Footnote has taken the initiative to digitize all 58,256 names inscribed into the Vietnam War Memorial. It has also correlated them with military personnel records from the National Archives and made this information searchable from within an interactive Flash application.
On March 15, 1973, John McCain was released from a North Vietnamese prison camp the Americans called the Hanoi Hilton. He was held for 5 1/2 years as a prisoner of war and released 35 years ago today.
The video is called Journey to Freedom.
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Sphere: Related ContentIn the early morning hours of Friday, November 5, 1965 the 173D Airborne Brigade began conducting Operation HUMP. They entered War Zone “D” in the Republic of Vietnam. The operation lasted from November 5 - 9 1965.
On the 8th of November 1965, beneath the thick triple canopies of the jungle, the Battle for Hill 65 began. Twelve-hundred Vietcong overran a unit of 30 Americans. As is the nature of courage other units went to their aid, towards the sound of the fire fight, and the fight was on. Forty-eight Americans lost their lives on that hill that day.
He was dropped in the jungle
Where the choppers would rumble
With the smell of napalm in the air.
And the sergeant said, “Look up ahead”
Like a dark, evil cloud
1,200 came down
on him and 29 more.
They fought for their lives
But most of them died
In the 173rd Airborne.
(Chorus)
On the 8th of November,
The angels were crying
As they carried his brothers away.
With the fire raining down
And the Hell all around
There were few men left standing that day.
Saw the eagle fly,
Through a clear, blue sky
1965, the 8th of November.
Now he’s fifty-eight
And his ponytail’s grey
But the battle still plays in his head.
He limps when he walks,
But he’s strong when he talks
About the shrapnel they left in his leg.
He puts on a grey suit
Over his Airborne tattoo
And He ties it on one time a year
And remembers the fallen,
As he orders a tall one
And swallows it down with his tears.
(Chorus)
On the 8th of November,
The angels were crying
As they carried his brothers away.
With the fire raining down
And the Hell all around
There were few men left standing that day.
Saw the eagle fly,
Through a clear, blue sky
1965, the 8th of November.
Saw the eagle fly,
Through a clear, blue sky
1965.
(Chorus)
On the 8th of November,
The angels were crying
As they carried his brothers away.
With the fire raining down
And the Hell all around
There were few men left standing that day.
(Chorus)
On the 8th of November,
The angels were crying
As they carried his brothers away.
With the fire raining down
And the Hell all around,
There were few men left standing that day.
Saw the eagle fly,
Through a clear, blue sky
1965, the 8th of November.
The 8th of November
The 8th of November
He said goodbye to his mamma
As he left South Dakota
To fight for the Red, White, and Blue.
He was nineteen and green with a new M-16
Just doing what he had to do.
More of the story of these American Heroes.
First hand account of the battle.
Southern Sass on Crime wrote about this in November 2006. It’s a great post - go read it ….
I don’t know that I’ve ever dealt with the feelings I have about my own generation. I do know people in my age range, that are currently holding their breath, as am I, until this current *war* is over. We don’t want to see our Military ever go through what this ungrateful nation put them through during and after Viet Nam. Even the flower power, anti-war crowd from then, does not want this to happen.
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Thousands followed the Silly Cindy Shenanigans to Washington D.C. to re-enact a ‘Hippies Trying to Relive Their Youth’ march commemorating a march they did in the 1960s. It was basically a bunch of 60 year olds reliving the 1960s. Same thing another day.
From all the news reports one would think that the big news event of the day was that a hand full of old hippies had gathered to march to the Pentagon in remembrance of their power in the 1960s to politically force the United States to surrender to the communist North Vietnamese resulting in the executions of 3 million who had worked with and fought with the Americans to save their own country, the humiliation of the United States and the resulting decades of empowerment for the enemies of the United States.
That is certainly all I heard about on the news. My local news didn’t even MENTION that there was a counter protest by Patriots. The national news mentioned it, sometimes. But I never saw any pictures or hear anything at all about the Patriots.
The media did their best to give a positive spin to the little flower children. I repeatedly heard that they were disappointed in the turn out, but then it was cold, they said. I thought, IT’S COLD??? My son is patrolling the streets of Baghdad in mud, sand, and human excrement with Iranian and al-Qaeda snipers taking pot shots at him and they are so pampered they are worrying about getting too COLD?? What kind of protesters ARE these? They must not believe very strongly in their cause. Then I saw a blurb on St. Patrick’s Day parades. They were very well attended - cold or not. So it wasn’t about the cold.
The media did a lot of close framed shots so the crowd looked bigger than it was. They talked about thousands of people rather than 10s of thousands. They kept showing and interviewing the same handful of people.
What I found particularly interesting, was that the main stream media completely ignored the REAL story about the opposing protests in Washington D.C. on March 17, 2007.
The real story was on the other side of the street. It was the 30,000 American Patriots who came to Washington D.C. to protect the monuments the anti-war protesters were rumored to plan on defiling. In particular the Vietnam Memorial.
The little anti-war people planned on starting their little march at the Vietnam Memorial. Most of us thought they have done enough against the Vietnam Veterans. Enough. The Vietnam Veterans deserve to not have these people, the same people who contributed to the horrors of that war, soil the memorial that stands in honor of the 58,000 who gave their lives in that war. It is sacred ground and the anti-war people should not step foot there. EVER.
There was a cross country caravan. It started on the west coast and worked it’s way across the country. The 30,000 came from all over the country to stand between the protesters and the Vietnam Memorial. The message is crystal clear. They have the right to do their little march, but Patriots have the right to protect the honor and memory of those who died in battle for our country.
