veterans who discard their medals don’t do it because they hate the country they served for, and they don’t do it out of protest either. They simply just believe that they don’t deserve the credit and that the ones who do deserve it were the ones who never made it back. They feel ashamed to be awarded while their buddies were killed and that they are the ones who end up forgotten. I met three Medal of Honor recipients who got theirs from Afghanistan and all of them never said they personally deserve the Medal. But they would say they gladly would wear it for their friends who didn’t survive. And I believe that. We made these heroes against their own will, instead, we should give the honors to those who fallen in combat, who gave it their all. You can always disagree with the war itself if you want, but don’t ever forget those men and what they did. Especially those who paid the highest price.
You do not know nothing until you served in the war all thing you said are Hollywood son of bitches script
Muhamad Ryadho Andhika Priyatama Have u been in the Vietnam war? No? Ok stop talking shit.
@DasTemplar96
My uncle served in Vietnam and won the Bronze Star with Valor along with a purple heart for the incident. He ended up saving numerous lives in the process. Over the years be rarely talked about the incident so the family have no clue of how serious it really was. It wasn't until after he passed away that I decided to track down some guys from his platoon discovered what he really did. More than one said he should have won the silver star for his actions. While he never bragged about his bronze star. He was not ashamed of it in any way.
@@xeno4204 well we have many war on this planet lol
thank you
Hm. The psychological horrors they experienced over a war, that wasn't even any of the U.S.'s business, during the period of the "Red Scare". Was during the defunding of mental health assistance as well. Prepared tunnel systems, usage of mines, tunnel rat soldiers being drowned or gassed, bamboo chute spike pits. They deserved better. Soldier's simply doing their duty, misinformed by the administration that sent them there, and then return to suffer scrutiny after simply believing they were serving their country. Simply saying no more war is admirably naive, but as people and nations there is always going to be competition, as it is what drives people and nations forward, whether to improve life or keep ourselves secure. While cute to say no more war, it's naive to think that everyone, especially a nation that's needing more land or material or resources to fuel their people, would share the sentiment.
And they might have believed that you almost cared.
Could anybody tell me where it took place, please? Thanks
These are the members of Vietnam Veterans Against the War tossing away their medals in protest of the poor way they believed the administration handled the war...
In front of the Congress
@@daneliezergabrieli2102 Thanks a lot. I remember this but I couldn't remember where it was.
It was directly in front of the John Jay statute. I was there. As the medals flew over the fence a few of the photographers started picking them up until the crowd angrily demanded they stop and not touch them. I remember one of the photographers commented something like, "yup, these are real....."
It was a statute of John Marshall. One of the first Chief Justices of the Supreme Court.
The Ribbons are not medal.
nice to see US soldiers that actually think and know that the cause of that war was point less.
killing thousand innocent people and those who make their nation independent and losing many of their own men not to mention the injured one's from the traps.
and all this for what? so that a different system would not spread further. and if any one say it is to defend the south Vietnam well i have to inform him of 3 things.
1:south vietnam was not meant to exist in the first place,but the US forced them to have it and make elections once that would determine who would have vietnam.
every person in the country knew it would be ho chi mihn but the president of the south changed the votes and make it look as if he won by far.
2: many people in south vietnam where very aggressive,not to mention the government. they favored the catholic minority and gave important government positions only to them while the buddhist people had to change their faith in order to get such jobs and ever forcibly even. they even where banned to fly their flag when they where to honor their prophet and thet led them to a peaceful protest and guess what. they shot 9 protest and try to blame it to the vietcong and when one of the buddhist monks burned him self (without even flinching or crying by the way) what did the wife of a politician Madame Nhu said? she found it funny called it a barbecue and said:"let them burn and we shall clap our hands." in her own words.
3:they took almost no prisoners,they killed even their own people either by accident or because they believed them to be viet cong.
not to mention how fascist like their behavior was especially towards POW's.
I guess those gold pieces eventually were picked up by the Federal Reserve guys.
Put those medals at the base of the Vietnam War Memorial in Washington D.C. Those Vets can't say anything anymore.
Or maybe many they'd toss their medals over that wall just like their surviving brethren? You're no necromancer, their souls belong to them.
They can’t say anything anymore because your dumb arse is speaking for them
0:20 You know my Bestfriends Grandpa was in Vietnam and he has an eyepatch from the war I wonder if thats him lol
Think about how much preparation there was to keep the capitol secure in that time period and all of a sudden we have news of insurrectionists storming the building after someone opened a gate. Wtf happened. I can only try to understand what it must take for a soldier who knows what it takes to get those medals, and end up rebuking it because they know if wasn't done in Just cause. We have done a disservice as a populace to those who have sacrificed their lives whether still living or not to our defense. We owe a responsibility to God and ourselves to maintain a state of Just order and right the wrongs of previous generations.
American ex-servicemen from the Vietnam War throwing away their service decorations, including decorations for bravery and for being wounded in action, is a pretty extreme act.
It just goes to show how alienated so many American Vietnam vets were from their government and, indeed, society and how divisive the Vietnam War was to American society--and America has never been the same since the Vietnam War. And that is tragic.
Anglosaxon Criminal Empire =ACE
it isnt a matter of anti war, because in spite of this, the medals should resemble your dead friends
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They can also destroy our flag. See how young people, even soldiers can be manipulated. Weak mind.
I believe it's dishonorable to throw away military medals like that but I find these men excused they went through pain and shame also the way they were treated when they got back from Vietnam I respect all the people in this video
Stupid is as stupid does.
I wonder how many of them regret doing what they did after becoming a little more mature and wise. Sad.
Xyce Bedet not that many I'm sure. These men came back from chaos and had time to process what they went through before they decided they would throw their medals away. They were probably angry that the government forced them to kill other young men who were also forced to fight. I think their biggest regrets are represented through the throwing of their medals
War is hell dude. My Uncle was drafted and saw many of his friends die in the war, he personally hated the government for forcing him to go to war. He currently has PTSD and tells me never to join something so horrible.
These Veterans were well in their rights to throw away their awards. Because ribbons don’t give lives back.
i spotted the fash
@@agentsquid9079 true.
A nice ans cute metal insignia is nothing. Ddont represent what this people lived or what they think, and also that medals are theirs. They can shit on it if they want