Again, I am Vietnamese man, born after the war but if any enermies who want to invade my loving VN one more time, I also hold gun to fight to my last breath to protect my fatherland. I am only the civilian but I swear to die for this country no matter who the enemies are , how strong they are! Do not bring war to Vietnam if not here is the grave for you!
@@JimXultra Haha they are the puppet, they are henchmen of the US. You see, the origin of the henchmen, and the result of after 2 years the US troops withdrawal. That is the nature of the so call South Vietnam Army!
@CompactJam When Johnson rejected Westmoreland’s request for 200K troops, they realized the US reached a turning point. As Le Duan Thanh’s struggle philosophy put it, “America is wealthy but not resolute”, it’s not just a matter of economic. It’s impossible to win the war when too many qualified targets were put off limits. I’d agree the US shouldn’t get involved in any war/conflict in which the policy should be, fight to win, 100% no holds bar (similar to WW2) or don’t get involve.
Your cousin is listed on the Vietnam virtual wall of faces, with a profile. There is a song by Tim Buckley-once I was a soldier. In the start of the video it shows Lt.Jaques and describes the ghost patrol. So sorry for your loss.
Try reading Hugh Lunn's Book Vietnam -A Reporter's War...This is an account by an Aussie Journalist who was IN Vietnam... I feel that Khe Sanh was merely a distraction to allow the Viet Cong and NVA to plan and carry out the Tet Offensive with little opposition. The Tet Offensive turned out to be the beginning of the end for US and their allies.
@@duaneknorr3081 I remember the fallacious "domino theory" and how it was used to pressure allies of America into engaging in the war. In 1968 I did National Service in the Army of my country, which was one of the allied nations in the war, and we had to listen to "Reason Why" lectures, some of which pushed the domino theory. Back then, it seemed reasonable, but I would listen to the lectures and hear my father's comments echoing scornfully about the domino theory - he knew it was bullshit.
My father studied International Trade in Japan; in Waseda , precisely.He told me that Vietnam was the main source of tungsten.The latter is a very important raw stuff for aircraft engines and space industries.
VC was defeated completely at Khe Sanh as VC estimated US air force power not too strong as they were, even VC knew US Air Force was better than France but VC faced a terrible fire wall from 6000 US Marine and a Vietnamese battalion of ranger. VC armed with heroic communism thought Khe Sanh will be fallen like Dien Bien Phu battleground as VC used attacking tactic by sea of human to hope overwhelm US Marine and VN rangers positions. After VC lost the Khe Sanh battle they made an excuse Khe Sanh battle was fake battle to hold US force at Khe Sanh for VC to prepare general attack on Tet 1968. WhateverVC said but VC lost at Khe Sanh battle was big blow to the death of VC in the South VN in a few years later..
@martynrobin121 If you looked at your history, you should know that although America didn't officially enter in WW2 until around 1942, they did supply Europe with war equipment even while Hitler rised to power. The policy was the "Lend-Lease Act," which means America gives countries like Britain war material for money. So, the United States DID get involved even before they joined after Pearl Harbor. And for the Vietnam War, Australia, New Zealand, and the Philippines helped America as well. :p
My grandfather (marine) was there and at one point my other grandfather (airforce) had done an air strike on the VC to defend the base, at thanksgiving few years back they realized the connection and both cried. One of the most profound and touching moments of my life.
I’m Canadian. Thank you and all for your service Sir. I’m very grateful for all who have kept, and continue to keep our Countries safe. I apologize for the current Canada.
My father was WW2 combat vet.... And was dam proud of you Men.. Thank you brother and thank you for being there for We The people.... Your alright with me... Thank you Sir...
My dear brother fought their. He was the gunner on the choppers. He lived and now has a disease from Agent Orange and the VA won’t pay for him. Makes me sick!
Name and unit? Are you Vietnamese? Sorry but I just don’t believe you (not that I’m questioning the deadly effects of agent orange - I’ve seen them first hand a generation later).
