What Was It Really Like to Live Through the Vietnam War?

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  @minhuctran8483 · 5 months ago

  We, Vietnamese, call this "Resistance War Against America"

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  @vutientrung1 · 5 months ago

  My father was also a soldier in the Vietnamese army! So was I. VC is what the American soldiers called the South Vietnamese liberation army. We sacrificed so much. The US, along with dozens of allied countries and modern weapons, destroyed my homeland. Even more despicable, the US used chemical weapons, causing over a million Vietnamese people to become disabled. I don't hate the American, French, Chinese... or any of Vietnam's enemies! But I hate anyone who brings war to my homeland. We always welcome foreigners to Vietnam. Many foreigners have lived in Vietnam! They have felt the warmth and culture of my people. I love Vietnam! My homeland.

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  @CorusM · 5 months ago

  Watching the ladies feed poor kids as if they were chickens or doves made me cringe. It’s striking how easily wealthy individuals, especially oppressors, can become disconnected from humanity.

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• AI

  @AImov4fun · 5 months ago

  I'm Vietnamese and will never forget about at least "the My Lai Massacre". The killers called themselves civilized yet their actions were no different from savages.

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• NG

  @nguyenson7073 · 5 months ago

  "Humanity never learns." - this sums up everything.

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  @Nonyourbusiness1981 · 5 months ago

  From the time I was eight until I was 20 every single year my dad would go to Washington DC and he would take me and he would have to go to the Vietnam memorial wall because my cousin’s name is on there. He had the ID his body in Vietnam. He never talked about what he did in Vietnam. Not once until he passed away in 2010.

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• AL

  @alexanderprewitt7985 · 5 months ago

  Truth. Every bit. Good work

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• VY

  @Vyonetn · 5 months ago

  i hate wars, the normal everyday citizens always have to pay the price. my uncle died during the vietnam war, he was only 18, that leaves the scar on all of us. Its truly traumatizing reading his last letter to my grandparents, he said he was feeling fine but he told his little brother to take care of the parents for him while he is away. After that, they never heard from him again, couldnt even find his body.

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• MI

  @MitziStangl-k6d · 5 months ago

  Amazing content as always!

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  @anthonycheaford1962 · 5 months ago

  A very interesting cross section of perspectives. I was pleased to see Mr Nguyễn Quang Vinh's book (dedicated to his friends and comrades who fought and died in the 1972 Battle of Quảng Trị) is narrated here on youtube, titled Quang Tri 1972 – An Emotional Vietnam War Novel | Nguyen Quang Vinh - Part 1

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  @beef_caldereta · 5 months ago

  It&apos;s still one of the most haunting history, you&apos;ll never get tired thinking before you go to bed <br>My grandpa went there.. and some of his stories cannot be portrayed in Hollywood movie.

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  @thierryvankerm8474 · 5 months ago

  Thank you for this insightful and well needed, in these days, perspective on these wars decided by the elites and for which normal citizens who had to reasons to fight, died.

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