Roger - Face to face with the Vietnamese officer who killed my friends. 

Obviously false because the Vietnam veteran baseball hat is like what every vet has to have

@@ncch7568 Following the war I saw many of them, including at an old biker bar where Vietnam Vets were the nucleus.

The other popular item was a T-shirt emblazoned with an American flag & the words "Just try to burn this one!"

@@ncch7568 My grandfather is a Vietnam vet and he proudly displays his!

Cute saying, but not theologically correct. You don't go to heaven because you suffer on earth.

Maybe your better for not allowing yourself to be brainwashed.

No one is perfect, definitely not the guy being interviewed. That's what makes us human.

Nothing is perfect. Plus you probably haven't had the opportunity to prove it yet. Greatest generation are only that because of the situation they had to deal with.

@@AndrewHorezga Hedonism and narcissism have almost destroyed humanity. Some people don't dare to let their selves believe that there are those who may be willing to sacrifice so much for the good of others. Jesus taught that we are to forgive our enemies. I know it's hard. I struggle with it myself.

@@AndrewHorezga people use that "opiate of the masses" crap either to justify their own poor behavior or to try to make themselves feel smarter then everyone else.

Ro sham bo. “I kick you in the nuts as hard as ican, then you kick me in the nuts as hard as you can. The last one standing is the winner “ Eric Cartman

Did you know Mstr Sgt Steve Thornton 82nd ?

what so he was formerly an iraqi soldier 30 years ago?

What company were you dad was 504 delta when he was in the 82ns in the gulf. 11th hotel.

Better man than me. I don't believe I could do that.

I thought that was cool too

U made me cry

@BuddyHandsome maybe you r from Georgia in Europe

@BuddyHandsome :-) :-) :-) Either way I just googled "Georgia peaches".....just check it out :-)

@@Banggeek Lmao

Same

Perhaps you can pursue a relationship with Jesus after watching this if it touched you?

God is found within the trial. Not on the other side of it.

@@lesthompson8331 it’s beautiful that he was able to forgive a former enemy, not that he did it because of his belief in god

It's a relationship, not religion.

Vietnamese should be the one forgiving not the Americans

@@boimlol1500 How so? Although the individual Americans soldier has nothing to do with it and its the politicians fault, how in anyway the Vietnamese are the one whose supposed to forgive to the Americans?

@@johanmikkael6903 Because we invaded their country under false pretenses.

Nothing short of a NDE.

@@boimlol1500 theu shouldn't of invaded their country

28 years!!! Wow! Unreal and THANK YOU JIM!!!! THANK YOU from many of us MORE THAN YOU KNOW!!! Never forgotten!!

I love you too

@Lib Censorship b.s. my ... Thats okay. Theres always one not so tasty apple. Your forgiven @Lib Censorship

@F Trakk and you Sir must be a liberal ?

@F Trakk I am a lier. 28yrs 11mos and 4 days. That SIR ... Is my total years total active military service. Now call me a lier to my face in public !!! I WOULD ENJOY THIS

Thanks for your service brother

What do people put - after the sentence I don't understand

@@gooddd5643 In this case it's grammatically correct. The shitkids you see posting - - - behind every word, are not using them correctly.

@@elijahjakobsen7898 you're true

God bless all those who fight in wars... say that again, but slowly

It’s the stupid politicians ontop who use us who are our enemies! The common folk are should all be friends... the people who decide they want a pointless war especially should Be the first ones out there.

I've felt that pain, brother.

Glad you got through it.

I'm an Electrician, i was burned in an arc flash explosion. I know the pain of debridement and eschar removal also.

@@josephproctor690 I know people who think the worst that anybody could endure would be something from the "Saw" movies. I am glad they know nothing of "contact with primary."

Glad you're better brother thats not an easy thing to deal with

Stop the cap

@@coolstorybro_cant_wait_4_movie what do mean by your comment

@@jc.938 cap means BS but don’t listen to him I believe in you my bro

Amen Brother. God bless you and uplift you.

Amen, my brother in Christ.

