In this episode: After early domination through Operation Thunder, three years of B52 raids, napalm and Agent Orange drops, in 1968 the Vietcong Tet Offensive turned the tide, the TV war began in full, anti-war demos, the Martin Luther King and Robert Kennedy assassinations and My Lai massacre. The war was now being shown on the nightly news for the first time. Over half a million US troops are deployed.
The Tet Offensive did NOT "turn the tide". The American people wanted "peace with honor"...and they stated that with their overwhelming vote for Richard Nixon, in 1972...4 years after the Tet Offensive saw the Vietcong CRUSHED. The "peace at any price" candidate, George McGovern was solidly beaten by Nixon. That "American people had had enough of Vietnam" was a lie perpetrated by the Democratic Congress to justify their betrayal of the MILLIONS of American Veterans who fought there as well as the 10's of Millions of South Vietnamese who trusted the USA to live up to its agreement to defend South Vietnam against the Communist powers of the Soviet Union, Red China and Communist North Vietnam.
This is David Staudohar USMC on the cover page , TAD for the military police at camp Pendleton, guarding draft dodgers and deserters, was probably the most difficult job I ever had in a Marine corps Semper Fidelis 3 3 3 🦅🌍🇺🇸‼️
I lost my father in Vietnam. I recently spent a month in Vietnam touring the areas where my fathers unit operated. I went there fully expecting to be met with animosity, fear, and mistrust. I was met with the exact opposite. The people I met were very friendly, open, and understanding. In one village I had the chance to meet an NVA officer whose unit fought against my fathers. I did not think that he would agree to speak with me and I was absolutely floored when he not only agreed to the meeting but invited me to stay with his family. I stayed with this gentleman and his family for 3 days talking at length about the war. We still write to each other once a week. I went to find out more about my father and left having made lifelong friends and finding a sort of second family bound not by blood but by war, well I guess in a way bound by blood also.
❤ as a Vietnamesse. I have to say that people here not hates American.we blamed on Chales De Gaule and Hary Truman made 3M Vietnamesse dead and 300k young American sodiers wounded
chúng tôi có lịch sử 3000 năm chống giặc ngoại xâm , đó là trung quốc , mông cổ , pháp ,mỹ,nhật.... và bạn nghĩ xem . nếu chúng tôi ôm mối hận thù thì có nghĩa chúng tôi sẽ k quan hệ ngoại giao với 1/2 thế giới sao ? nếu bạn tôn trọng chúng tôi thì chắc chắn bạn luôn được chào đón, kể cả khi bạn là một người lính. còn nhiều điều về lịch sử VN và cuộc chiến của cha bạn mà tôi chắc chắn bạn chưa được biết. có rất nhiều người lính đã đầu hàng or bị bắt làm tù binh nhưng khi người dân miền Bắc phải chịu đói thì Lãnh tụ Hồ Chí Minh vẫn chỉ thị phải cấp dưỡng cho những tù binh đầy đủ . chúng tôi tôn trọng công ước thế giới về tù binh chiến tranh và điều này bạn có thể tìm tư liệu từ chính những người lính mỹ . và bạn có biết là những người lĩnh mỹ như nghĩ sĩ john mcCain được đối xử như nào khi bị bắt làm tù binh k ? những người lính đánh thuê cũng vậy, họ bị lừa dối về mục đích cuộc chiến mỹ tạo ra. khi họ biết sự thật đã tự làm bị thương mình để được giải thoát, bạn biết mohamed Ali chấp nhận đi tù thay vì cầm súng ở VN k ? quân đội VN dưới sự lãnh đạo của Hồ chủ tịch là quân đội đích thực chiến đấu vì tổ quốc của họ , nó khác với cách tham dự cuộc chiến của người Mỹ . nếu người lính mỹ hiểu điều này, họ luôn được che trở và bao dung tha thứ + đối xử nhân đạo . cũng có người được gia nhập quân đội Bắc Việt dù trước đó họ chính là kẻ thù của chúng tôi, chỉ cần họ thực tâm thì chúng tôi luôn tin tưởng. đó là những người lính Nhật bản sau khi thất trận, họ xin gia nhập quân đội Vn và chiến đấu anh dũng. bằng tài năng , họ được phong chức đại tá quân đội và tham dự trận đánh lớn . chỉ huy và cố vấn quân sự cho quân đội VN . đó là minh chứng cho sự bao dung , công nhận và tin tưởng mà Chủ tịch Hồ Chí Minh đã làm . nhân cách đó trở thành biểu tượng cho chính con người nhân dân VN chúng tôi . quá khứ đã qua đi, thế hệ cha ông đã ngã xuống , bạn và tôi đều là con cháu và không liên quan đến cuộc chiến ấy . tùy cách cảm nhận và suy nghĩ của bạn, có thể bạn đã bị tiếp xúc với những thông tin sai lệch về người dân VN nên tự tạo rào cản . như bạn đã thấy, vì bạn đã đến VN để hiểu. tôi chỉ muốn khẳng định rằng : Việt Nam luôn là bạn với tất cả mọi dân tộc khác trên Thế giới , nếu họ tôn trọng chúng tôi . Việt nam luôn chào đón các bạn, gửi đến bạn cái ôm thân thiết @lakelandpiper8400
I'm a young Vietnamese was born in peace, I proud my country, heroes downed for peace now, thanks their bloods&bone, i feeling good in our goverment, they're buiding our country and support their civil for better life. We can do anything , go any where in peace and independent. Thanks full our heroes for peace and independent!!!! LOVE YOU SO MUCH!!!
You're lying. You can not openly criticize, protest against the wrong doing of the government, the communist party, you will be put in jail, and may lost your life for just that.
My father never talked about his time in Korea or Viet Nam, but as a child of a combat veteran I will tell you that no matter what side you’re on, war is hell, and the repercussions echo on throughout generations of people involved. My father taught me to look people in the eye and judge them by how they treated others. No war has ever been fought for altruistic reasons, ever.
I'm a Vietnam vet and was there in 1969 and it was so very, very obvious we had no idea what we were doing as we were outthought and out maneuvered and outfought every day. When we finally learn that LBJ & Nixon and McNamara and Westmoreland were all deceitful liars, it is rather disheartening. I named my son after my flight school buddy who came back in a box and he would now be 72, but died when he was 20! What a bummer! Best of luck to all of us!
You probably wouldn't agree with my being a Vietnam/Draft resistor...and that's Ok. I'm proud of it. But you have to understand your comment only underscores and justifies my decision and the many others that did likewise.
It's more likely that it was a mob hit since his siblings had lots of business with the mafia and at the time, the columbo family had a lot of businesses in DFW
@@Schizniit I've always heard that theory. But I've studied the mafia alot (not an expert, just a hobby) and from what I can tell, more often than not they can't even shoot themselves in the foot much less plan something this eleborate. But that's just my opinion. I do wish they would finalize what really happened. I really don't want iti to be as simple as Oswald shooting him. But it's all we have right now.
@@Bradonkey99 I have. I'm not an expert, but I've studied them alot over these last few years. I understand they had alot of muslce, but brains? Not so much. And this is only my opinion. Study Michael Franzese. He even says they pretty much screw stuff up. But he also says the mafia was behind it, so there's that. I just don't think they could have pulled this off without anyone knowing this many years. Like I always tell people, I would love for there to be truth to a conspiracy, but until they can prove otherwise, Oswald did it on his own as far as I'm concerned.
I am Vietnamese. Today, my country is no longer at war, Vietnam is currently one of the most peaceful and developed countries in the world. Vietnam was severely damaged by the war, the Vietnamese people rose up with their own extraordinary energy, the US and its allies did not pay war compensation to Vietnam. VN is a great travel destination, VN welcomes all friends from all over the world.
I have seen a few RUclips channels about Americans that live in your country. Looks very peaceful and beautiful! Our country is being torn apart by a religious cult, I may he heading your way soon.
I grew up in Hawaii and now live in San Jose California, there are a lot of Viet people here and I have come to love Pho', bun and rice dishes etc. Also, the sect of Buddhism I follow is of the same major branch observed by many in Viet Nam. I hope I am spelling it right, Namu Amida Phot!
Vietnam deserves peace look at the history look at what they had to go through the French the Americans the Chinese the Japanese before that before the Americans it should be the most peaceful Nation they've been fighting among each other and everybody else for a hundreds of years and it's a beautiful country I'm glad they finally at peace America should let countries settle down differences no need America to settle nothing cuz Americans in crisis
Still remember the “ Napalm Girl ” photo concerning the War in Vietnam ? This helped a lot to end the US War in Vietnam . This photo was taken in June 8 , 1972 . In case you will visit Vietnam in the near future , please try to arrange a visit to the Handicapped Handicraft Factory and buy some souvenirs there . Many workers there are the victims of Agent Orange and their offsprings , who were born handicapped as well . It is sad that US is still waging Wars around the World after 50 years 😥 😯 !
