Democratic Republic of South Vietnam & JFK

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I was in Valley Forge High School audio-visual office when the word came that the President had been shot while in a motorcade in Dallas and was told to announce it over the schools P.A. system. No sooner had I gotten to the microphone when the radio announced that John F. Kennedee died from the wounds he received and that Lyndon Baynes Johnson was being sworn into the office of the President in moments.
I announced that to the school.
JFK had gotten America involved in the fight for democracy in Vietnam when the people of Siagon asked America to help them get the Chinese out of their nation and I'm convinced that had he lived, J.F.K. would have defeated the Viet Cong and the NVA, in very short order. He was the PT boat captain that risked his own life makeing sure that every one of his crewmen got to shore safely after his own boat was sinking due to skirmishes with Americas enemies. The book PT109 sits on the shelf about ten feet away from this desk.
LBJ took the office and listened to those who didn't give a damn about America defending free people while those people waited in airports with plastic bags loaded with *hit that they would throw at any uniform that got off of an incoming flight while screaming at those troops, calling them " BABY KILLERS."
"HEY, HEY L.B.J., HOW MANY KIDS DID YOU KILL TODAY" was heard nightly over the evening news.
I got a t-shirt the other day from under the Christmas tree and on that shirt was a yellow, green and red Vietnam Service Ribbon and “PROUDLY SERVED MY COUNTRY” printed below that ribbon. On the inside of the neck on that shirt was a tag which read “MADE IN VIETNAM.”
Imagine the worker in the t-shirt factory laughing and screaming to anyone that could hear him, “and this tiny country threw you out too. We’re stronger than you American Cowards. Vietnam BEAT AMERICA.”
Yesterday was trash pick-up day here and you can bet that there’s a new t-shirt in a land-fill today.