Amen brother God bless you

Amen!

Amen Raul.

I was born in 78 also, I remember 20 years ago hearing the stories from actual vets. They all speak as if the war just ended yesterday.

Also born in 78 & I agree. It was still like an open wound for so many people. Many of my father's classmates wound up over there. His class president literally did the whole jump on the grenade thing. His best friend came back a changed man, having served as a door gunner on a Huey, with Air Cav. Another of his classmates he used to surf with came back totally out of his mind. He remembered also seeing train loads of tanks, trucks & other military equipment going towards the ports throughout Cali. Then he'd see the wreckage of the same type of equipment, mangled almost beyond recognition, going back East. It took until the 90s before people finally started to open their hearts to our veterans from that war. At the end of the 90s I started meeting Vietnam vets online & became good friends with several through our mutual interest in model building. I've heard plenty of stories from them because it was still just as vivid to them then as it was back in the 60s & early 70s. My grandfather, on my mother's side, served three tours with the Air Force as airbase security. His backpack frame saved his life & he brought it home as a war memento with a VC bullet still lodged in it. While his backpack frame miraculously saved his life it couldn't save him from the repeated exposures to Agent Orange which they used to keep the jungle from overtaking the airbases' perimeters. His marriage with my grandmother fell apart after his time in country. He drank pretty heavily, she learned he had a local steady & rumor has it I have a couple of Aunts or Uncles over there. Anyway he struggled with several bouts of cancer through the 70s before it finally took his life in 82. Sadly I have no conscious recollection of him because I only met him a few times. Incidentally while going through photos from when he was stationed in Japan between tours he was showing off his hobby; He too was a model builder.

@@dave23024 I know what you mean all too well. My children were born in 97 & 03. My eldest couldn't even tell you where Vietnam or Korea were on the map; Let alone tell you anything about their history. She might recognize Korea as the origin of K-Pop but that's about it. My son on the other hand has been a student of history since the age of awareness, much like his father before him & is far better versed in history than most any of his peers. He still has a naive side though in which he misses huge pieces of the puzzle if I don't take the time to explain it all out for him. But hey, at least he's willing to listen & learn. I genuinely wasn't aware, until recent years, that others had begun to forget all about Korea. It was the first time the UN flexed it's muscles, it was the first major proxy war of the Cold War era that cost us so many of our WW2 vets & young men of the early 50s. Never mind the immense death toll of the peninsula's inhabitants or the human wave tactics of the North's Chinese backers whom also paid a heavy price in blood. It marked several changes in military strategy & a change in eras concerning military technology as well. The same could be said of Vietnam too though. If MacArthur had had his way nuclear weapons would've been used to counter the Chinese on a tactical level. Never mind the outcome in terms of lives lost as a result or our own soldiers becoming irradiated it would've created a precedent that inevitably would lead to a doomsday scenario.

for some it has never ended, hell is eternal

I totally agree with you and have posted as such , giving you credit for catching the error. This kind of story bothers me ,taking advantage of our losses is disturbing. BTW, your aircraft was definitely faster than mine.

Did you consider that they used this stock footage because there was no filming when this took place? You are making one heck of an assumption without any facts.

@@BatMan-xr8gg He is just stating that the stock footage is inappropriate given the context. He didn’t make any assumptions. You’re acting like what he said vs what you said are somehow mutually exclusive.

@@Brassard1985 No I am not, just pointing out that did he think about that that meeting was not filmed. And when someone makes an assumption, 99% of the time they are wrong. He stated this " that we are made to think is the NVA Colonel, in reality is just stock footage of former S. Vietnamese Premier Nguyen Cao Ky" That is an assumption.

I noticed that too!

Same I liked it but also cried near the end

Well.. we invaded them over a LIE. Gulf of tonken never happened. Our government made it up.. we invaded this tiny country over a lie and killed 3 MILLION Vietnamese.

