Friendship forged in war endures between American and Vietnamese vet l ABCNL 

Sorry but it wasn’t heroic to invade/terrorise a country that wanted peace :/

Fighting your own people, the south was under a dictatorship called Diem and you really think Vietnam would want a dictator?

@@vitalion4135 only North VietNam invades SouthVietnam. You don’t know what you are talking about.

@@vitalion4135 VietNam sure don’t want communist Ho Chi Minh.

@@manhnguyen5 Uh no, the Americans wanted to assist the south to contain communism in the North. Would you want a dictator to lead your country? I suppose not. All of these dictators are bad and the south had a dictator supported by Americans. Even some of the south Vietnamese rebelled against the south dictator.

Did you read about what these two men went through? A whole battalion down to 35 men. Duffy was the only advisor during the battle of Charlie Hill.

@@brentondudley3925 I'm aware of the entire Vietnam story so you don't have to educate me on it.

Yea, I imagine how the Vietnamese felt especially when devastating chemical weapons were thrown at them.

@@vitalion4135 My grandfather was a vietnamese Viet cong, he witnessed chemical weapons dropped on his group, he has extreme disablites now because of the gas dropped on him. The kids were gone all around him. His friends were burned from the bombs dropped. He still has chemical burns on him, scars across his body. I really hate some entitled Americans telling Viet cong soldiers to k*ll themselves.

@@Chinacommunist agreed, I hate some proud American veterans that fought there thinking they are heroes when they terrorised a country that never wanted to be invaded and ruled by a dictator.

Haha they are puppet of US and American people don't like them too

​@@baccamau80Vietnam is not a US puppet

They are heroes,just like the other Vietnam veterans.

Yup. Amazing podcast

@@DMU386 Any idea what to search to listen to the radio calls they referenced in the podcast?

If you were alive during the Vietnam war you'd understand why this is a big deal. Even now it's a big deal.

@@yvonneplant9434 but WHY now?

@@daddy9925 The person of interest in the video, MAJ Duffy, received a Medal of Honor last week from Joe Biden. Coinciding with July 4th, the video is timely.

@@daddy9925 His previous decoration was just upgraded to the MoH due to the persistence of his older commanding officer, and due to the deep research of Ret. Col. Bill Reeder during the course of writing a book about the battle of Charlie Hill.

It’s a long story, But a book was just released about the battle. The author has spent the last 4 years fighting for this man’s medal to be upgraded to a moh

They’re not enemies. They fought on the same side

@@ZeroResurrected enemies to me

@@Que532 idiots!

@@Que532 good thing your retarded ass isn't a military commander then

No im against you I hate Edomites… your going to slavery soon so get in shape exercise devil

yep. sadly you're right.

Let's not forget that the Democrats were leading this war from Washington.

@@an.american they're all warmongers - to suggest the republicans are less is absurd. Remember Iraq? Remember Afghanistan? Remember every war in our history? The republicans have always been all for it and usually lead the charge.

@@an.american Not quite. Nixon expanded the war to Cambodia. Johnson did not run again in 1968 mostly because of the war.

