Returning to the Vietnam Battlefield: 101st LRRP Vet meets the NVA and VC he fought against

[@buckappel6835]

Went back to Vietnam four years ago and it was strange to be able to just walk around without worrying about getting shot at or tripping a booby trip. It was so quiet and peaceful, not like in 68 with helicopters, artillery and sporadic gunfire going off around the clock. It was hard to recognize some of the locations where my unit was. Everything is grown up now, and most of the roads are paved. Nothing looked the same. The Vietnamese people are very friendly to Americans now. I’m happy they have found peace.

[@overthewebb]

I'm British in my 40's with military family, we didn't get involved in Nam at all. I cannot begin to imagine how nuts that war was. I just saw all the movies in the 80's, great films btw. It's well written about how many US soldiers were high as fuck during it, just to get through the thing. I for sure would've been the same I think. It looked brutal psychologically. Glad to hear you went back also.

[@buckappel6835]

Greg W Kennedy, Johnson, McNamara, Westmoreland and Nixon. I hope they are burning in hell for sending 58,260 Americans to their deaths in a war that they had no intention of winning

[@chloekit4861]

Buck Appel what was Vietnam like for you

[@buckappel6835]

Chloe Kit For me, it was an adventure. I was only 19 at the time. By the time I left 13 months later, I had enough. I saw to many young men wounded and killed. I was critically wounded my last night in Vietnam hit in the chest by mortar shrapnel.

[@dannytadashi4235]

I am vietnamese Chinese American. For me is a little different because I don't feel strange at all when I go back to Vietnam . In fact, I go back to. Vietnam that I love so much, and I don't want to return back to America . I always know and I find my former country Vietnam have WAY MORE freedom than United States. Where as I face all the BS racial slurs and discrimination almost everyday being Asian American. America become a SHITHOLE country lately especially California, New York, and Washington, and Michigan. And most of the people in United State are just Arrogant F*_k and ignorant at the same time . Most of them don't know sh*t about the world. Hahahaha lol 🤣🤣🤣🤣😁😁😁😁😄😄😄😄👍👍👍👍👍🇻🇳🇻🇳🇻🇳🇻🇳🇻🇳🇻🇳🇻🇳🇻🇳🇨🇳🇨🇳🇨🇳🇨🇳🇨🇳🇨🇳🇨🇳🇨🇳🇨🇳🇨🇳🇨🇳🇨🇳🇨🇳🇨🇳🇨🇳🇨🇳🇨🇳❤🇨🇳🇻🇳🇻🇳🇻🇳🇻🇳🇻🇳🇻🇳🇻🇳🇻🇳🇻🇳🇻🇳🇻🇳🇻🇳🇻🇳🇻🇳❤❤❤❤♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸!!!!

[@brianborland4904]

It is always so amazing to me how considerate, friendly and forgiving the Vietnamese people are towards not just Americans but especially to former American Vietnam War veterans. I always watch these videos when I need a bit of a boost and some faith restored in humanity.

[@MOONRAKER1922]

That goes both ways. If you were an 18 yr old drafted kid who didn’t want to be there and all you wanted to do was survive for you and your buddies and then at night Thier throats are slit and eyes gouged out you would feel hatred to whom ever is doing that to you and your friends politics aside. Not their fault and we were there to help the south Vietnamese have a Democratic society like South Korea today compared to north. So think about what you say

[@edgarteran1894]

Amen. Have God in your life and he will bring peace to your mind.

[@jerryle379]

@@MOONRAKER1922 have you ever been to Vietnam lol ? South wasn't democratic lol first ruler of the south was puppet playboy emperor Bao Dai that the french set up ( he defect from HCM side after HCM govt can't gift him enough money for his luxury Life in Hongkong ( gamble addict who spend thousands of dolar in Hongkong per week and that in the 1946-8 ) french then jump in give him more money and he switch side ; then NGO Dinh diem the brutal dictator who favour Catholic and only used Catholic for high rank in govt in a country who believe in folk religion/ Buddhist who opress religion that are not Catholic + anyone again him is kill include communist and also the one who didn't held national election knowing HCM will win and he will lost

[@andyappleton3353]

I am so inspired by the way they don't allow the Vietnamese people to express their opinions or question their government. I am so moved by the way they punish citizens for voicing dissent over their one party system. I feel so lucky to be alive when I know that entire nations are being controlled by a handful of government representatives whose only crime is violently oppressing anyone who questions them. My faith in humanity is restored. We're such good people.

