Re-establishing the Honor of South Vietnam: Reanalyzing the Tet, Easter, and Spring Offensives

[@MemoryofSouthVietnam]

English CC now available! I've decided to post the Recommended Material list, and put links where possible: “2013 Meet the Author - George J. Vieth - Full Version” kzbin.info/www/bejne/kKbbnKanptStbqc 4/25/2021 - George J Veith's Drawn Swords in A Distant Land (pt 1) kzbin.info/www/bejne/jYC4aYRvjKZgrrc Doan van Toai. “A Lament For Vietnam.” New York Times, March 1981. www.nytimes.com/1981/03/29/magazine/a-lament-for-vietnam.html Cao, Lan. “Five myths about the Vietnam War.” Washington Post, September 2017. www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/separating-truth-from-myths-about-the-vietnam-war/2017/10/13/67184236-ae02-11e7-9b93-b97043e57a22_story.html Moyar, Mark. “Vietnam: Historians at War,” Academic Questions 21 (2008). www.nas.org/academic-questions/21/1/vietnam_historians_at_war/pdf Ngo, Quang Truong. The Easter offensive of 1972. Washington, D.C.: U.S. Army Center of Military History, 1980. (Not sure why this is not available with the army publisher anymore) Le Gro, William E. From Cease-Fire to Capitulation. Washington, D.C.: United States Army Center of Military History, 1981. history.army.mil/html/books/090/90-29/index.html Cao, Van Vien. The Final Collapse. Washington, D.C.: United States Army Center of Military History, 1990. history.army.mil/html/books/090/90-26/index.html Melson, Charles D., and Arnold, Curtis G. U.S. Marines in Vietnam: The War That Would Not End 1971-1973. Washington, DC: History and Museums Division Headquarters, U.S. Marine Corps, 1991. Chapters 3-9 www.marines.mil/News/Publications/MCPEL/Electronic-Library-Display/Article/1159199/us-marines-in-vietnam-the-war-that-would-not-end-1971-1973/ Veith, George. Black April: The Fall of South Vietnam, 1973, 1975. New York: Encounter Books, 2012. Veith, George. Drawn Swords in a Distant Land: South Vietnam’s shattered Dreams. New York: Encounter Books, 2021 Daddis, Gregory A. Westmoreland’s War: Reassessing American Strategy in Vietnam. Oxford: University of Oxford Press, 2014. Andrade, Dale. America's Last Vietnam Battle: Halting Hanoi's 1972 Easter Offensive. Lawrence: University of Kansas Press, 2001. McKenna, Thomas. Kontum: The Battle To Save South Vietnam. Lexington: University of Kentucky Press, 2011.

[@PraiseGodBlessGod]

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[@kimobrien.]

This is basically like trying to reestablish the honor of the Southern Slave owners. Trying to establish the honor of Imperialist war making.

[@International_Brigade]

​@@kimobrien. Oh my I bet communist propaganda deluded you so much to the point that you could pull off accusations out of nowhere to frame a regime that's gone almost a century, think about it VC your side is not perfect it did many bad things but no one cares because your people won but we lost so we get to take all the false accusations? No, stop with hypocrisy that's enough you had enough your daily dose of communist propaganda today now scram off and go somewhere else

[@daltonagre]

There's no excuses for defeat. I live in Brazil.

[@International_Brigade]

@@daltonagre that's not even excuses that's justification the communist are the bad guys, besides what does Brazil have anything to do with this war? Are you here only to flex about the fact that you live in Brazil?

[@granit8902]

as a vietnamese still living in vietnam, the general public knowledge of the war just a generation ago is absurd. Most of the history that are being taught in schools portrays the vietcong and nva forces as a local nationalist rebellion rather than a full fledge army, backed, supplied, and trained by their allies. The north in general, much more of a puppet than the South were actually is.

[@MemoryofSouthVietnam]

Yeah that's the crazy thing about the public understanding of the war, American or Vietnamese. The narrative is fundamentally emotional, politics, and rhetorics first and doesn't really conform to the facts...

[@hinoka2911]

Said the true puppet

[@granit8902]

@@hinoka2911 no arguments because you have no knowlegde, no independent thought of your own, no critical thinking skill, i know you are brainwashed little boy. Go to sleep lil red bull

[@Backtothegoodolddays]

@@hinoka2911 "said the true puppet"

[@some_dude2218]

Even though I supported the idea of South Vietnam being more competent than shown in the media. The South is still more of a puppet than the North, explaining US involvement in their politics and even assassination of their president.

[@lucasphilippini620]

It really is one of the best contents I’ve ever found online about the Vietnam War. Thank you for this video and for keeping alive the memory of this conflict. Greetings from Brazil!

[@MemoryofSouthVietnam]

Thanks so much man!

[@Vash0006]

Great video, and I really appreciate you presenting a perspective that is little acknowledged outside the Vietnamese-American community. My father was a naval officer in the Republic of Vietnam Navy (RVNN). He ended up in the camps after the war. I grew up having to stomach the slander about our people being taught to every kid in school here in the US. It was always hard to handle when you knew the reality of the war and its psychological toll on your family. Its a relief to see someone speak up for our truth for once. Thank you for doing this; it means a lot!

[@MemoryofSouthVietnam]

Thank you for enjoying the video! I have an uncle myself that was also in the navy. He and my grandfather both went to the camps. I hope that you could possibly use this video to argue against those teachers and kids in school - the citations and sources should stop them from countering without doing serious research.

[@christianvincentcostanilla8428]

Make a video : How long Soviet Union and china Sending biggest largest supplies in North Vietnam

[@ucanhvungoc7133]

You can still go on the righteous path. Your father had betrayed the Vietnamese people as a while. You do not have to follow him.

[@brdfggh5529]

​@@ucanhvungoc7133 How much dong are you being paid?

[@ВладиславВладислав-и4ю]

Well, lefties capture USA education system

[@YellowstoneKevin]

So sick and tired of people thinking it was an “America vs Vietnam” war. Most people don’t even know it was a civil war North vs South and forget the sacrifices of our South Vietnamese allies.

[@MemoryofSouthVietnam]

Man, thats the exact sentiment why I made this video in the first place. And it comes from a place of an extreme lack of knowledge; i guarantee the vast majority of people who subscribe to that narrative have never heard of the battles of Quang Tri, An Loc, Thuong Duc, Ban Me Thuot, Xuan Loc, etc. Instead they only know of the American battles like Ia Drang or Khe Sanh, which, by all measurements, pale in comparison in size, men, and resources. The only ARVN battle they know is Lam Son 719, because the media specifically chose that one due to the fact that ARVN performed poorly. But it's so early on in the late war that no historian would reasonably use it to measure ARVN performance. I totally get it man. At least u can send them this video whenever they say that to you! Cheers and happy holidays.

[@antimimoniakos]

Actually was a war against France and USA. Don't forget the Domino Theory. South Vietnam was a protectorate of USA. If it was civil war would lasted a few years. In my opinion the cause was the separation of the country in the model of Korea. USA made war crimes in Vietnam like My Lai and Agent Orange.

[@MemoryofSouthVietnam]

​@@antimimoniakos Dude... you should watch the whole video before you say something like that - all of the evidence and citations in the video are used to completely refute your statement just now. How would the length of the war indicate whether it was a civil war? There is no line of logic there. For instance, the Chinese civil war went from 1927-1945 (with a gap from 36-45 for the Japanese invasion). Civil war only requires that parts of the same country fought each other, which is definitely the case in Vietnam. The Korean War is also considered another civil war - just because larger players got involved doesn't stop it from being a civil war. For that matter, the Syrian civil war involves the Russians and US at certain points, and it's lasted almost 11 years. For you to paint the picture as a Vietnam vs. American war, you completely ignore the existence of the South Vietnamese military (which would maintain up to 1 million troops between 1971-1975) and its military actions. If one were to look at the stats, South Vietnam managed to garner large amounts of civilian support, especially after 1968 (of course, the American media/documentaries typically don't really report on this or conveniently ignore it). The statement about war crimes is a complete red herring... and really doesn't have to do with anything at all regarding whether it was a civil war or an American vs. Vietnam war. ...if you study war enough, you'll come to realize that all parties in a war commit war crimes. Just because you haven't heard of the ones the PAVN or VC committed doesn't mean they don't exist. Search up "Shelling of Highway 1." The PAVN slaughtered ~2000 people compared to My Lai's 347-504 dead. And there's lots more where that came from. Please watch the the entire video. Happy New Year.

[@antimimoniakos]

@@MemoryofSouthVietnam Americans who rioting against war and war crimes were red herring? The students in Kent State University were red herring? I don't think so. Apart the killing women and children you must admit using chemicals which still affect people and environment is war crime. I wonder what politicians had in their mind when cleared usage of this agent. I watched a show of a Greek channel of the foundation with children born handicaped due to Agent Orange. It is sad. Anyway the issue is if it was civil war or not. In my opinion started as civil but ended to be USA war.

[@MemoryofSouthVietnam]

@@antimimoniakos It is a red herring because it has nothing to do with the argument of whether the war is a civil war or a US war. You clearly did not watch the video, because I laid out the war explicitly in a timeline: the US military stopped ground, military operations in 1971, and completely left in 1973. So at the end of the war, between the 1971-1975 period (again most documentaries and media pieces ignore), the ARVN was doing the vast majority of the ground fighting. Many civilians have never studied war, and therefore have a very broad, vague definition of a war crime. Just because it "effects people and environment" doesn't automatically make it a war crime. There has to be a purposeful intent to use the chemical as a weapon, of which Agent Orange was not. It was intended to clear foliage - only about 10-20 years after did the chemical's effects start to really kick in. It's disgusting and should have never been used. It is a failure of the US government and military procurement, but not of the soldiers on the ground who were also effected by the chemical. A war crime defined by the UN, summarized: 1. wilful (sic.) killing 2. Torture or inhuman treatment 3. Unjust and wanton destruction of property 4. Forcing a POW to fight for their enemy 5. Depriving a POW of the right to a fair trial 6. Unlawful deportation/confinement 7. Using hostages There is a second set of definitions, but far too large to put here. You can check it out on the United Nations War Crimes page. You can see very clearly that these actions have *malicious intent* behind them. Clearing foliage fails to meet that standard. Again, I emphasize that it is disgusting that Agent Orange was used, but it does not meet the war crime definition simply because it was not used with the intent to hurt people. It is a horrific failure of military procurement and chemical safety standards. As for the civil war statement, I think there's a massive misunderstanding between our definitions. What you are thinking of for a civil war is a "pure" civil war, where only that country was involved (Like the American Civil War). No, it was not a pure civil war - the US was very clearly involved, just like the Soviet Union and Chinese sent massive amounts of high-tech weaponry to North Vietnam as well (as proven in the video). However, as I prove in the video, the war would be far more accurately viewed as a South Vietnam vs. North Vietnam war, but with the US giving SVN direct ground support (until 1971), and the Communist bloc giving NVN direct material support for the entire war. You only get the impression that South Vietnam didn't do much because, frankly, the media barely reported on those actions. But I go over the largest of those actions in the video, some of which completely dwarf American battles. For example, the well-known battle of Ia Drang involved ~5000 Americans. The battle of Quang Tri in 1972 (which I go over in the video) involved ~30,000 South Vietnamese soldiers. Unfortunately, you've probably never heard of it. The media's fault, not yours, to be crystal clear. Again, think of the Syrian Civil War that is happening right now: It is a Rebel vs. Government war, with the US giving material and air-support, and the Russians giving direct support. It's still called a civil war even though the US and Russians are involved directly. Sincerely and kindly, please watch the entire video.

[@danielegiglia4383]

I was looking for some info on ARVN and this video gave me all I needed, very informative, and one of the best I've seen about the Vietnam War. I will bestow you with the greatest honor of saving this video in my watch-again playlist. 10/10

[@MemoryofSouthVietnam]

I am thoroughly honoured! Thanks for watching and enjoying the video!

[@tfire67]

This presentation deserves millions of views, not under 4,000! Thank you to the creator! You have encapsulated the aspects of your nation’s fight against communism that the American “news” media who became authors of its history all but completely ignored. Your references at the end are an additional gift to viewers and also to the memory of all those who suffered and died. As Americans we also have a responsibility to our own Veterans, who were mistreated over the course of decades during and after the war. These stories MUST be corrected and you have made and excellent contribution. I am so sorry the U.S. Congress failed the people of Vietnam before April 1975. It is one of the USA’s darkest moments, and the shame that should be felt is clouded by the myths. Thank you again for helping to lift those myths from our view, so we can begin to see and assess the truth.

