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Vietnam
Vietnam War
Animals
Military History
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Posted >1 y ago
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1. Moi is a profanity used by the Vietnamese to describe the Montagnards, not a Montagnard term that I ever heard, but perhaps the Vietnamese started calling them that because of the legend.
2. The description sounded like my teammate Efren "Esse" Renteria. It could be same guy. ;-)
3. I never heard of these creatures and our Montagnards told me plenty of legends about spirits, demons and deities that lived in the jungle to try to frighten me, but nothing similar to this story.
4. I lived at the extreme south end of the territory where the video claim they existed.
5. My tribe, the Steing, was considered the lowest of the low because they were so primitive. They were barely entering the bronze age in their development prior to the war.
6. I find it extremely hard to believe that the Montagnards would have never obtained a specimen of such a creature.
7. Great share.
2. The description sounded like my teammate Efren "Esse" Renteria. It could be same guy. ;-)
3. I never heard of these creatures and our Montagnards told me plenty of legends about spirits, demons and deities that lived in the jungle to try to frighten me, but nothing similar to this story.
4. I lived at the extreme south end of the territory where the video claim they existed.
5. My tribe, the Steing, was considered the lowest of the low because they were so primitive. They were barely entering the bronze age in their development prior to the war.
6. I find it extremely hard to believe that the Montagnards would have never obtained a specimen of such a creature.
7. Great share.
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SGT Philip Roncari
SGT Robert Pryor-My unit had some contact with the Montagnard tribes in the Central Highlands ,relocations mostly ,never could understand the Vietnamese looking down on the Yards,calling them Moi (savage)) they had a slash and burn agriculture and were primitive,but their Long Houses were constructed above the mud and creepy crawlers and they didn’t share their living spaces with the various animals,pigs chickens,dogs like the hooches of the Vietnamese,they did have a belief in spirits and jungle deities never heard of the one mentioned in this post though.
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SGT Robert Pryor
SGT Philip Roncari - Three more qualities the Montagnards had over the Vietnamese were integrity, honor and courage. The first time I got shot this 16 year old Montagnard took three bullets saving my life. He made it too. I gifted him my watch and sunglasses when he got out of the hospital. He was tough as woodpecker lips.
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SGT Philip Roncari
SGT Robert Pryor-We always viewed them as honorable people can’t really say the same of the South Vietnamese we encountered,although their elite units were highly thought of.
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Why not? There are still some uncontacted indigenous tribes in various parts of the world.
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