Nonsense! America voted for Richard Nixon in record numbers in November of 1972. They wanted an end to the Vietnam War but ONLY an end with VICTORY. And that is what they got when Hanoi was bombed in December of 1972 and the North was FORCED to sign a peace treaty in early 1973.
I recall in my teens attempting to write a paper on the Vietnam War. I was overwhelmed with the intricacies of the entire development. I changed my focus to something manageable.
"The Vietnamese people deeply love independence, freedom and peace. In the face of United States aggression they have risen up, united as one man" - Ho Chi Minh
I was 17 years old when I got to Vietnam-1966 through 1969 (My mom had to sign a waiver for me), I grew up fast and learned a lot, good and bad. (I am now 73 and still learning). I was stationed on the USS Providence and also stationed in Country at a place called "Monkey Mountain" close to DaNang,. I spent 3 tours of duty in and around Vietnam. 3 of my high school friends were killed in Vietnam, I was spared. I participated in the TET Offensive in Feb 1968, that was bad. Somewhere along the way I was exposed to Agent Orange (Nasty Stuff) I am now on disability for the effects of agent orange. When I was discharged and came home to the States we arrived in San Francisco, and there were a lot of protesters spitting on us and throwing rocks and eggs and called us baby killers. That was our welcome home. I tell you this to say to you, that whatever your position is or was on the Vietnam war, it was not the veteran who got us into the war, most of us went because we were patriots and loved our country. Blame the politicians, yes, but not the veteran. To all Vietnam Vets out there, you are not forgotten. As a previous combat Vet myself, I salute you my friend.
Thank you for sharing for sharing this Sir and glad you made it out alive. War is a terrible experience - one one never forgets. And what’s worse: government is quick to send young kids to war yet too often neglectful caring for their vets. That is a disgrace. Stay safe.
Nixson .. Kennedy . Johnson . The Khmer Rouge pol pot were Generals who committed many crimes in the Vietnam War We Never forget this They are very far from Vietnam. They naturally come to fight Vietnam . So Bad They are civilized country.. ??? What a shame -Some American soldiers are innocent. they don't want the Vietnam war I hope the channel has Vietnamese subtitles -Nixson .. Kennedy. Johnson. Pol pot của Khmer Đỏ là những vị tướng đã phạm nhiều tội ác trong chiến tranh Việt Nam Chúng tôi không bao giờ quên điều này Họ ở rất xa Việt Nam. Họ nghiễm nhiên đến đánh Việt Nam. Quá tệ Họ là đất nước văn minh .. ???Thật là xấu hổ Một số lính mỹ vô tội họ không muốn chiến tranh Viet nam Mong kênh có phụ đề tiếng việt
@@FreeDocumentaryHistory Why the constant whining and complaining about treatment of veterans? If it wasn't how "bad" they were treated on their return home... to VA treatment of veterans. I know of 2 friends of mine who were veterans of Vietnam. Everything they needed was taken care of by the VA. And they received a lot. I wish I had such wonderful care.
As a fellow SE Asian. It pains me to see another country who almost share the same lifestyle as us be decimated like this. This is why anytime I see some Westerners preaching "Democracy" "Human Rights" "Liberty" absolutely disgusts me with their hipocrisy and lack of historical undertaking.
Tôi ở VN🇻🇳 tuổi thơ thế hệ chúng tôi trọn 10 năm ( 10.000ngày) hứng mưa bom bão đạn và chiến tranh .ăn và học tại hẩm trú ẩn ,có đêm đến bốn lần "giật ,đẩy " khi hầm đầy nước quá rốn ...giun chết khi mưa to... nhưng khủng khiếp đâu bằng cha anh hy sinh và bố tôi bị nhiễm da cam hàng ngày chúng tôi đang chăm sóc họ... !bây giờ 🇻🇳gác quá khứ hướng tới tương lai để🇻🇳phát triển!
To Thi Dam.,,Your evil Ho Chi Minh ,North Communists started the war and whatever happened you must blame on them ,your bloody HCMinh ,Communist rulers who are war criminals ,barbarians ,gangsters . Communist flag is the flag of your bloody North Gangsters ,Terrorists ,.,be ashamed of your bloody flag !! Your North should be destroyed as the fair justice for North ‘s invasions of the South .
So proud and respect,soldiers,all men,all women that have served for South Vietnam before 75 …? Thank you for your wonderful services and your sacrifices . God blessed yours.( ARVN Veterans)🇺🇸🇨🇦🇦🇺🇵🇭🇰🇷🇯🇵🇩🇪🇹🇼
You should watch the videos of the Americans in real time and hear them say that the ARVN was weak and ignorant, that's why the American soldiers left South Vietnam. Vietnam only had one national flag to win the war, not as many as you posted many national flags.
@@おと-z1i Và bạn cũng nên tìm hiểu khởi nguồn của sự tồn tại của miền Nam Việt Nam. Sau Hiệp ước Geneva, Việt Nam được hứa hẹn có một cuộc tổng tuyển cử để bầu ra 1 chính phủ cho 1 đất nước Việt Nam trọn vẹn. Chính USA đã can thiệp không thực hiện tổng tuyển cử và phân chia Việt Nam như Bắc Triều Tiên và Nam Triều Tiên. Đừng bao biện là miền Bắc Việt Nam đã gây ra những tội ác. Chính USA là kẻ đã gây ra tội ác đối với dân tộc Việt Nam. Người Đông Á luôn có câu: Người chính nghĩa luôn là người thắng cuối cùng. Và Việt Nam đã hoàn toàn thống nhất, miền Bắc và Miền Nam về chung một nhà. Các bạn không hiểu lịch sử thì nên tìm hiểu kỹ trước khi nói chuyện.
LBJ was no WW2 Navy veteran. He was a congressman who coerced the Navy into giving him a commission. He then went to the South Pacific on a fact finding tour to visit Texans in the war. He flew on a observation flight to a few islands and called it a combat mission. He was in the war zone for about 30 days. He then went back to Washington and never put on his uniform again.
On top of it all he got himself awarded a Silver Star, the third highest award for valor in combat. He never saw one second of combat, never was fired upon or endanger.
When in high school I wrote a paper on French Indo China. I graduated and after a short period and after my marriage I ENLISTED and was in Vietnam '66-'67, '67-'68. I have now been married to the same woman for over 57 wonderful years. Thanks to her I have been able to put Vietnam well behind me. However I am offten saddened all THOSE that were wounded or killed on both sides. SAD FAMILIES ON BOTH SIDES.
Man as a Vietnamese I appreciate the things you put in this video, like the documentary is amazing, it is accurate and what a voice. Like all the stuff you can imagine from a high quality video is here. But I would wish you to do another video about the intelligence unit of North Vietnam if you can. Example of Pham Xuan An or Ba Quoc, they are one of the most important factor of the war between Vietnam and America. They sends information that are really valuable and saved many people. Like the special war tactic developed by 2 genius brains of America, An was able to solve it and gave the solution to the North.
Accurate but misleading without a doubt. Unfortunately some people like to lie, unfortunately some people are not smart enough to know a lie and the lie includes manipulation of the public to make them believe what is not true.
Nixon: "We're helping the Cambodians to help themselves." That's such an unbelievably ridiculous and obviously dishonest statement that I almost can't believe that everyone who heard it didn't have a heart attack on the spot from the sheer audacity entering their ears.
NOTHING CLOSE to the "sheer audacity" of the Democratic Controlled Congress that sold out the American Troops who fought in Vietnam AND the Millions of South Vietnamese who trusted the USA's word on continued support for them against the North Vietnamese.
General Pol pot, was the most evil son of a b**** I ever came up against, his reign of terror death and destruction and dope addiction rule that realm, we lost the Communist and it'sa game of attrition in order to delete the United States of manpower material and money and sovereignty 🦅🇺🇸🦅
Fun game: listen to all three parts and count how many times the narrator tells you the tonnage of bombs dropped was more than WW2. I think they say it at least twice per segment.
The United States Air Force, the U. S. Navy, and U. S. Marine Corps aviation dropped 7,662,000 tons of explosives in Vietnam. By comparison, U. S. forces dropped a total of 2,150,000 tons of bombs in all theaters of World War II.
It is estimated that it is 3 times the number of bombs used in World War 2 😢 15 million tons of bombs. 80 million liters of Agent Orange. Napal bombs were used. All the most terrible things in human warfare were used in Vietnam! They, the leaders of America, had planned to drop atomic bombs on Vietnam but were rejected because Vietnam's terrain would be difficult to be effective and partly due to pressure from the Soviet Union.😢😢😢😢
To every American who served in the Vietnam War: Thank you so much for your selfless, courageous service. You are loved, respected, cherished, and deeply appreciated. I'm so sorry for the friends/fellow soldiers you have lost. May God bless and be with you and your loved ones. Take care.