[@MemoryofSouthVietnam]

Thanks! One side effect that I'm also trying to push by venerating the South Vietnamese people, is that American soldiers will be venerated as well... due to the narrative that the US was trying to impose colonialism and imperialism on the Vietnamese, American soldiers were heavily demonized. If I can prove that the fight was justified, and that South Vietnam did have a reasonable chance of truly existing, then hopefully the fight that your American soldiers did with us will be justified as well. Again, thanks!

[@illusion.nguyen]

This video is very nice! As an ARVN Reenactor and Descendant of ARVN officers of the Regional Forces and 21st Division I appreciate this!

[@MemoryofSouthVietnam]

Glad you liked it! I made it with the hope that it can help some of us make arguments against people who argue that ARVN was incompetent and the like.

[@airplanesandfootball]

As a second generation Vietnamese person that grew up in the US, thank you for making this video. My dad has always insisted that the textbooks in school and the documentaries on TV were wrong in their portrayal of the ARVN and southern government. As I got older and learned to do my own research in middle school, everything I read in my research showed that he was right. I grew increasingly frustrated at my textbooks and at US documentaries for being so biased and portraying our relatives ancestors the way they did and completely ignoring our side of the story. I'm glad to finally have something that summarizes my sentiment as well as the things I learned in a more easily digestible format that I can share with other Vietnamese Americans that are less knowledgeable on their history than we are.

[@MemoryofSouthVietnam]

I made it for the exact reason that there was no English source to argue back against the current narrative. I'm glad that somebody else can use this video to help your arguments!

[@ucanhvungoc7133]

You are going down the wrong path, following propaganda channels and disregarding people who lived the experience. There is a reason why South Vietnam declined the reunification vote and act against the Geneve Accord, a reason why at least 70% of Vietnamese in the South disliked the government and most of them joined the Viet Cong ranks. Please listen to more sides of the story. From the people who were hurt the most in the war - the Vietnamese ordinary citizen who are thriving in the new and competent gov nowadays.

[@mexiccutioner]

@@ucanhvungoc7133 While I don't doubt that this channel is biased, it's a valuable perspective that you shouldn't just dismiss it as "propaganda". Most history is American or Communist-centric and often ignores the apolitical suffering of Vietnamese people. Personally, I wouldn't lean on only this channel ( or any source, for that matter ) for learning about the war, but it definitely helps with humanizing the people under VNCH.

[@mexiccutioner]

@@ucanhvungoc7133 "most of them joined the Viet Cong ranks" Also, just blatantly untrue . . . If the majority of Southerners fought against the government, the war would NOT of lasted a painful 20 years. There would be no mass exodus from Viet Nam. There would be no need for Soviet armor and uniformed NVA troops to roll down the gates of Sai Gon. You can't just fight bias with bias. And like how you can't downplay the crimes of former republic, you also can't downplay the crimes of the current government. "the Vietnamese ordinary citizen who are thriving in the new and competent gov nowadays." The ordinary citizen working in shitty industrial factories, slaving away at cheap products for foreign companies? That's your idea of thriving? You'd expect for a so called "communist" government that they would do their best to fend off foreigner capitalists. Not to mention the police's crackdown on speech and dissidents -- the hundreds of pro-democracy advocates that are imprisoned, the detention of union leaders during the Viet Glory strike, Task Force 47. Barring a select few, life was not great in VNCH and it appears that has not changed after its defeat.

[@mexiccutioner]

@@MemoryofSouthVietnam Even if your message reaches only a few people, your work is invaluable. There's hardly anyone who's willing the challenge the current narrative on the Viet Nam war -- atleast not with the same passion and depth you have. I do feel like your tone is too uncompromising -- but perhaps that's necessary, given how the opposite perspective would portray themselves. Otherwise, the honesty in your research and the relevancy of your topics is *on point*. Thank you, for doing what others won't.

[@RiceBoy1975]

North Vietnam being allowed to occupy territories in south Vietnam is like Germany being able to keep its forces ready for invasion after the treaty of Versailles

[@MemoryofSouthVietnam]

That's true - or like North Korea being able to keep its armies in South Korea during the Korean War. It's inevitable for that army to attack again...

[@RiceBoy1975]

Why the hell didn’t America do anything

[@Godzilla-is_goat55]

​@@RiceBoy1975 because of the stupid media the stupid "anti war protestors" because of left leaning democrats

[@RiceBoy1975]

Thanks you for mentioning that people say the war was unpopular but they didn’t fight in the war nor did they live in south Vietnam if the war was soo u popular the ARVN would’ve crumbled immediately and people wouldn’t be fleeing south if they thought the Viet cong were true liberator theirs a reason why i as a Vietnamese person don’t live it Vietnam

[@Godzilla-is_goat55]

@@RiceBoy1975 thanks for your information

[@davistran4086]

Im a first generation Vietnamese American. My dad is ARVN. Thank you so much for making these videos

[@MemoryofSouthVietnam]

I give thanks to your father for his service! And thank you for enjoying the video.!

[@M16A1-nw4jy]

which unit

[@dobridjordje]

​@@M16A1-nw4jyThat's not an M16A1 lol.

[@M16A1-nw4jy]

@@dobridjordje ik lol 😂 just couldn't find a better photo..... Although on that note I might change it soon

[@dobridjordje]

@@M16A1-nw4jy Tho tbh M16A1 is by far the sexiest and best M16 of all of them in my opinion. Completely outclasses any AKs that it faced in combat, unless we are talking about close quarters fighting, but in a straight up comparison , it' lighter, more accurate, better ergonomically built, better sight picture for target acquisition, more high quality but sturdy materials, and contrary to popular believes, it performs better in mud and sand compared to the AKs of the same time period, not to mention you can carry a lot of 5,56x 45 compared to 7,62 X 39, and has a bolt release and the forward assist, the selector is placed right where one needs it for quick fire mode changes. Just a beautiful rifle in my opinion, one of the best ever made by one and only Eugene Stoner.

[@cmdrsaigon6453]

Thank you for making a comprehensive, thorough documentary to spread not only an accurate account against typical shallow left leaning narratives but an honourable testament to always remember the men and women of The ARVN who sacrificed everything for the 20 years of freedom of The South! Freedom that to this day remain a distant dream in a unified Vietnam where people are silenced. Lest we forget!

[@MemoryofSouthVietnam]

Thanks for watching man! It's great to know that there are still lots of dedicated Vietnamese among us who believe in freedom and the free market. There are less and less of us, but that doesn't mean we can't stay loyal! I wish I could make more videos, but I'm too busy with school atm... hope you stick around!

[@volnlin6605]

A guy like you who has never breathed the air of Vietnam is not qualified to say this

[@volnlin6605]

@JvP-tj9bt Why should I listen to lies? Do you live where I live? even born in another era? You don't learn anything about 4000 years of history of my country and you can say what you like? Is that how you use your freedom of speech?

[@kapitanleutnantschneider2076]

Sir, you have earned a new subscriber. I have been studying the conflict in Vietnam for years and have been trying to find more information on what was actually happening in the south. The abandonment of the south Vietnamese is one of the most vile crimes us in the privileged west committed. We had an obligation to protect the people of South Vietnam from red domination and we failed due to a lack of will. South Vietnam should not only still exist today but be a powerful economic partner in the same vain as Japan and South Korea. Hail South Vietnam Tổ Quốc - Danh Dự - Trách Nhiệm

[@thomasp9564]

Thank you my friend for making such a phenomenal video. From context, analysis, to even the pro-level video editing skills. I can tell we are part of the same generation, and "putting it on your shoulders" so to speak to inform others about South Vietnam shows a lot about your character... There are many great things about South Vietnam that mainstream media depiction then and to this day never show. Freedom then allowed rise in education: literature blossomed - such as poems, songs, and movies, something North Vietnam Communists could never compete (even to this day) due to their suppression of intellectuals back then to the early indoctrination (Ho Chi Minh Thought, etc.) in their schools today and such... Love from Southern California!!

[@MemoryofSouthVietnam]

Thanks man! Unfortunately in our generation, there're fewer and fewer people who know this history (this video kind of targets them since it's in English). I wish I could do more at the moment, but school has completely obliterated my schedule. Hopefully our history gets revived somehow; this video will only be a small part of that. Thanks for watching : )

[@thomasp9564]

@@MemoryofSouthVietnam Absolutely agree with everything you've mentioned. Our 2nd and 3rd generation have very quickly lose touch of the Vietnamese heritage...It can be seen that this “fighting against the Vietnamese communist government” is on the verge of dying due to the aging Vietnamese community overseas. But due to the internet and such, many people, especially in Vietnam are beginning to see the truths of the ARVN and the real face of the communists, not in large numbers of course, since the internet and such can be a double-edged sword, since communists can take advantage and have, by promoting their propaganda...but those who are open-minded would hear out arguments like you have made....One very recent thing is that the world in general began to realize after the quick collapse of Afghanistan to the hands of the Taliban, is that "cowardly and incompetent" Saigon put up a darn fight for 2 years after the US withdrawal like you showed...I wish you the best in school man...No need to rush anything... :)

[@MemoryofSouthVietnam]

@@thomasp9564 Thanks man, i will try my best to return to posting when i get the time.

[@ComedyJakob]

As an American born in 1999, my stance on the Vietnam War was that it was an ultimately costly attempt to stop the spread of communism which, given that it was waged in an unwinnable way, probably shouldn't have been fought in the first place. My impression was that South Vietnam was essentially a complete puppet state of the United States. This changed a bit for me when I watched the PBS documentary Last Days in Vietnam and heard the story of Captain Kiem Do of the South Vietnamese Navy. His love of his country, South Vietnam, was genuine and touching. Not any Vietnamese government would do, he truly did believe in a non-communist version of his homeland. I was also touched to watch a NYT documentary about a Sgt Vinh Nguyen of the ARVN who still participates in war reenactments in order to recapture some of the experiences he had during the war. I'm glad that my country did such an honorable job of helping South Vietnamese refugees move to America and become Americans, it is the least that one ally can do for another. But I had never before understood what a profound sense of loss, anger, and shame many within that community must feel having lost their birth country. South Vietnam may have had corrupt governments, but as we have seen with South Korea and Taiwan, dictatorships in the Western sphere tend to eventually collapse and lead to democracies. Communist dictatorships seem to be tougher to escape. I wish South Vietnam had been given a chance to grow and evolve.

[@MemoryofSouthVietnam]

Yup you are very correct in what you just said. People always say corruption this, corruption that, but it's always a vague argument and they can only point out random officers here or there. If they were to read counter-histories of Diem (The Lost Mandate of Heaven) and Thieu (Drawn Swords in a Distant Land), then they would be faced with the hard fact that both of these leaders actually tried very hard to create a working state. Instead they just dismiss these two as just corrupt generally. Unfortunately the standard the American public had back then was that South Vietnam should be a fully functioning free democracy during a full scale war. South Korea never had to live up to this standard. Taiwan never had to live up to this standard. Both these countries took decades to build the democracies of today, and all that during peacetime with American protection. It's an impossible standard - martial law exists in many Western countries to restrict rights during war. Another statistic that people gloss over is that 1 million South Vietnamese men were in the army during its collapse. Considering a population of ~17 million at the time, multiplied by 0.20 for military-capable male population = 3.4 million. That's almost 1/3 of South Vietnamese men who are fighting on the side of the South. It is also that after 20 years of war, much of the other 2/3 were wounded that were discharged. 1/3 is a huge proportion, so to say that the South Vietnamese just wanted Communism is quite wrong. There was the possibility, but for now it's gone.

[@alexanderchenf1]

@@MemoryofSouthVietnam right-wing authoritarianism is the only way for you to crush leftist totalitarianism in time of war. You are right to say that free countries all have martial laws in time of total war. FDR was a dictator during WWII. He almost became a dictator for life, but he died.

[@edwinsalau150]

Now Vietnam and the neighboring countries are paying the price! Nixon and Kissinger, and subsequent administrations have given free reign to Communist China! The one exception, President Trump! Ask the farmers! It’s good people working the oil fields and coal mines! Ask the troops that fought in Afghanistan! Look at your Wallet today! Gas or diesel? Food? Ask the farmers!

[@RS-rj5sh]

What South Vietnam needed was time, time to evolve and mature into a stable nation state, they were making steady progress on that journey but the boys from Hanoi were never going to let them finish that journey unfortunately.

[@gvibration1]

If Vietnam was a peninsula, South Vietnam would be South Korea.