[@andyappleton3353]

@Pdpmail Hitler thought that too bubba boy. He thought wrong. Bubba boy

[@yellowblanka6058]

To see soldiers from both sides of this war that saw so many horrendous atrocities sitting down together for a meal restores a little of my faith in humanity, gives me hope that we can prevent such pointless/costly wars in the future.

[@margaretneanover3385]

Take a minute to think it through...see the larger pic.

[@mrswishadank2329]

@Mike Fitzpatrick alright Plato

[@jakeg3733]

It won't. These guys are doing it because they already had their war,and have been replaced by fresh generations of idiot ideologues jumping to start a war and kill millions. A person may learn a lesson but people never do

[@RenjiXIII]

4 years later, I'm gonna tell you, as long as the western have shadow leader billionaire psychopaths in charge, its going to keep going with these pointless wars.

[@MaiNguyen-fy4sv]

I’m glad the visit has lifted up his spirit personally and many VN Vets generally.

[@GlobalGab]

Thanks Mai!

[@chadwickrogers43]

This is beyond amazing. I had a soft smile on my face the entire time while watching. Thank you for your outstanding service from '67 to now. Vietnam vets like you are pure gold.

[@jaxxon8198]

Thanking them for what service? They were fooled by your government, it was a war of interest

[@jamalydude]

This was amazing! Respect to those lovely Vietnamese people. So cool you met and became friends.

[@GlobalGab]

Thanks! Still in touch with some of those folks in the video nearly five years later

[@ModernHistory1]

@@GlobalGab Your a good man, you fought for and with your friends not for any political allegiance, I hope your doing well.

[@divinesan7786]

You can become friend with me

[@randychester2754]

I visited Vietnam in 2002 and was surprised at how very friendly they were towards Americans, with zero resentment over the war.

[@MaiNguyen-fy4sv]

There are several reasons for zero resentment from VNese.

[@drewharrison1840]

@Pdpmail yes they won. They also lost well over 500,000 solders and civilians to the US 57,000. They won. But they lost. Everyone loses in war. There are no winners

[@0nly1kdd]

@Pdpmail relax Vietnam barley won. Ever heard of MACV-SOG? The war was a distraction so SOG & other special forces can investigate soviets helping the NVA. Not even a decade goes by the Cold War takes action.

[@frozzytango9927]

wish can say the same about America.. full of islamophobes.

[@azerbaijanipolyglotelnur9804]

Actually they shouldn't have been friendly towards americans. Your disgusting government made everywhere disgusting and ruined the world.

[@davidwilliamson4937]

I served with the 101st in an infantry unit. 1968 to 1970. I loved the people then and had a lot of admiration for them as a people. Yes I saw combat, intense at times. I’ve never gone back but would like to. I’ve no regrets.

[@sttarch5150]

"They had no time for self - reflection,. Too busy rebuilding". Their wisdom to put it behind them is commendable.

[@ErikPT]

It’s the difference we Americans are individuals but they bear a culture of harmony placing society above all. No need for resentments when rebuilding constructs a bridge to the former opposition. We unjustly killed… I don’t know the reason or political propaganda or motive but I know it was a war we regret and we lost.

[@EddieBurke]

Extremely Commendable behavior from both cultures. Just shows a lot about how pointless the war was.

[@unknownkingdom]

Only Americans are mindless in this struggle

[@degenetron7590]

Now Vietnam is more allied to America than China. US didn't win the war but atleast they're allied to them now.

[@unknownkingdom]

@@degenetron7590 not true

[@degenetron7590]

@@unknownkingdom elaborate

[@UnderwaterWalter-hr7pu]

It was pointless for the Americans.

[@ephraimbrown6657]

It really is interesting how so many veterans who go back to Vietnam ending up having such warm and soulful experiences over there. I wish there was a way to get more Vietnam veterans back there.

