Vietnamese are probably the toughest and bravest people on Earth. They fought the French, Americans, Japanese and Chinese and no one could stand in their way of getting independence. Huge respect to the Vietnamese!
I am proud to be half blooded Vietnamese. My father joined an army since he was 15 and he devour himself for the country and defense his people at all cost. Even after vietnam's war had ended. He continued to liberate Cambodia country from Pol Pot regime which helps millions of people from death of hunger and mass killing. I am proud to be his son.
Your father was a serious hero. Where exactly did you say he was from? I am a very serious historian and I only study the Vietnam War. I do idolize people like your father. You should be very, very proud to be that man's son. Your father is a great man. I will be proud and impressed with you, if you continue to study the history. The world needs to know every detail of what happened from 1800 and British and then French Colonialism 1930-1980. Can I interview This man? Is he alive still? If he is alive, you are a very blessed person. I had a father, like yours, a hero, but not in war. My father was a domestic hero. He raised us well and gave us all education. He was clever and challenged all of my siblings to become a great scholar. Our family is loaded with doctors, lawyers and engineers. My father had a 156 IQ. My mother Ruth just passed; Ruth was a sweet soul. Ruth was very horrified by the Vietnam War. and Bob died in 2002 and used to watch WWI and WWI history shows with me growing up. You are blessed to have family. I have lost my parents, but I have many nephews and nieces. No cops, no warriors. All peaceful people. My Uncle Allen got on national TV and spoke negatively about the Vietnam War and that we don't belong there. This was way before hippies. Uncle Allen did this in a US Navy uniform, active-duty sailor. They locked him up in Leavenworth, the famous American military prison. My mother got an attorney and got him out. He became friends with The Grateful Dead and all the cool hippies in America that dropped out of the right-wing American society. I send you and your family 1,000 blessings. I am a Pentagon Papers and Vietnam War scholar. I am one of the most well-read people on the subject of the Vietnam Wars and times of peace 1930 -1980. I challenge you to learn as much as you can about this subject. It is the most interesting topic. Social change was everywhere in the 1960's. JFK and RFK were going to end that war and liberalize the world for the better in 1963. They found out about the corruption and savagery in that war and were going to end it. They murdered JFK in broad daylight and sold the American public a nonsensical story. Then when RFK came to finish the job, they found a way to kill him too. We're still trying to figure out what happened, but I think LA Gangster Eddie Nash was the hit man for RFK. Your father fought for the greatest cause in human history. Much like the American Revolutionary of 1776, the Vietnamese fought a very trained army and they fought for the right to self-determination. Besides the American slave being freed, I'd say the Vietnamese kicking the shit out of the Americans and the social change of the 1960's was the biggest event in human history. If you would like some start up authors, I'd suggest Marilyn B Young "The Vietnam Wars". I will share more if you're interested.
@@jpgrygus You are tragically confused Sir. If someone went to fight against the US & China backed Khmer Rouge, I think that is heroic. George HW Bush was in China helping the Pol Pot Regime to stop what they called "Vietnamization". The Chinese were worried the Vietnamese would push on their territory and they had US support for this. Our good old pal George HW Bush was serving up a genocide to Mao Zedong. The Vietnam War had less to do with communism and more to do with heroin, the American CIA and their violent partners in the French & Italian Mafia. These are the people who shot JFK and RFK because they were going close Vietnam for good. This was going to close a heroin monopoly that was going on since 1950's. The Vietnam War was a 3rd Opium War not a war about communism. They wanted self-determination and democracy and our leaders caved to French diplomats and business. They became communist after we told them they can't be an elected people. We disallowed their democracy because Ho Chi Minh was going to throw the French out of the country after WWII.
I would very much like to go back to tay Ninh and Cuchi Trang bang and surrounding areas I don’t know if I can go to a communist country all these little towns are on route one leaving Saigon and the Michelin plantation rubber do you have any info you could share how to enter the country
To Jason ..The right words ,expression to the North Communist Vietnamese are Huge DISRESPECT for them as they are the WAR CRIMINALS who started the invasions of the South for GREED that killed millions of people. ,!! People having well acknowledgement will RESPECT only to the SOUTH VN soldiers for their bravery fought against the bloody North Communists ‘ invasions ..which was instructed by China !! The Communist Viet Nam flag is flag of GANGSTERS ,whosoever supports them is either naive or being bluffed by Communist Propaganda ! We witnessed the atrocity of the North Communists after their occupations of the South on 30/04/1975 !! There are millions of people fled Viet Nam in 1954 ,1975 because of the North Communism and so many sacrificed their lives in the open sea on the way to Freedom !! Communist Viet Nam government is just the puppet one by China and notorious for corruptions ,eroded society !! China occupied VN ‘s lands ,islands ,flogged ,tortures VN fishermen and CVN dare fight back ,!,!
To Legionario 1 . Sorry you are being bluffed by Communist VN ,Propaganda to praise Ho Chi Minh ,Communist North !! They are War Criminals who invaded the Republic South Viet Nam because of the wealth of the South !! HCM Communists are GANGSTERS .