[@privatecanook]

A guy with only 400 subscribers is making better content then some history channels with hundreds of thousands of subscribers. This guy needs more love

[@MemoryofSouthVietnam]

Thank you for enjoying the video! Although I get what I deserve - no new videos since last year... just waiting for my career to stabilize before I get back into the grind.

[@privatecanook]

@@MemoryofSouthVietnam you keep going chief. From a small creator to another

[@tedmccarron]

I'm going to subscribe to him right now!

[@sansand1236]

Are there any ways I can share your channels besides just like on Discord sometimes?

[@vunguyen-rg3uo]

👍

[@gff6929]

Love your video,it explain detailed military situation and battles in a short and easy to understand video,rather than explain in simplefied way like most documentaries do,hope more people saw your video

[@MemoryofSouthVietnam]

Thanks so much! I tried to not go too in depth with the military terminology in the video, but still put enough information to truly inform viewers.

[@shadowblitzo123]

(Translated from a Vietnamese netizen on a forum) Currently, there are two factions among "Vietnam War" historians. 1 is the "Orthodox" sect (Orthodox), 2 is the "Revision" sect. The Orthodox faction is an anti-war faction. Like the meme of the board, they believe that the Vietnam War was a war of invasion by the US and the government of the Republic of Vietnam was just a puppet of the US Empire. This is also the way many people think about the war. The Amendment faction is newer, taking advantage of new reports published in recent years as well as the memoirs of insiders. This faction reconsiders the figures of the Republic of Vietnam such as Mr. Ngo Dinh Diem, Mr. Nguyen Van Thieu, etc. plus the perspective of Vietnamese refugees to gain a deeper insight into the war in Vietnam as well as the Republic of Vietnam regime. Because this sect is still very new and has not yet entered public opinion, most keyboard historians take information from the Orthodox sect.

[@MemoryofSouthVietnam]

Yeah not gonna lie, the argument between these two camps is quite nasty ha ha. They're throwing shade at each other in their histories and it's pretty intense.

[@Kabutoes]

Wow I’m genuinely impressed by the detail and work into the visuals. Good job! I think it’s a great point you brought up that American troops going home didn’t need to worry about their families being torn by PAVN artillery, so Americans feel more comfortable complaining and mocking the ARVN and the existence of south Vietnam when they had no taste in what a civil war does to a people since 1865. It’s the same issue with Afghanistan although way different, if their families were located near the battlefield where civilian casualties would be high, they’d think twice about “fighting for their country” because the family is the home.

[@MemoryofSouthVietnam]

Thanks! It took quite a lot of research, so I'm glad people enjoy it. Unfortunately, even if we do have the excuse of our family being too close to the front lines, it was still a serious weakness we should have figured out. Although then again, due to the shape of South Vietnam, there's not exactly any place where we can safely put our families, other than Saigon which was pretty overrun with refugees already. At the end of the day, it made many soldiers that fought hard in 1972 completely break and run in 1975. However, there were a lot of soldiers that did try to stay and fight. It's a mixed bag at the end of the day, but not the image of everybody abandoning their posts like the media portrays.

[@Kabutoes]

@@MemoryofSouthVietnam Yeah I guess you're right, but people like my grandfather were part of the Regional Forces where he lived right next to his family in ben tre, he in region iv so it was particularly safe. But it makes me think about how all that was structured with the rest of the military in regard with the other regions now that I know the soldiers' families were living right near them. I also never thought of the geography of vietnam and how that influenced how hard it was to evacuate and fight.

[@MemoryofSouthVietnam]

@@Kabutoes Unfortunately, when it comes to modern war, geography is something that is unbelievably crucial to understand. However, because the people who primarily created the narrative of the war were journalists, and not military historians, there is a severe lack of public understanding when it comes to general strategy. Journalists typically don't study strategy. The geography of South Vietnam pretty much decided all of the major military decisions of the US and SVN army - that knowledge must be examined in the future. All of the regions suffered from having their families too close to the soldiers, and it was because the country was way too thin... Thanks to your grandfather for his service!

[@abramonn7]

FOR THE REPUBLIK!

[@jaichind]

I found this channel because I watched a couple of videos on the RVN national anthem. I always thought the RVN national anthem was one of the best I ever watched. I spent some time years ago studying the Tet Offensive and the Easter Offensives and came to similar conclusions. I remember in my junior year in college one of the papers I wrote (it was a class on USA military history) was that the Tet offensive was a disaster for the Viet Minh and it was only a failure of the USA and RVN political systems that failed to take advantage of this clear defeat. I also agree that the call of the RVN to pull back in early1975 was a very poor decision. What I did not know that I learned here is that in April 1975 the RVN forces were still in a position to make inflict large losses on the advancing DRV forces. I figured by April the ARVN forces were mostly melted away. Thanks for this piece of information.

[@MemoryofSouthVietnam]

The RVN anthem is quite an uplifting song haha. Well most of the ARVN forces did melt away precisely due to the early 1975 withdrawal. The only forces which really survived were the ones in III Corps which did not have to move. Only remnants remained of the 22nd, Marines, and Airborne to fight in the battle for Saigon. Unfortunately, the defeat was still inevitable.

[@KevinPhan-Nguyen]

Well I don’t know if your aware, but “Call to the Citizens” was originally a communist anthem named “March of the Students” made by Lưu Hữu Phước who is in fact the same person who made “Liberate the South”, so technically the Anthem of the RVN is a plagiarised or stolen version of a communist anthem

[@tuck234]

Amazing video man. My dad always has the South Vietnamese flag with him and remembers the amount of resistance the ARVN put up. I always had a weird feeling whenever I see or read anything documented about Vietnam War it seemed to gloss over and disgustingly shove down your throat anti-war BS. No actual military actions or battles that even made sense strategically. Most mainly focused on the US involvement, but never much about the ARVN. The Battle of Saigon 1975 tho really was something I give mad respect to those ARVN soldiers who were literally holding and arguably sometimes gaining every piece of ground they could, even when the supplies were dwindling. Being born to a Vietnamese father and Korean mother who had out people's pasts be affected by such things that the media has ignored (almost purposefully) the actual moments of the wars that truly mattered. Thanks so much making this video! Calvin Troung from Firepower United shared this vid recently and def this needs to be seen by everyone, imho.

[@MemoryofSouthVietnam]

My man, the Vietnam War media is horrifically rife with the anti-war propaganda... and the worst part of it is that they have to actively hide so many facts to make it stand up. I made this video as a counter-argument to the manipulation (with citations and everything!). So many Americans think that we just straight up surrendered, when that's simply not true. They do not understand how determined our soldiers were, and how hard they fought. Thank you for enjoying the video! I sent a message to Calvin to give him my thanks. Hopefully he sees it lol.

[@Lilhajxjk274]

Why do you respect south Vietnam if they put religious people and ethnic minorities into slavery

[@davidmorin6667]

I have some Vietnamese neighbors who visited Vietnam where they still have family ❤

[@MemoryofSouthVietnam]

Yeah many of us South Vietnamese just want a better Vietnam. Many Vietnamese foreigners I know return to Vietnam with boxes of food to feed the poorer villages.

[@KFC431]

​​@@MemoryofSouthVietnam not only southern. But vietnamese in general. I see you have a strong view of north vs south and who was right vs who was wrong. It wasn't black and white, but also grey. You undermine lot of mistakes from south vietnam government. Also, "Diem refused to carry out the 1954 Geneva Accords, which had called for free elections to be held throughout Vietnam in 1956 in order to establish a national government." "Ngo Dinh Diem consolidated his power as the President of South Vietnam. He declined to have a national election to unify the country as called for in the Geneva Accords." During and after a war, it's normal for countries to do really bad economically. The sanction imposed by US really didn't help also with their support towards the khmer rouge regime in cambodia that eradicated 1/4 of Cambodia's population which Vietnam had to spend resource in solving that mess. Who were the people that were sent in re-education camp? They were not random south vietnamese citizens. Both sides commited bad things, but US in South Vietnam's side + separatist like Diem made it worse for the country + the fact he was corrupted, stole the land of farmers and ceded them to his buddies, as well as the military status/promotion given to his buddies as you mention.

[@7-mess637]

I really Appreciate This channel for what’s it doing by bringing light and more information on south Vietnam and its soldiers during the cold war.

[@MemoryofSouthVietnam]

Thanks for enjoying the video!

[@asianlifter]

Thank you so much! I am the grandson of an ARVN Officer, who served in the Fourth Corps as one of General Nguyen Khoa Nam's aids (according to what i could decipher from my relatives' information). He served in the Tet Offensive and rose through the ranks to become a Major by the end of his career at war's end. After it was finished, he had been sent to Communist 'reeducation' camps and was saved by a condition of which I cannot remember at this time. He cared for me as a baby, but around 2014-ish his PTSD had begun to catch up with him, and he slowly devolved mentally. My grandfather died on the 11th of September in 2021. I cannot appreciate enough how you have brought to light the forgotten and massively misintroduced Republic of Vietnam. I await for the Vietnamese people and abroad diaspora to return to Saigon, or now Dog Chi Minh city as its called, as well as Hanoi, and wave the yellow flag of independence and liberty over the tallest points in these cities.

[@MemoryofSouthVietnam]

No problem man! I'm also an ARVN Officer's grandson. This video was made to try to bring back a sense of honour and merit to our grandfathers, by debunking the mainstream media lies as much as possible. Hopefully we can see the yellow flag fly over all of Vietnam, both in Saigon and Hanoi.

[@asianlifter]

@@MemoryofSouthVietnam Amen, brother.

[@asianlifter]

@@MemoryofSouthVietnam By the way, I’ve been trying to learn more about the South. Who exactly was Nguyen Cao Ky, what was his role in Southern politics and what are your thoughts on him?

[@MemoryofSouthVietnam]

@@asianlifter I only know the basics about him. He was a very high ranking Air Force general, and rival to Nguyen Van Thieu (who was Army) in politics when replacing Ngo Dinh Diem. Eventually, Thieu won the presidency after numerous years, and Ky was placed as his prime minister. With the civilian population, Ky was known more as a "playboy" type character, since he and his wife would dress extravagantly and eccentrically. Many considered him to be a mediocre leader much like Thieu.

[@asianlifter]

@@MemoryofSouthVietnam Ah ok, ty

[@brendanmeadors3099]

Love your work very well thought out indepth and impartial. Definitely one of the better videos ive seen on the war and i have seen many. Also great to finally see something from the arvn perspective. Well done

[@MemoryofSouthVietnam]

Thanks man! I will definitely make more videos once my schedule frees up.

[@gastonalvarodorrego6559]

Out of the countless VW documentaries and videos i have seen, there are a few that are compact with such yet educational detail. I really appreciate you presenting a perspective that is little acknowledged outside the history community. I know a friend whose father fled as part of the migration crisis in the early 80s, I sent him a link to this video and he later told me that his father (who served in the ARVN) very much appreciated this video, so keep up the good work because I believe content like yours is very under appreciated and should be acknowledged. It is nice knowing that there has been a recent academic surge in re-examining the VW as a civil war between the Vietnamese people.

[@gastonalvarodorrego6559]

Just wondering, but what are your thoughts on the current state of Vietnam today?

[@MemoryofSouthVietnam]

Thank you for enjoying the video! Doubly thanks for giving the video to other Vietnamese refugees! I hope that the academic surge can continue - there's still not a lot of shift in the media's portrayal of the war even after this change has been happening for roughly 10-15 years.

[@MemoryofSouthVietnam]

@@gastonalvarodorrego6559 Vietnam today is a massive mixed bag. A lot of South Vietnamese youths are brainwashed into the communist thinking of fighting against the Americans (even though their grandparents were ARVN). Some Vietnamese I know moved here to North America once they realized. Vietnam is doing a lot better economically now, although the Vietnamese Communists would say this is entirely their doing. For both China and Vietnam, people forget that both economies didn't start doing well until they opened up to Western foreign investment.

[@wintercook2]

@@MemoryofSouthVietnam Until they opened up to capitalism.

[@stephensmith5982]

Thankyou for this video. The South Vietnamese Story has been seriously neglected, and should be told as one of courage and spirit.

[@MemoryofSouthVietnam]

Yup I'm hoping that more people will stand up and bring forward the true story, although it doesn't seem like it will happen anytime soon...

[@meanjune]

Amazing video. Love from the RoK as well. Many people here fought over in Vietnam as well. Long live the Republic of Vietnam.

[@MemoryofSouthVietnam]

Thanks for enjoying the video!

