Saigon, a collateral of South Vietnam, as well as a presidential house were taken over upon Apr 30, 1975, by a North Vietnamese armed forces with complicated artillery. The attack finished a Vietnam War, as well as reunified Vietnam. American diplomats evacuated, as well as a little Vietnamese done it to Clark Air Force Base in a Philippines, or onto U.S. Navy ships off a seashore of South Vietnam. The United States Marines ran divided as well as was degraded in a final battle. The Marines never recovered.
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Walter B
May 4th, 2010 at 8:26 am
1) The Second Indochina War (commonly called a Vietnam War) did not finish upon thirty April, 1975. It finished upon 4 Dec 1975 when a Pathet Lao took carry out of Vientiane, Laos. Yes, Saigon fell to a Peoples Army of Vietnam (PAV, not a improper name NVA). Cambodia fell to a Khmer Rouge upon fifteen April, 1975 nonetheless there was fighting by US Marines as good as Khmer Rouge during Kompong Som in between 12-15 May, 1975 over a Mayaguz Incident.
2) Technically, as good as legally, underneath general law as good as a "1954 Geneva Agreements upon Indochina", Vietnam was a single nation which was ostensible to have been TEMPORARILY widely separated until national elections in 1956. The US disregarded those agreements even prior to they were sealed as good as one after another to do so until 1975. Saigon was legally NOT a collateral of a bootleg Republic of South Vietnam.
3) Heavy artillery was not used upon a Presidential Palace in Saigon, it was tanks.
4) People, generally a US Marines would contend which they did not run away. Also, they did not have to redeem from anything.
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You might contend which a Vietnam Vets fought an bootleg fight for an bootleg supervision BUT, many fought good as good as did their duty, as good as thus should be respected.
Chriz
May 4th, 2010 at 8:26 am
The US marines ran away.. oh child i consider we have been wrong.
My father was a marine. they run towards a fire. a armed forces was substantially a ones which ran, they were often concerned in which fight anyway.
W.C. Felcher
May 4th, 2010 at 8:26 am
You contend "thank we for your service" as well as afterwards STFUP.
Robert
May 4th, 2010 at 8:26 am
back up buddy!! a fight was not meant to be won, it was a approach for a lot of american commercial operation to have a lot of income w/ remunerative contracts, dow, kinship carbide, bell, g.e. between a couple of which prospered in an unwinable war. it is really ddisrespectful as well as un american to tag a single bend of a armed forces for not attaining a unattainable, we owe a Marines an apology!!!!
LYNN in FL (suspended @#*%)
May 4th, 2010 at 8:26 am
Do we need the longer paddle to stir which pot of shyte with?
Mujer Alta
May 4th, 2010 at 8:26 am
The Marines – as well as soldiers as well as sailors – you knew were jubliant as well as so was most of a rest of America. you was operative in Honolulu during a time as well as you went out to applaud as well as all a road house bars were full of troops crew (Hawaii was a large R&R station) celebrating, too. It was a good night! The usually unhappy thing was which if it had happened 7 years progressing you wouldn’t have had to cover up a Marines you knew as well as loved. There have been substantially a little hard-core enlisted – a guys for whom being "in a war" was a prominence of their differently lifeless lives – who still wish to go behind as well as have things right…. though there can’t be most of them.
mj
May 4th, 2010 at 8:26 am
Is was not a make a difference of a Marines using divided or as Chriz ignorantly put it as a Army was a bend who ran since his Daddy was a Marine. It was since a supervision of a US during a time motionless to lift from a segment since of an complete failure of who as well as who were not a enemy. Sadly you sense zero from a past since a corporate machines in America as well as a misled hazard of communism/ condense racism sacrificed most excellent group as well as women from all Branches who believed which they were you do there avocation only as a prior era ( their relatives ) who released Europe as well as saved as most Jews as they could form a Holocaust of a Nazi Regime. These group as well as women should regularly be thanked no make a difference what day of a freaking year it is. It was a tough time for any people in which time in story no make a difference either a were for it or opposite it.
John H
May 4th, 2010 at 8:26 am
STFU as well as blow divided in a wind.
The fight for a U.S. finished dual years prior to when a infantry came home as well as left a fight up to a South Vietnamese. It was theirs to win or remove not ours.
The usually Marines left were a embassy ensure as well as they left when a embassy was systematic evacuated. There was zero left for them to guard.
If you had been ALLOWED to win by a politicians you WOULD have won.
rick m
May 4th, 2010 at 8:26 am
As the alternative print said, "thanks for your use to the country.
BTW: I’m the former Marine as well as we live in Ben Tre, Viet Nam. Why do not we come over for the visit, I’d similar to to give we the nice, large beating.
charles.young580
May 4th, 2010 at 8:26 am
I served in Vietnam. A elementary " Thank You", equates to the lot.
Robert
May 4th, 2010 at 8:26 am
Nothing though "Shit Happens"!
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