If you understand Vietnamese, you will know that the man in the beginning is very angry but he tries not to show it. Instead he tries to show his will to defeat USA
@User Name I agree because we were a weak nation so we can't just do it ourselves like the US that why we need help from many socialists country.South Vietnam also need help from the West so that a draw for me.
To Andrea .It makes sense if you say Huge respect. only to the South Vietnamese Not to the Ho Chi Minh North Communist Vietnamese who are War Criminals ... Those North Communist barbarians started the VN civil war that killed millions of people !! Please do not be bluffed by their Communist Propaganda . Thanks . A witness of Communists ‘ war crimes .
I am malaysian.. thing I respect about vietnamese is that they are truly pure patriotic people who stand together and strong together... Women and men work together and nobody complain, even in football their team did great than us using their own local people.. they can do it and why we can't?
thank you, I have also traveled in malaysia, I have also heard stories about your history, starting your country with many difficulties, but your intelligence and diligence malaysians, so far your country has been a dragon of Asia. Let's grow together and oppose war.
To dat boi . Ho Chi Minh ,North Communists ‘s invasions the South because of the wealth of the South . Please do not be bluffed by Communist Propaganda ! We witnessed the crimes that North committed in the South . Ho C M ,North Communists are GANGSTERS who deserve to be insulted for ever .
Vietnam team used to have 1 imported goalkeeper original from Brazil like your team. At the salute the flag ceremony before a match, camera catch a ironic moment that he look at Vienamese flag but he sang Brazilian national anthem. Then VFF never call imported player anymore!
As an American, Air Force Nurse during the Viet Nam era, I did not support the war but totally supported our military. President Johnson, Secretary McNamara & Richard Nixon led our country astray and into a war we had no right to proliferate. I knew what we did in South Vietnam was horrendous, example, Agent Orange. Honestly, I never gave much thought to North Viet Nam except, they had right to follow their own political choice. HoChiMinh was out allie in WW2 but chose a different path. Seeing this video sickens me for what we did to them. It also gives me great respect for NVN of that time. Apology from one heart can't assuay one drop of blood spilled, but I must extend it, now, 2023.
0:49 i heard him say that "the people of Vietnam is a heroic nation, the land of Vietnam is a heroic land. If the westerners come here to invade, our people decided to stand up to destroy them" i’m the Vietnamese so i understand
No mate, the Vietnamese resisted every invasion. Cambodja twice and China as well not too long ago. Easterners, westerners....they don't wan't it in their country hahaha. If there was an alien invasion they would not take no shit from that either lol :)
@@forestdweller5581 unfortunately the Vietnamese weren't able to resist the Communist invasion of their country in 1975. I just hope that someday they can take their country back from them again.
@@vinhlong7347 you're right I do dream about Vietnamese people being free someday once again and I think millions of them have that same dream as well.
To Zero .,,You should not feel But Know That Communist North Vietnamese ‘. won the war of their invasion the South Viet Nam ‘ Not with love But with Greed .,!! Those North Communist barbarians had been starving ,became Gangsters !! The South VN never want them on the soil of the South .. Shame on Communist Viet Nam . The world does not need Ho Chi Minh Communists to teach people how to become a Gangster !!
@@angquangthanh6383 If All Vietnamese talk like you there won't be War between our neighbors..... ...... But the Communists are very good in Lies and Decieptions...
@@manueladarazsdi9675 nobody needs your proxy war, oil hungry, drone hunting, corrupt, child killing asses anywhere in the world. You are no longer the greatest country in the world anymore!!!
0:43 "our people are heroes and our land is the land of heroes. The American came here and invaded us but we will definitely stand up and defeat them". I got goosebumps when he said that And I feel so bad for those kids, they wear a white head scarf called Khăn Tang. That thing is used only at funerals and only family members of the deceased can wear it. They had to wear it when they were still kids which brought tears to my eyes 😭
North Vietnam didn't defeat the U.S.. The people of the United States demanded an end to the war. If you read your general Giap's book, you would know the North Vietnam army was going to sue for peace three times. Each time there were protest in the U.S. and North Vietnam decided to wait.
Nothing to be proud of the North Communist Vietnamese who are totally the evil ,barbaric Gangsters , Terrorists invaded the South Viet Nam for GREED . Ho chi Minh is truly the bloody leader of INVADER whose skeleton ,skull must be crushed ,dumped to the tip where he belong . Only the South Vietnamese deserve to be respected . North Communists Go back to jungles .your bloody ,poor North .
@@tuanz8009 You have no excuse to label a man and his country dumb when are own country ran in head first and slaughtered their livelihood and loved ones. They choose their path because instead of lending a hand we instead pointed a bayonet at them. So next time, learn in full detail about the Vietnam War before opening your poor excuse of a mouth. A real American respects, a fake american boasts.
We had to fight Mongolian, Chinese, Japanese, French, USA, Cambodia and Chinese again. Since 1945 when modern Vietnam nation started we had long war until 1989 with no resting. I do hope there will be no more war in our land. We want to give flowers not bullets.