[@frozzytango9927]

the same will be for middle east..

[@darylcav6285]

I’ve read so many books about the LRRPs and what they did amazes me still. As a veteran I salute you

[@pauloacedo7461]

Incredibly impressive. This shows how fragile we are as humans and also that everything can be resolved in a dinner table with good food,drinks and lots of laughing

[@krieger8825]

Our secret to making good food is to copy the Chinese

[@sombrerosobecnos]

Both sides suffered in that senseless war. Really glad to see them get along.

[@rivers3302]

Damn Lyndon Johnson

[@dsyy90210]

if hell actually exists I hope Henry Kissinger has his own personalized pit in it

[@donaltdak5541]

The Vietnamese people suffered more to an unmatched degree.

[@nesprogram3182]

@@dsyy90210 What did he do?

[@ManiacMayhem7256]

@@nesprogram3182 A lot. MoFreedomFoundation, BadEmpenada and Renegade Cut all have good videos on him

[@erwinaquinde7303]

What a lovely scene. It is just one human being to another to express the love they had for each other.

[@mitseraffej5812]

A Vietnamese friend of mine from Hanoi, who’s father was in the NVA told me that the Vietnamese people have forgiven the French and the Americans but will never trust the Chinese. The Chinese have been beating up on them for millennia.

[@anh6156]

Chinese people is not bad is just they gorvement ,they want vietnam become they backyard and vietnam have a lot of ports it will easy to deploy navy to control the east sea

[@thh1226]

Honestly most people hate the Chinese government even Chinese citizens

[@JustARandomDude.04]

Even after decades and centuries,every country that have invaded or conflicts with Vietnam will be forgiven by the people,hell maybe friends that just make a mistake but will never ever forgive the Chinese gov. I think that is something all of us can agree on no matter what happened in the past.

[@jakeg3733]

That'll tell you something. China isn't to be trusted

[@TuNguyen-yx5ow]

because till this day they still try to take our land (South china sea so you guys can relate) but we called the east sea

[@gjharing]

Excellent. So glad that the meetings went so well. I did expect that but of course not totally sure. It was a bad time for them and for us.

[@AlanMedina314]

Sad that people had to die because some old men dicided they needed a war.

[@nathanielrossi9659]

Yes, it is sad,

[@RogerCharlamange]

Bit more complicated than "old men decided they needed a war" You've got to understand that communism at that point in time, was the biggest threat the world faced. Or at least that's what some of the smartest people in the world had come to understand. We had defeated the Nazis and then communist Russia instantly began doing the same thing the Nazis had done, taking land, killing political rivals, jailing people, and causing intentional famines to kill millions. Hindsight is 20/20

[@AlanMedina314]

@@RogerCharlamange That is very resonable when put in that light, Yet I look at the outcome of it all and fail to see what was gained from it. I tend to reference the situation in africa where people are constanly being killed in genocides yet the west does not intervene. I would argue that it is all about resources and geopolitical influence. I really have no deep understanding of the complexity of the world, just a basic and narrow understanding.

[@hchau7839]

@@RogerCharlamange you should've known that our leader Ho Chi Minh have wrote a letter to the US president aking for peaceful options. But the letters are never responded...

[@f-15estrikeeagle35]

@@RogerCharlamange some fanatic created this bullshit stuff called ideology and we all have to suffer.Fuck communism,capitalism,nazism and any ideology there is in the world

[@Doughboy842]

Really interesting video. Especially getting to see it from the Vietnamese perscective. They look like really nice people to hang with. It shows that the Vietnamese are human beings like us despite how wars can have a dehumanising effect on people at the time of the vietnam war. I hope they are doing alright.

[@343guardian5]

Im just glad they were able to finally find the guy named Charlie they were looking for all this time :)

[@tac6044]

My father was also a LRRP in Vietnam, I wish he had a chance to do something like this.

[@woofbark4475]

Thanks for posting the video journey! No doubt a very emotional one for everyone. So much death and violence remembered by those who fought scars that only eternity will heal in the promised land.

[@markross2124]

Personally I think it is wonderful that veterans of the war, former enemies, are now meeting and bonding. I guess it is true that time does heal all wounds.

