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REMEMBERTHESEBRAVE
MEN AND WOMEN
THE GREAT DEFENDERS
YES, SOME WENT
ANYWAY
War\woer\n, 1 a (1) a state of open and declaredhostile conflict between states or nations
Webster’s 9th Collegiate Dictionary
IN WHICH MEN AND WOMEN GET KILLED OR WOUNDED
VIETNAM
THERE HAS NOT BEEN ONE DAY
SINCE DECEMBER
1968 THAT I
HAVE NOT THOUGHT
ABOUT MY TIME
IN VIETNAM
NO T
ONE
A NOTE FROM A DEAR FRIEND
N O T ONE
TheCold War
The Cold War – Pre Vietnam
1948 - Communist Russia attempts to starve 2.5 million in Berlin Germany
1948 - US and Great Britain respond with Berlin Airlift
1949 - USSR detonates ATOMIC DEVICE US & USSR NUCLEAR EQUALS
1949 - China falls to Mao Tse-Tung/communists & recognized by USSR
1950 - North Korea, supported by Communist China invades South Korea
US leads United Nations’ forces in response STALEMATESTALEMATE
1956 - Russian installed government is ousted in Hungarian rebellion The Soviets respond and CRUSHCRUSH the rebellion in response
1957 - SPUTINK launched by The SovietS THE HIGH GROUND OF SPACETHE HIGH GROUND OF SPACE
1959 - Castro overthrows Cuba - CommunismCommunism now 90 miles from US
1961 - East Germany, puppet government of USSR erects The Berlin Wall
1961 - Bay of Pigs = Covert US led overthrow of Castro FAILUREFAILURE
1962 - The Cuban Missile Crisis
SUPER POWER CONFRONTATION OF GREATEST MAGNATUDESUPER POWER CONFRONTATION OF GREATEST MAGNATUDE
WHY??
BAY OF PIGS
SPUTNIK
SOVIET UNION - RUSSIA
CUBAN MISSILE CRISIS
WHO IS THIS MAN?
NIKITA KHRUSHCHEV
PREMIER OF
THE SOVIET UNION
SPUTNIK
THE SOVIET UNION IN SPACE
OCTOBER
4
1
9
5
7
AS CHILDREN, WE PERFORMED AIR RAID
DRILLS
DRAWING THE BLINDS INOUR CLASSROOMS
HIDING UNDER OUR DESKS FOR
PROTECTIONFROM RUSSIAN
NUCLEAR ATTACK
DO YOU KNOW
THIS MAN?
FIDEL CASTROCUBAN REVOLUTIONARY
FIDEL CASTRO
SHOWN HERE WITH FELLOW REVOLUTIONARY
CHE’ GUEVARRA
OVERTHROWS THE SMALL ISLAND
NATION OF CUBA.
A MERE 90 MILES FROM???
1959
U.S. CIA leads exiled Cubans in an attempt to overthrow the new Castro regime. The plot fails and The U. S. and its President, John F. Kennedy
are severely embarrassed.
Cuba, 90 miles from the United States, is now ripe for Communist
cultivation.
THE BAY OF PIGS INVASION
1961
REMEMBER THIS GUY?KHRUSHCHEV OF THE SOVIET
UNION
REMEMBER THIS GUY?CASTRO OF CUBA
1962
1. High altitude surveillance shows missile sites on the island of CUBA
2. Airplanes photograph missiles on Russian ships bound for CUBA
3. US Naval vessel observes Russian ship carrying missiles to CUBA
WHERE COULD THOSE MISSILES GO?
“Nuclear catastrophe was hanging by a thread..and we weren’t counting days or hours, but MINUTES.”
Soviet GeneralAnatoly GribkovArmy Chief ofOperations
PRINCETONNEW JERSEY
AND THAT HAS WHATWHAT TO DO WITH
Vietnam ?