[@markmullen8536]

I have aways known that the ARVN were not cowards that ran away full respect to all of them

[@Sd1v8v]

Arvn were always a forgot part of the war although in recent years there had been more focus on them in books, articles and have shown them to have been one of the best army's of its time.

[@MemoryofSouthVietnam]

The hope for this video was that it would get a lot of attention, then people could go to those sources at the end (or in my pinned comment). The video did not get as much attention as I'd like, but those sources will always be there!

[@Sd1v8v]

@@MemoryofSouthVietnam it's KZbin, crap floats to the top, you got to go looking to find good videos ; such as your video and other s like arvn fight for Newport bridge Saigon Vietnam 1975.

[@gtc239]

Any books about them you could recommend?

[@Lilhajxjk274]

They were weak. The NVA qas way stronger and skilled

[@elfbeaned]

@@Lilhajxjk274 not stronger or more skilled. Just braver, more indepedent, and they did what the S Vietnam couldn't do-unify the state.

[@fnln544]

Great respect for the Republic of South Vietnam and its honorable people and armed forces. At least the flag still flies many places and the memory is in many hearts today.

[@MemoryofSouthVietnam]

Hopefully they can still fly for several more decades. My generation is forgetting...

[@RS-rj5sh]

Correct terminology should always be the "Republic of Vietnam" or Viet Nam Cong Hoa in Vietnamese. The "Republic of South Vietnam" was actually the short lived North Vietnamese puppet "regime" installed in Saigon after the country fell in 1975. Essentially a fake administration which was essentially just a smokescreen that the PAVN had taken over and now occupied the South entirely.

[@ucanhvungoc7133]

Maybe some things are best forgotten by the sands of time.

[@brdfggh5529]

​@@ucanhvungoc7133yeah,like the communist dictatorship in modern vietnam

[@johnchristiancanda3320]

There is the Third Republic of Viet Nam in the US.

[@KhoiNguyen-hm8yd]

Thank you so much for making this video. I have always had trouble reconciling the narrative of the war taught in American and Vietnamese schools with the lived experiences of my family (who lived and fought for the Republic of Vietnam); your analysis on everything was spot on. You deserve way more subscribers, and please, keep doing what you're doing--tell the truth. Can't wait to watch the rest of your videos!

[@ocathain-games]

The ARVN weren’t perfect, but they fought like tigers to defend their nation. We must never forget such bravery in desperate odds.

[@MemoryofSouthVietnam]

That's a fact that I hope to push with this channel !

[@atnguyenngoc6521]

bruh

[@khaivu6690]

"defend their nation" more like licking white ppl boots lmao

[@PhongHoang-nd4le]

VNCH quân đội lừng danh trộm gà bắt chó của dân.

[@trananhkiet-11a16]

@@atnguyenngoc6521 shut up red bull

[@thegimer4226]

IEvery time I think about the Vietnam War and its image, I feel pain for the wrong image and I feel a lot of sorrow for the occupation and destruction of South Vietnam. The real story of the war, as you have described here, is the communist North Vietnam that ruthlessly and with many war crimes conquers and destroys the democratic South. The Paris Agreements were invalid it was clear that the North would not stop until the total and merciless destruction of the South and because of stupid people in the United States they sadly succeeded

[@vnguyen1300]

Excellent work, worthy of academic thesis. There is a war going on in Ukraine and some people quickly jump to the bandwagon “There is no honour in war”. That is not always correct, there is always honor for the people fighting to defend their ways of life. Thanks for re establishing honor for the South Vietnamese soldiers.

[@MemoryofSouthVietnam]

Thank you for enjoying the video! There will always be more work to be done, however.

[@republicempire446]

Yea, war is extremely chaotic as all present wars. The American mismanagement of Paris Accords was simply shooting yourself in the foot. The bombing operations even operation rolling Thunder had success but not the desired results because WWII strategic bombing had similar problems. The ARVN was capable to hold on its own. The journalists while yes they did want to report on what they saw but they didn’t cover the whole story. Vietnam war was a tragic product of the Cold War. It’s a shame how it is still continued to debate.

[@zulfhashimmi2040]

Amazing video thank you for saluting the ARVN

[@MemoryofSouthVietnam]

Thank you for enjoying the video!

[@timothywilliams1359]

After fighting in the Korean War, my father - Col. Dennis H. Williams, U.S. Army - did two tours in Vietnam. I remember him saying as early as 1968 that the war would be lost because civilians were making all the important military decisions. He actually counseled my older brother to go to Canada if his draft number came up. Much later, when I was in Army R.O.T.C., I met a former ARVN major who gave me much information about the war, especially defending the quality of his troops and the integrity of the South Vietnamese government. He blamed the loss of his nation squarely on the U.S. Congress cutting off needed supplies at the critical moment when South Vietnam was on its own.

[@MemoryofSouthVietnam]

Yup - unfortunately the general public doesn't know how to read about battles and understand maps. So they have to fall back on whatever journalists write (who also don't really study this stuff). So they focus on smaller sensationalized battles like Ap Bac or Hamburger Hill and have no clue about Quang Tri or An Loc. These battles drove public policy... There are plenty of memes online about the 'Jungle speaking,' punji traps, or ambushes of random units as though the US military was defeated. The US received casualties from these things, but Communist forces could never really defeat any American unit battalion sized or larger lest they get obliterated by air strikes. The US Military was never defeated, but because of the general understanding that the "US lost the war," that's what so many believe. The Communists simply out-waited the American public - that's what happened. The general public certainly knows their movies, actors, and celebrities though..

[@timothywilliams1359]

Yes, it is a great tragedy for the Vietnamese people.@@MemoryofSouthVietnam

[@JL-tm3rc]

I just dont get this lack of supplies because as far as we know the north vietnamese received far fewer supply than those received by the south. At the final battles south vietnam held equipmemt and manpower advantage

[@timothywilliams1359]

@@JL-tm3rc No, the North was very well supplied. Moreover, there is an important distinction between offensive vs. defensive combat. The South had to defend equally every square mile, every kilometer in the lines of defense. The North was able to concentrate firepower in a handful of areas they wished to exploit and penetrate. The South was ALWAYS outmanned in every battle, especially after the departure of highly mobile U.S. airborne troops. Above all, the refusal of civilians in Washington to take the fight to the enemy - i.e. to invade the North and destroy their ability to wage war - was the factor that doomed the U.S. / ARVN efforts from the start.

[@JL-tm3rc]

@@timothywilliams1359 how much military aid did south vietnam received and how much military aid did north vietnam receive in 1974 give me a number so we can compare if you like you can include the years prior to that. Seriously vietnam could not defend the south so it is going to invade the north. Invade the north and you will have china join the action and it will be like korea all over again The very failure of the US strategy is mobile warfare doctrine where the unit has to react against the enemy. Proper trench lines around cities like those built by russia in ukraine would have been a better tactic and interlink those with other villages and cities and you would have a formiddable defense. and add to that multiple road networks like those in the ho chi minh trail so that you will not have those traffic congestions. At the Battle of Ban Me Thuot 145 helicopters were used with close to a hundred fighter bombers and reconnaissance planes. South vietnam was superior in manpower about 1 million ARVN and 400,000 CIDG , the north vietnamese are less than 300,000 that is a 5 to 1 advantage , the North did not even deploy aircraft. they have very few hundred tanks that have to travel across long distances while the south has 2000 tanks and the navy to supply coastal postions. the US doctrine disdain against trench warfare shows how wrong they are. South vietnam did not even took the effort to build adequate trenches to protect their troops. fighting a defensive war without defenses is just nonsensical

[@quickjab33]

I really didn't know that the ARVN were still fighting when the South Vietnamese government surrendered. Wow the way the ARVN was portrayed was that they all ran away when the NVA attacked Saigon. Is it true that some ARVN units refused to surrender and fought till the end?

[@MemoryofSouthVietnam]

Well it's kind of hard to tell, since all major units did follow the order to surrender from the Big Minh government. Individually, there were numerous officers that committed suicide, as well as some units closer to the coast that kept on fighting a little bit after. Unfortunately, I do not think we will ever know if any larger units fought to the death, due to those units being completely killed off. There would be nobody left to report that and the Communists definitely would not do anything like that. However, it's definitely the case that individual soldiers would have kept on fighting until they died.

[@ThomasTuanAnhNguyen]

Thank you for your work as a Vietnamese American I had to re-teach myself my country's history from the southern perspective cause the American view was biased against us. They work your doing means a lot to those like me who are seeking the truth

[@matttruong1412]

Thank you for your series, respect from Saigon, VN.

[@MemoryofSouthVietnam]

Thank you for enjoying the videos! Hopefully Ho Chi Minh city can be renamed back to Saigon sometime in the future.

[@RS-rj5sh]

@@MemoryofSouthVietnam Many locals still call it Sai Gon, almost 50 years later. Only VC Govt hangers on and brainwashed locals call it HCMC.

[@anonnguyen1387]

​@MemoryofSouthVietnam they may erase history by putting Ho Chi Minh on the map, but people still always call it Sai Gon even in viet nam

[@masonnoodles]

Thank you for this video. My father fought for the south and fled to Malaysia ferrying people back and forth from Saigon

[@MemoryofSouthVietnam]

Thank you for enjoying the video! And thank you to your father for his service.

[@pointlessrandom7619]

Absolutely great stuff. Thank you for making this video and showing me the truth.

[@MemoryofSouthVietnam]

My pleasure!

[@johndwayne3481]

This is really good! I teach JROTC. I will show this video to my classes!

[@MemoryofSouthVietnam]

Thank you very much! I hope your cadets can get a good learning experience out of the video. At the very least, since this is a controversial topic, they can definitely debate about it.

[@robertonavarro8326]

Thank you for this very informative and insightful video. I am so glad to see this account of the real story of the bravery and courage of the ARVN.

[@MemoryofSouthVietnam]

Thank you for enjoying the video! I hope to continue showcasing these ARVN-focused battles people don't know about for as long as I am able.

[@kapoiye]

Great history sources you made brother. I think you are also a “Vietkieu” but with a different point of view on the war, comparing to what most Vietkieu kids learned at American school. Sadly, all my cousins that grew up in here know absolute nothing about South Vietnam or how bad it is for Vietnam being a communist nation. Some of them also thought American invaded Vietnam bc that’s what their teachers tought them at school. I don’t blame them, bc it’s the system’s fault. That’s why we need people like you to create this kind of history videos. Keep up the great work brother! Hopefully I can meet you in life one day 👍🏻

[@MemoryofSouthVietnam]

Yes, I have the filial view of my parents and grandparents on the war. A good chunk of the Viet Kieu that believe this stuff are hardly Vietnamese at all - they are Vietnamese by blood but not really anything else. They party, rave, get drunk, and speak like Americans (valley accent)... nothing wrong with that but it's mildly infuriating when they turn around and think they have something profound or special to say about the war. Some of them even denigrate their own relatives who were South Vietnamese soldiers (without understanding, or asking, what their relatives even fought for)... that is unbelievably unfilial, and therefore, very un-Vietnamese. Just because you eat Vietnamese food regularly doesn't mean you know the war haha I hope that these videos can help turn that around a bit. Maybe you could send them this video? (Although perhaps not if it'll start a massive fight) Hopefully the channel grows such that meeting people can happen haha.

[@personhuman2239]

Fantastic video! I've been trying to learn more about the RVN and this video did an exceptional job of showcasing the ARVN's actual military performance. It's stuff like this that shines a light on history and uproots even the most embedded consensus so we can see the truth of the matter I've always been curious as to what civilian life was like in the South as well though. There's still so much left out of the picture when it comes to the Republic beyond just the ARVN, are there any sources to dig through on the matter?

[@MemoryofSouthVietnam]

I'm unfortunately not too sure about sources on civilian life... unfortunately a lot of English sources only emphasize the flood of refugees and abject poverty rather than farming or city life to push the narrative of a bad US intervention. Other English sources might be found in the US Congressional archives, although most of it is military. The best source would be Vietnamese people in Australia, Canada, or the US who lived during that time period, although a lot of them would not have the best English or would have been too young to remember the Republic. I might suggest the book: Drawn Swords in a Distant Land by George Veith (same author as Black April) that was published earlier this year if you want to know more about the SVN government and its attempts to develop properly. It is not focused on civilian life, unfortunately, but it is focused on the civil side of things rather than military.

[@AnNguyen-sm4bu]

Might be a bit too late, but there’s a book titled “The Republic of Vietnam, 1955-1975: Vietnamese Perspectives on Nation Building” The book is a compilation of interviews of various members of South Vietnamese society ranging from soldiers and government officials, to reporters and businessmen on how South Vietnam had evolved domestically throughout the war.