[@dannytadashi4235]

This video in the beginning of the vietnamese translation is all BULLSHIT and F up because the translation is not accurate. I know because I am vietnamese Chinese American hahahaha lol 🤣🤣🤣🤣😁😁😁😁😄😄😄😄👍👍👍👍👍🇻🇳🇻🇳🇻🇳🇻🇳🇻🇳🇻🇳🇻🇳🇨🇳🇨🇳🇨🇳🇨🇳🇨🇳🇨🇳🇨🇳🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸!!!!

[@t0n3mapls43]

I still feel like there is an undertone of resentment still from the Vietnamese soldiers but they understand forgiveness and peace is the way not matter how they feel

[@foreverwewin]

Touching video, glad both sides could find peace with each other now.

[@donganhacquyen]

I am grateful that the previous generation did not pass on hatred to their children. It is a good tradition, everyone wants peace in their souls.🙏

[@natelav534]

Something interesting ive noticed is it seems forgiveness doesnt become impossible past a certain point. Given time It becomes easier after seeing the horror of what mankind is capable of doing to eachother.

[@0erson-n7q]

There's something so poetic about being able to make peace, even friends with people you were trained and ordered to kill.

[@take5DD]

As a Vietnamese, I can say this. We've never held grudges against anyone....any country. And their have been countless countries that engaged wars with the Vietnamese through the centuries...from the Mongols, to Portugal, to China, Japan, French, then American. Millions of our people were slaughter during these wars. But no grudges. No hatred. We moved on.

[@lieugebo805]

Such a wonderful story it was really cool to see people sit down from opposite sides of a really bad conflict very good people on both sides just fighting and fighting that can actually come to terms all this time later God bless them all and God bless all the people that perished on both sides

[@dannytpartyboy]

The Vietnamese are so humble.. they never talk about the war they won.. the US should take a page out of their book

[@unknownkingdom]

Lmao they are clowning and trash talking the American guy throughout the video. But you only know if you speak vietnamese they aren't subtitling it lmao

[@thh1226]

Im a vietnamese and we never trash talk about anything. In history, we learned about the whole world history or major events in the past and about our history/origin. We do learn about the vietnam vs us but its not that deep and like always we just mostly talk about war veterans, popular person at that time and how the war happened started and ended. Only clowns on the internet that have never been into a war or borned when the war ended trash talk and brag about it. Also nobody was trashtalking about anything in the entire video they all just having fun talking about old stuff like ranks or what role did they do in the war.

[@TrungLe-zs3ks]

@@unknownkingdom Bullshit . Don't liar 3/ . Lol....

[@fckeu88]

Big respect to your dad and to those vietnamese veterans.

[@peapercola9481]

Danm, the NVA is danm young for 75

[@hoangnguyen3424]

Thank you. Great work

[@CarlosCruz-ll5ez]

This is how the world should always be us human beings siting and enjoying life together instead of having wars!

[@PuddingXXL]

Much respect to the vietnamese daughter. I want to visit vietnam so bad for it's landscape. What a country even after such a horrific war.

[@frozzytango9927]

thank you brave VC for your service

[@ihonshou6988]

Long live vietnnam 🇻🇳

[@smoothoperator7023]

50 yrs from now look fwd to video of us returning to Iraq & Afghanistan.

[@vinhlong7347]

If anyone say leaders should sit together and take a meal instead of wagging wars, the Vietnamese did it. I would like to present to you the blue shirt man to the left and hanging beer at 4:57 is the former president of Vietnam, mr. Nguyen Minh Triet

[@78bollox]

Great video. Really great.

[@vietlebaohoang4887]

Omg he had lunch with my fomer president- vietcong vet

[@xdgs567z]

Wow, what a privilege for him to meet the former president of Vietnam...he seems like a genuinely nice guy 👍

[@capncake8837]

What’s his name?