For those wonderful Americans commenting on my post where I state that, "Democrats were running the Vietnam war from Washington". I hope you guys take the time to read this. It seems that I was vague in my comment. Some clarification. A summary of the Vietnam war compiled from different sources from Google search. Five U.S. Presidents have been, in varying degrees, involved with the Vietnam War: Harry Truman (D) becomes president in 1945 upon Roosevelt’s death. State Department officials warn him that French rule of Vietnam would lead to “bloodshed and unrest.” The French arrive in Vietnam. At first, the United States remained officially neutral, however, Truman asserted that U.S. foreign policy was to assist any country whose stability is threatened by communism. Then comes the Korean War in 1950. This prompts Truman to reexamine his administrations position on Vietnam. Fearing that Vietnam, too, would become a communist state, he sent over transport planes and jeeps, along with 35 military advisers, as part of a multimillion-dollar aid package to aid the French. U.S. involvement in the conflict would only deepen from there. Dwight D. Eisenhower (R) Though Eisenhower sent no U.S. troops to the region, he continues to authorize military aid to the French. In 1954, the French suffered a catastrophic defeat at Dien Bien Phu, bringing their colonial reign to an end. Eisenhower, who succeeded Truman, demurred, refusing to involve the United States in another major conflict so soon after the Korean War. “I am convinced that no military victory is possible in that kind of theater,” the president wrote in his diary. Vietnam partitioned itself in two, with Ho in control of the North and pro-Western leader Ngo Dinh Diem in control of the South. Eisenhower supplied Diem with money and weapons, sending nearly $2 billion in aid from 1955 to 1960. By the time Eisenhower left office, open fighting had broken out between Diem’s forces and the so-called Viet Cong, communist insurgents in the South who were backed by North Vietnam. Each side employed brutal tactics, including torture and political assassinations. John F. Kennedy (D) After visiting Vietnam as a congressman in 1951, John F. Kennedy publicly lambasted U.S. efforts to assist the French, saying that to act “in defiance of innately nationalistic aims spells foredoomed failure.” Three years later, he presciently declared, “I am frankly of the belief that no amount of American military assistance … can conquer an enemy which is everywhere and at the same time nowhere.” His tune changed, however, by the time he ran for president in 1960, in part over concerns he would be called soft on communism. Once in the White House, Kennedy provided South Vietnam with jet fighters, helicopters, armored personnel carriers, river patrol boats and other tools of war. He also authorized the use of napalm, as well as defoliants such as Agent Orange. Meanwhile, under his watch, the number of military advisers rose to about 16,000, some of whom began engaging in clandestine combat operations. Originally a supporter of Diem, Kennedy sanctioned a coup in 1963 that resulted in Diem’s death just weeks prior to his own assassination. Near the end of his life, JFK hinted to aides that he might withdraw from Vietnam following his re-election, but it’s unclear whether he would have actually done so. Lyndon B. Johnson (D) At the time of Kennedy’s assassination, U.S. involvement in the Vietnam War remained fairly limited. But that changed in August 1964, when the so-called Gulf of Tonkin incident prompted Congress to grant expansive war-making powers to newly installed President Lyndon B. Johnson. Recognizing that the South Vietnamese government and army were on the verge of collapse, Johnson sent the first U.S. combat troops into battle in early 1965. He simultaneously authorized a massive bombing campaign, codenamed Operation Rolling Thunder, that would continue unabated for years. Draft calls soon skyrocketed-along with draft resistance-and by 1967 there were around 500,000 U.S. troops in Vietnam. That same year, large anti-war demonstrations popped up in cities across America. U.S. officials kept insisting that victory was imminent. But, as the Pentagon Papers would later reveal, these comments were deeply misleading. In reality, the conflict had devolved into a quagmire. Vietnam became so polarizing, and Johnson’s name became so synonymous with the war effort, that he ultimately decided not to run for re-election in 1968. Richard Nixon (R) Richard Nixon campaigned for the White House promising to end the Vietnam War. As president, Nixon gradually withdrew American troops as part of his policy of “Vietnamization.” Yet he escalated the conflict in other ways, approving secret bombing raids of neighboring Cambodia in 1969, sending ground troops into Cambodia in 1970 and sanctioning a similar invasion of Laos in 1971, all in a largely futile attempt to disrupt North Vietnamese supply lines and destroy Viet Cong camps. In January 1973, just as the Watergate scandal was heating up, Nixon finally ended direct U.S. involvement in Vietnam, saying “peace with honor” had been achieved. As it turned out, though, fighting continued until 1975, when North Vietnamese troops marched into Saigon, South Vietnam’s capital, and reunified the nation under communist rule. May our future be brighter than it was when we were young faced with uncertainty. But our future really doesen't matter anymore as we have already lived our life. What matters now is our children's and grandchildren's future. But, it seems that theirs will be just as bleak. Nice sharing insights with you. An American

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