American governments don’t care about anyone but the rich and elites. When they pump billions into let’s say the Ukraine, they aren’t gifting that money and weapons, it all goes towards the military industrial complex which the rich profit from ! Anyone that fights for the USA forces is o my cannon fodder and that’s it !! It’s not about security or freedom ! It’s about arms sales and perpetual war
My father fought in WWII and Korean war as well. Then when he was just about to retire from the Army, he was asked to head to Vietnam for another war. Guess what he told the Army: He told them he is retiring and they can have that war because according to what he heard from General MacArthur in the past that once you go to fight in Vietnam, you own that war.
Vietnamese history goes through 4,000 years of war! Vietnam's biggest other desire is national independence! American soldiers are not guilty, they fought for the nation, mistakes in the political people
Ke manh chua phai da la nguoi thang do la bai hoc cho nhung nuoc luc nao cung doa dam cac nuoc nho bat lat nhung nuoc kem phat trien nhung ho da rat nham mac du cong nghe thoi đo cong nghe dien tu tinh bao nhat o thoi do nhung voi nong yeu nuoc va truyen thong dan toc da lam len mot viet nam hung cuuong de sanh vai voi cac nuoc tren the gioi lă khong tuong de dat nuoc than yeu duoc nhu ngay hom nay doi nay va mai mai con chau chung takko bao gio duoc quen cong on cac anh hung thuong binh liet sy cac ba me v.n anh hung viet nan luon la khong doi thu..........
My cousin was killed at Khe Sanh, I was ten years old at the time. Fifty years later and the family still hurts, still mourns. And for fuckin WHAT? What good did it do? Seven years later we pulled out. Just like lraq, spill blood, pull out. There'd be a hellava lot fewer wars if the politicians and rich had to furnish their sons to die.
well it did slow down advancement if all of them countries grouped together they could of brought about control of half the world. and the world wouldn't be the same
Strategy at Khe Sanh was the same as the French strategy at Dien Bien Phu. Draw the enemy in and destroy him. There were two major differences: 1. The USA commanded the high ground at Khe Sanh while the French were in a valley at Dien Bien Phu. 2. The USA had complete air power control at Khe Sanh, the French had only sporadic air support at Dien Bien Phu.
The US side thought it won the battle of Khe San and the rest of the TET battles, but that was because its commanders did not understand the war they were fighting. General Giap already knew that. The battle of Khe Sahn it self, was just a part a combined political message to the US people. A message that was not meant to be a military victory, since the assault it self, was a political victory. Even today, you can still find US commanders who do not understand this fact. So the TET offensive was first and foremost a political message to the US media, being the real frontline in the Vietnam war. The only real military focus, that the TET offensive had, was to reduce the amount of Viet Cong troops, thus Giaps own force! - this because of the communist leadership in the north. It did not fully trust the southern commanders of the Viet Cong, politically speaking. So the Viet Cong units was meant to be reduced significantly, or even better, terminated. Preferably in vicious media-covered fights, simultaneously creating the already mentioned political media move, aimed at the US population. The US Military leadership never understood the war in Vietnam. Just didn't understand it?
The Khe Sanh was a both military and political victory of the NVA, they got Khe Sanh and terminated McNamara line for further supply for the Southern battlefield. USA secretly withdrew from Khe Sanh in July 1968 to hide their failure in such a major battle to the public.
My cousin was there, and I will guarand damn guarantee you there was a hell of a lot more than 20,000 NVA there, as stated in this documentary. I have heard of estimates of up to 70,000 NVA. They were going all out for this victory, so they didn't go for this with, with just a handfull of men. This was it, and trust me, there are a lot of people over there, and they weren't holding back.