NORTH VIETNAMWAS COMMUNISTAND SUPPORTED
BY
RUSSIA AND
CHINABOTH COMMUNIST
COUNTRIES
DeMilitarized ZoneTHE 17TH PARALLEL
THE REPUBLIC OF VIETNAM (SOUTH
VIETNAM) SOUGHT TO BE A
FREE AND DEMOCRATIC
SOCIETY
Geneva agreementsof July 20, 1954
SO WHY WOULD A YOUNG GUY LIKE ME
19 YEARS OLD
ENLIST IN
THE UNITED STATES MARINE CORPS
?
WAR IS AN UGLY THING, BUT NOT THE UGLIEST OF THINGS. THE DECAYED AND DEGRADED STATE OF MORAL AND PATRIOTIC FEELING
WHICH THINKS THAT NOTHING IS WORTH WAR IS MUCH WORSE.
(regarding the U.S. Civil War) John Stuart Mill
“THE ONLY THING NECESSARY FOR THE TRIUMPH OF EVIL, IS FOR GOOD MEN TO DO NOTHING.”
(regarding the American Revolution attributed to) Edmund Burke
“WE HOLD THESE TRUTHS TO BE SELF EVIDENT, THAT ALL MEN ARECREATED EQUAL, THAT THEY ARE ENDOWED BY THEIR CREATORWITH CERTAIN UNALIENABLE RIGHTS, THAT AMONG THESE ARE
LIFE, LIBERTY AND THE PURSUIT OF HAPPINESS….
THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE
THATWHENEVER ANY GOVERNMENT BECOMES DESTRUCTIVE TO THESE ENDS, IT IS THE RIGHT OF THE PEOPLE TO ALTER OR ABOLISH IT.”
BUT MOSTLY FOR THESE REASONS
FEBRUARY 4, 2002
SOME THINGS JUST NEVER NEVER NEVER CHANGE
INTERESTING
MY TOUR OF DUTY
VIETNAM
NOVEMBER 1967 - DECEMBER 1968
12 MONTHS 20 DAYS 2 MINUTES 9 SECONDS
THE MEN OF 1ST ENGINEER BATTALIONRELAXING AT “CHINA BEACH”
THE GUYS OF 1ST MARINE DIVISIONLANDMINE WARFARE SCHOOL
TEACH OTHER MARINES HOW TO STAY ALIVE
REMEMBER THIS SHAPE
WE’LL SEE ITAGAIN
VIET CONG WEAPONS
AND THESE SHAPES
VIET CONG WEAPONS
TEACHING MARINES TO HELP LOCAL VILLAGERS
BATTALION LANDING TEAM 2/26
IN PREPARATION FOR OPERATION “MEADE RIVER”
BATTALION LANDING TEAM 2/26
BATTALION LANDING TEAM 2/26
BATTALION LANDING TEAM 2/26
___ _
YOU ARE NOW ABOUT TO
ENJOYA TYPICALWEEK IN THE LIFE
OF A COMBAT ENGINEER
IN
VietnamGooooOD LUCK!!
DEPART THE REAR AREA OF DANANG AND TRAVEL NORTHWEST TO……
… AN AIR STRIP AT PHU BAI SLIGHTLY SOUTH OF HUE CITY AND THEN TRAVEL BY CHOPPER
NORTHWEST TO….
Hill – 146, OVERLOOKING A BEAUTIFUL VALLEY
FIND A PLACE TO LIVE………THIS COMFORTABLY ACCOMODATES 3…..
MEET YOUR NEW ROOMATES AND GRAB SOME DELICIOUS CHOW
AND GET DRESSED AND READY TO GO TO WORK
MEET MY GIRLFRIEND
F A E
FUEL AIR EXPLOSIVE
ME AND FAE
FAE IS UP THERE IN THE JUNGLE
AND FAE CAN BE DANGEROUS IN THE JUNGLE
A SHORT BREAK IN THE ACTION
AND GUESS WHAT WE FOUND
REMEMBER
THESE??