@@hoangphunguyen9603 I walked out that door 40 years ago. It was the best thing that I ever did. America provided so much for me and gave me freedom. Communist Vietnam stole from south vietnam and killed many people while America gave me freedom and opportunities. America treated me better than my own country. Communist are worse than trash.
Just some people protecting their homeland. The US has no business fighting outside our own borders. Our constitution doesn't allow a standing army for over 2 years, but the politicians just see the Constitution as a piece of old paper.
@@punjivr Because the North was invading the south ? I mean getting involved was dumb but you are thinking oh yeah communism won't spread to other countries but at the time they didn't know that.
@@walterthecat2145 The south wouldn't exist if uncle sam hadn't done his coup to create this pseudo-state and vietnam would have been communist from the very beginning. Vietnam for the Vietnamese, the rest have no business but of course america wants to intervene everything with it's policies that are controlled by Israel.
@phạm ha North and South were split upon handover from French colonial rule. Ho Chi Minh's unilateral declaration of a unified Vietnam under his control, was no more enforceable than Ngo Dinh Diem declaring the same. I'm not saying whether the US should have involved itself in a civil war, but it's a complete load of revisionist bs to promote the fallacy that the south wanted to be reunified with the north under Minh and it was only the South's government that fought against it...
At least they're not camwhores or pornstars, and are actually doing something for their country and something meaningful in life. That's how the Greatest Generation was created and toughened in the West. And look at us now! We're f*cking pathetic!
I love the Vietnamese people ,been to Vietnam many times, hard working tough people but friendly and always respectful , liveing through the war in northern Ireland I can identify with their struggle to break the chains of Imperialism ,as that man said what did we ever do to you
The Vietnam war is a war that the west helped the Vietnamese people to fight Communist aggression. It's Communist expansionism, absolutely not a war against imperialism.
@@ericluk68 BS again you might look into history and the similarities in relation Imperialism ,Since World War II, during a supposed golden age of peace, the United States military has killed or helped kill some 20 million people, overthrown at least 36 governments, interfered in at least 85 foreign elections, attempted to assassinate over 50 foreign leaders, and dropped bombs on people in over 30 countries. The United States is responsible for the deaths of 5 million people in Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia, and over 1 million just since 2003 in Iraq.
brick wall you quote the history data without elaboration. It’s shameless whether it’s intended or merely out of ignorance that I don’t know. It’s a kind of evasion of fact and twist of truth. The Americans also bomb the Germany and overthrew the nazi government, to liberate the nazi trampled countries and Jews concentration camp, and the Americans also bombed the communist invasion in Korea peninsula and..........so on. Have these data been included in your colourful quotes.
@@ericluk68 the Irony and you call me ignorant 😂😂 It wasn't just the USA that fought the Nazis ,it was half the western world FFS ,as a matter of fact the US only come into the war near the end off ww2 ,the Russians already had the back broke on the German army 👍 anyway what has that got to do with what the USA done after ww2 ? ,Again read a history book
@@MrCOUNTYCORK after your so-called Communist victory over the American imperialist invasion, do you know how many Vietnamese people were forced to leave their homeland, to escape from the political persecution, religion cleansing, confiscation of farmlands and private properties under the Communist rule? These communism victims were all to seek refuge in what you described as West imperialistic countries. All such consequences proves the correctness of the US mission in the Vietnam war, namely to resist Communist aggression and expansion.
No respect to the North Communists ,Ho Chi Minh who are Gangsters invaded the South because of wealth of the South ...they are brave to invade the South !!
Hey guys, to understand Vietnam war and us, Vietnamese people, it is not complicated. If you come to our house with the knife, We will NOT scare of you and willing to die to protect our families, our country. But if you come to our house with flowers/ friendship, we will warmly welcome you, and even willing to die because of you as well. We defeated China many times in thousand years, defeated French, America not because of we like the war or like fighting. Just simple that we don't want anybody stand on our head. For all, we are in peace and independent now. For all, we are trying to develop our country better and better now. Still many difficulties ahead but the work-front is a must.
Dear Hoang Sa, From September 1967 to October 1968 I served as an 11C (indirect fire infantry/ mortar man in South Vietnam. Sir or Ma'am, I was conscripted into the army. If I would have refused to enter the army, I would have faced imprisonment, brought disgrace upon my family, and never would have been able to get decent employment in the U.S. I am sorry that I caused your country and people misery because of my actions. However, I was not prepared to spend years in an American prison, have a criminal record, or never be able to get a decent job. I did what I was forced to do. I give you and your countrymen my most contrite personal apology. However, my government owes me an apology. I did not have the money or family influence to stay out of the Vietnam War, as did President a Trump. May peace be with you. It took me decades to say this. Please forgive me. I was not in your country by my own desire or choice.
Jaime Garcia not your fault Sir. you followed orders given by politicians. as we know there are no winners in a war. respect to you and all the best to you and your family. 🍀
@Charles Martel Wow. Your perspective is somewhat skewed. As is the logic you apply to trump's decision to run for president. At the very least you're misinformed. At best you're deluded. But those are two traits common with trump supporters. Thankfully your wannabe DICTATOR will be out on his FAT ASS and in CUFFS a year from now. P.S. Learn about the history of Vietnam. Read; Vietnam A History. The First Complete Account of Vietnam at War. By Stanley Karnow. You might learn something sir.