@@joshythehand2960 well the reason is to overthrow our commie regime. We dont pose any threat to you though

@@phuctrinh6847 it was a civil war.. none of America's business. And ho chi min used to be a friend of ours. We supported his group when they fought the japanese. His group called themselves the 14th colony.. after the u.s. colonies. He got pissed, and rightfully so, when the u.n. basically gave Vietnam back to France. All he wanted was vietnam for Vietnamese.

@@joshythehand2960 you are absolutely correct.

@@joshythehand2960 but the influence of communism spread to Laos and Cambodia. Leading to the Cambodian genocide. The domino effect is real. If we don’t stop communism in other countries it will end up on our shores. It pretty much already has considering the fool we have in office.

Yup.

Religion, as with most things, is morally neutral until we apply ourselves to it - in which case it's a tossup.

the man he says is a former officer...not even true...these are pictures of the former Prime Minister of Vietnam

@@RobertJamesChinneryH You know your history.

Slyboye why are you so upset?

@@RobertJamesChinneryH Yeah, that's Nguyen Cao Ky. but i'm sure you already knew that.

god let the war happen

@@danthedewman1 keep blaming without one thinking that human started all this.. we're human had choice we're not robot..most of people like you hate God so why should he care...take that as a cursed and punishment upon humanity....

Same here

Respect for an invader?

Wait if killing a soldier as a person in the Vietcong independents....that means am i going to hell?

Bs

@@TheRealMc101 yeah, yeah shut up atheist jog on.

TheRealMc101 “Nietzsche is dead” - God

@@rowenabrimacombe745 doesn't your prophet teach tolerance and to treat your neighbor as yourself or Jesus himself? You don't seem like a good Christian to me. Or maybe yes, you're just the average Christian, trying to shut down different opinions. That's what you've done through the centuries lol so I guess you're just the perfect Christian. Jesus must be pleased lmao

@@jacklaurentius6130 Well, this joke is really new, I had never heard it before! Very original! (yes, I'm being ironic.It's a joke from at least 40 years ago and also quite stupid, but it seems appropriate for you indeed). However, I am not a Nietzsche believer and Nietzsche is not a religion. Let's just say that from the arguments I read I'm not surprised that you then believe in a supreme, humaniform being who sees all and knows all, and that you have the nerve to say that god is love after a story as hair-raising as the one the veteran tells. You are the same old sycophants as ever.

I hope you make time to go back again, sir. Vietnam has changed a lot since two years ago

@Uncle Ruckus try to spread a little love and here come old Satan with his hate

@Uncle Ruckus and God even Love's Satan

@Uncle Ruckus don't have to I live in Atlanta I know all about him you go read your Bible and learn something about love

Bro same here lol

Really was! Glory to the True Living God Jesus Christ.

Slaughter 200k innocent iraqis and illegally invade their country! -God, probably

@@TheSword2212 So your saying God told people to kill over 200k iraqis

@@yeezy1303 "President Bush said to all of us: 'I am driven with a mission from God'. God would tell me, 'George go and fight these terrorists in Afghanistan'. And I did. And then God would tell me 'George, go and end the tyranny in Iraq'. And I did." Mr Bush went on: "And now, again, I feel God's words coming to me, 'Go get the Palestinians their state and get the Israelis their security, and get peace in the Middle East'. And, by God, I'm gonna do it."

@@TheSword2212 Not because the Pope says your to fight for God unless it is written in the Bible it's not the pass, God wouldn't support Hitler's scheme on Europe where does it even state to kill those people, as I said if it's not found in the Bible saying, we should condemn it or we can do it but it never stated we should do that

@@yeezy1303 Don't know what you're talking about

Yeah but say his name in vein, you'll be lit on fire for eternity

@@erichuffman6665 nah, you can always ask forgiveness, he knows we are weak in our flesh and mess up.

I think you missed the point. He has a "small level of awareness"? He just openly forgave his enemy and told him he loved him, and you state that he has a "small level of awareness"? You are so well travelled aren't you? Atheist also?