Actually there used to be more in the first stage of the battle but we just pull out into the south like 2/3 of our troops to focus on the Tet offensive later
20,000 NVA lost their lives. There were divisions behind them ( in reserve) but the Marines fought gallantly. They had B-52 carpet bomb them and entire area, and not wanting to lose more men, they withdrew after a month. I was there.🤨
*War is like a blizzard, coldly sweeping away everything that appears in its path. Youth, happiness, dream or ambition ... suddenly turned into nothingness* *When fear is stronger than all, people seem to have no desire for anything more. The young hearts suddenly become old, wither when living without knowing what tomorrow will be like* *Cruel and fierce, war sometimes kills people from thought. Not only blood and gunpowder, despairing souls are also part of the realistic picture of the dark days of pain and death. "I'm a young Vietnamese born after the war. In return, I lost my grandfather and my two uncles)*
I was not afraid, just damn cautious. The young troopers of the NVA had tattoos that read Born in the North to Die in the South. I cannot begin to convey the respect that we Jarheads had for those fine soldiers. They were brothers in arms. It was a shame we had to kill each other. Shoulda just zapped all the politicians and gone our separate ways. Semper Fidelis HIP- F 2/3 1968 Hue, Khe Sahn, A Shau Valley
My step dad lived through that battle.. and then went on to molest my sister, humiliate and belittle me at every step, drink himself into stupers, eat pills all day and scream for his mommy in the night during his nightmares.. Some people, deserved every bit or torment and torture they received over there... he's one of them. Marine PFC - Billy Hill - Pensacola Florida
Also a book recently wrote about my dad and his fellow Marine brothers from Alpha 1/1 from con thien, to the beginning of the tet offensive in hue city and khe sanh. Marines Under Fire by Kenneth Jordan
Your fight was despicable, you invaded Vietnam, and now you have lost at the hands of the Vietnamese people, an American empire lost to a small country like Vietnam.
No wonder the brave but uninformed US forces got cut up there.... despite being a good map reader I found it difficult to understand the officer's tutorial on the relief model. Clear as mud! David Hackworth had every right to "sound off" on the poor military leadership and insane political decisions!
@Stinky Monkey The NVA won the time war, but rarely won battles. They won the war but the U.S military was superior in the majority of engagements. Honestly, I don't know why the U.S backed the french anyway instead of the liberation of Vietnam. The NVA leaders were fans of America, could have avoided all that shit all together smh.
My cousin died in vietnam. His name was mervyn donald tedds. Delta company 3rd marines. If anyone out there knew him please get in touch. God bless all who served
In January 2010 I was in Washington DC and walked along the Vietnam Memorial wall, pausing at different places to read the names. I'm not American, but I am from one of the countries that fought in that war - I was in uniform for a while at that time and many of my instructors wore the Vietnam ribbon - and it was one of the most moving experiences of my life. The stolen lives and lost generations represented on that wall would make the Devil weep.
God Bless your Cousin..…my brother was their too, but lived. He’s sick, sick with Agent Orange Disease that the VA ignored. But he’s loved, happy and living his life the best he can today in 2022.
Went to Vietnam by ship with the 26th Mar. Rotated to D Co. 1st Bat. 3rd Marines. (D 1/3 ). When they first started to build the base 1/3 rd Mar. Unit went there for the defense. We was replaced by my "old Unit" (26th Mar.) then we(Blt.) where sent as a Rapid Deployment Force BLT for the 7th Fleet. Was on the DMZ most of the time! USMC didn't want everyone to rotate back Same Time so rotated personal beween 3rd Mar & 5th Mar.! God Bless!
According to all the sources I've read, Khe San was a clever trap set by General Giap that the US fell into-sending moving most of the available forces there, and allowing the Tet offensive to fall upon mostly undefended targets in the south.
@YOUNG BOB I had the honor of Narrating a Promotion Ceremony for Major General Viet Xuan Luong while stationed at Fort Hood, TX. His story is quite amazing and inspiring. He is forever grateful to the American men and women who made it possible for him and his family to flee Vietnam. Hearing him speak of those soldiers and why he served for the US Army changed my mind about American involvement in the war. I won't try to sway your opinion, but mine is pretty set in stone due to General Luongs story.