This Video brings back memory of my auntie's story. My auntie has been telling us the following story hundreds of times. Each time she recounts it, she cries. It must have been liters of her tears over the years. # The story is .... # That was a Lunar New year in Vietnam. My aunt and her mother (my grand-aunt-mother; my mother calls her auntie) were travelling by ferry boat on a river in southern Vietnam. All of a sudden, American helicopters appeared, and shot at the boat. My aunt and her mother sat next to each other. Her mother was hit, and was dying in my aunt's arms (she was a small teenager at the time) # My aunt recounts of her mother's last words: "Daughter, it's certain I die. Don't forget to look after your siblings and listen to your dad." # Then she died in my aunt's arms. As said, each time my aunt recounts that story which happened 50 years ago, she cries.
very touched with your story, war is cruel, bringing so much pain to the people of Vietnam. Now that there is peace we need to cherish that. together to build a rich and strong country so that Vietnam will never have to meet the path of suffering again.
To Gugucpco. It is a terrible mistake to praise Ho Chi Minh ,North Communists who were invaders the South & War Criminals ! Those Communist barbarians deserve to be insulted for ever . Please do not be bluffed by any Communist propaganda . Thanks
Putting it simply, the Vietnamese just wanted their country's independence and integrity, and to be left alone, if not friend to everyone. All else is negotiable. # They'd go to any length, endure any sacrifice, hardship, suffering, ... for their country's independence and integrity. =================== Jay Lu says "The mongol couldn't conquer vietnam. The chinese has tried on and off for thousands of years. The french failed. The japanese failed. What makes you think the US had a chance?" -- I say: # Very well said, Jay Lu; especially when China is right next door, and 20 times the size of Vietnam. If the expansionist, boundlessly greedy, ruthless, extremely cunning, brutal and experienced rulers of China could not conquer Vietnam despite repeated attempts, what makes anyone think the US could ? =================== Frankly, as a Vietnamese, I really don't care who won or who lost that war. But I do care whether Vietnam would get back her independence and integrity, and whether armed foreign invaders were still present on our homeland, dictating via a puppet régime what we could and could not do.
0:52 As a Vietnamese, this is the meaning of the lyrics that the soldiers sang : Rise up the heroic people of the South Steam rising up to overcome stormy phase Swear to help my country Vows to sacrifice to the end take the sword, take the gun, charge up The time of the country has come dawn shines everywhere Wish to build a bright and bright country forever.
I respect these people until now on how they defeated France & US in the battle. In my opinion they are much prepared both psychological & physical, France & US was surprised I think.
@@falkmap7491 lol i live there since i was born and yeah it's prosperous enough that only brain dead westerner who never visit the country once to know anything at all and his make up friend
+afgan army must not flee from qabul they must have stand till the last people were on their support anyways may allah shows some way out of the cruality..
@yash bhai bother don't worry the 98% ppls of Afghanistan supports talibans... The corrupt government of Afghanistan is gonn... Which they even harmed civilns with forin forces lot as well... Now its far better tho... And don't believe on paid western media...the one whom running leaving country achally they where government and amricans employees they worked for them... Even tho talibans wouldn't harm them they promised that and forgiven... But still running their Greedy to get green card's of European countries and US
Jesus! I felt heartbreak wrenching when I saw the two innocent little girls with their father at the beginning of this video. tears almost come out of my eyes.
There is a documentary here on RU-vid about the horrific war crimes that the US soldiers did to vietnamese villagers. Including women and children "massacred" its very sad to watch and hear the story
My best friend growing up was south Vietnamese and his brother was from north vietnam . They had alot of interesting stories of there uncles and grandparents
Sniper King They are brave to kill their own people only. In the name of fighting the west imperialism and colonialism, in fact the Viet Cong killed mostly Vietnamese people in the war and inflicted the hugest political persecution and poverty ever on their own people in Vietnam history. No doubt it is communist aggression and expansionism. It is no different what the Taliban, Al-qaeda, ISIS, are doing, kill mostly Islamic people instead of infidels, but in the name of jihad, lying that it’s a war against the west imperialism.
Perjuangan kalian bangsa Vietnam melawan penjajahan takkan pernah terlupakan dan akan selalu dikenang sepanjang masa sebagai pahlawan. Semoga kalian yang meninggal di Medan Peperangan diberikan tempat terbaik di surga. Salam dari Indonesia untuk saudara-saudara kami Vietnam 🇮🇩🤝🇻🇳.
The necessity for improvising, bush crafting skills, firearms training, a local civilian militia, a right to bear arms, this video has a little bit of everything.
I live in a peaceful country. When there is a war, the state will return guns to the people. there are always 100 million guns, enough for the population
@@patricksputnick5094 Actually, it's perfect example of why the right to bear arms for self defense is a basic human right. Looks like you missed the point.