[@vietlebaohoang4887]

@@capncake8837 mr Nguyễn Minh Triết

[@rivers3302]

That’s cool but you know who isn’t cool, Lyndon Johnson for starting this war

[@kan9492]

@@rivers3302 lol

[@SaintPatrick1970]

I think the fact that they won the war has a lot to do with their ability to be magnanimous and the fact that we are strong trade partners today. All the Vietnamese I’ve met are wonderful people. I hope to get an opportunity to travel there one day….😎

[@DazzaBo]

Will never not be impressed by the way the Vietnamese so readily forgive those who invaded their country. Commendable people.

[@andyappleton3353]

You mean the North Vietnamese who invaded the South Vietnamese? I've never seen a video of South Vietnamese forgiving North Vietnamese for invading their country. I know that the citizens of Vietnam are not permitted to speak their minds freely without fear of consequence. You see, the Communist regime of Vietnam doesn't allow people the right to speak freely or worship freely. They must submit all freedom to the government. That sounds like an invasion to me. It's an invasion of the free will of human beings. I don't like that. I know you do but we differ there. Americans and their allies in South Vietnam were trying to stop the spread of the totalitarian one-party government that you support. If America and South Vietnam had won, the Vietnamese people would enjoy a democracy similar to what you see in South Korea and Japan. A free-market capitalist system would encourage economic growth whilst a voter-based democratic system would empower the people whilst a free media would enforce a balance of ideas. It's that easy. Silly boys like you want to maintain countenance to a false belief that makes America the bad guy because it suits the narrative that you want to be true, regardless of facts. You will be held accountable for your behavior. PS jag off...No American forces ever invaded North Vietnam. Sorry if yet another reality offends you coward. Have a nice day.

[@DazzaBo]

@@andyappleton3353 you sound triggered because the US invaded a sovereign nation and lost haha

[@andyappleton3353]

@@DazzaBo Look at you trying to use buzz words and seem knowledgeable. Sovereign nation lol. Pathetic. Pssssttt...I doubt you know this cupcake, the US never invaded North Vietnam. And psssttt...The Vietnamese are not a free people...they have no say in their government. Psssstttt...I'll bet you support North Korea to. Just saying A hole

[@DazzaBo]

@@andyappleton3353 remember how the US invaded, got their ass kicked by communists and ran away? Does that upset you snowflake

[@andyappleton3353]

@@DazzaBo Funny how you woke candy ass has interest in factual history or in the dignity of the Vietnamese people. Very sad. You like the Kim dynasty in North Korea right? You interpret them as a sovereign nation? I hope you're under 15 years of age due to personality type.

[@2BuiThanhBinh]

🇻🇳 The person opposite is the former President of Vietnam, Nguyen Minh Triet

[@GlobalGab]

Yes indeed! President Triet was a political commisar in the Phu Loi battalion in the early 70s if my memory is right, so it was super nice of him to come to a Phu Loi '68 reunion to greet my dad and give an official welcome to an American veteran. Extremely gracious and impressive guy! He showed me a picture of him with George W. Bush and we drank many Heinekens 😀

[@andrewreynolds912]

I dont see these interviews much on yt unlike my american vets. Why?

[@Ari.Atland]

It's wild to think that these men were once shooting at eachother.

[@Lebanonjames431]

my grandpa was a north vietnamese citizen but fought with the south

[@peapercola9481]

A christian?

[@1murder99]

I was there in late 1968 and most of 1969. In early 1969 one of our patrols found a print shop in the jungle. Some of the printed matter was hand bills offering a reward for the death of three people in A company 1st of the 46th Infantry of the 198th Light Infantry Brigade. One was the company commander, one of our platoon sergeants and me. So I am not going back in case anyone wants to collect that cash reward for my death no matter how small the chance might be.

[@tonynguyen36]

both side find peace. it a win win

[@andrewedwards2211]

Vietnamese culture and the Vietnamese government, even though its communist truly believe in the concept of forgiving others for their past mistakes and sins. War is hell, but veterans putting their battles to rest is a true sign of how human these guys are regardless of ideology, for the future of their countries and families

[@user-my7dg9su3g]

Communism is just as bad and as good as capitalism in my opinion, both sides are not without their flaws

[@ErikPT]

@@user-my7dg9su3g maybe but the Vietnam state has moved on and are now asking Washington to fix the wound. Washington is… well stuck in its political acrimony

[@rsdiegos]

Ain’t no way that guy is 75 dude has aged like fine wine

[@donganhacquyen]

5:26 Oh damn, I thought it was just a veterans meeting. But he was once president of VN😮

[@claytonbill]

This would be humbling to me.