@@badguy5554A bạn à ? Giọng phương tây của các anh sao giống nhau vậy? A lấy quyền gì nói thay cho người dân VN.Đất nước chúng tôi chiến đấu với giặc ngoại xâm.Với Mỹ không lấy 10 đổi 1 lính Mỹ thì chúng tôi đuổi quân xâm lược Mỹ dc k??Anh bạn có dc đi học k hả??
America, stop hurting the rest of the world. What America and its military did in Vietnam is a crime. It's not that we forget the past, but we put it aside to look forward to a better future. Viet Nam is a beautiful and peaceful country. We always welcome you to visit and travel or work in our country. Viet Nam is ready to friend with all the countries in the world. The war went by for a long time; it is time for us to heal the damages after the war and make Viet Nam become a beautiful and wealthy land. We hope for a beautiful future with your help.
I can only hope i can go to Vietnam before i die. I think though our war in Vietnam was one of the worst wars my country has faced in the last 100 years. In America it's still seen as absolutely awful(and many of my friends had their loved ones immigrate here because of it).
The vast majority of Americans do not want any part of going to war with anyone. We are controlled by politics who embrace proxy war so that they can sell or trade weapons.
To go from a war-torn country to one of the most beautiful countries I've seen in Southeast Asia and the people were very very nice to me I'm African-American and I was not in the war I was a baby at the time but that place is beautiful now I'm looking at these photos right here of how war-torn it was and to look at it now it's just awesome I might just go live there
Bravo to the Vietnamese people your victories against the French and Americans was a testimony and inspiration to all colonized peoples all over the world that colonizers and imperialists could be defeated
Seeing those bombs dropped like falling leaves on my country I fell deeply hurt. Our Vietnamese had suffered greatly, it's just unimaginable. We won the war but at the uncomspenable cost. Hope no one will have to endure my country's tragedy.
In the end , we could drive the US troop home then we resolve our internal affair and then unite the country after more than a century of being invaded , divisive , hostile. Peace is the basis for development in all field of the society of our modern era!
Over 3.million dead Vietnamese. Sad indeed. Don't blame the American soldier on the field. We were merely pawns in a much bigger game to the politicians in Washington. Peace and love from the States. We too were once fighting for our own independence during our revolutionary war. Can relate. Sorry for the hurt and death. If you see an American soldier, shake his hand. He didn't want to be there as much as you didn't want him there. Peace and love.
My grandparent had been living thru 35 years of wars with French and Civil war between North and South Vietnam from 1945-1975. They said that they were tired of war and just wanted peace unconditionally.
It was Admiral Morrison who sent the message that they had been 'attacked'. That's why Jim said his parents died in an automobile crash. LedHed Pb 207.20 🎶 🎸 🎹
Bật phụ đề (nút cc) rồi cài dịch tự động sang tiếng Việt sẽ hiểu rõ sự tài tình của Bác khi dự đoán được nội tình nước Mỹ sẽ khủng hoảng rối ren như nào khi cứ kéo dài cuộc chiến, và như Bác đã nói ta nhất định thắng lợi
I allways wanted to ask american army about their experience in vietnam. If you can tell more detail or show me where i can find information about that war, it is really meant to me. Thanks
USA: we can build cars and boats. NVN: we can destroy them. USA: we can build clocks. NVN: We have only time. USA: we can send rockets into space. NVN: we can send your soldiers home in a box.
But Vietnam more better now.. But American more 🔫 Guns 🔫 Got fired to death right now.!!. But after 1975 to many Vietnamese Peoples came to The United States 🇺🇸.. But now many Vietnamese Peoples came back they homeland Vietnam and many Americans Peoples Travers to Vietnam 🇻🇳 they're Enjoying a great times on the Beach ⛱️ and The Mountain ⛰️ to the Hạ Long Bay..and beautiful at Đà Nẵng Huế Central of Vietnam and Phú Quốc Island 🏝 Got beautiful beach ⛱️ For Swimming 🏊♀️..good..
This is true , and you never hear about it . Besides the State Department being the un- sung villain of Vietnam , Truman has to be high on the list . It could have all been prevented if only Truman had ....
Just imagine if US Democrat President Truman didn't allow the French to send their warship and bombed Northern city Haiphong, Vietnam and recognize Vietnam rights of indepence. Would the Vietnam War ever started and would Vietnam be a communist today?
Lost my Neighbor, Friend an Youth,, Our Country Lost,,,,,Tens of thousands of our generation.....RIP. PFC. United States Marine Corps, Paul Allard, 1969,,
The Communists were masters of deceit and lies in South Vietnam. They never once used the word Communist in South Vietnam. They used front groups like the Farmers Association, The National Liberation Front The women's association in the countryside. The bait in the trap in the countryside was the offer of free land to the peasants, which the Vietcong had taken off the landlords. There is a chapter called A Village Goes Wrong in the book The Last Confucian It is written by Denis Warner. It shows how the Vietcong were able to subvert a village in Vietnam. It is based on a captured Vietcong document. The Vietcong could not tell the peasants the truth that they believed in the abolition of private property, the abolition of all religion, and that would set up a Communist goverment in South Vietnam. The Communists in South Vietnam learnt much of strategy and tactics of how to subvert the countryside from the Chynese Communists.
@@muir8009 Reading a excerpt from Oliver Stones Theory on The Industrial Military Complex in American Culture, an War. Piles Of Cash for Giant Manufactures of War Weapons, Much of this Cash in the Coffers of Congressional, Pentagon Weapons Buyers,,,,,Follow The Money......
funny thing about history. 2 people can see the same event very differently, and that doesn't mean one is lying. As they say, history is for the winners. For example, if the Taliban and ISIS etc. succeed in forming a caliphate that lasts for centuries, their history will remember 911 as a glorious first strike that triggered the war that gave them the impetus to take over their lands from Western imperialists. If they fail in their mission and the West continues to control the narrative, 911 will be remembered by western history as a cowardly stab in the back attack perpetrated by foreign criminals.
absolutely agree. phrasing “vietnam war” would imply just a war amongst the people vietnam, or pushing total blame for what happened onto the country itself. US invaded vietnam, therefore; US/Vietnam War.
I am ashamed at our country's actions. I wish our leaders would have given ho chi mihn the attention and help that the vietnamese needed. We should have been going to war on France, not vietnam.
I was in Saigon or Ho Chi Minh City as it is known now a couple of weeks ago. And I stayed at the Pullman Hotel Vietnam and I visited Chu Chi tunnel and the Mekong Delta. Vietnam now is a nice country to visit. I recommend it to everyone to visit.
If you asked most young Americans what Vietnam was all about they have no clue if you ask them anything about our history involvement they have no idea that’s what sad their more concerned of how cool they look and social media with their heads staring at a little screen This country is in trouble
It's sad to realize we learned nothing from this war. Sometimes I think the founding fathers were right to say we should never have a standing army. I get that there have been select occasions where we were lucky to have the time needed to modernize and train our forces to act when it was actually necessary, but those occasions were rare. We have become the bullies we fought against in our revolution.
Here’s a fact that is constantly missed: we were highly and specifically trained for Vietnam by Drill Sergeants with at least two tours under their belts. It’s when we landed in Vietnam, our orders were restricted from performing our honed skills to fight against ‘Hostile Forces’. At times we knew we where sitting ducks and expendable. And then, they wonder why many of us came home angry and felt used as soon as we left Vietnam’s airspace. Happy for leaving and guilty for leaving our ‘Brothers’ behind, at the same time. Unless your were there, you have no idea, why we our still haunted 50 years after ‘coming home’.
There is a quote where Johnson is alleged to have said to the military " Get me the Presidency, and i will get you ,your war". Everything was about escalation, it still is.
Greatest music EVER! My dad served in nam, he was in the marines. Second battalion first marine corps division 0351. Thank you to all who served over there! And all who still serve!
I pray to God to give you a lot of beautiful days and you know God loves us so much,So where are you originally from? I am David originally from Spain but currently living in Texas now.
By 1969 every grunt in country was sick of Vietnam and the whole fkn war. Not everyone had the choise to say no and run ??? The best of us died in that dank country. Shame on all who did nothing. SF. Always. Shalom to all my brothers who never came home. Shalom
Mis respetos y admiración al valiente pueblo vietnamita por su valentía inclaudicable al histórico intervencionismo de USA en asuntos internos de un país , se creen los policías del mundo llevando guerras fratricidas contra pueblos que lo desean es ser soberanos , la política exterior de USA es un asco .
hope peace is a good thing that leaders need to aim for, Vietnam we have been through a painful war, until now I am still a victim of a war that has passed, I am poisoned orange, I myself am struggling with a life of disability, illness
@@matthewtuckman4447why are you in the comment section saying the same thing to everyone when it doesn't even make sense?? You devoted some serious time to do so???
