"Chaos Had Descended"

When news got out that the Americans were leaving Saigon, thousands of South Vietnamese descended upon the U.S. Embassy, desperate for a chance to get out before the North Vietnamese arrived. "Last Days in Vietnam" premieres April 28 on PBS American Experience.

[@radiousis49]

KZbin algorithm has a sick sense of humor.

[@abiski8851]

indeed it dose

[@houstonhelicoptertours1006]

That picture of the helicopter on top of that building is somewhat iconic...

[@elifoust7664]

CIA PICKUP

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@Richard O'Donnell no Biden doing the right thing .can't help anyone who doesn't want to help them self

[@oakspines7171]

@@HaiPham-yn8fm Like forgiving the student loans and freely letting in the illegals. Great.

[@dashingtherouxthesnow4017]

Just as we'd hoped we'd never see anything like this again, Afghanistan fell.

[@keithp6699]

That's why I'm here

[@cocozlynch]

I remember this. I did not want to ever see anything like it again in my lifetime but here we are.

[@thursoberwick1948]

Take it you mean Kabul?

[@tanyashearer4374]

@@thursoberwick1948 yes

[@AwesomeAlexAdam]

Nikola Marshall History constantly repeating itself in endless loser Wars Obviously there's Nothing New Under the Sun

[@maxmulsanne7054]

Now you are seeing this? What about the Shah of Iran? (1950s - 1979) Support of Hussein during Iraq/Iran war? (1980 - 1988) Maybe the King of Saudi Arabia will be the unpopular host of American geopolitics. (1990 - ????) With the social-economic problems we have/had in our own country for decades & centuries I would hope that necessary evaluation of so-called candidates seeking to obtain leadership in their countries would not be influenced by US government - that has a history of not getting it right (exceptions being S. Korea and Iraq for the moment). Not to mention hastily establishing anyone to become "President" in the country we presumably believe will suit our national interests.

[@aliazzhar6216]

History repeats in 2021 again

[@jimkowalski6222]

It will repeat itself in ukraine too

[@333dsteele1]

Kabul today, Saigon then. Nothing learned.

[@MarkLee1]

Especially people who trust americans.

[@sitdowndogbreath]

Yep at the beat goes on

[@Thunderchild-gz4gc]

Yeah keep abandoning your allies.

[@SIStefanov]

In a few weeks time the same will happen in Kabul.

[@Verminator4]

More like a few hours at this rate

[@SIStefanov]

@@Verminator4 Things are happening lightning fast. There is already a similar picture of Chinook taking off from the us embassy compound in Kabul. Things are happening so fast it's insane.

[@SIStefanov]

@@Verminator4 I mean... When I said lightning fast, I didn't even imagine... They just announced that Ashraf Ghani is stepping down, the interim government will cede all power to the Taliban (allegedly unconditionally) and the Taliban allegedly control Kabul. They also just announced that they control the whole territory of Afghanistan. Jesus Christ that was fast. A week ago they controlled like... 3 of the provincial capitals?... Man... That's what we call blitzkrieg.

[@juliandavidac]

Already happens

[@abnerdoon4902]

Real fast yo.

[@lvlc6023]

Saigon, Kabul. Ah history.

[@JahNuhThunDeeTheOneAndOnly]

And what do we know…history repeats itself

[@tanyashearer4374]

History repeats itself...

[@rayrocher6887]

Thanks for your service , Hero people, who believed in USA, and South Vietnam. sorry it fail, like that. save the best what you can. brave heroes. God thank them.

[@henrykmielczarek3189]

faszyści

[@deanladue3151]

This operation should have begun at least 1 week earlier, military and civilian intell sources had cited as early as April 2, 1975 that within the month, it was a very real possibility that the invasion of Saigon was going to happen.

[@Tripp1993]

Should have started *_THREE_* weeks earlier, but Graham Martin had to be the pneumonic Cold Warrior bozo and delay it to the last minute, trying to boost morale, which was not going to happen, obviously to try to honor the death of his adopted son. Still, he probably *_never_* forgave himself for doing such a stupid thing. He lived with that for the rest of his life.

[@HVACSoldier]

@@Tripp1993 You have to understand. We had an “agreement” to come to South Vietnam’s aid, should the North invade. Well, the Democratic Party wasn’t interested in honoring that agreement. The Ambassador should’ve realized that Washington wasn’t going to help South Vietnam.

[@Tripp1993]

@@HVACSoldier I understand. Graham Martin was trying _desperately_ to keep Saigon a safe zone like Seoul and Berlin were and find a way for it to stop peacefully. The one other thing he had hope for was that he would hear B-52's heading to Hanoi to blow it to pieces again. But that didn't happen. Anti-war feelings were way too strong. I'm sorry about what I said.