[@jackorlove4055]

While the American's had returned empty handed and were derided & vilified upon arrival, the Vietnamese had secured for themselves a nation and had a hand in rebuilding it, they were also celebrated as heroes and patriots. There is also a cultural angle to think of here as well. In the US its perspectives and culture had been shaped by Christianity, whereas in Vietnam, it was shaped by a historical Buddhism. For these reasons, I can see why perhaps the Vietnamese veteran's were less psychologically tormented by this war.

[@ITNerd1970]

I wish that countries and their leaders could learn from videos like this.... We are all human beings. We might look a little different, speak different languages, but we are living and breathing together on this planet for a very short time. Why the human race believes that war and killing each other to solve our problems is truly a travesty. Why can't we learn to live together and be comfortable with our differences? I wonder how great the world could be if we all, every country, leaders, people, put the same effort in making our lives better then trying to destroy them.

[@mareksicinski3726]

5:58 as well as a certain vision / view of the country and certain leader more accurately but h The MIA I’m not sure about

[@blip1]

Great video

[@nzer19]

A lot of reconciliation between Americans and their former enemies (VC and NVA) but appears that they both mutually ignore the dead elephant in the room - the ARVN. The ARVN were allies of the Americans and I guess traitors from the POV of the VC and NVA. What is the situation for former ARVN now? Ignored and forgotten by the sides who are wineing and dining?

[@fleebertreatise1063]

After the war, some amount of refugees were allowed to come to America. Was that seen as a way to help supporters of the South? Or seen as a bare minimum, and that a lot more should have been done?

[@nguyenuctrung3814]

hey subtitles kinda wrong they remove Vietnamese vet positive line about his army

[@GlobalGab]

Hi Duc! Can you please give me timestamp and the line that was missed? I will re-watch and add it in. Thanks for your comment

[@f-15estrikeeagle35]

@@GlobalGab 0:06 the NVA soldiers always think about their motherland

[@borisyelp5195]

I'm amazed that the Vietnam moved on after the war for some reason the US can't Vietnam will always be the American nightmare.

[@rsdiegos]

Yeah this comment section is a reflection of that American Nightmare. Very few comments from vets saying they’d like to go back, many comments from vets saying it’s a shithole country and they would not like to go back. Such a shame that as a species we demonize the other faction in wars just enough to where anything related to that faction is met with hatred for identifying with it.

[@Tran5513]

Salty cause they lost. Can't blame them but I can't fathom being that salty over anything haha😂 poor boomers

[@cozy6308]

We may fight over imaginary lines or our differences but in the end of the day we are still human

[@lamnguyen-uj6lh]

4:00 : he is a leader of battalion @ Phu Loi ( battle @ Phu Loi )

[@CoolSmoovie]

Is Vietnam filled with random unexploded ordinance and landmines like the middle East or has it all been cleaned up?

[@GlobalGab]

Unfortunately still totally littered with unexploded ordinance (UXOs). The primary issue is unexploded cluster bombs. Here's more information about the work underway to clean it up from our friends in Norway: www.npaid.org/mine-action-and-disarmament/where-we-work/vietnam

[@CoolSmoovie]

@@GlobalGab Thx for the info

[@Bill-yy3ck]

I lost a lot of friends in our company. Who would have thought that 55 years later I would be importing finished goods from the same place. At first I refused, but it was time to let go. Bill B Co 3/8th 4TH ID 68-69

[@lankthedank6931]

I just posted on r/AskHistorians saying that most war veterans interviewed were from our side, and was asking if there are any interviews from the former enemy’s side. History needs to be observed on all sides. So far this is the only video I can find, but it’s gotten me to realize how biased our media is.

[@garceau7360]

What is the song???