[@personhuman2239]

@@AnNguyen-sm4bu Very interesting! Thank you for sharing

[@fizkallnyeilsem]

Im Filipino and Im very charmed of this wonderful content that youve kept to be remembered. I thought no one has remembered the fates of South Vietnamese who chose to stay loyal to their cause. Its indeed a rich story in of itself, any new content you are producing?

[@MemoryofSouthVietnam]

Thank you for enjoying the video! There are not that many South Vietnamese in my generation that remember or care enough, especially amongst the people I know haha. I have several videos I really want to make, but right now I am not stable enough to continue research and production, unfortunately. The moment I get settled down I will restart production immediately.

[@TranNhuanThanhMinh358]

@@MemoryofSouthVietnam People like you are so valuable. There are not enough of us younger generations that remember the Vietnam War, an important part of our family history, and the struggles our parents and grandparents went through. I am 14. However I have always seen myself as an odd one out when it comes to this stuff. Especially for my age, the history of the war really seems to be unfortunately forgotten by most young Vietnamese. Most people are now simply nterested in the usual video games, parties, girls etc. But I am not. I am a history nerd, and love watching content like this, especially about an event so close to my heart. Thank you for making this video, it realpy has made my day. Long Live The Republic of Vietnam!

[@MemoryofSouthVietnam]

@@TranNhuanThanhMinh358 Yeah you're definitely not alone there mate. I was actually part of my university's Vietnamese Students' Association and was dead shocked at how not Viet everybody was. They were all party animals and ABGs (not sure if you're old enough to understand what that means). In other words - whitewashed. Happy to see that there's a younger person that knows and cares.. glad to see you enjoyed the video.

[@TranNhuanThanhMinh358]

@@MemoryofSouthVietnam Hope you can continue to make some more videos soon. It is really a treat to see this. Whenever I read or hear anything about the Vietnam War, 99 - actually let's put it at 100% of the content I see is the typical narrative: Evil west, unified Vietnam against the South 'puppet'/Americans. Vietnam kicks out the Western Imperialists, etc. No one even seems to mention or give a toss about the ARVN, and the many South Vietnamese who were riled against communism and fled in refugee boats. These seem to just be wiped out and ignored in the typical narrative of history. Most people think the Vietnam War was some sort of 'whack-a-mole' story, where the US tried to invade Vietnam, at the opposal of all Vietnamese people, and had to hunt down and suppress all the 'Vietnamese' hiding in the jungle who were opposed against them. People don't even realise the Viet Cong effort's had pretty much failed by 1968. Anyway, what you said is completely true. No one seems to remember and/or respect what their parents and grandparents had so desperately fought for. Funnily enough, many Vietnamese girls in my school who are not even descended from boat people are total ABG's. A few weeks ago, a girl who had emigrated from Hanoi in 2019 with filthy rich parents held a Halloween party at her house with at least 50 6-foot-tall white guys in an attempt to gain attention. She has all the typical ABG features (badly dyed blonde hair, fake tattoo, wears pretty well erm.... revealing clothing). Pretty ironic how North Vietnam had kicked Western culture and ideals out of their "country", yet every rich North Vietnamese (like this girl's family) are desperate to get out of the country and adapt Western culture. Everything seems to want to leave Vietnam- as my dad said, even the telephone pole probably does. Yet some of these VCP shills have the audacity to say that all overseas Vietnamese want to live in the glorious communist regime back in Vietnam. Yeah right-pull the other one mate. Go figure. Enough of my rant. Best of luck, take care. Hope you make some more amazing content soon 😊

[@MemoryofSouthVietnam]

@@TranNhuanThanhMinh358 Definitely - I'm a bit too busy with work to do videos now, but my spare time is all spent doing research and learning DaVinci Resolve to replace Adobe. Yeah what you said is exactly what I've experienced in life, and the motivation for this video. Even after sending the video to the fellow executives in the VSA, they don't give a crap... funny, they use their Vietnamese heritage and blood for 'diversity' purposes and to get ahead in life as 'pushing Viet culture'. But at its core, there's nothing Viet about them. They don't know the history, don't listen to Viet music, behave traditionally... I know quite a few Vietnamese who moved over here recently too, although they are families and they fully admit that Vietnam is not doing so good. When discussing with them, they say that at some point, they woke up from the propaganda and just had to get away. They kick us out, try to build the country they want, then fail and follow us. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

[@Eristtx]

Unfortunately, I have to admit that I have been living in error until now. I thought that South Vietnam had disintegrated like Afghanistan. Maybe it's my bias - but I see an uncomfortable similarity to the current state of the Western world, where we idealise Hamas-type radicals and allow ourselves to be led around by the nose by the same type of cynical manipulation targeting our public. In any case, the courage with which the soldiers of South Vietnam fought deserves at least retrospective recognition. And we should also at least reflect back on the way the public and the media were manipulated.

[@wolfgang6517]

If im not mistaken, i think it was Caetano (Portuguese Prime Minister during the American exit from vietnam and whose country was also fighting a long lasting overseas war against foreign backed insurgents) who said something along the lines of “If we had a 5th of South Vietnam army we would had conquered the world”

[@Mongooseonthaloose]

Great piece! Well researched and refreshing to see the ARVN side of things. I met a few former ARVN soldiers that were pretty tough guys and I thought to myself that these guys were clearly some hardcore fighters. This is the truth that needs to be shown and not the anti war leaning version we so often hear. Thank you for making this!

[@MemoryofSouthVietnam]

Thank you for enjoying the video! I hope to definitely make more and take down much of the anti-war version, but the economy is throwing a massive wrench into things haha..

[@Mongooseonthaloose]

@@MemoryofSouthVietnam yes definitely! I knew about the Easter offensive and often wondered why it wasn't covered more. When I was a kid I bought a collection of books that was a mail order collection called "The Vietnam Experience" and it was about 40 hardcover books that covered everything in depth. Definitely worth a read if you get a chance.

[@MemoryofSouthVietnam]

@@Mongooseonthaloose I will definitely look into that collection! My reading list is unbelievably long now, but possibly I'll get there in several years T. T (Oh my days the collection is $250 on Amazon)

[@bloodndestroy]

Finally! I get to learn in depth about the ARVN military. I can barely find footages of combat performance or training on google and youtube. I always knew they were first rate, I can't believe there is just so little written down about them. My grandfather was a colonel in the 25th division. He began his career in the French Colonial forces, then fought alongside the Americans, was offered refuge from several countries but refused and stayed to fight. He was sent to re-education camp for 8 or 10 years. When he came back, he took one of my uncles with him in an attempt to cross the seas. They were never seen again. I am also quite curious to learn about the Vietnamese forces created by the French as well. I heard the paratrooper units that jumped with the French Foreign Legion into Dien Bien Phu were first rate. I am just curious to learn about Vietnamese military units in general, there are so little detail about our wars and performances and tactics. Thanks for taking the time to gather all this info!

[@MemoryofSouthVietnam]

No problem man! Unfortunately there's so little written about the ARVN because there's not much information about them either. Most of the South Vietnamese documents were either destroyed or are still kept sealed away by the communists. The information during the war with the French is so unbelievably scarce that it's not possible to get a detailed look at the conflict at this time. For example, most people believe that it was the communists that fought against the French - they were actually in a massive alliance with a lot of other revolutionary groups... none of which are known much about or heard of today. It's tragic what happened to your grandfather man. A lot of Vietnamese have lost family in that way, including me.

[@johnmoreno9636]

Plus the Viet Minh executed any captured Vietnamese who served with the French, so hard to get any stories.

[@atnguyenngoc6521]

@@johnmoreno9636 so as the french

[@andersonmcduffie]

Thank you. You used your platform to spread the truth of the war, from the perspective of a real Vietnamese. Country, honor, duty.

[@MemoryofSouthVietnam]

Of course! Unfortunately I wish I could do more, but school has completely swamped me. Thank you very much for your support.

[@andersonmcduffie]

@@MemoryofSouthVietnam also, just such a really well made video. This gives all the information from both sides. It’s no doves and hawks kinda thing. It’s the straight facts, the cold hard truth

[@MemoryofSouthVietnam]

@@andersonmcduffie Thanks so much man. That's how history is supposed to be - although I think there's still quite a bit of my South Vietnamese bias in there.

[@andersonmcduffie]

@@MemoryofSouthVietnam of course there is. Same when I’m talking to people about the war, I throw in vocabulary like “flee from the communist” and all that. It has quite the effect, I may say.

[@dakshsingh810]

Do you real "Vietnamese" even make up a million in yankeeland compared to those so called millions fake Vietnamese who are actually living and enjoying life in Vietnam

[@luongo7886]

Excellent video! Brave Free Vietnamese fought to defend our families, homes and loved ones from communist invaders long before any American and allied soldiers came to help. Even when most ammo and other aids dried up, we continued fighting to the end. This truth must be studied by anyone, American, Vietnamese and others for a better understanding of the Vietnam War. The left-wing version presented in American academia is wrong and filled with half-truths and cannot be considered reliable. Both sides of my family came from northern Vietnam. We never accepted communism/socialism because we clearly saw how power hungry and blood thirsty were the communists. They left with sad broken hearts in 1954 for the Free South Vietnam. Unfortunately, they had to escape again in 1979 as Boat People. May God bring justice to Vietnam and may He destroy communism/socialism forever. Amen.

[@MemoryofSouthVietnam]

Good Vietnamese come from both sides of the country! I myself am half bắc 54. Unfortunately the modern narrative, which is a failure of conducting proper history, is extremely pervasive in the public English speaking world. This channel and a couple others hope to change that with good history. Leave no battle forgotten.

[@yunyizhe]

I am a great supporter of the Republic of China, even today, yet knew very little of South Vietnam despite it's close relations with the ROC. Thanks for informing me of an often suppressed perspective, just like our perspective on the China issue is suppressed. I suppose I support the Republic of Vietnam now too. :D I subscribed and liked.

[@MemoryofSouthVietnam]

I'm a massive supporter of the Republics of China and Korea. If anything, the three countries were almost like siblings with a Communist counterpart. I don't know how, but mainland Chinese are just really good at propaganda, and more and more of them are immigrating to North America. They've completely obliterated the housing market in Vancouver and Seattle. : ( Luckily the ROC is still alive today to continue to resist the Communists.

[@DrLoverLover]

@@MemoryofSouthVietnam Yes, all were horrendous autocracies. And their total disregard for democracy and human rights.

[@Monstacheeks]

Nice hearing the perspective from South Vietnam…I was in San Jose ( Little Saigon ) yesterday and saw the South Vietnam / American Flag everywhere. Thanks for making a detailed Video of what South Vietnam went through!

[@MemoryofSouthVietnam]

Yup, there are many people that still remember and honour the Republic! Unfortunately it seems many of their children and grandchildren are turning communist due to the education system... I don't know how they can call themselves Viet when they are so unfilial.

[@thl1113]

Thank you.

[@anonnguyen1387]

Really appreciate the perspective from South Vietnam. I was born in Vietnam and learned about Vietnam war from the North perspective. Its refreshing to see war from other side because history is always written by the victors. I was also got exposed to the South Vietnam perspective from my distinct relative who used to work for the US military. He got put into "reeducation" camp and tortured for 10 years. He took his whole family to the US as political refugees. They all became successful and grateful for the US gov for the American dream. I spent 2 days watching this video and reading comments and got to learn about wars from the American soldiers, the ARVN. From your perspective (ARVN), south vietnam fought tooth and nails to protect the country. Debunking the myth that VCs are just a bunch of rice farmers hiding in bushes when in fact they were heavily armed and trained by USSR and China. On the other hand, from a couple comments from the Americans and their stories from their father/grandfather working with the ARVN, minority of ARVN soldiers was lazy, and lack the determination to fight for the country, and even spies for the North. And the American commanders were disappointed in the ARVN that achieved nothing despite enormous support from the US government. I think 2 things can be true at the same time since history is complicated, and theres no objective truth, just the victor writing history. And I wish to learn more about the civilian's perspective from the war, especially those from the South to see a more holistic picture. My heart goes out for all the ARVN soldiers fought for their ideology. I guess the reason why I'm keen to topics like this is after being freed from foreign forces, Vietnam is still corrupted, civilians have no say in politics, and politicians just kept pocketing taxes. They freed Vietnam from western power but still sent their offsprings to Europe and the US for a better life with taxpayers' money. They said South Vietnam is a US puppet state and but ironically, the current Vietnam government is the CCP's dog. The country is united but the people are sometimes still divided and discriminate based on regions "phân biệt vùng miền". Having wistnessed this, I keep wondering if it would have been better for Vietnam to stay splitted. And because my hometown is in the southern part, would I and my family have a better life, especially when I was told South Vietnam was actually meant to be SEA superpower "Hòn ngọc biển Đông". Or if vietnam stay splitted like North and South Korea, will South Vietnam be successful and prosperous like SK. Or it may just be as corrupted based on comments left by the Americans here, and even your video acknowledge the corruption of South Vietnam. Nevertheless, I really appreciate your video and the effort you put into the research. To help balancing out the views on Vietnam war. To view it as a civil war, not just Vietnam vs the US. May as well call it USSR/China vs US (basically the cold war) if they want to include foreign support (VC has USSR and China)

[@hoangthuphuong486]

Thằng ba que phản quốc mày mấy tuổi hả nhóc

[@gunter-s1x]

Awesome video! Continue spreading the truth and refuting communist twisting of history. - A Hong Konger

[@MemoryofSouthVietnam]

Free Hong Kong! Mainlanders suck so much lol.

