Posted by MarkB_MI on April 04, 2014 at 05:22:34 from (75.198.11.109):
In Reply to: VIETNAM posted by MTC on April 03, 2014 at 18:35:30:
Question for you, your grandson and his teacher: What would it have meant to have "won" the war? Overthrow the North Vietnamese government and occupy all of Vietnam? China would not have stood still for that, nor was defeat of North Vietnam ever an objective. There was no declaration of war.
The stated objective was to prevent overthrow of the South Vietnamese government, which supposedly was the domino that would lead to a communist takeover of all southeast Asia. But that government was doomed to fall once the US departed. Should the US have stayed in Vietnam indefinitely?
You can tell your grandson that you did not question your government when you were called to serve, that you served honorably and paid dearly for your service. As have thousands of other servicemen during and since Vietnam. You can also mention that the two US presidents who were eligible to serve in Vietnam both deliberately avoided doing so.
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