That time democracy died in that country. 😭 Then in the early 2000's the economy started regaining and Vietnam again was put in the world map, many foreign investors came to invest in that country like the U.S.A.
I'm Kim Rast I shocked almost stratified about this one. The day I came back from a mission to Cambodia I was walking into the hooch and Nixon was on TV. He said we have absolutely no involvement in Cambodia whatsoever. I was with the 175th Outlaws Vihn Long. Was later transferred to Dong Tam 335th. I flew on gunships Couldn't get a job in Boise so I went back to Nam as a civilian worked for Ladybird Johnson at Hotel 3. When I got back my stepparents told me to pack up move out and never come back. Then I met my blood family and they told me to leave and not come back unless joined the mormons. I told them I would not join that cult the lds church if you gave it to me.
A common misunderstanding of military victory is the idea the you have to seize and hold the land. No, you can kill (or have surrendered) all the enemy soldiers and politicians. No more war.
There's a very funny comedy album where Nixon gets sent to prison and his hippy cell mate offers him a toke of 'Cambodian Red'. "Cambodia will never go red!" Nixon exclaims as he sucks frantically on the joint. Adding, "You hippy freak!" Wish I could remember the name of the album and the comedian. Earlier in the album, in a parody of the Godfather wedding scene, Nixon, looking for help with his Watergate troubles, has a meeting with the Godfather. When Don Corleone berates Nixon for never wanting to be his friend, Nixon exclaims, "That's not true Godfather. Why I was saying to Pat just the other day, we don't get to see nearly enough of the Corleones." Lol 😂
@@FreeDocumentaryHistory Found it! The comedian is DAVID FRYE and the comedy album is titled: RICHARD NIXON: A FANTASY'. It's easy to find here on RUclips. Just type in the search window 'David Frye Richard Nixon: A Fantasy'. I was just listening to some of it. It's still hilarious. Too bad Frye died in 2011. I'm sure he would've had a field day with Donald Trump, who makes Nixon look like a boy scout by comparison.
The only way to "win" the war in Indo-China was to "lose" it strategically, which we ended up doing just that, in the end. Unfortunately, a lot of people died previously, to achieve that goal.
In this episode: After early domination through Operation Thunder, three years of B52 raids, napalm and Agent Orange drops, in 1968 the Vietcong Tet Offensive turned the tide, the TV war began in full, anti-war demos, the Martin Luther King and Robert Kennedy assassinations and My Lai massacre. The war was now being shown on the nightly news for the first time. Over half a million US troops are deployed.
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The Tet Offensive did NOT "turn the tide". The American people wanted "peace with honor"...and they stated that with their overwhelming vote for Richard Nixon, in 1972...4 years after the Tet Offensive saw the Vietcong CRUSHED. The "peace at any price" candidate, George McGovern was solidly beaten by Nixon. That "American people had had enough of Vietnam" was a lie perpetrated by the Democratic Congress to justify their betrayal of the MILLIONS of American Veterans who fought there as well as the 10's of Millions of South Vietnamese who trusted the USA to live up to its agreement to defend South Vietnam against the Communist powers of the Soviet Union, Red China and Communist North Vietnam.
This is David Staudohar USMC on the cover page , TAD for the military police at camp Pendleton, guarding draft dodgers and deserters, was probably the most difficult job I ever had in a Marine corps Semper Fidelis 3 3 3 🦅🌍🇺🇸‼️
i love ARVN or ARMY
I lost my father in Vietnam. I recently spent a month in Vietnam touring the areas where my fathers unit operated. I went there fully expecting to be met with animosity, fear, and mistrust. I was met with the exact opposite. The people I met were very friendly, open, and understanding. In one village I had the chance to meet an NVA officer whose unit fought against my fathers. I did not think that he would agree to speak with me and I was absolutely floored when he not only agreed to the meeting but invited me to stay with his family. I stayed with this gentleman and his family for 3 days talking at length about the war. We still write to each other once a week. I went to find out more about my father and left having made lifelong friends and finding a sort of second family bound not by blood but by war, well I guess in a way bound by blood also.
That's a nice story :)
❤ as a Vietnamesse. I have to say that people here not hates American.we blamed on Chales De Gaule and Hary Truman made 3M Vietnamesse dead and 300k young American sodiers wounded
Amazing
@@SungSam-hq8yl It's stunning that you don't hate Americans but see your compatriots who don't accept communism as your foes, forever !
chúng tôi có lịch sử 3000 năm chống giặc ngoại xâm , đó là trung quốc , mông cổ , pháp ,mỹ,nhật.... và bạn nghĩ xem . nếu chúng tôi ôm mối hận thù thì có nghĩa chúng tôi sẽ k quan hệ ngoại giao với 1/2 thế giới sao ? nếu bạn tôn trọng chúng tôi thì chắc chắn bạn luôn được chào đón, kể cả khi bạn là một người lính. còn nhiều điều về lịch sử VN và cuộc chiến của cha bạn mà tôi chắc chắn bạn chưa được biết. có rất nhiều người lính đã đầu hàng or bị bắt làm tù binh nhưng khi người dân miền Bắc phải chịu đói thì Lãnh tụ Hồ Chí Minh vẫn chỉ thị phải cấp dưỡng cho những tù binh đầy đủ . chúng tôi tôn trọng công ước thế giới về tù binh chiến tranh và điều này bạn có thể tìm tư liệu từ chính những người lính mỹ . và bạn có biết là những người lĩnh mỹ như nghĩ sĩ john mcCain được đối xử như nào khi bị bắt làm tù binh k ? những người lính đánh thuê cũng vậy, họ bị lừa dối về mục đích cuộc chiến mỹ tạo ra. khi họ biết sự thật đã tự làm bị thương mình để được giải thoát, bạn biết mohamed Ali chấp nhận đi tù thay vì cầm súng ở VN k ? quân đội VN dưới sự lãnh đạo của Hồ chủ tịch là quân đội đích thực chiến đấu vì tổ quốc của họ , nó khác với cách tham dự cuộc chiến của người Mỹ . nếu người lính mỹ hiểu điều này, họ luôn được che trở và bao dung tha thứ + đối xử nhân đạo . cũng có người được gia nhập quân đội Bắc Việt dù trước đó họ chính là kẻ thù của chúng tôi, chỉ cần họ thực tâm thì chúng tôi luôn tin tưởng. đó là những người lính Nhật bản sau khi thất trận, họ xin gia nhập quân đội Vn và chiến đấu anh dũng. bằng tài năng , họ được phong chức đại tá quân đội và tham dự trận đánh lớn . chỉ huy và cố vấn quân sự cho quân đội VN . đó là minh chứng cho sự bao dung , công nhận và tin tưởng mà Chủ tịch Hồ Chí Minh đã làm . nhân cách đó trở thành biểu tượng cho chính con người nhân dân VN chúng tôi . quá khứ đã qua đi, thế hệ cha ông đã ngã xuống , bạn và tôi đều là con cháu và không liên quan đến cuộc chiến ấy . tùy cách cảm nhận và suy nghĩ của bạn, có thể bạn đã bị tiếp xúc với những thông tin sai lệch về người dân VN nên tự tạo rào cản . như bạn đã thấy, vì bạn đã đến VN để hiểu. tôi chỉ muốn khẳng định rằng : Việt Nam luôn là bạn với tất cả mọi dân tộc khác trên Thế giới , nếu họ tôn trọng chúng tôi . Việt nam luôn chào đón các bạn, gửi đến bạn cái ôm thân thiết @lakelandpiper8400
I'm a young Vietnamese was born in peace, I proud my country, heroes downed for peace now, thanks their bloods&bone, i feeling good in our goverment, they're buiding our country and support their civil for better life. We can do anything , go any where in peace and independent.
Thanks full our heroes for peace and independent!!!! LOVE YOU SO MUCH!!!
You're lying. You can not openly criticize, protest against the wrong doing of the government, the communist party, you will be put in jail, and may lost your life for just that.
You desert your country you fought hard for it from gvp solder.
How can you call yourself independent in a communist based government state. Australian Jeff Moore
I cant be the only person who respected Muhamed Ali's stance on the war
He defintely walked the walk
He did. I didn’t know that until I saw this. Respect ✊🏻
My father never talked about his time in Korea or Viet Nam, but as a child of a combat veteran I will tell you that no matter what side you’re on, war is hell, and the repercussions echo on throughout generations of people involved. My father taught me to look people in the eye and judge them by how they treated others. No war has ever been fought for altruistic reasons, ever.
