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In war you see alot lot of things that just doesn't set well with you, but there isn't anything that you can do

to change the facts or events,it's beyond your control.

Just like the time Recon captured a couple of V.C.liand

turned them over to the ARVN's for interagation. The

ARVN's couldn't get any information out of them. The

V.C. were loaded aboard a helicopter and were taken up

to about 50 feet above the tree tops and were thrown out

with a rope tied around their ankles, then they were dragged

through the top of the jungle hanging from the chopper sev-

eral times before the chopper climbed to about 1000

feet and the rope was cut letting then fall to their death.ere t

There are many things that I don't understand and will never

understand, like why the Johnson Administration allowed the

Soviet Union and other communists countries to buy anything

they wanted from the United States knowing full well all of the

communist countries were supplying North Vietnam with food,

and war equipment,while our troops were being killed in south

Vietnam and our planes were being shot down and our pilots

were being held in North Vietnam POW camps

Our country was supplying the tools and equipment to our cold

war enemy who inturn supplyed 80% of what they received from

the U.S to North Vietnam to be used to kill American servicemen.

Our pilots were not allowed to bomb SAM missile sites while they

were under construction,they were ordered to leave them alone,but

they could bonb them after they were finished being built if a SAM

missile was fired at them.

Our pilots were ordered by Washington not to bomb North Vietnam

air fields or their Russian built MIG's that were on the airfields, the

only way they could destroy a MIG was to let them get airborne and

come after them.

Our pilots were ordered by Washington not to bomb any target that

was 204 feet from the Ho Chi Minh trail. The North Vietnamese were

smart enough to pick up on this and when our planes were bombing

the Ho Chi Minh trail all they had to do was to get off the trail over

204 feet and our pilots couldn't touch them.

In January 1966, President Lyndon Johnson gave this third State of the

Union message, pledging to continue his Administration's policy of what

he called "building bridges" to the Soviet Union and to communist cont-

rolled countries of central Europe. Saying this as American Servicemen

were being killed in Vietnam with Russian made weapons and our pilots

being shot down over North Vietnam with Russian made SAM missiles.

The sad thing is the Johnson Administration sold the items needed to

build missile sites and other pieces of war equipment to Russia, knowing

Russia was supplying the North Vietnamese with everything they needed

to wage war and killing our men in Vietnam.

American companys and businessmen made huge profits sell to the USSR

and other communist countries during the Vietnam war all at the expense

of American lives in South Vietnam.

In February 1967, Comgressman H.R. Gross of Iowa told the House of

Representatives "It is time that the citizens of this country were made to

understand that they and their fighting men have been made the victims

of a betrayal to international politics and intrigue".

The American servicemen and women never lost the war in Vietnam, our

own government sold us out, Vietnam was never intended to be a military

victory. The liberal politians and liberal news media made sure of that.

Tet offensive 1968 was the turning point of the war. The North Vietnamese

were on their last leg, they were defeated by our American fighting men.

Then Washington tied the hands of the military even more because the liberals

didn't want North Vienam to collaps. MONEY was the motive.

I love the United States of America and would help defend her to the end. The

statements I have made are true and sad to say our government made sure that

the Vietnam war would drag on and no real military victory would be won by the

USA. It tears my heart out to know this, yet I am an American and a Vietnam

veteran and damn proud of my service to this greatest country in the world.

The antiwar demonstrators and peace nick's and all the flower children

didn't have a clue of what was going on. Most of the antiwar demonstrations

were organized by the communist here in the USA to undermind our efforts

in South Vietnam. Most were just a bunch of dumb kids being fed a lot of

crap and they believed every word of it.

The demonstrators that wanted us out of Vietnam never seen the fear

in the Vietnamese people's eyes when someone mentioned the word

Viet Cong or VC. They never seen a town Mayor disemboweled in front

of them, or his wife and daughters raped and then beheaded.

A word for the one's who left this country so they couldn't be drafted, all

I have to say to them is someone else had to take their place and someone

else died in their place, it could have been a friend, a schoolmate, a brother

or other men they didn't even know. I called them COWARDS and to this

day to me they are still COWARDS. Mr. Bill Clinton is at the top of my

list of COWARDS, Jane Fonda is on my list as a TRATOR plane and simple.

Within my inter most being,my heart of hearts, deep down in my gut, I know our Government knowingly left American POW's

alive in the hands of the enemy. There is evidence , and more

evidence and more evidence to prove hundreds of American

POW's were left behind and President after President will not

and has not addresses this issue.