@@Unit13FREMSLT This has nothing to do with the right to bear arms or the 2nd amendment. Local militia in Vietnam is highly regulated and centrally controlled just like a regular force but keep in reserve. To bear arm in times of war is the duty of every citizen that is properly trained, not a right. After the war, armaments are returned to the local government and only used for yearly militia training
The PHILIPPINES was the FIRST Vietnam.. Filipino-American War of 1901.. The American soldiers did far worst.. that is why this war was rarely mentioned in PHILIPPINE and American schools.
@@manfredrichthofen2494 americans killed people in the Philippines including women and children specifically in Mindanao. The reasons why they invented the 1911 -. 45 caliver specially made to kill muslim in the Philippines.
The United States Won every Battle in Vietnam..we Chose to leave. Dont patronize these people..the Vietnamese were not Kind loving people..i Suggest all of you know the history and Facts of the Conflict before you say anything..
In the end, America did not stop Vietnam from turning Communist. Vietnam is still a communist country to this very day. The war was waste of many good American and Vietnam lives. Many people try to justify the war, but often the actual people in the war who did the killing regretted the war. I spoke to 4 veterans of the war, only one of them returned to without any type of ptsd. Some have not fully escaped the war as the war followed them for decades. When the Americans soldiers returned to the USA they were not treated well. Many American vets even became homeless which is a shame and should have never happened. The US government used those soldiers, and when the government was done they left the soldiers fend for themselves. It is sad to see that no matter which side you stood on in the conflict the end result almost always led to unhappiness. Vietnam was a war started by politicians, but the politicians did not fight or suffer from the war at all. This is one of the first instances where America displayed how expendable the average soldier is when it comes to the hands of politicians. This is what the future learned about Vietnam.
I wonder what the American people have learned from Vietnam and its aftermath - especially given the repetitive history of the aggressive foreign policies of various US governments
I visited Vietnam in 2017, it looks like southern Vietnam in the 60's without a war of course. The skyscrapers are multiplying in the big cities, business is booming, the big Western brands and mcDonalds are everywhere, tourists by the thousands, a capitalist country now. But still beautiful and the people friendly. I have fond memories of my stay in Vietnam, especially this weekend in Halong Bay, the most beautiful in the world.
@@adysc74 communism and every other form of govt are a failure. Lmao Europeans need a taste of colonization is all. Thousands of years of slavery then we can talk about equality.
After 1975, Vietnam had to overcome many consequences caused by war (unexploded bombs buried deep in the ground, Agent Orange ... etc. ... In 1979 Vietnam had to continue fighting with China and Polpot, then subjected to the embargo of the United States and the United Nations.. Polpot massacred many border villages in Vietnam, massacred many Cambodians, so Vietnam had to fight against the falsely accused Polpot.VN. After being embargoed, Vietnam became the poorest country in the world because it couldn't trade, exchange and learn with the world. Vietnam was free to develop for 26 years. Embargo is a terrible thing and the world owes Vietnam an apology.
My grandpa fought in this war , he was captured twice by the vietnamese and he had to see innocent children die . I cry thinking about what he went through .
@@danm.bagley5030 my grandpa has pictures of proof , he even had therapy and his hands are considered illegal weapons bc he went crazy , he also has ptsd , old gernades in his house and he has his military suit hung up ... so no sir my grandpa isn’t a bullshitter
The lesson from the American-Vietnamese War is that we shouldn't let fear guide our nations. The US feared communism in Vietnam, but the Vietnamese just wanted independence more than anything. It just so happened that the Communists in Beijing and Moscow were the ones willing to give the Vietnamese the weapons so they could fight for their independence from France. Vietnam and the USA both had fought for their independence and it is said that Ho Chi Minh looked up to George Washington and the Founding Fathers. Vietnam and the USA could have been very good allies and friends. It was only the USA's fear of communism that led to an unnecessary war that caused so much destruction, pain and death. And it was US fear of Islamic extremism that led to a 2nd invasion of Iraq and and 20 year occupation of Afghanistan. If we do not learn to control our fears and hatred, we will only cause more suffering and make more unnecessary enemies. As an American, I'm really sorry for what my country did to Vietnam, even if I wasn't alive during that time. I hope that we can be forgiven and that the US and Vietnam can both move forward to a brighter future! 🇺🇲❤️🇻🇳
@@ginestraginestra9624 flourish? You should learn history to know how bad it was that place and even the Southern Vietnamese who wanted to unify the country under the Northern Vietnam's regime.
@@notannoyedbird1820 I'm South Vietnamese, the 5-10 million South Vietnamese people who fled the country don't agree, the millions more stuck in that country also agree that South Vietnam should've remained as a country; When the North was taken by the Communists, so many Northerners came to the South that they had to *close the borders* after losing more than 1,000,000 of their own civilians. The *minority of South Vietnamese people* who supported the Northern cause should've just went to the North, the North was the real aggressor here.