[@mtadc1545]

Moonlight Sonata Movement 1

[@garceau7360]

@@mtadc1545 thank you, do you know the exact version thats in this video

[@kristinm784]

Lovely people

[@TheREALJWMGaming]

The Vietnamese are a proud people, the US soldiers, many at the time, didn't want to be there, they knew how shitty it was and how widely protested it was, it was the first war that saw MAJOR media coverage that DIDNT shy away from the gore and violence of it, there was no glory in death in Vietnam and trying to justify a reason for being there was just too hars to get across to the public when all they saw everyday was images of young men dying and how badly the Vietnamese were being treated.

[@GUNROCKS1990]

Very nice video

[@tylerlandrum1297]

The rich do the lying .......the poor do the dying.

[@dsyy90210]

💯

[@gavincollins9376]

Sitting around and having a meal. Isn't that what leaders should do to sort out world problems rather than declaring war!

[@Buffalo91]

There’s Vietnam leader in that meal, Mr President

[@margaretneanover3385]

Where are the south? And Cambodia?

[@GlobalGab]

Good questions Margaret. I spent a year in Vietnam in total, and reconciliation between the South and North is, quite simply, not.going to happen. The official Vietnamese statement on the war is that it was a foreign invasion, rather than a civil war, and that the southerners were traitors. One of my advisers on the film grew up near me in new england and her dad fought for the ARVN (the southern army that fought alongside the Americans). He spent 16 years in a re-education camp. Reconciliation between the north and the south probably wont ever happen, but it also, to be frank, just wasn't relevant to this project. My dad was a LRRP, as was one of the NVA men featured in this video. The ARVN weren't involved in his operations. As for Cambodians, mostly a different war from the vietnamese perspective, and they have separately made their peace, more or less (less). Worth noting here the French and Vietnamese reconciled a long time ago. A french veteran of the first indochona war was even permitted to film his 1992 hit dien bien phu on location in vietnam, which almost never happens with american cinema today. Reconciliation is a long and difficult process.

[@GlobalGab]

I'll also add that this was not an official government ceremony on the American side, just on the Vietnamese side with the presence of the former president (not in his capacity as president, but because he served in the same viet cong-NVA battalion that my dad fought against). On the american side, this was just me and a couple friends who tracked down veterans who had fought in this one 1968 battle against my dad's unit in which many Americans and NVA alike had died, they then expressed a wish to meet him and invited him to vietnam to this lunch. They also returned to the battlefield and former American base together. Pretty cool opportunity for all involved.

[@margaretneanover3385]

@@GlobalGab I'd love to hear the entire story . I'm glad you wrote this. It's a inquiry of myself and history. Somewhere along the lines there was a covering about why USA was sent. There was a selling and purchase to my understanding entire countries ...a tax problem. Remember those getting unoccupied were all in the situation for years. Tapes of presidency put most together. People here were also in a struggle to understand who was lying. KZbin Nixon talks to graham. It had to be a calming and cover. My father was a ww2..his uncle a ww1 and 2 news reporter ...you see he didn't come back either. Ernie..no I cannot without DNA prove easily aside my father's talking . it was like 2 secrets. My father's dad left early due a child death. His mother met and married another. When my father was 17 his mother took him to legally change his name and he went in navy. But his uncle was Ernie Pyle. It was days before reportedly he signed his big deal contract and was leaving for hone when he died. Not by bomb blast by gunshot. Japan refused his body coming home. Of course watching about Vietnam has me angry. Anytime we think that Hitler could go again..it adds resistance. So both sides are full of he'll no for opposing reason. Deals slid right in because the chaos. Multi lingual came after..and knowing interpretation help. Who add foreign invasion when our free never conquered any lands since..otherwise we are full of enemy. For a deal that has signatures and uses of the men club look coding the stick together things. Somewhere it was said the "secret" mission took him to the an island before the drop. They wanted target of a specific building..they missed it. Bits and pieces I've learned. But the religious aspect that tends to have code dialect is like a mob. Merry Christmas in May maybe or what side you rooting for score..and all the filing ..which I thought a filer in jeopardy at one time..yes house rules and legislate passing maybe. Law changes.. You had to be in the nightmare to hear it all. I suspect Pyle s death was he knew ever so much about keeping freedom without allow mischief in the government. It's not norm or CIA secrets unless they just didn't care. Work math taxes today and see if you think it all adds up without my a prompting. New war is money but also new loan. If we have a. 300 year old debt then they lie like commies. There no more to say. It's intended. Some may add military is biggest expense. Apologies auto spell mess. It has two ways to adjust..or did..one intent the other created.