[@HVACSoldier]

@@Tripp1993 Don’t be sorry. It was just the way people felt. If it weren’t for “Watergate,” people might’ve felt differently.

[@davidhuynh5600]

There's a lot left Behind still in hiding not able to speak what's on their mind not able to tell anyone all I know is to keep quiet and they will still be alive

[@geod3589]

correct, that famous photo is not the US embassy.

[@user-fq2uy1ug2o]

What a shame 2nd time in kabul

[@cheritabarbuto8851]

I remember this well. Thanks for posting thisThe LAST WAY OUT B4 the North comes thru. WoW what a FLASHBACK!

[@andywerner838]

Sad

[@peruanitocourier1804]

Smart people always have a route to escape, remember that you never know.

[@HeyItsWinner]

My family was here. They were steps away from the helicopter but couldn’t get to it due to the gas/smoke … months later my grandpa planned an escape through boat

[@cajuncraftysue]

I remember seeing these people desperately climbing over the fences of the US embassy and clawing their way up to the stairs to the helicopters. Now I'm watching it again in Kabul. This time with people desperate to get into the airport, jumping on the outside of moving airplanes, and falling to their deaths. It's so sad. I never wanted to see anything like that again. Here we have history repeating itself. 😞

[@dallasyap3064]

Which is why the US needs to stop assisting foreign governments or getting into useless conflicts. As for Afghanistan, I understand they want to find Osama, but they should have left after they got Osama. No point staying after that.

[@peterhamlinhamlin8908]

Where's that tailor? I need a new suit for Miami.

[@prithviraj4203]

Run Uncle Sam run

[@BRuane-pw6xq]

A black mark on America .

[@ThePlaton20]

So you're telling me that all the thousands of Vietnamese who were inside the embassy got evacuated? I find that hard to believe. It would take at least a 100 trips in that small helicopter to transfer all those thousands.

[@nhule1131]

I believe maybe only about hundreds of Vietnamese got evacuated this way. The majority left through much more dangerous boat journeys and the OPD program.

[@zaxmaxlax]

A CH-47 chinook would carry 30 marines, but one of those videos a pilot said they would carry almost a 100 vietnamises.

[@HVACSoldier]

The last chopper out left Vietnamese behind.

[@NoOneLikesVegans]

A CH-47 could fit over 50 troops and upwards of 100 Vietnamese. Over 5,000 were evacuated with helos.

[@oakspines7171]

Some were left behind. Kissinger cabled embassador Martin and oredered him to stop. Not only Huey UH1 but the Sea Knight CH46 and Sea Stallion CH53 were used which the latters carry up to one hundred of people more or less in such situation.

[@galleste]

I wasn’t sure this was Kabul.

[@maryhurley5884]

Yeah and today, look at Afghanistan. Stop making war.

[@maxmulsanne7054]

Yeah 🥺🤕💊☮️.....

[@whitetiana9754]

My goodness. Why hasn't anyone else thought of that?

[@elifoust7664]

Stairway is in Ford library

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ARMY DAYS

[@tzonrap2541]

I admire american rabbits. They are very good at the evacuation of embassies from the roof with helicopters. We must not loose this unique rabbit bred.

[@debbie-anncrawford2240]

Good job! All those left behind must have suffered.

[@adonisguy3243]

Debbie-Ann Crawford, "suffered" is too soft of a word.

[@aaroncabatingan5238]

There's just not enough time to get people out(you can only send as many choppers as you can).

[@andywerner838]

😢😢😢😢

[@jes_yes]

Debbie-Ann Crawford A lot of them immigrated to America and many other countries after, they just had to wait for the other countries approval.

[@Duffman-zn7ku]

So terrible for them. No one to rain down napalm and agent orange on them. No more phenix program to torture them. How did they ever manage?

[@videoclips6214]

Same situation we seen in Kabul so cold superpower you never win any war bcoz you are killing inocent people's. Somalia, vaitnam,Seria,Iraq Afghanistan every where you lost

[@hamidious]

Traitors to their own people.

[@drmode]

Kabul 2.0

[@TheOne9661]

Referencing the Saigon airlift with Afghanistan is a handy hook. However, the story is how the circumstances behind the airlift are identical. Like Nixon, with Vietnam, Trump surrendered to the Taliban in 2020. Like Vietnam, our ally government was corrupt. Like Vietnam with President Ford, we thought the ally military would oppose the rapid advance of enemy forces

[@jimeagle5509]

Then came Joe Biden.....

[@Thunderchild-gz4gc]

Democrat Congress both times.

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ducanger

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lol

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F.Y USA