@@destubae3271 No nobody invited America. They didn't need us to stop communism; they could've done it themselves. Stop trying justify America invading another country. Again, Vietnam didn't have to be communist. It could've been independent and democratic without a war we had helped them become independent right after WW2 then the whole Vietnam war would've been avoided. You see, at the end of WWII Ho Chi Minh came to Truman and asked for his support in seeking Vietnamese independence from the French, and Truman basically brushed him off to support the French in their occupation! And it’s not like Ho Chi Minh just played Truman one visit and then went to Moscow! No, he really respected America and in fact he modeled the Vietnamese declaration of independence directly on the American one, so he sent Truman numerous letters, which Truman chose to ignore in favor of supporting the French! Ok, France was our friend and all who backed our bid for independence, I get that, but France was wrong on this! And we as a self-proclaimed champion of freedom and justice were morally obligated to support the Vietnamese in their quest for independence and freedom! But it gets worse than all that. We turned our backs on the morally correct until Ho Chi Minh got support from the soviets! Then we decided to get involved on the premise that if South Vietnam fell to communism, then all of southeast Asia would follow! But as you can see, after we left and all of Vietnam became communist, that did not happen! So basically 58,000 Americans and several million Vietnamese died for nothing! To me that makes it the worse war! And I can’t help wondering how different Vietnam would be right now if America under Truman had done the morally correct thing! Also, many South Vietnamese felt they could've fought the war themselves without U.S. interference. Now I'm no fan of communism but it's none of our business whether Vietnam is communist or not. Besides, the South Vietnamese felt that they could fight the war themselves without American interference. All they needed was supplies and moral support, nothing more. As one former South Vietnamese officer stated, " We fought for our country with our best,” Vo said. “We didn’t need the Americans to do our job for us. We didn’t need the American GIs to come and fight for us. We needed money, supplies and international support.” And here's my source. www.mercurynews.com/2017/09/29/veterans-angry-disappointed-following-pbs-vietnam-war-documentary/
@@mainguyen-jr6ee under communism nobody have any rights. I live in a free country so I can talk about anything I want. Why do vietnamese communist don't allow you to criticize the communist party? You celebrating Ho Chi Minh a mass murder of millions of Vietnamese. Your communist government have taught you propaganda not real history. I'm not an exile. I left on my own free will. The communist killed my uncle because he try to leave Vietnam. Today why do vietnamese from Vietnam come to america to visit and refuse to leave? Because they know communist Vietnam is bad.
Duy Nguyen exactly. All of these idiotic brainwashed communist sympathizers keep yapping about how bad America is and don’t hesitate to trash their own country. Was the war somewhat political? Of course. Every war is. But ppl are taught propaganda and start to believe it and are shielded from true history. America was originally trying to help south Vietnamese getting overtaken by the communist north. Ppl spit on America and freedom, yet praise communists like Stalin, Mao and Hitler even. Ppl that are responsible for murdering millions of their own people and if you speak out, they kill you instantly. All of the communist sympathizers need to be sent to real communist nations and forced to live u see that regime. Just so we can see how bad they want to come back
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From my homeland to 1990, the whole village has several thousand bomb holes forming ponds.
Jack Wilson says "The 'Vietnamese' didn’t fight America. The Communist North Vietnamese fought America." - I say # Initially, all Viet_Congs were southern Vietnamese; "Nam Bộ Kháng Chiến" [Southern Resistance (to French colonialists' 2nd invasion in 1945)], "Đồng Khởi" [Uprising (in 1960)] were all done by southern Vietnamese. By the end of the Liberation war, most of the Viet_Congs in Southern Vietnam were southern Vietnamese. My parents, my aunties and uncles, my grand parents, say that on the Liberation day of 30-4-1975, there were not one single northern Vietnamese to be seen in our area in Hồng Ngự (Đồng Tháp province)
I’ll bet nobody was waving South Vietnam flags around after the North took over. Probably like there weren’t a lot of Tory’s running around waving the British flag after September 1783.
@@williamsmith8790 My point is the Struggle for Vietnam's Independence and Liberation was carried out, and won, by all Vietnamese together, northern, southern, central, .... # As mentioned, the liberation of most of southern Vietnam was done by the southern Vietnamese. # Thus, besides our home district Hồng Ngự, no northern Vietnamese were seen in Cần Thơ, Mỹ Tho, Rạch Giá, Cà Mau, Phú Quốc, Trà Vinh, Kiên Giang, .... when those areas were liberated on 30-4-1975, but only the southern Vietnamese (southern Viet_Congs) # By the way, it's very easy to pick out a northern Vietnamese in a southern environment; the northern accent is impossible to hide or change, probably in a way similar to when Americans pick out a Scottish among them. # The so-called "South Vietnam" regime (named Ngụy Quyền or Puppet Regime in Vietnam) was erected up by the invading French colonialists who were succeeded by the invading American neo-colonialists, to help them keep their colonial occupation of Vietnam.
@@thihienmainguyen4314 That's why most of the prime ministers and presidents of Vietnam to this day have been from the South as they were ex Vietcong. On the other hand, there were a lot of North Vietnamese in the South Vietnam government consisting mostly of people who migrated South in 1954. These are mostly Catholics, deceived by their priests that God has gone South and a government headed by a Catholic (Ngô Đình Diệm) would give them lands and jobs.
Or the fact they used up to 17 chemicals at least for all we know. Agent Purple and so on. Or the fact they used more bombing than during the entire second world war.