[@gunter-s1x]

@@MemoryofSouthVietnam Agree!

[@tracya4087]

very well done , thank you from lancashire , england

[@MemoryofSouthVietnam]

Thanks for enjoying the video!

[@RegiusvonKoom]

First of all, I haven't fully watched the video, but I must say I feel grateful and appreciative when I see younger people from later generations (like me) making an effort to preserve Southerners' history, heritage, and legacy. But I do have some friendly suggestions, for the audio, if I may. 1. You may try to reposition the mic, don't just speak directly into it, as doing so might reduce the sound of your spit. 2. Try using a de-esser plug-in, as doing so might reduce the harsh sounding of the "s, sh" tone. 3. You are doing great for a small youtube channel. Best Regards For The Fatherland - For Honor - For Duty A Southerner

[@RegiusvonKoom]

when you played the anthem, I teared up a bit. Thank you

[@MemoryofSouthVietnam]

Thank you very much! I will take your suggestions to heart! My school has some recording studios, so I will take advantage of those... my personal mic is not the best quality, so my apologies for that. I abused the de-esser plugin in Adobe Audition, but it couldn't remove them entirely. Unfortunately I wish the video spread more - I am quite busy with school, but will try to dedicate as much time as I can.

[@henrysgvn]

Keep up with the good work, my man !!!

[@2021ruber]

@@MemoryofSouthVietnam Despite your excuses, the reality is that without the direct intervention of the US air force the south would have been overrun by the North in 72 despite the fact that the ARVN's American military aid was not cut off. So much for the excuse that the ARVN was beaten in 1975 because of the cut off of US aid.It would not have made any difference at the end.

[@MemoryofSouthVietnam]

@@2021ruber My good man (or woman, who knows), you have completely missed the entire point of the video. My entire argument was not that ARVN could survive with US monetary aid. My argument was that South Vietnam truly existed as a separate entity, and truly fought hard against the communist forces (which is why I reference all of these massive battles that most people have never heard of). Even when they were running out of ammo, they continued to fight (battle of Thuong Duc 1974 and Xuan Loc 1975). We did not completely surrender after the US left, like many Americans think. Somehow, American civilians got the idea that South Vietnam could survive on its own. That idea is entirely absurd, especially considering the US military still remains in South Korea, Taiwan, and West Germany (now unified Germany). Unfortunately, it comes from the fact that civilians truly don't understand how combined arms warfare works (not exactly a thing most people would learn lol). You are right in saying SVN would not survive without US support, but what I am arguing against is the US leaving in the first place. To justify the US leaving, civilians try to make the general argument that SVN never really existed, and the ARVN just simply abandoned their posts. Many soldiers could not even fight in the first place, due to the lack of supplies. That being said, combined arms warfare is an unbelievably complex topic of study, with an unbelievably large number of factors at play. Logistics, arguably, is the biggest one (it's one of the major reasons that caused the Germans to lose in the Eastern front in WW2). If you have studied modern, combined arms warfare, you will come to realize that all of these branches and arms require massive amounts of food, fuel, ammunition, spare parts, uniforms, etc. Losing any number of these will severely cripple an army. It cannot be simply dismissed as just an excuse... Of course, I come with sources! I recommend the materials below: - Towards Combined Arms Warfare by Johnathon M. House (free and recommended for a good general understanding of combined arms warfare) - "The MAIN Reason Why Germany Lost WW2 - OIL" by TIKHistory kzbin.info/www/bejne/oYfSZnxmrbOFnsk (truly demonstrates the sheer need for supplies) - “2013 Meet the Author - George J. Veith - Full Version” kzbin.info/www/bejne/kKbbnKanptStbqc (for all of the logistical and tactical situation around SVN) Happy watching/reading!

[@flyingdragons75]

Well done!

[@laclep365]

This is the best video about VN war I have ever watched 😢👍

[@MemoryofSouthVietnam]

Thank you for enjoying the video!

[@KanoGuapo]

Excellent. Keep up the great work!

[@MemoryofSouthVietnam]

Thank you for enjoying the video!

[@tedmccarron]

I'm a white American who was too young to be in the war but has long had a fascination with it. I'm also a hardcore anti-communist and conservative and very sympathetic to the ARVN as well as the Cambodian Army that resisted Pol Pot. The amount of lies and distortions that I see in books and videos about what happened in Indochina during that time is absolutely infuriating. Communist North Vietnam brutally invaded three different countries and brought the hell and misery of war and communism to all three of them. The United States responded by bombing the North Vietnamese Invaders but leftist historians make it look like we did nothing but bomb innocent countries for no particular reason. The ARVN didn't just fight at Xuan Loc, they fought like tigers at an armored training school outside of Saigon, they fought like tigers at Ton Son Nhat airport gate by gate in a titanic battle with the communists, and they also fought like Tigers for the Newport Bridge leading into the heart of Saigon even up until 9:00 in the morning on the last day of the war when the Communists tried to push one final assault over the bridge but South Vietnamese tanks blew them away. The bridge was rigged with tons of explosives but when the general surrender was announced the commander decided not to blow up the bridge and what the Communists pass over it. Personally if I was him I would have blown up the bridge rather than let them cross so easily but that's just to me. I still appreciate the tenacity of their fighting spirit and how they fought so hard to look very last day for their freedom.

[@MemoryofSouthVietnam]

You're absolutely correct - if North Vietnam never sent soldiers down to the South through Laos and Cambodia, there would have been no war. South Vietnam never pushed our army into North Vietnam because we weren't allowed. Andrade in his Easter Offensive book proved that all Linebacker targets were military, not civilian. So many of South Vietnam's battles are always minimized or ignored because journalists couldn't care to cover them. Battles of Quang Tri, Kontum, Thuong, Duc, and Xuan Loc are almost always ignored (even though they're division-sized and quite massive). This is a complete failure of good history. South Vietnamese heroism, like the bridge bombs, is always thrown out the window, all to push the narrative that we were against the South Vietnamese government and wanted communism.

[@yetimelly523]

ARVN soldiers only could expend on average 84 rounds of ammo a month. Can't win wars with limited ammo. Respect to the Brave ARVN soldiers.

[@MemoryofSouthVietnam]

Unfortunately it was aassive driver of why these soldiers abandoned their post so quickly. Can't stand and fight without bullets.

[@kingkauri5900]

This is very informative and well done.

[@MemoryofSouthVietnam]

Thanks for watching!

[@henrysgvn]

Well said my Man !!!

[@VietnamWarShorts]

Yeah it is getting annoying that the South Vietnamese military is seen by mainstream media as weak as the US backed Afghan Army. I mean it is true in some ways that both militaries had a corruption problem that led to both their downfalls. But the South Vietnamese military managed to fight alone against North Vietnamese forces for 2 years, until the South's inevitable defeat in 1975. While the Afghan National army did not even last a month upon the exit of the US Military from Afghanistan.

[@viett.nguyen9319]

South Vietnam: has the multi-party system, has elections, has freedom of the press, has freedom of speech, has freedom of expression, has freedom of assembly, etc. North Vietnam: has the one-party system, has no elections, has the press under control, has zero freedom of speech unless it benefits the communist party (they even jailed the musician who composed North Vietnam's national anthem), has zero freedom of assembly. Western media: "We're going to ignore all that, and by the way South Vietnam is this and that." I said it. I'll say it again. The hypocrisy is appalling. For those who are interested in the truth, look up these keywords and read on: - Quynh Luu Uprising (North Vietnam's version of Thien An Mon - I'm using the Vietnamese name to avoid possible censorships) - North Vietnam's Land Reforms (killed 170,000 people). - Nhan Van Giai Pham's Affairs - Mau Than Massacre 1968 (never understood why the US and its allies are grilled so much for killing 500 people while the communists could get away with killing at least 2000 people, hypocrisy?) - Shelling of Cai Lay schoolyard ("baby killers", anyone?) - Dong Tam Incident (modern time) So many people are fooled into thinking that Viet Cong are at least good communists. Their argument is that since Red Vietnam fought Red China, Red Vietnam must be the good guy. They don't know that Red Vietnam resembles much of Red China. Red Vietnam tries everything to control the flow of information, including installing spyware in household's routers and conducting a Wumao-like army called Force 47 (look it up). Red Vietnam did try to block Facebook and Yahoo back then but failed. Red Vietnam did not allow private-owned news agency. Funny that some VC apologists tried to give me a counter-example that FBNC is a private-owned news outlet like it's a "gotcha" but if you dig deeper, you'd see that 70% of FBNC is owned by Ho Chi Minh City Television (HTV). HTV is in turn owned by People's Committee, a STATE body. That shows that they'd go at great lengths to fool you that they are all for transparency up to Western standards of freedom of the press.

[@MemoryofSouthVietnam]

The entire modern Vietnam War narrative is built on complete and total lies mate... It's all the beginning of what we now call Fake News and Media Manipulation.

[@daiquylam3401]

Cộng sản này cộng sản nọ, cộng sản trung quốc này cộng sản việt nam kia, sao mày không chuyển sang mĩ sống luôn đi Việt nam như vậy là ổn lắm rồi đó nhe, Mày muốn dân chủ kiểu gì? Kiểu mĩ, kiểu ukraina hay anh quốc? Thế thì việt nam không cần mấy cái thứ dân chủ đó Một bên thì tổng thống nhầm giữa ukraina và Iranian, một bên thì rạp xiếc trung ương đúng nghĩa đen, một bên thì nhầm địa lý Chưa kể nữa là tụi dân chủ phương tây còn có tiêu chuẩn đạo đức kép nữa, việt nam không cần ba cái dân chủ tiêu chuẩn kép của tụi bay

[@daiquylam3401]

Mày có bao giờ nhìn bao nhiêu dân thường vô tội thằng mỹ giết ở Libya, afghanistan, iraq, syria, nam tư không mà mày nói cộng sản việt nam giết người?

[@daiquylam3401]

Bên việt nam còn coi KZbin các mạng xã hội khác được trong khi đó bên trung quốc phải dùng VPN 24/7 mà đôi lúc dùng xong có khi đi tù luôn đó nên hãy biết ơn đi vì mày sống trên nước việt nam và không phải bên trung quốc đi

[@Notmysteezhomie2]

Lol have you guys been back to Vietnam in the past ten years?

[@Thunderchild-gz4gc]

Invaluable video and channel. Long live Saigon.

[@MemoryofSouthVietnam]

Unfortunately Saigon is already dead - it's called Ho Chi Minh city now. T. T

[@Thunderchild-gz4gc]

@@MemoryofSouthVietnam I know. I've heard locals call it Saigon. As my late Vietnam veteran father said it'll always be Saigon to me.

[@xxgen.radriarxx4170]

Very persuasive argument. My grandfather was a lieutenant for the ARVN and served through the tet offensive. He got shot in the knee and is pretty much disabled. This video really did re establish the honor that our ancestors fought for. After all, it was our country to protect, not America's. Some may argue that the Arvn and their allies committed several war crimes, but to them, warfare is very vague. War is never fair. Both sides of the war only did what seemed right. This was Vietnam's war, and citizens of other countries have no right to criticize the sacrifices of the Vietnamese, communist or not, in the defense of a united vietnam.

[@MemoryofSouthVietnam]

Yeah that's the simple reality of war. Most of the youth I say these days just come up with the answer "war is bad" and nothing else. It's phenomenally naive. War is simply fighting, and some things are definitely worth fighting for: freedom, democracy, protection from government, etc.