LSD man
Modern (industrial) war is hell
I'm a Vietnam vet and was there in 1969 and it was so very, very obvious we had no idea what we were doing as we were outthought and out maneuvered and outfought every day. When we finally learn that LBJ & Nixon and McNamara and Westmoreland were all deceitful liars, it is rather disheartening. I named my son after my flight school buddy who came back in a box and he would now be 72, but died when he was 20! What a bummer! Best of luck to all of us!
Nixon even started and backed Bengal genocide 1970. About 3 million killed, 200,000 plus women raped etc
You probably wouldn't agree with my being a Vietnam/Draft resistor...and that's Ok. I'm proud of it. But you have to understand your comment only underscores and justifies my decision and the many others that did likewise.
They kept a war going to make rich white arms dealers richer at the cost of American lives They didn't care because there rich kids didn't go to war
@@leeving3954 Assume what?
Steven M is like Charles Manson 😄 LOL
The choice of music for part one and 2 are the best I've ever heard from a documentary for this time period
@David Wang The tracks were still chosen.
The Forrest Gump soundtrack has many of these same songs.
Its the same music for every Vietnam War documentary or movie
@@MRIZM true, seems tired and hackneyed - imo this doco would be better without it. But I didn't live through this period so can't relate.
@David Wang Steven M is like Charles Manson 😄 LOL
My Mom was convinced Lyndon had a hand in JFK's assasination. She'd say "He wanted to be President so bad."
It's more likely that it was a mob hit since his siblings had lots of business with the mafia and at the time, the columbo family had a lot of businesses in DFW
@@Schizniit I've always heard that theory. But I've studied the mafia alot (not an expert, just a hobby) and from what I can tell, more often than not they can't even shoot themselves in the foot much less plan something this eleborate. But that's just my opinion. I do wish they would finalize what really happened. I really don't want iti to be as simple as Oswald shooting him. But it's all we have right now.
@minkymott you need to read up way more on the mafia and the power they had back then. It makes sense.
@@Bradonkey99 I have. I'm not an expert, but I've studied them alot over these last few years. I understand they had alot of muslce, but brains? Not so much. And this is only my opinion. Study Michael Franzese. He even says they pretty much screw stuff up. But he also says the mafia was behind it, so there's that. I just don't think they could have pulled this off without anyone knowing this many years. Like I always tell people, I would love for there to be truth to a conspiracy, but until they can prove otherwise, Oswald did it on his own as far as I'm concerned.
It wouldn’t surprise me. As with All politicians it’s Dog eat Dog.
I wasn't born in the 70's but man, the background music for this documentary feels so nostalgic. Very nice music back then.
So true... It's sad that such wonderful music is sometimes associated with such horrible events. 😞
I am Vietnamese.
Today, my country is no longer at war,
Vietnam is currently one of the most peaceful and developed countries in the world.
Vietnam was severely damaged by the war, the Vietnamese people rose up with their own extraordinary energy, the US and its allies did not pay war compensation to Vietnam.
VN is a great travel destination, VN welcomes all friends from all over the world.
I have seen a few RUclips channels about Americans that live in your country.
Looks very peaceful and beautiful!
Our country is being torn apart by a religious cult, I may he heading your way soon.
I grew up in Hawaii and now live in San Jose California, there are a lot of Viet people here and I have come to love Pho', bun and rice dishes etc. Also, the sect of Buddhism I follow is of the same major branch observed by many in Viet Nam. I hope I am spelling it right, Namu Amida Phot!
Vietnam deserves peace look at the history look at what they had to go through the French the Americans the Chinese the Japanese before that before the Americans it should be the most peaceful Nation they've been fighting among each other and everybody else for a hundreds of years and it's a beautiful country I'm glad they finally at peace
America should let countries settle down differences no need America to settle nothing cuz Americans in crisis
@@aynewayne1802 Vietnam also won against the Mongul empire in 12th century, the biggest empire that conquered half of Europe
@@alexcarter8807 nam mo a di da phat 😁
Still remember the “ Napalm Girl ” photo concerning the War in Vietnam ? This helped
a lot to end the US War in Vietnam . This photo was taken in June 8 , 1972 .
In case you will visit Vietnam in the near future , please try to arrange a visit to the
Handicapped Handicraft Factory and buy some souvenirs there . Many workers there
are the victims of Agent Orange and their offsprings , who were born handicapped as well .
It is sad that US is still waging Wars around the World after 50 years 😥 😯 !
pham thi kim puc
Steven M is like Charles Manson 😄 LOL
@@donpedro9422 Steven M is like Charles Manson 😄 LOL
Nonsense! America voted for Richard Nixon in record numbers in November of 1972. They wanted an end to the Vietnam War but ONLY an end with VICTORY. And that is what they got when Hanoi was bombed in December of 1972 and the North was FORCED to sign a peace treaty in early 1973.
Thanks a lot. I'll make a note of it.
I recall in my teens attempting to write a paper on the Vietnam War. I was overwhelmed with the intricacies of the entire development. I changed my focus to something manageable.
Steven M is like Charles Manson 😄 LOL
Vietnam, the unconquerable people, love you
Steven M is like Charles Manson 😄 LOL
"The Vietnamese people deeply love independence, freedom and peace. In the face of United States aggression they have risen up, united as one man"
- Ho Chi Minh
The evil elites
Much respect for their great leader.
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America never wanted VN. It was just cleaning up frances mess. They left with 4 million dead nams and a country in ruins. Who do you think won?
I was 17 years old when I got to Vietnam-1966 through 1969 (My mom had to sign a waiver for me), I grew up fast and learned a lot, good and bad. (I am now 73 and still learning). I was stationed on the USS Providence and also stationed in Country at a place called "Monkey Mountain" close to DaNang,. I spent 3 tours of duty in and around Vietnam. 3 of my high school friends were killed in Vietnam, I was spared. I participated in the TET Offensive in Feb 1968, that was bad. Somewhere along the way I was exposed to Agent Orange (Nasty Stuff) I am now on disability for the effects of agent orange. When I was discharged and came home to the States we arrived in San Francisco, and there were a lot of protesters spitting on us and throwing rocks and eggs and called us baby killers. That was our welcome home. I tell you this to say to you, that whatever your position is or was on the Vietnam war, it was not the veteran who got us into the war, most of us went because we were patriots and loved our country. Blame the politicians, yes, but not the veteran. To all Vietnam Vets out there, you are not forgotten. As a previous combat Vet myself, I salute you my friend.
Thank you for sharing for sharing this Sir and glad you made it out alive. War is a terrible experience - one one never forgets. And what’s worse: government is quick to send young kids to war yet too often neglectful caring for their vets. That is a disgrace. Stay safe.
Thank you for your service. ❤️
Nixson .. Kennedy . Johnson . The Khmer Rouge pol pot were Generals who committed many crimes in the Vietnam War
We Never forget this
They are very far from Vietnam. They naturally come to fight Vietnam . So Bad
They are civilized country.. ??? What a shame
-Some American soldiers are innocent. they don't want the Vietnam war
I hope the channel has Vietnamese subtitles
-Nixson .. Kennedy. Johnson. Pol pot của Khmer Đỏ là những vị tướng đã phạm nhiều tội ác trong chiến tranh Việt Nam
Chúng tôi không bao giờ quên điều này
Họ ở rất xa Việt Nam. Họ nghiễm nhiên đến đánh Việt Nam. Quá tệ
Họ là đất nước văn minh .. ???Thật là xấu hổ
Một số lính mỹ vô tội họ không muốn chiến tranh Viet nam
Mong kênh có phụ đề tiếng việt
Similar experiences and now 100% DISABLED because of AGENT ORANGE
@@FreeDocumentaryHistory Why the constant whining and complaining about treatment of veterans? If it wasn't how "bad" they were treated on their return home... to VA treatment of veterans. I know of 2 friends of mine who were veterans of Vietnam. Everything they needed was taken care of by the VA. And they received a lot. I wish I had such wonderful care.
I knew in less than a month after my arrival in Vietnam in 1965 that the United States was fighting a war that it could not possibly win.
they didn't they left with their tails between their legs in defeat.
As a fellow SE Asian. It pains me to see another country who almost share the same lifestyle as us be decimated like this. This is why anytime I see some Westerners preaching "Democracy" "Human Rights" "Liberty" absolutely disgusts me with their hipocrisy and lack of historical undertaking.
Blowing innocent that not same ideology into pieces is part of "human rights& democracy" thing.. says congressman..
Not only in SEA but anywhere in the world, the west should stop poking their noses and meddlings. It caused more problems to arise than to stabilise.
Cảm ơn bạn tôi thích ý kiến của bạn ❤
I''m a Westerner. I loathe Empire builders like Britain and America. Don't think all Westerners are the same.