I spent a year in Nam (1967) and have nothing but love for the 60K of my bothers that lost their lives defending this country and the vietmanese.. God love them and the thousands that served there.
Vietnam vets got a raw deal. But the US wasn't being defended, nor the vietnamese. The south Vietnamese government was corrupt as all get out and when the US pulled out of Vietnam I don't recall the mighty Vietnamese fleet sailing across the pacific to invade us.
Irrelevant of nationality and with respect, “The Ode.” “They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old: Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn, at the going down of the sun and in the morning, we will remember them.” “Lest we forget."
Did USA "win" at Khe Sanh? We "survived" and can call it a win. USA won every major battle in Vietnam, but LOST the war. It's a shame we fought at all. In 1945 we could have been friends with the Vietnamese people and if Ho Chi Minh was their popular choice we could have worked with him. Vietnamese didn't like the Chinese and we could have worked with Ho to keep them independant of Chinese influence. War was a damn shame for both sides...
@celticsfan546: You need to specify exactly who treated the returning vets badly. It was liberals who treated them like shit and it was liberals who supported the communists. Get that straight.
Tôi vẫn thích nền cộng hòa nhưng tôi yêu chuộng hòa bình , đó là cái mâu thuẫn lớn nhất của tôi , vì tôi đã chứng kiến đau thương , mất mát từ chiến tranh là như thế nào rồi , người dân Việt Nam đã hứng chịu quá nhiều bom đạn , trước và cả sau chiến tranh .
Fourty years after that battle (I was a little kid when I heard about it at TV news), I still do not understand its causes, as well as the reasons of the whole war of Vietnam.
The truth about the Vietnam War that was never fully told. United States had No intention of winning the Vietnam War from the very beginning. Fear it might become like the Korean War with mass continuing Communist Chinese troops from China pouring against American military force in Vietnam. And the threat of a thermal nuclear War with the Soviet Union. The Vietnam War started during the Civil Rights movement and racial tension between whites and blacks all across America. Several members in the US government were segregationist and they had their eyes dumping their Blacks problem on Vietnam with the chaos that was happening in Vietnam at that time between Communist North Vietnam and South Vietnam. At that time, the South Vietnamese had 250,000 troops and North Vietnamese had 60,000 troops and the DMZ line had already been establish at the 17th parallel. Many Vietnamese peoples from both North and South did Not support going to War and killing each other over the idea of Communist. Even though several North and South Vietnamese leaders believe Vietnam should Not be divided and try to distrupt one another. But they couldn't rally enough support among the Vietnamese peoples in Vietnam to support going to War. Until Nov. 2, 1963 When US President JF Kennedy and LB Johnson order his CIA to stage a military coup assasination on a catholic South Vietnamese President, Ngô Đình Diệm and his young brother Ngô Đình Nhu. This action give America the power to do what ever they want to Vietnam and to the Vietnamese peoples. And the US appointed an ex-Vietminh soldiers for Ho Chi Minh, Nguyễn Văn Thiệu as their puppet South Vietnamese President. The South Vietnamese President who cause the lives of 500,000 South Vietnamese troops killed or capture by the North Vietnamese army and their communist allies The Pathet Lao army, and the Communist Khmer Rouge army of Cambodia when he order them to be station and patrol in Kampuchea. And who told Nguyễn Văn Thiệu to do so? The United States, fear more Americans troops will be killed in Kampuchea. 20 days after the military coup assassination of South Vietnamese President Ngô Đình Diệm and his young brother Ngô Đình Nhu. US President JF Kennedy was assasinated in Dallas, TX on Nov 22, 1963 and LB Johnson was sworn in as the 36th US President. On Aug 10, 1964, US President LB Johnson declare US military action to Vietnam over an alleged attack on a US destroyer, Maddox that was on patrol past the 17th parallel near Hanoi, the capital of North Vietnam. While supporting the South Vietnam. 500,000 US ground troops was sent to fight in Vietnam. 