@@manspider1532 As a Vietnamese, i neither see what is untrue from the sentence said that "what have we done to american people..." nor the justice that american claim in this war. So one again, explane it, not just talk like a baby and just call someone that you cant hit back by fool because you're just too stupid to do that
@@sonhuynh106 It's not about what you did to the Americans, they were invited in by South Vietnam who's civilians were being butchered by the NVA, everyone talks about the American war crimes even though the NVA were the first ones to commit the war crimes
@@rfj1156 What Ignorant BULLSHIT!!! They were invited in because it was understood that because the elections that were part of the 1954 Geneva agreement were being denied to the Vietnamese people, (I wonder why) there was going to be war...The Vietnamese people were NOT going submit without without a struggle!!!
@ it's not that poor. It just ain't rich either. It literally has the 2nd fastest economic growth behind china and is classified as a middle income country. Come to vietnam. "Corrupt" barely. It's the most free communist nation in the world
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Wow Pow I live in hcmc my dude. The average income in Vietnam is $250 a month.
When I went into the War Museum in Hanoi. I literally was in there maybe 7 mins and walked out so pissed. Mainly because how good I was treated there as a Veteran and American made me beyond wonder. Like wtf... I damn near cried being in Laos which quiet as kept by non historians and people refuse to study themselves. Was Far worse than Nam because people are still dying today from unexploded bombs. They are still sweeping each area of the entire country for them while some are left unfortunate by getting limbs blown off or killed in 2021
I really admire the combative spirit of those VC guerrilla fighters, boys and girls, they had to fight for their land, for their families, their survival.
They did not 'had to fight'! They thought that Communism is better idea than 'what they had' so they joined VC. In short, North Vietnam committed aggression against South Vietnam (via Viet Cong at first) and there's nothing noble about it! Also I don't think that the farmer has a better life than he had before! All of this because uncle ho had a dream (place in history) and kennedy said that us will help a friend who's under attack....
Benjamin García have you seen Vietnam now ! Wow beautiful place and beautiful people, I love it. Try and go out there or watch some vids and see what Saigon looks like now 👍🏿
Man, America is a bully country those poor humans in the Nam had to suffer due to both government foolishness.. Europe and America have invaded mostly the whole world.... They are the pay masters of war....
@@marvindelmas55 Russia did the same in Afghanistan . Japan also did it .Iraq invaded Iran. Isis raped and pillaged whole landscapes .the Taliban send children in suicide trucks .when the Rwandan genocide happend there wasn't a single western power involved .Same with Ethiopia today .You eat your anti western propaganda for breakfast
Its just a very strong tobaco, i saw some foreign pass out after trying that 😂 like in this video: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-DU-0hrpdbLI.html
Dom Ochoa , more Whites are on heroine than Blacks , US government took all that heroine and now you have the opioid crisis , yea you right “ know your enemy “
@@domochoa that logic is false, looking at something like KFC, they slaughter the chickens and fry the chickens to supply demands. The people who consume overly amount of fried chicken are unhealthy and potentially die from heart problems. Who fault is it? It was the soldiers that smuggled it back to US and it was the mafias and American gangsters that distributed on the streets that killed people. If there was no greed, no users, no distribution networks and no smugglers How the hell would a farmer in Vietnam bring that in to the US. I am not against US and not with vn either. The true enemy is yourself...
Vietnamese is a testament that weaponry is not always an advantage. Winning a war is all about striking the enemy in their soft spot and taking advantage of it.
To Hoang Huy . Your comment was a joke ! Your barbaric Ho Chi Minh ,North Communists are Gangsters , Invaders the South so you should be ashamed of your North ‘ Gangsters ‘Acts .. And should keep your mouth shut .
First clip man with two daughters translation “ we are a brave people, this land is the land of the brave , we are determined, we fight to the end until we defeat them”
Smh breaks my heart. Deep respect for the vietnamese 🙏 ALL volunteers. Heard american soldier say it was like boyscouts vs experienced hardened warriors. The heart of the vietnamese very admirable. What do we expect?? If a bunch of ppl came here and started killing our family and neighbors wouldn't we stand up and fight too???
My fiance is vietnames and spent 5 years in a beautiful country with humble family orientated people..stories I was told from ex VCS are amazing especially the American brutality towards them .rape,torture,mass graves were villagers were told to go in the hole then were executed gutless American dogs..but in the end 53,000 us body bags went home ..no war is a good war but vietnam fir what it had accomplished defeat..and other countries..so proud of them..long live vietnam 🇻🇳
If the decent Americans had a stronger voice and had tried to know the Vietnamese a little better, like how they could exist and prosper next to an ever expansionist, ruthless China 20 times their size, ... # Then, 60,000 young Americans in their prime would not have died causing 60,000 families to mourn, and 200,000 other young Americans crippled, suffering and living in misery for the rest of their life, and their families always feeling a sadness. # Then, 2,000,000 Vietnamese would not have died, causing 2,000,000 Vietnamese families to mourn, 2,000,000 widows weeping day and night and 3,000,000 Vietnamese children without a father, and 10,000,000 other Vietnamese injured and crippled, suffering for the rest of their life. # But, on the other hand, some Americans had made a lot of money (hundreds of billion of dollars) selling guns, bullets, military vehicles, helicopters, canned food, wound bandages and dressings, military clothing, ... # In fact, so much money that JFK had to be eliminated for daring to be in the way ...
