Fifty years ago today, August 08, 1970, I flew out of Da Nang Air Base South Vietnam and headed for Okinawa. I was finally heading back to the World after two tours in this God forsaken Country! My time here had finally come to an end! I never could understand why Vietnam was called “the Pearl of the Orient!” To me, it was nothing more than a big Shit Hole! Everywhere I went it was hotter than hell and the smell of rotting flesh and death was all around. I remember it like it was yesterday. It’s a part of my life that will never fade away. And let me make one thing perfectly clear, WE DID NOT LOOSE THE WAR IN VIETNAM. The fall of Saigon happened April 30,1975, two years AFTER the American military left Vietnam. The last American troops departed in their entirety March 29, 1973
Therefore, how could we lose a war we had already stopped fighting? We fought to an agreed stalemate. The peace settlement was signed in Paris on January 27, 1973. Also, The US Military never lost a major military defeat, battle, to the VC and/or the NVA , including the battle of TET 1968. Just saying…

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