@@MrBagpipeslol nah you’re one of the good ones
Tôi ở VN🇻🇳 tuổi thơ thế hệ chúng tôi trọn 10 năm ( 10.000ngày) hứng mưa bom bão đạn và chiến tranh .ăn và học tại hẩm trú ẩn ,có đêm đến bốn lần "giật ,đẩy " khi hầm đầy nước quá rốn ...giun chết khi mưa to... nhưng khủng khiếp đâu bằng cha anh hy sinh và bố tôi bị nhiễm da cam hàng ngày chúng tôi đang chăm sóc họ... !bây giờ 🇻🇳gác quá khứ hướng tới tương lai để🇻🇳phát triển!
To Thi Dam.,,Your evil Ho Chi Minh ,North Communists started the war and whatever happened you must blame on them ,your bloody HCMinh ,Communist rulers who are war criminals ,barbarians ,gangsters .
Communist flag is the flag of your bloody North Gangsters ,Terrorists ,.,be ashamed of your bloody flag !!
Your North should be destroyed as the fair justice for North ‘s invasions of the South .
Steven M is like Charles Manson 😄 LOL
The war was needless I’m glad you survived.
So proud and respect,soldiers,all men,all women that have served for South Vietnam before 75 …? Thank you for your wonderful services and your sacrifices . God blessed yours.( ARVN Veterans)🇺🇸🇨🇦🇦🇺🇵🇭🇰🇷🇯🇵🇩🇪🇹🇼
Evreyone want to server their country and that's wonderful, but they served the wrong side more likely the losing side.
You should watch the videos of the Americans in real time and hear them say that the ARVN was weak and ignorant, that's why the American soldiers left South Vietnam. Vietnam only had one national flag to win the war, not as many as you posted many national flags.
日本人で1977年生まれですが
私を含め同世代は南ベトナムが実在したことや北ベトナムの犯罪を知りません
ベトナム戦争は今の統一されたベトナムとアメリカがした戦争と認知している人が多いです
@@おと-z1i Và bạn cũng nên tìm hiểu khởi nguồn của sự tồn tại của miền Nam Việt Nam. Sau Hiệp ước Geneva, Việt Nam được hứa hẹn có một cuộc tổng tuyển cử để bầu ra 1 chính phủ cho 1 đất nước Việt Nam trọn vẹn. Chính USA đã can thiệp không thực hiện tổng tuyển cử và phân chia Việt Nam như Bắc Triều Tiên và Nam Triều Tiên. Đừng bao biện là miền Bắc Việt Nam đã gây ra những tội ác. Chính USA là kẻ đã gây ra tội ác đối với dân tộc Việt Nam. Người Đông Á luôn có câu: Người chính nghĩa luôn là người thắng cuối cùng. Và Việt Nam đã hoàn toàn thống nhất, miền Bắc và Miền Nam về chung một nhà. Các bạn không hiểu lịch sử thì nên tìm hiểu kỹ trước khi nói chuyện.
@@おと-z1iVâng, và bản thân thế giới biết về tội ác chiến tranh của Nhật Bản ở thế chiến thứ 2.
LBJ was no WW2 Navy veteran. He was a congressman who coerced the Navy into giving him a commission. He then went to the South Pacific on a fact finding tour to visit Texans in the war. He flew on a observation flight to a few islands and called it a combat mission. He was in the war zone for about 30 days. He then went back to Washington and never put on his uniform again.
He was a coward, 100%
On top of it all he got himself awarded a Silver Star, the third highest award for valor in combat. He never saw one second of combat, never was fired upon or endanger.
When in high school I wrote a paper on French Indo China. I graduated and after a short period and after my marriage I ENLISTED and was in Vietnam '66-'67, '67-'68. I have now been married to the same woman for over 57 wonderful years. Thanks to her I have been able to put Vietnam well behind me. However I am offten saddened all THOSE that were wounded or killed on both sides. SAD FAMILIES ON BOTH SIDES.
Man as a Vietnamese I appreciate the things you put in this video, like the documentary is amazing, it is accurate and what a voice. Like all the stuff you can imagine from a high quality video is here. But I would wish you to do another video about the intelligence unit of North Vietnam if you can. Example of Pham Xuan An or Ba Quoc, they are one of the most important factor of the war between Vietnam and America. They sends information that are really valuable and saved many people. Like the special war tactic developed by 2 genius brains of America, An was able to solve it and gave the solution to the North.
they were evil vc so no
Bài tập của anh đưa ra chạm vào tự hào của Mỹ, nổi đau của CIA hehe
Accurate but misleading without a doubt. Unfortunately some people like to lie, unfortunately some people are not smart enough to know a lie and the lie includes manipulation of the public to make them believe what is not true.
Steven M is like Charles Manson 😄 LOL
@@originalgangsterloc Steven M is like Charles Manson 😄 LOL
Tôi tự hào nói với các bạn rằng người Việt Nam giàu lòng nhân ái và mến khách.
I hope this war is never repeated
Well said Ali, the world will never see a better heavyweight champ both as a boxer and as a human being
"We are helping the Cambodians to help themselves".....Nixon should've been a comedian instead.
Found that pretty hilarious as well 🤣
To believe he was president🚶🏾♂️
He would've made a lousy comedian too.
I was there up close and personal all war does is kill humans and everything else in his way
We will get to see Nixon alive in a head jar if Futurama starts predicting the future that and the headless body of spearow Agnew 😂
Nixon: "We're helping the Cambodians to help themselves." That's such an unbelievably ridiculous and obviously dishonest statement that I almost can't believe that everyone who heard it didn't have a heart attack on the spot from the sheer audacity entering their ears.
NOTHING CLOSE to the "sheer audacity" of the Democratic Controlled Congress that sold out the American Troops who fought in Vietnam AND the Millions of South Vietnamese who trusted the USA's word on continued support for them against the North Vietnamese.
General Pol pot, was the most evil son of a b**** I ever came up against, his reign of terror death and destruction and dope addiction rule that realm, we lost the Communist and it'sa game of attrition in order to delete the United States of manpower material and money and sovereignty 🦅🇺🇸🦅
and now the west helps ukrainians to help themselves................history always repeats
@@reimundboxhammer1447 the west barely helps ukraine and russia are the clear aggressors. What are you on about?
Steven M is like Charles Manson 😄 LOL
Music and vibes! Thank you. T H A N K Y O U. Sad times. Weird times. Strange days. The end of laughter.
Fun game: listen to all three parts and count how many times the narrator tells you the tonnage of bombs dropped was more than WW2. I think they say it at least twice per segment.
The United States Air Force, the U. S. Navy, and U. S. Marine Corps aviation dropped 7,662,000 tons of explosives in Vietnam. By comparison, U. S. forces dropped a total of 2,150,000 tons of bombs in all theaters of World War II.
Steven M is like Charles Manson 😄 LOL
@Johnny West Steven M is like Charles Manson 😄 LOL
@@viettuannguyen8531 Steven M is like Charles Manson 😄 LOL
It is estimated that it is 3 times the number of bombs used in World War 2 😢 15 million tons of bombs. 80 million liters of Agent Orange. Napal bombs were used. All the most terrible things in human warfare were used in Vietnam! They, the leaders of America, had planned to drop atomic bombs on Vietnam but were rejected because Vietnam's terrain would be difficult to be effective and partly due to pressure from the Soviet Union.😢😢😢😢
To every American who served in the Vietnam War: Thank you so much for your selfless, courageous service. You are loved, respected, cherished, and deeply appreciated. I'm so sorry for the friends/fellow soldiers you have lost. May God bless and be with you and your loved ones.
Take care.
damn, you thank the people who go to another country killing innocent people, each country has the right to be independent
Thank them for what..?
options were "service" or prison.
@@liad0xthanks for "pancaked" innocent people!!..
4:48 - "... they call him Uncle Ho, and he looked like your Uncle, and he was smiling, and he looks like a lovely guy ..." totally agree
Yeah...How many MILLIONS of his own people did he send to their death. "Lovely guy"? Yeah....Riiiigggghhht!
@@badguy5554 Average biased American
@@ucanhvungoc7133 Average Communist indoctrinated Vietnamese.
@@badguy5554A bạn à ? Giọng phương tây của các anh sao giống nhau vậy? A lấy quyền gì nói thay cho người dân VN.Đất nước chúng tôi chiến đấu với giặc ngoại xâm.Với Mỹ không lấy 10 đổi 1 lính Mỹ thì chúng tôi đuổi quân xâm lược Mỹ dc k??Anh bạn có dc đi học k hả??
@@badguy5554 How many Millions of Earthlings has US killed directly and indirectly until now? Yeah.. Riiiigggghhht!
America, stop hurting the rest of the world.
What America and its military did in Vietnam is a crime. It's not that we forget the past, but we put it aside to look forward to a better future.
Viet Nam is a beautiful and peaceful country. We always welcome you to visit and travel or work in our country. Viet Nam is ready to friend with all the countries in the world. The war went by for a long time; it is time for us to heal the damages after the war and make Viet Nam become a beautiful and wealthy land. We hope for a beautiful future with your help.