Vietnam war was raged to save it from Evil communism.. Vietnam wouldn't be the corrupt authoritarian single party run shithole today if it was saved from commies....
Vietnamese could have had a pro western developed nation like S.Korea if it has alligned with western democracy instead of trying to be a communist dictatorship
Last week I found out that the US lost the Korean War and the Viet Nam War. Here In Viet Nam War we. WE, lost thousands of soldiers: 58,167. WTF!!! We lost the war against Nam? OMG! Against a poor country, underdeveloped, malnourished, without Navy, without Air Force, No Company of Marines, Green Berets, SEALs, Rangers, Delta Force, Rambos or Chuck Norris. Defeated by a country of peasants without strategic plans, B-52 Bombers, PT-Boats, Atomics Submarines, without Aircraft Carriers, NO Continental Missiles, or tanks, choppters, Gatlin Machins, Flamethrowers, Napalm, Agent Orange... and to top it off, defeated by an army of Teenagers WITHOUT SHOES who fought with bamboo sticks!!! Kicked asses and even invaded our Embassy. "Never underestimate what people in pajamas and sandals can do..." Yup. LOL.
@User Name However, U R wrong. The military and economic superpower has been the US and not the USSR or China. It is until now, and after 1991, that the USSR (Russia), and China have recovered. In the 60's and 70's, the US was unrivaled. But also, you must understand that no matter how much material support a country receives, the citizens of that country must face the enemy SOLO. A country can receive thousands of AK-47s, but it takes someone to shoot it or it won't do any good. A jet fighter plane does not fly alone. Artillery does not fire alone. The people ("People in pajamas and sandals"), of Nam defeated the US, Australia, New Zealand, Thailand, Canada, France, and South Korea... Alone! "People in pajamas and sandals" And that is a FACT.
@User Name Propaganda has always led us to believe that we, The Yankees, beat Hitler. But, I have news for you: The US did not win the war against Germany. The Russians won it. The Allied Army of the US, UK, Canada, Belgium and France, was able to reach Normandy, thanks to the Soviets destroying the Nazis in Stalingrad, Leningrad and Kurks, in 1943. It took them 289 days but the Russians won and without the help of nobody… OF NOBODY! Normandy was until June 1944, and Mr. “Hollywood” Patton did NOT manage to set foot on German soil until January 1945, when the Red Army was going over Berlin. General Patton was able to enter Germany only when the Russians were 180 kilometers from the Oder River. Now, don't you come to say that the Soviets received help from the US. The material "Aid" was NOT a gift from the US. The material "Aid" was not free. The "Aid" was SOLD, and very expensive. Those who say that the Soviets received help to defeat the Nazis, I say that a Tank does not handle itself. That Artillery does not fire alone. If U think that I am wrong and that the Russians were helped to win the war, I challenge you to tell me the name of a Division that fought shoulder to shoulder helping the Red Army. What is the name of the US general who led his Division from the Western front? The Russians defeated Hitler without the help of anyone. This is also a FACT.
@User Name Well... It seems like Nam didn't beat the US after all, right? Look here: The US has been defeated in Korea, Vietnam, Cuba, Lebanon, Somalia and still, after 10 years, still cannot against Afghanistan. However, the powerful US Army defeated the tiny island of Grenada, as it faced a fearsome army of 287 Police Officers, since Grenada does NOT have an Army. In fact, they were half this number, since the Policemen on the afternoon shift had not yet come to work. The tiny Island of Grenada is 4 times smaller than the Island of Puerto Rico. Its entire population fits into New York Yankee Stadium. They had barely 3 years of having won their Independence and passing, from being a Colony of the English Empire, to a Sovereign Nation. Did they really deserve the abuse of power from a foreign invasion? Answer: The US was afraid that Grenada would be supported by USSR and China, to defeat them here... Again.
@User Name Yeah... right. The US beat the Nazis, according to the Hollywood version. LOL (If it hadn't been for Nuke, the Japanese wouldn't have given up).
Randy Jones how is it an “irony”? Or are you one of those snowflake Chinese/Koreans who are still whining and crying about WW2 lol? Japanese were definitely not saints during WW2, but Americans have committed genocide FAR worse than any other nations combined throughout WW1, WW2, Cold War, ...etc. Americans don’t count Cold War genocides because they would use “other countries” instead of their own soldiers (aside of Vietnam War and some other fights of course).
CAVKING19DELTA TEXAS which is why they are trying to approach North Korea....good grief, you need some history check up, this isn’t the “good old ‘merica” propaganda era lol.
To Debu .. We would like to make it clear regarding ‘Great Respect ‘ which will be meaningful to say Great Respect Only to the South Vietnamese for their bravery ,fought against the evil North Communists ‘ invasions which was instructed by China .. Do not be bluffed ,bought off by Communist Propaganda !! Ho Chi Minh ,North Communists started the war for GREED !