[@margaretneanover3385]

@@GlobalGab one more thing...soon after the laser was introduced as medical cutting. Now there are hundreds of foreign displays that were said to be orient origin. Those and a few more. Money at evil expense of uses. If this is their use for those persons of prisoners of war...we have a very thoughtless process that never asks enough questions. I know it seems ???? I'm keeping a level head ..but learning ...its very possible. The process tries to level more than truth. So then the abortion tragedy that is fighting area. It all brings more funding..some did stop the idea of that war..so we got both ends also. I was 2 when the first round had a guy we were knowing. He told and died a few years later ..his wife within a few months..

[@margaretneanover3385]

@@GlobalGab sorry stay safe as well..

[@thehigherman9918]

The Vietnamese were drinking Heineken, they have good taste :)

[@thh1226]

One of the most popular beer in Vietnam Mostly because they are cheap

[@kgw100]

More similar than different

[@teanbikkies]

If this doesn't prove wars are started by politicians, I don't know what will. Politician's kids never seem to be the ones who fight. It's always the farmers kid, the welder's kid, the miner's kid. We have to see the reality. Wars are hell, nasty, inhumane. I've been there.

[@dp34576]

War isn't personal. It can't be. It's too large.

[@andro7862]

Actually it's PAVN, as in People's Army of Viet Nam. I don't get it why people call it the NVA when we don't call the ARVN "SVA". Interesting video otherwise. Your dad seems like a great guy.

[@GlobalGab]

Good point, both are used by historical scholars, just as both were used by the US military at the time. And thanks!

[@trammoen1708]

PAVN sounds abit more unified, vietnam wasnt unified before the war i guess.

[@tjoonatv2848]

@@trammoen1708 Well we still call the North Korean Army KPA, not NKA. Same as how we call the South Korean Army ROKA rather than SKA.

[@Lilhajxjk274]

0:39

[@tayninh69]

If returning to Vietnam to find peace is the thing that flips your switch, then fine. I on the other hand would rather eat dust bunnies before I ever returned to that country.

[@Anon-xc3cw]

Afraid of what you might feel? Maybe a sense of "man what a truly useless war that benefitted nobody".

[@snowman374th]

Can anything be done on youtube without music... smh

[@Essays4College]

I would still be nervous going back if I was a Vet. You never know, one of those NVA/Viet Cong former soldiers could kill you and say, "AHA! I waited 50 years for this but I got ya now!!!!"

[@Conn30Mtenor]

Americans have this very messed up notion that others don't love their countries as much as Americans love America.

[@leeoliver424]

Should have gone to 🇨🇦

[@M98-j9k]

Do any southern Vietnamese talk about the hundreds of thousands who died at the hands of the communists?

[@Usr.lennox]

You have 666 subs

[@cheemsblush4800]

I am vietnam

[@cibriosis]

Thats the thing..vietnamese want to go to the future and not think back even if they do just as much as the americans yet they are as pragmatic about war and suffering as they are about everything else..I am sure Vietnam is a pretty corrupt country with many problems at many levels but there is also a hope that stems maybe from vicissitude if nothing else

[@NamTran-yo5fp]

5:34 He is former President of Vietnam vi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nguy%E1%BB%85n_Minh_Tri%E1%BA%BFt

[@GratDuForloradeArgumentet]

Vietnamese people are very friendly is my experience. Some of the friendliest actually. There is a big difference meeting vietnamese compared to Chinese for example 😂

[@terryslota2224]

i mean no disrespect to any Nam vet that feels they have to go back there for whatever reasons they have, but i would never ever set foot in that shthole country again... 3rd Batt. 7th Marines ChuLai,RVN 10/65-11/66

[@tayninh69]

I feel the same way, I guess that some people just can't understand that feeling.

[@reycesarcarino4653]

​@@tayninh69 Sore Loss

[@Tran5513]

What? friends of yours got nailed in the head so you're salty or some?