WELL THIS IS THE REAL THING
THE
RESULTS
BACKTO
THE HILL
TAKE A WELL DESERVED BREAK
GRAB
A
BOX
OF
CHOW
SOMETHING WITH
WHICH TO COOK
AND EATAND EAT
B-1 UnitsMeat Choices (in small cans): Beef Steak Ham and Eggs, Chopped Ham Slices Turkey Loaf Fruit: Applesauce Fruit Cocktail Peaches Pears Crackers (7) Peanut Butter Candy Disc, Chocolate Solid Chocolate Cream Coconut Accessory Pack*
B-2 UnitsMeat Choices (in larger cans): Beans and Wieners Spaghetti and Meatballs Beefsteak, Potatoes and Gravy
Ham and Lima Beans Meatballs and Beans Crackers (4) Cheese Spread, Processed Caraway Pimento Fruit Cake Pecan Roll Pound Cake Accessory Pack*
B-3 UnitsMeat Choices (in small cans): Boned Chicken Chicken and Noodles Meat Loaf Spiced Beef Bread, White Cookies (4) Cocoa Beverage Powder Jam Apple Berry Grape Mixed Fruit Strawberry Accessory Pack*
HILL 146 WAS VERY REMOTE AND SUPPLIES HAD TO BE CHOPPERED IN
REINFORCED BUNKERS PROVIDED PROTECTION
SNIPERS WOULD FIRE ON ENEMY TROOPS
WORK DONE, IT IS TIME TO LEAVE HILL 146
R + R
IN
HAWA I I
I GOT TO MEET 2 HIPPIE CHICKS!!
THEY SOLD
ME A
POSTER
MUCH HAS BEEN SAID ABOUT THE HIPPIES OR YIPPIES IN THE 60S
FREE LOVE
FREE SPIRITS
TURNED ON
TUNED OUT
FLOWER POWER
SEX DRUGS ROCK & ROLL
THEY WERETHEY WERECOMMITTED TOCOMMITTED TO
THEY TRAVELLED TOPLACES LIKEWOODSTOCK
IN GAILY DECORATED BUSES
WHILE OTHERS TRAVELLED FROM PLACES LIKE HUE CITY
SO, WHO WASCOMMITTED?
?
Colonel Bui Tin, formerly of the North Vietnamese General Staff Was interviewed by Stephen Young for an article to appear in the August 3rd 1995 Wall Street Journal.
Q. What about the results (of the 1968 Tet Offensive)?
A: Our losses were staggering and a complete surprise. (General) Giap (North Vietnam’s leading General and war strategist) later told me that Tet had been a military defeat, though we had gained the planned political advantages when Johnson agreed to negotiate and did not run for re-election.
Q. Was the American antiwar movement important to Hanoi's victory?
A. It was essential to our strategy. Every day our leadership would listen to world news over the radio at 9 a.m. to follow the growth of the American antiwar movement. Visits to Hanoi by people like Jane Fonda, and former Attorney General Ramsey Clark … gave us confidence that we should hold on in the face of battlefield reverses. We were elated when Jane Fonda, … said at a press conference that she was ashamed of American actions in the war and that she would struggle along with us.