[@Gwerty102]

Cám ơn anh nhiều đã làm video này

[@staycxld]

RIP to all ARVN heroes. Excellent warriors. NVA would have stood no chance without the materiel support from China

[@MemoryofSouthVietnam]

It's very unfortunate how the history turned out. People forget that China and the Soviet Union were always supplying North Vietnam throughout the entire war, even after the US stopped.

[@staycxld]

@@MemoryofSouthVietnam Agreed. I truly believe South Vietnam could have been another capitalist powerhouse in Asia just like South Korea had it not lost to the commies.

[@MemoryofSouthVietnam]

@@staycxld Unfortunately we will never know. To be honest I do not know if South Vietnam could have overcome the severe corruption problem. But South Vietnam was never in a true state of peace.

[@thewhitehousevietsubarchiv2625]

there should be more video like this on youtube, not just because of the content but also the investment and how hard you put your effort on the graphics and the way you present this video. This kind of video is as quality as many US well-invested Vietnam war documentaries such as Vietnam in HD, Vietnam a television history, The last day in Vietnam or Battlefield Vietnam (not the game). So.......after all, iwould like you to know, i love this video and i appreciate it, not only by the accuracy of the content but also how hard you put in it. I clicked the like button and the subscribe button as well. I encourage you to make more video like this, i hope you do so, wish you all the best. By the way: i saw the link to this video from somewhere on facebook (i forgot it 'cuz i closed the fb tab immidietely). Your accent is good also, nice English accent, you're a Vietnamese, aren't you? nice! it hard to point out your Vietnamese English accent until you name some specific Historical character.

[@MemoryofSouthVietnam]

Thanks man! I'm actually a Viet Kieu, who is Canadian-born, so my English accent is pristine - although it was a bit awkward since I'm not used to recording myself. I made this video to with the hopes that the new generation of Viet Kieu can watch it and understand our grandparents' perspective. Understand the truth. Unfortunately this video took roughly 2 years to plan, record, and animate, so I do not think I can do another one this long. However, I do have numerous ideas for some shorter format videos, and I sincerely hope I meet your expectations in the future. Thank you, sir!

[@thewhitehousevietsubarchiv2625]

@@MemoryofSouthVietnam yeah, if you've been doing this alone and just by yourself, it's hard and certainly take you lot of time to do, because to make a video like this in a short time, we will need at least a 4-personels studio, but you only have yourself alone, such a great thing, great work my man. This generation need more people like you instead of wasting time for useless tik tok videos and bullshit trends. Your hard work made me feel like i was watching an epic documentary movie from a rich ass studio. Now i can understand why had your channel been created in 2019 but the video was just published for a few hours ago. Thank you.

[@wegood563]

@@MemoryofSouthVietnam what are your politics? Are you anti communist and pro free markets

[@MemoryofSouthVietnam]

@@wegood563 I am very anti-communist lol. Indeed sir I am pro free market. This video was intended to put a dent in the communists' narrative as well.

[@HoaLe-hj9yy]

I Corp should have been pronounced as "The First Corp", not I (ai) Corp (in South Viet Nam back then, that military region is known as "Vung 1 Chien Thuat"). Other than this, I congratulate the author for detailed research and portrayal of the truth about the War, about the sacrifice and heroic fight put up by the people of South Viet Nam.

[@huudang3419]

Excellent documentary, thank you!

[@richardnixon2445]

Ya know I read one of the army reports about South Vietnam final years. And I went through the 5 stages of grief while reading it

[@mrjamesho]

Thanks for this video. All Việt kiều need to watch to understand our history.

[@MemoryofSouthVietnam]

Thank you for enjoying the video!

[@英长]

Your probably one of the few young Viet kieus that still remember their past. Its somewhat sad how the newer generation of Vietnamese are slowly forgetting their country as they did not experience the real horrors the 1st generationers did such as having to travel through the dangerous sea by boat. Most of the youth are now either apolitical about it or had fallen victim to the current narrative and became pro-Northern i guess.

[@MemoryofSouthVietnam]

Yeah I know... it's very unfortunate. So many in my generation simply do not care about their heritage - I was in my school's Vietnamese Students Association and can say that none of them were Vietnamese other than in blood. That's just how it is I suppose.

[@karelpasko2396]

Thank you for this video man! Cảm ơn!

[@Indian_Marschall]

Finally a video we needed !

[@MemoryofSouthVietnam]

Thanks for watching!

[@Indian_Marschall]

@@MemoryofSouthVietnamcan you make a video about champa people of Vietnam

[@usauk3605]

Wow, I am speechless. One of my great uncles was part of the 1st Cavalry Division, and he was KIA in Vietnam. My interest in the war primarily derived from that. I knew a little about the ARVN, but your video has truly opened my eyes. Thank you for recording this information, it is very important that this story be told.

[@MemoryofSouthVietnam]

Many thanks to him for his service. Hopefully more of the South Vietnamese perspective and battles can be told.

[@usauk3605]

Agreed, even as the Allie’s of the South Vietnamese, I think we here in the United States primarily look at the war as “The US taking on the Communist world, and, oh yeah, the South Vietnamese were there too.” I think we completely miss the sacrifices of our Vietnamese friends. A few of my uncle’s letters home survived the war, and in them he mentions working with the Vietnamese Airborne, and says they were squared away soldiers, on par with American troops in every respect. Thank you for your work on this subject, well done.

[@MemoryofSouthVietnam]

@@usauk3605 Yeah, it's an absolute failure of history and journalism. The truth is coming out, but not fast enough.

[@BRAgamer]

Love this channel!

[@MemoryofSouthVietnam]

Thanks for watching and enjoying the channel!

[@thanhdang7338]

Vietnamese here, in Hanoi *and* from Hanoi even. While I am a proponent of the "Vietnam versus America" perspective and disagree with a lot of what you said and considered true in the video, I would never let anyone in Vietnam or anywhere else forget that the ARVN fought valiantly. Through out the whole war, 3 million Americans were deployed into Vietnam, easily outnumbering the PAVN and NLF's regular soldiers combined, and three times over at that, yet it was the ARVN who bore the brunt of the fighting, and suffered the highest losses out of all factions (talking about deaths, wounded, captured, and desertion, anyone wanting to brag about the "k/d" ratio to say who "really" won, I will call that "mental masturbation", and I'm some who chooses his words carefully). Yes, to me, the Republic of Vietnam is nothing but the child that the United States "presided at its birth" (per president Kennedy), and is the successor of the French protectorate-the State of Vietnam. But wether it was "A sovereign country, with its whole population behind it, that fough against communist aggression" or "A puppet state, whose rural population at large was on board with the "VC", that shed blood for its master to no avail", it was still Vietnamese killing each other most of the time, and it was a hard fight. Vietnamese gradeschool literature often overlooks the Republic of Vietnam's role in the war in light of the "Vietnam versus America", and has a similar stance to the anti-war sentiment in the US in that it skims over the heavy losses suffered by the NLF in the 1968 offensive (of course for different reasons than that of the american anti-war sentiment's), leading to the northern PAVN taking a more active role afterwards, and near-dominant role to the end of the war. The NLF soldier in the 1972 offensive is for the most part, no longer the black-khaki-clothed, checker-pattern-scarf-donning guerilla from the deep south, but a near carbon copy of the northern soldier wearing all-green khaki, and if not from the south, coming from the northern PAVN itself (now there's this thing called "intergration" in the later stage, or "conventional phase" of the war, in light of the NLF being a part of PAVN in essence, you can have a man from Hanoi, or heck, even from Ha Giang (uppermost north province) enlisting in the PAVN, *then* joining the NLF during unit exchange, afterwards donning the red-and-blue flag with the golden star, despite not being southern). All that is to say, the 1968 offensive took a heavy toll on the southern NLF forces to the point that at the later stage of the war, northerners had to supplement it, if not replace it completely in some regions. And that, was the ARVN's doing at large, not the Americans. The 1972 offensive was the clearest testament to the ARVN's role on the ground, yet like you said, American media mostly doesnt cover that nearly enough. The "North" (I will use that in air quotes, if I may, difference in political views and all) won, but it wasn't an easy fight, despite having superior quality tanks and work-horse artillery. As a fan of history myself, I'm glad you mentioned the ARVN being outclassed in ground equipment when the war became more conventional, many people in Vietnam, and well, everywhere else, imagine the ARVN as a superior army in equipment and man power, despite having inferior main artillery and tanks late-war, and that most the southern population sided with the "north" at large so they had practically overwhelmingly more potential men to recruit on their march down south (again, my view). I do want to "call you out", if I may, for not mentioning that whatever superior tube artillery and tanks the PAVN had in the entirety of the war, the ARVN always had significantly more of them, even if inferior, and that while the difference the American airstrike made wouldn't have been possible without the ARVN's boots on the ground, *maybe*, just *maybe* some feats the ARVN made would be to no avail if the USAF and USN didn't exploit them in time and send in their aireal ordnance. Again, that's just my small gripe, not letting that downplay the ARVN's hand in the war. The ARVN for the most part were exeptional soldiers, and the People's Army of Vietnam will not let anyone forget that, especially because they are Vietnamese. When they stood their ground against hellish odds in Xuan Loc, it was "the poor incompetent, demoralised South Vietnam soldier overrun by vicious communist attacks". When they repelled the initial 1972 offensive, it was "required to mention every five second that American fire support made the difference". No, just no, I won't have that. Another thing, and I do have to say this because it is objective truth, "Việt Kiều" does not mean "Vietnamese exiles", it means "Vietnamese abroad". "Kiều" is a sino-vietnamese word, meaning "to stay in someone's abode, be it house, or country". Wether you called it "exiles" due to not knowing what the word means, or projecting your political views on an otherwise neutral-meaning word, I won't dwell or judge you on that.

[@GiangNguyen-mp8qf]

I prefer to call myself " người Việt hải ngoại ".

[@wintercook2]

From a Californian 65 years old (slightly too young to have participated in the war). I am also interested in history. Your perspective is interesting and eloquently expressed. You must have favorite sources - books - that you would recommend?

[@thanhdang7338]

@@wintercook2 I would love to but the way I research means I really don't have many, or any favorite sources. I read articles from different perspectives and compare them, then reach my own conclusion after checking in their citings. The nature of articles is they cite *many* people and books, often times even putting in the article author's (or his benefactors') own comments on the matter. I then have to check the sources they cite (never a fun job, for example: having to go as far as check a single excerpt from a 200-page book just to see if an article quoting a person on Wikipedia is correct, word-by-word, and not used in the wrong context). My pedantism really slows down the process of actually reading articles themselves by me just checking sources. All of this is to say I really can't reccomend any specific book or memoir for you, as I find that very, for a lack of a better word, reductive, and that I read articles, which are different citings of different sources, so whatever source I may recommend you might be a very long book, of which I have only read a single excerpt just for the purpose of fact-checking whatever article I happened to be reading. It's the same as friends recommending each other "good movies" but when asked about actually having seen it, they turn their head sideways or say "I haven't seen much of it, , just saw advertisements, but that's all the more reason to have you watch it with me!". That's peak irony! I'm sorry for all this but the only way I can consider decent to answer your question on sources is just to intentionally read anything that is specifically biased to/against one side and vice versa, then compare them. During all of that, it's possible, though extremely tedious, to check if whatever sources the things you read are quoted correctly. Once again I apologise but this is the most useful reply I can think of.

[@wintercook2]

@@thanhdang7338 Thank you for this. It speaks to the integrity of what you do. I like getting "into the weeds" to get to the truth about something, especially with someone who's educated. These things are never simple. In the late 70's I dated a Vietnamese gal who had come to California with her family. At some point, I asked her about her thoughts on the war. She got real quiet, and said "if the Americans weren't going to stay, they should never have come."

[@nhanconghuynh]

I love this video so much. Something I wanted to do for a long time..

[@MemoryofSouthVietnam]

Man, I was totally in the same boat... I didn't see anything that would point out the South Vietnamese side for so long, so I resolved to telling it myself. Unfortunately it took 3 years since I'm not a professional at stuff like this.

[@johnnie743]

By the way recently read black April based on your recommendation. Amazing book it's right up there with "blood and steel" as an amazing account of The Men who bravely fought

[@MemoryofSouthVietnam]

It's definitely an amazing book! The author released yet another banger last year called 'Drawn Swords in a Distant Land' discussing almost the entirety of Thieu's career and the development of the 2nd Republic of Viet Nam. South Vietnamese politics was a mess for sure, but it absolutely was not the case where the civilians and entire countryside all wanted communism or something simplistic like that. This is the scenario that so much of the media pushes without a second thought. I'm currently reading it for possible videos to rehabilitate Thieu's reputation, along with Lost Mandate of Heaven for Ngo Dinh Diem. Although that will definitely take quite a while to do.