I can only hope i can go to Vietnam before i die.
I think though our war in Vietnam was one of the worst wars my country has faced in the last 100 years. In America it's still seen as absolutely awful(and many of my friends had their loved ones immigrate here because of it).
@@ohgodwhy9853 Steven M is like Charles Manson 😄 LOL
Steven M is like Charles Manson 😄 LOL
@@matthewtuckman4447 what the hell are you talking about?
The vast majority of Americans do not want any part of going to war with anyone. We are controlled by politics who embrace proxy war so that they can sell or trade weapons.
I have uncles who went to viet-nam in 1965 and they all said the same exact thing the first day they got there : *''Something heres not right''* .
How can you have a war where your artillery must find and get permission from the land owner before you can fire back? This is how it started.
To go from a war-torn country to one of the most beautiful countries I've seen in Southeast Asia and the people were very very nice to me I'm African-American and I was not in the war I was a baby at the time but that place is beautiful now I'm looking at these photos right here of how war-torn it was and to look at it now it's just awesome I might just go live there
By God’s grace, any nation can arise from the ashes of war more beautiful and peace loving than before.
Bravo to the Vietnamese people your victories against the French and Americans was a testimony and inspiration to all colonized peoples all over the world that colonizers and imperialists could be defeated
And what good did it do anyone?
@@ronniebishop2496Gave the colonized some hope.
Cám ơn bạn chúng tớ đã dành chiến thằng và đang xây dựng đất nước giàu đẹp
Luckily you failed in the Korean War at least the South Koreans can have productive lives
Seeing those bombs dropped like falling leaves on my country I fell deeply hurt. Our Vietnamese had suffered greatly, it's just unimaginable. We won the war but at the uncomspenable cost. Hope no one will have to endure my country's tragedy.
In the end , we could drive the US troop home then we resolve our internal affair and then unite the country after more than a century of being invaded , divisive , hostile. Peace is the basis for development in all field of the society of our modern era!
Over 3.million dead Vietnamese. Sad indeed. Don't blame the American soldier on the field. We were merely pawns in a much bigger game to the politicians in Washington. Peace and love from the States. We too were once fighting for our own independence during our revolutionary war. Can relate. Sorry for the hurt and death. If you see an American soldier, shake his hand. He didn't want to be there as much as you didn't want him there. Peace and love.
What are you saying you created the communist way of thinking
VC Massacre about 3K people in Hue 1968 .
@@nguyenpham722 sự tăng độc của gia đình trị ngồi diệm
My grandparent had been living thru 35 years of wars with French and Civil war between North and South Vietnam from 1945-1975. They said that they were tired of war and just wanted peace unconditionally.
I felt so bad for the people after I saw what it was really all about.
Đấy không phải là nội chiến. Là Khánh chiến chống Mỹ
Excellent documentary
😂
The most deceitful, unscrupulous people in humanity always think that they are noble, always bringing warmth and happiness to humanity.
Tập đoàn diệt chủng hoa kỳ
Steven M is like Charles Manson 😄 LOL
the vietnam war had a great soundtrack, apparently.
The music selection is absolutely fantastic...
Ooh! Jefferson Airplane? Yes pls 😁😁
White Rabbit is one of the most amazing and blood pumping songs ever written.
Quá tàn ác với dân tộc tôi , với đồng bào tôi với tổ quốc tôi .
Cometeram vários crimes de guerra , e nenhum tribunal internacional condenou nenhum oficial Americano .
Steven M is like Charles Manson 😄 LOL
Part 2 is great also. Thanks again.
I hear Jim Morrison and the Doors playing in the background. How ironic! Jim's father was off the coast of Vietnam when the USS Maddox was "attacked".
It was Admiral Morrison who sent the message that they had been 'attacked'. That's why Jim said his parents died in an automobile crash.
LedHed Pb 207.20 🎶 🎸 🎹
What happened to the audio at 36:00???
thank you for this overview of historic events.
Tuy không biết tiếng Anh nhưng xem phim tôi cảm nhận từng trận đánh của dân tộc tôi với đội quân nhà nghề Mỹ
Bật phụ đề (nút cc) rồi cài dịch tự động sang tiếng Việt sẽ hiểu rõ sự tài tình của Bác khi dự đoán được nội tình nước Mỹ sẽ khủng hoảng rối ren như nào khi cứ kéo dài cuộc chiến, và như Bác đã nói ta nhất định thắng lợi
I'd like to hear this story from a Vietnamese perspective.
And hear even MORE BS than what was presented here? Not me!
You should not trust 100% what you find on internet. If you want to hear a full story that you have to come to vietnam
PLUS....I was there. I can trust my own eyes, as to what actually happened.
@@badguy1481really. Sr. When did you stay there and how long ?
I allways wanted to ask american army about their experience in vietnam. If you can tell more detail or show me where i can find information about that war, it is really meant to me. Thanks
No sound after 36 minutes?
USA: we can build cars and boats.
NVN: we can destroy them.
USA: we can build clocks.
NVN: We have only time.
USA: we can send rockets into space.
NVN: we can send your soldiers home in a box.
But Vietnam more better now..
But American more 🔫 Guns 🔫
Got fired to death right now.!!.
But after 1975 to many Vietnamese Peoples came to
The United States 🇺🇸..
But now many Vietnamese Peoples came back they homeland Vietnam and many Americans Peoples Travers to Vietnam 🇻🇳 they're Enjoying a great times on the Beach ⛱️ and
The Mountain ⛰️ to the Hạ Long Bay..and beautiful at Đà Nẵng Huế Central of Vietnam and Phú Quốc Island 🏝 Got beautiful beach ⛱️
For Swimming 🏊♀️..good..
Ho actually reached out to Harry Truman on 3 occasions for assistance. He only wanted arms, not men. Truman never replied....
This is true , and you never hear about it . Besides the State Department being the un- sung villain of Vietnam , Truman has to be high on the list . It could have all been prevented if only Truman had ....
Just imagine if US Democrat President Truman didn't allow the French to send their warship and bombed Northern city Haiphong, Vietnam and recognize Vietnam rights of indepence. Would the Vietnam War ever started and would Vietnam be a communist today?
The war was EXPANDED into Laos and Cambodia since 1946. Nixon didn't just randomly attack these areas.
Australia and New Zealand also took part in Vietnam and yes as a kid in the 60’s and 70’s saw it on the news every night
16 nước đồng minh của mỹ đều tham gia 😢 Korea là đông quân nhất
Lost my Neighbor, Friend an Youth,, Our Country Lost,,,,,Tens of thousands of our generation.....RIP. PFC. United States Marine Corps, Paul Allard, 1969,,
The Communists were masters of deceit and lies in South Vietnam. They never once used the word Communist in South Vietnam. They used front groups like the Farmers Association, The National Liberation Front The women's association in the countryside.
The bait in the trap in the countryside was the offer of free land to the peasants, which the Vietcong had taken off the landlords.
There is a chapter called
A Village Goes Wrong
in the book The Last Confucian
It is written by Denis Warner.
It shows how the Vietcong were able to subvert a village in Vietnam. It is based on a captured Vietcong document.
The Vietcong could not tell the peasants the truth that they believed in the abolition of private property, the abolition of all religion, and that would set up a Communist goverment in South Vietnam.
The Communists in South Vietnam learnt much of strategy and tactics of how to subvert the countryside from the Chynese Communists.
valley masters of deceit reflects both sides in actuality
@@muir8009 Reading a excerpt from Oliver Stones Theory on The Industrial Military Complex in American Culture, an War. Piles Of Cash for Giant Manufactures of War Weapons, Much of this Cash in the Coffers of Congressional, Pentagon Weapons Buyers,,,,,Follow The Money......
I have still never seen an honest, accurate documentary about Vietnam during this era. Just someone's version of the events.
This AIN'T it!
funny thing about history. 2 people can see the same event very differently, and that doesn't mean one is lying. As they say, history is for the winners. For example, if the Taliban and ISIS etc. succeed in forming a caliphate that lasts for centuries, their history will remember 911 as a glorious first strike that triggered the war that gave them the impetus to take over their lands from Western imperialists. If they fail in their mission and the West continues to control the narrative, 911 will be remembered by western history as a cowardly stab in the back attack perpetrated by foreign criminals.
@David Wang I was...and I disagree with YOU!
Can anyone explain why the audio cuts out at 36:30!? This part goes over RFK! I feel this part is extremely important to history
I'm Vietnamese, I just want to confirm: Vietnam - US war, not Vietnam war, that's big difference in our mind.
Like the south china sea right😅?
Whatever dude, irrelevant
What?
absolutely agree.
phrasing “vietnam war” would imply just a war amongst the people vietnam, or pushing total blame for what happened onto the country itself. US invaded vietnam, therefore; US/Vietnam War.