My heart aches for these men and not a day goes by that I don't

think about them. Our Government and the North Vietnamese

have tried very hard to make the American people believe that

they are all dead, they have tried too hard to discredit live sight-

ings, personal testimonies of former POW's, finger prints, hair

samples, pictures, and other documented proof that American's

remain in captivity in Southeast Asia.

9,353 American servicemen were killed in

Vietnam in 1967. Thirty percent greater more

than the total losses from the previous six

years combined. The reason for the great

increase in Americans killed is due to the

fact that the Soviet Union and her satelite

country's gave the North Vietnamese a very

huge increase in weapons and supplies in

1967. By mid 1967 the USSR had given Hanoi

$2 billion in military aid. Other communist

country's gave an additional $1 billion in war

material, that is $3 Billion given to Hanoi in

one year alone. On Septemper 23, 1967 the

Soviet Union announced it was delivering

more supplies to the heroic Vietnamese

people who are waging a war against the

"imperialist Americans". Yet our Government

keep exporting to these country's. Hang your

head in shame America.

South Viet Nam President and our President

Richard M. Nixon conspired together to prolong

the war. Nixon constantly denied that he was

conspiring with President Nguyen Van Thieu

against the U.S. government, but unclassified

FBI files shows this was exactly what he was

doing. While Nixon was President 20,763 U.S.

servicemen were killed in Viet Nam.

It is common knowledge that Cuban's help the North

Vietnamese and Viet Cong torture American POW's

and also showed them some they invented, like bound

a man's ankles then pull his legs up behind him, with

the other end of the rope looped around his neck. If he

struggles or even tries to strighten his legs due to cramps

he would run the risk of strangling himself.

Navy Lieutenant Dieter Dengler while captive by the Viet

Cong was forced to watch the Viet Cong behead another

Navy pilot. The next day the Viet Cong executed 6 wounded

Marines. During his captivity Lt. Dengler was tied upside

down to a tree and ants were placed on his face, then he

was dragged behind water buffaloes, then beaten.

Some of their torture that was used was to keep POW's

in bamboo cages for years, pulled out fingernails one at

a time over a day or two, kick,stomp, and beat them to an

inch of their life. They would withhold food and water for

days, keep them from sleeping for several days, then hang

them from a ceiling by their wrist for hours or even days.

Some were dragged along the ground by their broken arms

or leggs. There was other types of torture that I will not even

list because they were so savage .

I have laughted,cried,cussed and fussed,been called names from those

who thought they must. I lived through times some say it's best forgotten.

I have seen the best who are now at rest, I'm surprised just how far I've

gotten,my nam friends will never be forgotten.

Those were the days of old,when we were young and bold,some didn't

live to grow old their bodies lay in the ground dead and cold

We had self esteem, we were known as US Marines. We loved God, Country,

and the Corps but our government sold us out like a two dollar whore.

Some say it was all in vain others say we were insane, we walk with pride

we didn't run and hide and we knew Jane Fonda was on the other side.

One thing is a sure bet her tratior ass wasn't there during Tet.

Author: Bill Weldon, USMC,Viet Nam Vet

What really pisses me off is all the misinformation that still is in

a lot of peoples mind, is that they have been told by the meda

and other dumb knuckle heads that the American Forces lost

the Viet Nam War. How in the world did we loose the war when

all American Forces were pulled out of South Viet Nam by the

President of the United States two ( 2 ) full years before the fall

of Saigon on April 30th, 19975. How did we loose the war when

we weren't there?????????

Tet offensive 1968 was a turning point of the war. Over 40,000

Viet Cong troops were killed durning that time, the NVA sent

them to their death, this was there way of getting them out of

the way,the NVA were not going to share any power with them.

So after the US pulled out all their combat troops and left Viet

Nam and let the South Vietnamese Army have all responsibility

of defending the South, the NVA broke the treaty two years

later and invaded the South and captured Saigon.

SO DON'T TELL ME THAT WE LOST THE VIET NAM WAR!!!!!!!!!

For those who think Viet Nam wasn't a war, the Vietnamese government

admitted recently that 1.4 million of their military died on the battlefield.

Viet Nam was very a costly war for the United States Marine Corps. We

had 5 times more Marines killed than in WW I, 3 Times more than Koera,

and more total killed and wounded than in all of WW II. Although the U.S.

Marine Corps made up about 10% of the fighting forces in Viet Nam, there

are virtually 1 in 4 names on the Viet Nam war Memorial Wall U.S. Marines.