[@rudranighosh4445]

I want to see Republic Of Vietnam in my lifetime.

[@MemoryofSouthVietnam]

I hope so too, but the brainwashing is so pervasive and thorough over there today.

[@rudranighosh4445]

@@MemoryofSouthVietnam Do you know, I'm Indian. But still I hate communist.

[@rudranighosh4445]

@@MemoryofSouthVietnam I'm interested in Vietnam. Can you give me your whatsapp no. I want to talk.

[@BlairClifford]

God Bless the memory of the Republic of South Vietnam.

[@King-qv4up]

The ARVN is one of the finest army’s in the history of Vietnam

[@cooldude7062]

Then why did they lose?

[@BUSHMASTER-7-1]

Low motivation corruption and no US air support did you really think south Vietnam could’ve stood for 20 years. Only reason it took forever was because the American were helping why do you think they lost the moment America left there’s your answer

[@DeclinedMercy]

@@cooldude7062 watch the video

[@cooldude7062]

@@DeclinedMercy Finest army but lose to poor farmers.

[@DeclinedMercy]

@@cooldude7062 North Vietnam was not a bunch of farmers, they were a conventional army supplied with Tanks, Artillery and an Air Force by the Soviets and Chinese. Let me know when your knowledge of the Vietnam War is more sophisticated than what you see in memes. The Viet Cong were the guerillas, not the NVA.

[@blue-skyuniform]

really very interesting, I would like to know more about the ARVN myself, I myself am busy making videos about the army of south Vietnam I hope to learn more about the ARVN. Good videos, well done

[@MemoryofSouthVietnam]

I hope the video helped you in your video-making process. Thanks for enjoying the video!

[@blue-skyuniform]

@@MemoryofSouthVietnam are you planning to make more video's like this? I want to see more

[@MemoryofSouthVietnam]

@@blue-skyuniform Yes, definitely. Although I'm just stabilizing the career right now (my evenings are spent doing research, though). Unfortunately, these videos take a phenomenal amount of reading to do.

[@blue-skyuniform]

@@MemoryofSouthVietnam I understand, even I have spend much time to make new videos, I'm married now with vietnamese woman and now I want her in my country soon as possible

[@MemoryofSouthVietnam]

@@blue-skyuniform Yeah that will definitely eat up a lot of time.

[@mou6854]

Great video on a forgotten great army

[@MemoryofSouthVietnam]

Thank you for enjoying the vid!

[@paulryan5053]

My father was a Australian soldier who served in phuoc tuy province in 1969-1971, the ARVN troops bore the burden of the war, no American unit ever saw the level of combat the ARVN did, the heaviest fighting was 1972-1975 after us troops left, great documentary mate, needed to be told. Us politicians sold south Vietnam out.

[@MemoryofSouthVietnam]

Thanks to your father for his service! I am not even sure how the media/politicians even managed to pull off hiding the 1972 offensive the way they did. In terms of scale, it was very comparable to the 1968 Tet Offensive yet had MBTs on the front lines. Many of the people I talked to were completely shocked by the presence of heavy tanks and artillery since the view they had of the war is of American platoons patrolling here and there being ambushed by "farmers."

[@paulryan5053]

@@MemoryofSouthVietnam the media were biased and full of s..t, we have many ARVN veterans here in Australia 🇦🇺, I have a half Vietnamese brother in Iowa US , he was treated like shit because his father was a foreign soldier! He went to America in 1991, looking forward to your next republic of south Vietnam documentary 👍

[@MemoryofSouthVietnam]

@@paulryan5053 Yup Australia definitely has a very strong, proud South Vietnamese community. Unfortunately the economy has made my life unstable, but I'll definitely get back to it ASAP.

[@niuanconquistador422]

Honestly man....the US is over portrayed in alot of Vietnam war stufff.....in fact they had other allies fighting alongside them ARvn,Rok,ANZAC,Thailand..

[@BPD1586]

@@niuanconquistador422 True, and each one abandoned the South to Include Australia and New Zealand.

[@Renton83]

This is a very good video. I wish America helped evacuate these brave ARVN soldiers. I cant imagine how they were treated by the communists.

[@MemoryofSouthVietnam]

Yeah the Viet Kieu community fully knows the cruelty of the reeducation camps ... but it's not just that - the Communists made sure that any family associated with the previous regime could barely get a job or pay in society. Unfortunately this is what fighting for freedom and democracy got us.

[@GiangNguyen-mp8qf]

You can see what happened to them after the war by searching for "The North's Revenge."

[@GiangNguyen-mp8qf]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/bpzQiZutpMufetEsi=NGcCHBTrxtBEyChw

[@Warbr33d]

Wonderful video. Thank you.

[@gamerland5007]

This is so unpopular, your video quality is so great, I can't believe your audience is so little.

[@MemoryofSouthVietnam]

Funnily enough that kind of contributes to why my audience is so little haha. The algorithm promotes active channels, and unfortunately I can't post all that often.

[@gamerland5007]

@@MemoryofSouthVietnam sad, just curious. what do you use to create this video

[@MemoryofSouthVietnam]

@@gamerland5007 I used the Adobe suite for it, so After Effects, Premiere, Audition, Illustrator. Although it cost a lot of money so I cancelled that subscription.

[@aurochs92]

Glory to South Vietnam and its heroes .

[@MemoryofSouthVietnam]

Thank you for remembering them

[@thomasvandevelde8157]

Congratulations: You're about 1 out of the 2 *really* good KZbin Channels, and one out of perhaps a dozen critical historians that I know off. Man did you nail it with this one, straight As all of it. I had given up hope that there was more to be found, and there's more to be found good history wise. As the great KZbinr TIK would say "but is this really the case?" when tackling another myth. 🙂 I can't hear this "yes but THEY killed people too!" nonsense. Somehow, to the leftie, one human life weighs more than the other, one person's individuality must be defended by the destruction of that of another. I come from the WW2 scene myself, but it's the same issues as we have here: the Axis Allies (like Hungary and Romania) "didn't exist" until very recently due to them being "Nazi Puppers" according to Soviet Propaganda. And also "they didn't contribute significangly" is another myth: they suffered a total of near 1 million casualties on the Eastern Front alone. The Siege of Budapest was in scale only comparable to the Battle of Stalingrad, Berlin or even Normandy. Ofcourse the Siege of Budapest showed that the Red Army didn't need any excuses to murder and rape through sloths of innocent civilians. So it's shoved under the rug a bit. I mean there's these massive distortions that simply came to dominate the entire narrative and view we have of WW2. Ofcourse, the collapse of the USSR has made things a bit easier in this regard, the endless ideological droning around "Hero Cities" like Stalingrad is finally gone. Yet the lies and coverups continue under another flag. And worse of all is that many of these coverups are held with the full support of Western leaders and intellectuals. So glad I came here. And yes, I often wondered about how it was possible that a "non-entity" as the ARVN put up so hard a fight. It just didn't rang true a lot of it, but my goodness... It's even worse than I expected! Or rather put just as worse 🙂

[@mexiccutioner]

A lot of smaller players are ignored or downplayed, sometimes unintentionally, because of the complexity of war. It's easier and more compact to narrate history from only 2-3 viewpoints, rather then the multitude of perspectives that contributed to these events. " Yet the lies and coverups continue under another flag. And worse of all is that many of these coverups are held with the full support of Western leaders and intellectuals." I think this hits home. Misinformation is becoming apart of the historical canon and it's not being challenged. These events -- and especially the people who lived through them -- deserve to be remembered.

[@EternalModerate]

In fairness to Ken Burns, his documentary did get me interested in the Easter offensive.

[@MemoryofSouthVietnam]

Yeah I suppose that's one benefit haha... although it still follows the mainstream narrative of the war - if you read Karnow's Vietnam: A History (1983) and compare the pacing and how much time is given to early war battles, massacres, the Tet Offensive, the Easter Offensive (very little), and antiwar protests. Then it's dead on nearly identical. Much newer books and research, with the latest information, place a much larger emphasis on the South Vietnamese involvement and the Easter Offensive (it is on a scale very comparable to Tet 68). Both Karnow and Burns said in their pieces that An Loc was the focus of Easter when the latest Histories have been emphasizing Quang Tri as the focus since as early as the late 90s (when Adrade's America's Last Vietnam Battle came out). If you look at the numbers, Quang Tri dwarfs An Loc and Kontum combined. Unfortunately it looks like Burns did not incorporate much of the latest research into the film and simply followed Karnow's format. The largest addition he made were very personal and anecdotal interviews. But focusing on emotions is exactly what built the antiwar narrative in the first place, and something the latest historical pieces have been working hard to reverse.

[@joelleson3313]

When the Tet attack began on the night of January 31, 1968, I was stationed in Soc Trang City, Ba Xuyen Province in IV Corps. I was a Military Assistance Command advisor. The city was attacked by a battalion of 500 Viet Cong with North Vietnamese Army support. That night the men of the South Vietnamese Army's 33rd Regiment, 21st ARVN Division and the 44th ARVN Ranger Battalion decimated the VC battalion, killing 450 VC. The South Vietnamese soldiers displayed bravery and skill that night. The myth of the ARVN Army and the Vietnamese Regional Forces not being willing or able to take on the VC/NVA, was proven to be a myth during the Tet actions of January and February 1968.

[@MemoryofSouthVietnam]

Unfortunately, it seems the media back then and today still spread that myth. They just so happen to gloss over the examples like the one you talk about, then emphasize the cowardly moments. When you have a total war that encompasses the entire country, there's always a large set of stories to pick and choose from... Thank you for your service.

[@jakebate1533]

Thank you for publishing this video. I feel sorry for the Overseas Vietnamese who lost their country to the Communists. Recently, I went to Little Saigon (Westminster, CA). I would ALWAYS see the South Vietnamese Flag. NEVER the Communist Flag. 🚫🇻🇳 Also, I remember when I was in middle school somewhere here in Southern California back in the late 2000s (decade), a friend & classmate of mine named Mary Ann Phan (if I can recall her name correctly) told me that when she saw the current flag of Vietnam, she replied, "That's the Communist Flag". When I think about that now, basically Overseas Vietnamese are offended by the Communist Flag as much as Jews are by the Swastika or Chinese & Koreans by the Japanese Rising Sun Flag. Also, this is also the 2nd KZbin video I found depicting the Army Of The Republic Of Vietnam (ARVN) in a more favorable light. The first 1st was "Why the Forgotten South Vietnamese Army is the MOST underappreciated in History" by The Front, which came out less than 3 years ago (which is in this immediate URL link). kzbin.info/www/bejne/p360pYNqor6grq8

[@MemoryofSouthVietnam]

Yeah I've had numerous instances where some random person would find out I'm Vietnamese and they would say "it's so bad what those Americans did to your people." I'm standing there all awkward since most Vietnamese in Canada, US, or Australia are South Vietns lol. That's just the propaganda I suppose... Yeah that video is a kind of inspiration for me to do mine. It's one of the very few videos in English that show how ARVN fought hard, but it unfortunately didn't have too much info in it, except for some very small cases. So I set out to make one that was far, far more comprehensive. It's a great video - I wish that video of theirs' got a lot of views as well, but it's only at around 90k last I checked.

[@kyngo550]

@@MemoryofSouthVietnam Speaking of Overseas Viets…What do you think of the views from Overseas Viets in Western and Eastern Europe regarding the war? Especially since the Overseas Viets in Eastern Europe tend to be pro-Hanoi.

[@MemoryofSouthVietnam]

@@kyngo550 Well I've never been to Eastern Europe myself, but it makes sense for Overseas Viets in East Europe to be pro-communist, since that area was controlled by the Soviet Union up until the 90s. My guess is that a lot of them would have moved around communist countries for work. Typically their views are similar to modern, communist Vietnamese. Western Europe, however, was under US/NATO protection, so a lot of them are pro-South Vietnam like many in the US, Canada, or Australia. It's the leftover effect of the iron curtain that divided Europe.

[@mariusceausu112]

@@MemoryofSouthVietnam as an romania ay myself am pro south vietnam long live saigon

[@MemoryofSouthVietnam]

@@mariusceausu112 Hopefully Vietnam can be free of communism like Romania!