I am ashamed at our country's actions. I wish our leaders would have given ho chi mihn the attention and help that the vietnamese needed. We should have been going to war on France, not vietnam.
This is so good. What a terrific program. Thank you for your dedication and work
I was in Saigon or Ho Chi Minh City as it is known now a couple of weeks ago. And I stayed at the Pullman Hotel Vietnam and I visited Chu Chi tunnel and the Mekong Delta. Vietnam now is a nice country to visit. I recommend it to everyone to visit.
If you asked most young Americans what Vietnam was all about they have no clue if you ask them anything about our history involvement they have no idea that’s what sad their more concerned of how cool they look and social media with their heads staring at a little screen This country is in trouble
Funny thing, even those that have a clue appear to think it was solely US, and have practically no knowledge of the French involvement
This country has always been in trouble.
You can thank Americas dept of education for that.
Thanks to social media.. and little screen.. big screen don't show actual "footage"..
To be fair, even American soldiers DURING the war had no clue.
It's sad to realize we learned nothing from this war. Sometimes I think the founding fathers were right to say we should never have a standing army. I get that there have been select occasions where we were lucky to have the time needed to modernize and train our forces to act when it was actually necessary, but those occasions were rare. We have become the bullies we fought against in our revolution.
Those in power learned alot from ww2 and Vietnam. There is no profit in peace.
Calling war crimes “Mistakes” is really something
Napalm, agent orange, flamethrower and millions ton of bomb also "mistake" too.. you know "democracy" congressman means..
The 60's was a very violent decade, but it produced some beautiful music
Still the War with the Best Soundtrack
This Music Soundtrack to this is 🔥
Here’s a fact that is constantly missed: we were highly and specifically trained for Vietnam by Drill Sergeants with at least two tours under their belts. It’s when we landed in Vietnam, our orders were restricted from performing our honed skills to fight against ‘Hostile Forces’. At times we knew we where sitting ducks and expendable. And then, they wonder why many of us came home angry and felt used as soon as we left Vietnam’s airspace. Happy for leaving and guilty for leaving our ‘Brothers’ behind, at the same time. Unless your were there, you have no idea, why we our still haunted 50 years after ‘coming home’.
There is a quote where Johnson is alleged to have said to the military " Get me the Presidency, and i will get you ,your war". Everything was about escalation, it still is.
Đây là người mỹ và người nước ngoài phán xét, chứ không phải cộng sản họ nói đâu nhé, hỡi mấy em chống cộng, hãy chống mắt mà xem.
Cuôc chiến ở Viêt nam thât là huyền thoai của thế kỷ 20 đi vào lich sử nhân loai rung đông con tim đối với cả bên chiến thắng và bên chiến bai .❤❤❤
A brilliant and well balanced documentary.
This is me on the cover page at Camp Pendleton California Brigg, in the MP helmet bringing back a desterer 🦅🇺🇸🦅♦️♦️♦️🌺
Greatest music EVER! My dad served in nam, he was in the marines. Second battalion first marine corps division 0351.
Thank you to all who served over there! And all who still serve!
Có rất nhiều lính mỹ đã tàn sát người dân vô tội ở việt nam ,mong rằng bố bạn không phải là một người như thế .nước mỹ giết người ở khắp thế giới .
Steven M is like Charles Manson 😄 LOL
The music seems to have been selected almost at random. Over half of it had nothing to do with the war whatsoever.
Thanks to napalm too..
The United States was never the same after JFK's assassination and the Vietnam War.
Steven M is like Charles Manson 😄 LOL
Is it just me or does the sound conk out at 36:07 - 38:07
2 mins missing ?
Sir , does this mean Ann Margaret's not coming ?
Ali did not refuse to step forward. On the contrary, he stood his ground.
Ali was a racist pos. Cassius clay was a decent man
a very good movie about this time in the US was American Grafitti ... well-acted and poignant
wait, I think you mean the sequel, "more american graffiti", right?
I pray to God to give you a lot of beautiful days and you know God loves us so much,So where are you originally from? I am David originally from Spain but currently living in Texas now.
Great documentary all three parts. 👍📺🎥⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
The war in Vietnam is a forever pain for US.
Really?And how about Iraq ,Afghanistan ?
Most wars ...are.
Until now the effect of Agent Orange is feel by people of Vietnam...
Yes
The audio cuts out at 36:09 and stays out until 38:06.
Thank you for pointing this out. I’ll alert production company.
It was the CIA.😆
Did the audio go out for anyone?
By 1969 every grunt in country was sick of Vietnam and the whole fkn war. Not everyone had the choise to say no and run ??? The best of us died in that dank country. Shame on all who did nothing. SF. Always. Shalom to all my brothers who never came home. Shalom
Mis respetos y admiración al valiente pueblo vietnamita por su valentía inclaudicable al histórico intervencionismo de USA en asuntos internos de un país , se creen los policías del mundo llevando guerras fratricidas contra pueblos que lo desean es ser soberanos , la política exterior de USA es un asco .
hope peace is a good thing that leaders need to aim for, Vietnam we have been through a painful war, until now I am still a victim of a war that has passed, I am poisoned orange, I myself am struggling with a life of disability, illness
@@trantienfc3776 Steven M is like Charles Manson 😄 LOL
Steven M is like Charles Manson 😄 LOL
Такая же как и России. Согласен.
@@matthewtuckman4447why are you in the comment section saying the same thing to everyone when it doesn't even make sense?? You devoted some serious time to do so???
Music is definitely that time
Vietnam war was a turning point of body count not a teritorial wins
Don't you think it is a useless war?
@@leefloresca7014 it’s not useless for the Military Industrial Complex
That time democracy died in that country. 😭 Then in the early 2000's the economy started regaining and Vietnam again was put in the world map, many foreign investors came to invest in that country like the U.S.A.
I'm Kim Rast I shocked almost stratified about this one. The day I came back from a mission to Cambodia I was walking into the hooch and Nixon was on TV. He said we have absolutely no involvement in Cambodia whatsoever. I was with the 175th Outlaws Vihn Long. Was later transferred to Dong Tam 335th. I flew on gunships Couldn't get a job in Boise so I went back to Nam as a civilian worked for Ladybird Johnson at Hotel 3. When I got back my stepparents told me to pack up move out and never come back. Then I met my blood family and they told me to leave and not come back unless joined the mormons. I told them I would not join that cult the lds church if you gave it to me.
A common misunderstanding of military victory is the idea the you have to seize and hold the land. No, you can kill (or have surrendered) all the enemy soldiers and politicians. No more war.
Lost audio in-between 36:08 and 38:17.
Anybody else?
Still no audio 😎
There's a very funny comedy album where Nixon gets sent to prison and his hippy cell mate offers him a toke of 'Cambodian Red'. "Cambodia will never go red!" Nixon exclaims as he sucks frantically on the joint. Adding, "You hippy freak!" Wish I could remember the name of the album and the comedian. Earlier in the album, in a parody of the Godfather wedding scene, Nixon, looking for help with his Watergate troubles, has a meeting with the Godfather. When Don Corleone berates Nixon for never wanting to be his friend, Nixon exclaims, "That's not true Godfather. Why I was saying to Pat just the other day, we don't get to see nearly enough of the Corleones." Lol 😂
Okay. That sounds pretty awesome. If you figure it out, please let me know. I’d love to listen to this.
@@FreeDocumentaryHistory I'll definitely research that and get back to you.
@@FreeDocumentaryHistory Found it! The comedian is DAVID FRYE and the comedy album is titled: RICHARD NIXON: A FANTASY'. It's easy to find here on RUclips. Just type in the search window 'David Frye Richard Nixon: A Fantasy'. I was just listening to some of it. It's still hilarious. Too bad Frye died in 2011. I'm sure he would've had a field day with Donald Trump, who makes Nixon look like a boy scout by comparison.
"it was like attacking on christmas day, it wouldn't happen" except that happened kinda often in the history of war
The only way to "win" the war in Indo-China was to "lose" it strategically, which we ended up doing just that, in the end. Unfortunately, a lot of people died previously, to achieve that goal.
that war was a waste of resources and young American soldiers' lives. We should never have been there.
The hippies were right about
Vietna.
Iraq
Afghanistan
Picked the wrong side in Vietnam, the tragedy could have been avoided.............
"The worst crime wave in our history." said by the biggest criminal!!!
you should read about the atroceties committed by the communists of vietnam and cambodia
@@darylgrimes2601 I'm 75, I lived through them. Thanks.
Damn imagine watching the news on t v and seen your son getting wounded or killed even before you getnotified
Việt Nam 🇻🇳
Great information.
Huge chunk of audio missing in the Walter Cronkite segment :/
America will make exactly the same mistakes in Ukraine .