40% of those US troops that were sent to fight in Vietnam were adult blacks male along with high school drop out white male, non-college white male, trouble teen white male, and white convict male were all sent to fight in Vietnam. And when these US troops arrive in Vietnam and they did their "Search and Destroyed mission." The Communist North Vietnam gain mass support for their cause and their army grew from 60,000 troops to over 1,000,000 troops. On March 16, 1968, several group of US platoons military unit rape and massacre 500 Vietnamese villagers of women, childrens, and old peoples at the village called My Lai during their Search and Destroyed mission. When news and image of My Lai massacre broadcast all across America. There was a mass out cry of protest all across America. Demanding all US millitary force pull out of Vietnam. This lead to Republican Presidential candidate Richard Nixon winning the Nov. 3, 1968 US Presidential election. The following year, when Richard Nixon took office. His 1st President excutive order was to pull out all US military force out of Vietnam. By then, the communist North Vietnamese army was already infiltrate all over in South Vietnam and attacking every since the Tet offensive that happen on Jan 30, 1968 - Sept 23, 1968. President Nixon order a nonstop US B52 bombers to bombed Hanoi, the capital of North Vietnam and its seaport military supply, Haiphong. This halted the advance of the North Vietnamese army taking over all of South Vietnam. The South Vietnamese army began retaking back many city and town from Communist North Vietnam in the South. But all that end, on August 8, 1974, when US President Richard Nixon made a televise annoucement of his resignation as US President to American peoples over the Watergate Scandal. On Nov 5, 1974, the Democrats party won a landslide in both in the US Senate and the House of Representative. The following year in 1975, the newly elected Democrats took their seat in Congress. The 1st bill of law pass was to cut off all US military funding to South Vietnam. This action cause the Fall of Saigon, the capital of South Vietnam on April 30, 1975 to communist North Vietnam. Thus began a mass flow of Vietnamese refugee fleeing out of Vietnam. 10 of thousands of Vietnamese refugee died at sea from hunger, thirst, illness, Thai pirates, and Chinese warships. Today over 100's of thousands young South Vietnamese childrens are born of birth defect from the US toxic biological chemical, Agent Orange which the US military spray all over rivers and forest of South Vietnam. 3,000,000 innocent Vietnamese civilians of women, childrens, and old peoples had to die in their country during the Vietnam War. The Vietnam War is the worse United States War Crime in history. From Truman, JF Kennedy and LB Johnson were all were WWI and WWII veteran who sent the next young American men to become killers. Why I post this is because for years I'm tired Americans use Vietnam War as a Propaganda War story. Telling peoples that they there to help South Vietnam fight against communist North Vietnam. When America is the root cause for the Vietnam War and the downfall of South Vietnam.
sugarnads Oh I know that. But what you don't seem to realise is that the division of Vietnam was artificial. The NVA just wanted to install the government that would have been elected for a united Vietnam, if the USA had not prevented democratic elections.
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I will never forgive the US Government for having put all these young marines in that base facing a ferocious army of 4"9 vietnamese men, dressed in pajamas, wearing rubber sandals and subsisting on a diet of rice, fighting with old, rusty weapons. It was reckless, it was irresponsible, it was unforgivable. The US government should have send the Army instead....
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My best friend was there .3 purple hearts on his tour. Screwed the man up for sure was a different man when he came home. Drank and drugged himself to death RIP Steve
well did you know the irish /scotts mix blood help save George Washington at the end they marched 100 miles to help wipe out a big British group that was going to fight George Washington and he was thinking of maybe giving up .
It was a ploy to divert attention From the tet offensive It wasnt in danger of falling Unlike dienbienphu they held The high ground and could count on massive air support Something the french didnt have due to eisenhowers Reluctance to support in 1954
I dunno, every time I watch/ study these incidents and combat in VN in general, it ALWAYS seems that we were outnumbered and fighting a “frontier fort “ war… idk…
I'm viewing this due to interest in historical record after being enthralled by the incredible interview with Allen B. White of the 3rd Battalion who recounted the "Battle Of the Hills" April 1967...... shamefully it doesn't even rate a mention in this documentary!!