​@@5222k Maybe you confuse state of mind (he has a good state of mind because we can see he has no rancour) and level of awareness (I can tell he has a small one according the fact he still consider these guys not like Vietnamese, but just communists). But all communits are not the same like just communists if they were only one category, all Vietnamese are not communist neither... does the Vietnamese consider him as a capitalist like anyone else who does not seem to be communist (it would be like if for a Vietname, Americans are similar to Canadians English Italians French Germans, the same like one category, every capitalist countries) ? That is a low level of awareness. There are also other words with shades : mentalities and life philosophy for example, and as they have different name they are different. The most part of things are not Manichean, we are not all either good or either bad, if we are not capitalist we are communist (if ther were only these kind of system possibles ^^). However the point is when you get close to somebody level of awareness, you think the same like it is the truth, the only one truth. But if you evolve you will get a further vision a better understanding of things because you could be more likely to incorporate more parameters to understand a whole question/problem/system...

@@MalcomMitch Holy Karen! Take a deep breath. I get it. You think at elite levels so when you hear someone make simple statements that you don’t agree with, or most likely just don’t understand, you pick them apart as erroneous or less evolved. Wow..... Do you have any friends? I mean outside of the latte shop chatter and woke forums. Real long term friends.

​@@5222k I usally understand others very well, as you, your point of view too, but the reverse is rarely true and I am fine with that. Thankful to that I can take care of people as I can globally understand them, I feel them, and I have always tried to get a positive impact on others and environment on long term. Thanks for your concern I appreciate but I have got friends and even with pandemic I spend most part of my time outside not much on internet. I just hope people get opened mind and get free will that they can make their own choice and not just suffer to be used by somebody smarter than them but less concerned less consciencious than me.

@@MalcomMitch Conscientious? Do you support protecting unborn children in the womb?

LOL

more like pick and choose.....sometimes you pray and pray and pray and.....nothing...weird

Jesús is a fiction.

Well what you fail to understand is that the US were invited into Vietnam by the South Vietnamese government. This was due to the US being Capitalist and also one of the richest militaries in the world at the time. The South Vietnamese government was also capitalist while the North Vietnamese government were communist. South Vietnam did not want Vietnam to be communist since many of these governments had ruined the lives of even more people than Capitalism.

@@rfj1156 Lol. Why are you giving me a history lesson....I lived those days. The US was "invited" by the S. Vietnamese regime. So ?????? You connect the dots way, way too easily. You don't get to go from Point A to Point Z and skip everything in between. If you felt the US had an obligation...then a generous support of weaponry would have been the ONLY legitimate response. That "invitation" cost about $1 Trillion, 60000 American deaths and a big black eye for the nation for years afterward. What happened afterward? Cambodia went from partially lost...to totally lost and Laos probably went from being neutral to communistic. That's it.

@@topgeardel I never said that the American's plan worked. I just explained why they went there. To contradict your point about America sending weapons over. That would make absolute sense but there is one flaw to that statement. The South did not ask for weapons, they asked for the Americans to help.

thank you for your comment. The US was obligated to assist the South Vietnamese because of the SEATO (Southeast Asia Treaty Organization). Of course, if you do not believe me than you are a communist.

@@goutvols103 Lol. You are correct about SEATO, I forgot about that alliance. But of course you know that "obligation" can be brought to question and validity. We obviously part ways on the interpretation and application of the term "obligation". I would also add that the other members of SEATO should have been adequate major players (instead of the US) in that "obligation". For most of them, it was THEIR region. They were the ones to have real skin in the game. The US could have been the supplier of weaponry. Americans need to be extremely vigilant when the political and military heads start signing "obligations" that others pay for. SEATO included Great Britain and France as well as Australia, Pakistan, Thailand and New Zealand. Somehow that "obligation" ended being an American tragedy alone. Why was that?

With all due respect, that's a silly comment to make. He's a veteran who's just telling us how his faith in Christ gave him strength to love his enemy. And then you have to bring politics into it to let us know your dislike for MAGA evangelicals.

@@66limelight at least he is using Jesus to draw love as opposed to Evangelist hatred and bigotry. Evangelicals are no different from Salafist in its extremism