GOT MY ORDERS
GOT MYFREEDOM BIRD
GOT MY TICKETFROM LA TO
PHILA
BUT NOT EVERYONE
WAS AS
FORTUNATEFORTUNATEAS
I WAS
58,260…only the dead know the end of war…Plato
Forever Twenty Three
RICH SCOTT
Photo by Evan Scott
I HAVE WORN YOUR BRACLET FOR MORE THAN 30 YEARS
IN THE HOPE THAT YOU WOULD RETURN
IT WAS NOT TO BE
THE YOUNGSTERS WHO HAVE SIGNED THISKNOW WHO YOU WERE,
WHAT YOU DID AND HOW COURAGEOUS
YOU WERE
THANK YOU
LOST 3 JUNE, 1967
REMAINS RETURNED
8 September, 2000
KILLED IN ACTION -- BODY NOT RECOVERED
SGT TIMOTHY R. BODDENPANEL 21 EAST LINE 42
1150NAMES APPEAR
WITH A +THEY
WERE MIA
OR PRISONERS AT WAR’S
END
THOSE LATER
FOUND TO BE DEAD
WILL APPEAR
+
PRISONER OF WAR MISSING IN ACTION
THE MYTHS OF VIETNAM
TOOK OUR YOUTH
OLDEST KIA = 62 22 52 YEAR OLDS OLDEST KIA = 62 22 52 YEAR OLDS
11% kia = 32 + YEARS AVG AGE KIA = 23 11% kia = 32 + YEARS AVG AGE KIA = 23
ONLY 101 18 YEAR OLDS = KIAONLY 101 18 YEAR OLDS = KIA
TOOK OUR UNEDUCATED
MEDIAN SCHOOLING = 13 YRS 80% HS GRADSMEDIAN SCHOOLING = 13 YRS 80% HS GRADS
VS 45% WW II VS 45% WW II ONLY 60% IN USA IN TOTALONLY 60% IN USA IN TOTAL
3 X THE NUMBER OF COLLEGE GRADS IN WWII3 X THE NUMBER OF COLLEGE GRADS IN WWII
THE DRAFT 33% 33% VSVS 67% IN WW11 77% KIA = VOLUNTEER 67% IN WW11 77% KIA = VOLUNTEER
PREYED ON MINORITIES
5% KIA = HISPANIC < % DRAFT AGE POP5% KIA = HISPANIC < % DRAFT AGE POP
12.5% Kia = black < % DRAFT AGE POP12.5% Kia = black < % DRAFT AGE POP
YES MS. BAEZ, PERHAPS YOU COULD HAVE BETTER CONTRIBUTED
INSTEAD YOU AND YOUR KIND DETRACTED, DISGRACED, DEMEANED AND VILLIFIED THOSE WITH THE COURAGE TO MAKE A DIFFERENCE.
REMEMBERTHESEBRAVE
MEN AND WOMEN
THE GREAT DEFENDERS
War\woer\n, 1 a (1) a state of open and declaredhostile conflict between states or nations
Webster’s 9th Collegiate Dictionary
IN WHICH MEN AND WOMEN GET WOUNDED AND KILLED
PRACTICAL APPLICATION
VIETNAM
VIETNAM
WAS
THE
60s
WAR IS AN UGLY THING, BUT NOT THE UGLIEST OF THINGS. THE DECAYED AND DEGRADED STATE OF MORAL AND PATRIOTIC FEELING
WHICH THINKS THAT NOTHING IS WORTH WAR IS MUCH WORSE.
John Stuart Mill
“THE ONLY THING NECESSARY FOR THE TRIUMPH OF EVIL, IS FOR GOOD MEN TO DO NOTHING.”
Edmund Burke
“WE HOLD THESE TRUTHS TO BE SELF EVIDENT, THAT ALL MEN ARECREATED EQUAL, THAT THEY ARE ENDOWED BY THEIR CREATORWITH CERTAIN UNALIENABLE RIGHTS, THAT AMONG THESE ARE
LIFE, LIBERTY AND THE PURSUIT OF HAPPINESS….THAT WHENEVERANY GOVERNMENT BECOMES DESTRUCTIVE TO THESE ENDS, IT IS
THE RIGHT OF THE PEOPLE TO ALTER OR ABOLISH IT.”
THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE
BUT NOT EVERYONE
WAS AS FORTUNATE FORTUNATE AS
I WAS
58,260…only the dead know the end of war…Plato
Forever Twenty Three
LOST3 JUNE, 1967
REMAINS RETURNED
8 SEPTEMBER, 2000
KILLED IN ACTION – BODY NOT RECOVERED
SGT TIMOTHY R. BODDENPANEL 21 EAST LINE 42
1150NAMES APPEAR
WITH A +THEY
WERE MIA
OR PRISONERS AT WAR’S
END
THOSE LATER
FOUND TO BE DEAD
WILL APPEAR
+
PRISONER OF WAR MISSING IN ACTION
REMEMBERTHESEBRAVE
MEN AND WOMEN
THE GREAT DEFENDERS
VIETNAM
WAS
THE
60s
YES, SOME WENT
ANYWAY