I come from Vn and I think its unfaith for the words the American win all the battles but lost the war, it is the way the A Merican explain for themself. let say the Amrican always said the way to dertemine who will the battle is body count, but you see the Ame had thousands of air plane, helicopter, tanks, artilery ... the Nva and Vc had mostly only ak47, prg2, prg7 ... only sometimes they had artileries as in Khesanh so that the Vn must stand more casuaties ( if not helicopter, tank airplane artilery for what?), event one person in a vnwar film said a helicopter were equal to 1000 soldiers but the vn troops shoot down more than 5000 helicoters and thousands fixed airplane. The one thing that I were so admired from the America were the the medical supplies, it were so efficent and effive that if not 100k wounded american troops ( amount 300k wounded in action) became the dead on actions
Why so many enermy come to Việt nam? why? why? Chine, Franc, Amerycant, Japan, south korea... and make suffer pain to Vieetnamess. this is our land, no you land.
A mission in Call of Duty: Black Ops was based off of this. Let's just say that killing somewon in real life and killing somewon in a video game are not close by any stretch of the imagination.
Yes…God Bless them. My brother was their also and lived to tell it. Marine. He was a gunner on those choppers. He talked about how he went in to get those soldiers……God Bless your Father…✝️
@Doug Carter we got shanked? Yeah those peaceniks wanting to stop a war and stop people from getting killed is really a negative situation, oh wait, you mean getting shanked, right? So you wanted the war to continue and people continuing being shanked? I thought you were against people being shanked though
@Doug Carter "troops play nice?" Oh yes they were real nice as the Air Force was bombing helpless women and children they couldn't even see, and the Army and Marines were running roughshod over the whole country, basically shooting anyone who ran. Troops play nice? And then you top it off by saying it was liberal scum that got us involved in the war, what planet are you living on? You think just because some idiot gives you a gun, flies you over to a place you've never seen, calls some people your enemy and tells you to shoot them, that any of this is right? To you I suppose a war is no different than a football game huh? The dumbing-down of the country since the 1960s has sure produced its desired result, people who will sign up for a volunteer army to do the stupidest most immoral things just because some idiot officer tells them to
For every Gi and Marine who fought in the jungles and cities of Vietnam. Thank you for your service!!! We’ll continue to show the world our gratitude, for your fight against communism!!!
Thanks for murder rape massacre of My Lai village. Thanks for all the agent orange. Thanks for all the bombs drop on innocent cilvilians of Laos, Viet Nam, Cambodia. Thanks for create power vacuum for pol pot to rise. Thanks alot. Died in hell
For the love of God, please stop saying that Call of Duty Black ops is anything but fake... It is not taken from stories from vets it is 100% made up. The only thing COD has in common with the Real battle of Khe Sanh is the name... You need to stop trying to correct someone when you yourself are wrong. My father fought on hill 861 and was wound three times and won his second silver star on that hill. So for the love of god stop talking when grown people are talking.
@stuckzipr ...In terms of Afghanistan its about loss as well as gain... The UK has rather poor relations with her European neighbours and is better allied with the US. So to keep the relationship up the war in Afghanistan had to be joined.. To top it off just like Iraq there was potentially a lot of money to be gained... Both from contracts that British companies would gain to rebuild the country's infrastructure as well as a share in that pipe like that the US was originally after as well
@dorapha Sure Iraq is a war with terrible motivations- clearly Bush and Cheney's greed cost trillions and thousands of lives. My point is that the US (and the UK) have also fought some good fights- Korea is a great example- the US alone lost nearly 70K killed and has maintained an expensive/large military presence there... simply to keep the people of South Korea from suffering the fate of their friends to the north. How about British involvement in Afghanistan? What did the UK gain?
