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Well you know, Istarted out writing a long indignant letter refuting some of these claims--The tank commanders weren't Vietnamese?? Bizarre--Ive seen the pictures. But then I thought: wot th fck?? I have no notion I will ever change some of these minds, theyre still on a HatetheVietnamese mindset. Sorry I don't join in on this guys, I'm trying to act like a grownup who works the AA program--you know the tolerance-openminded-forgiving thing. Itshard but I keep trying
I can see real clearly that som of these are just another indication that lots of Americans hate th Vietnamese and arent going to quit no matter what. The Vietnamese Commmunists are the worst people in the world, they only get people to do what they want by enslaving them. So they were always bad and we were always good? Too bad we couldn't convince the Vietnamese of that
Well for starters, thank God even George W Bush is smart enough to kick that kind of BS to the curb. Carrying on that kind of hatred and resentment isn't going to do anyone any good but some people just love to keep it going. We're going to be doing a lot of business in the future with these people---obviously some of us are already doing so regardless of our feelings about them-- so get used to it. I don't have to put you down and make you wrong, history will do it for me.

This book is intersting to me mainly because it shows the Vietnamese we fought as human. The spirit that won that war for them was not manufactured in Moscow or Beijing, it came from the Vietnamese themselves.We didn't want to loook at them as human because it made it easier to kill them--at least I did that but now I'm sure there'll be a bunch of claims that NO ONE else did that. Yeah, right.
This book shows them as human, shows their suffering and their courage--I know I know--they couldn't have had any of that that wasn't supplied by Moscow, right? No wonder we (America!!) lost.
There's lots of folks that won't believe the Vietnamese Communists were human--they shouldn't read this book, it wll only bum them out. If you want to carry your hatred and resntment on, count me out for sure this time--I gave last time
This picture is me and some nice happy kids I had a good time with in Pleiku last year but they might have been evil Commie Youth League spies out to ferret sensitive classified information out of me. You just never know with these wily Orientals can't trust a one of em I guess

Doesn't Ho look like Colonel Sanders?

James

PS, thats a huge Catholic church in the right background with a 20' high stained glass window