And so, there was a DMZ zone in D.C. as seejanemom notes in the photo she took below. The media ignored the 30,000 and focused on the 5,000. That’s sad because those who don’t pay that close attention will never know what 30,000 fellow Americans did for our country. They’ll just hear the paranoid insane ramblings of a very troubled Cindy Sheehan.
What really matters though is that the anti-war protesters did not start their march at the Vietnam Memorial. They decided that wasn’t such a good idea after all. I’m sure their change of plans had nothing to do with the Gathering of Eagles who stood between them and the memorial!!
What really matters is that Americans in fly-over country cared enough to travel long distances, were willing to stand in the cold and protected the memorials from desecration. The media likes to tell the world what most Americans think and feel. Middle Americans stood up on Saturday and told the world that the leftists and the media don’t have a clue how we think and feel.
Find a first hand account and more pictures at seejanemom.
Ol’ Broad noticed a little media bias herself. She has a great example.
American and Proud has some great pics and first hand account. So does Always on Watch Two and the Gates of Vienna (thanks for the link Ol’ Broad!).
Flopping Aces has a great round-up as usual! He’s got updates from throughout the day. I LOVE the pics!
UPDATE: The Washington Post has an article on the Veterans, military families and others who countered the anti-war protesters. The ‘tolerant left’ protesters called them hooligans. HOOLIGANS!!! ROFL
“Bunch of hooligans in motorcycle jackets!”
7.62mm Justice was there too. I think he was one of those hooligans! HEH!
I’ve shameless taken some photos from Theodore’s World to post here. She has more photos and an article from the Canada Free Press.
When history is written, March 17th, 2007 will at long last eclipse March 17, 1967, as the day when soldiers in faraway Iraq and Afghanistan knew for certain, no matter what real time saw them doing, love and respect await their safe return. The day when it was proven to a watching world that Washington war memorials stand for what they always stood for, time immemorial, the day when the graves of fallen American soldiers the world were warmer.
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On March 17th the leftist traitors are planning a protest march starting at the Vietnam Memorial Wall and ending at the Pentagon. They are protesting the Battle of Iraq, of course, and planning this march on the 4th anniversary of the beginning of the United States answering jihadist aggression in the Iraq theater of the Global War on Terror.
The usual suspects are planning on desecrating the Vietnam Wall Memorial by beginning their protest there. It is their hope to ONCE AGAIN USE the Vietnam War and the HONOR of those who DIED there as fodder to promote themselves, further their own pet agendas and for propaganda.
Hanoi Jane Fonda, Cindy Shenanigans Sheehan, Ramsey ’show me the money’ Clark, Ed ‘this is the only way I can get in front of a camera’ Asner and others cut from the same cloth will celebrate themselves by desecrating a monument built to honor our war dead.
It is despicable. Haven’t they done enough to harm our veterans? Didn’t they already cause enough pain and loss to the veterans of the Vietnam War?
A Gathering of Eagles is planning to counter the protest. The purpose of the counter protest is to protect the dignity of the SACRED GROUND that HONORS those fallen in combat for the PROTECTION of the American way of life from the self-centered, short-sighted, narcissistic, ego-driven, media hungry ‘celebrities’ who would use that place, those men AGAIN.
It is my sincerest hope that we will not let those people continue to drag America down and dishonor our Soldiers to further their own delusions of grandeur. It is my hope that so many of us will be there to prevent them from soiling that place of honor that they will decide their hijinks are not worth their effort after all. As a commenter TomR said at the PC Free Zone:
I hope the Gathering of Eagles grows to such proportions, that the Fonda/Sheehan bunch will turn their veggie powered buses around and chug off into oblivion.
If you want to attend and/or find out more information about the Gathering of Eagles you can go here to their website or their forum, here.
I’m working out details in hopes of being able to attend. If you can get to D.C. on the 17th - I hope to see you there. If not, send your good will and prayers. As Chrissie says, some of us can be on the field and some of us have to cheer from the stands.
The question really is, what are we willing to do to help our country and save ourselves from the division that is making us appear weak to our enemies and friends and is causing hardships, injuries and deaths of our Soldiers.
Our Soldiers are giving their youths for this country. The least we can do is to stand up and do our part.
tiara tip: PC Free Zone and Something … and Half of Something.
MoveAmericaForward.org is planning a cross-country caravan. Get the details here.
Helping spread the word …. Old War Dogs, Yankee Mom, High Desert Wanderer, Michelle Malkin
Quote from Conservative Insurgent
Sphere: Related ContentLast, but by no means least, courage–moral courage, the courage of one’s convictions, the courage to see things through. The world is in a constant conspiracy against the brave. It’s the age-old struggle–the roar of the crowd on one side and the voice of your conscience on the other.
–Douglas MacArthur.
MAJ Bruce P. Crandall will receive the Medal of Honor during a White House ceremony February 26, 2007 for his heroic actions in the Battle of Ia Drang.
A Company, 1, 229th Assault Helicopter Battalion, 1st Cavalry Division (Airmobile)
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Not much has changed for JANE FONDA …..
She shows her true anti-American, traitorous colors again today in a pathetically attended ‘peace rally’ in Washington. The attendance was primarily 60-somethings reliving the 1960s. People who had one claim to fame and now want to get in front of the cameras again in what they THINK is a welcoming climate for sedition and treason.
WRONG!!!!
The democrats didn’t win the House and Senate because Americans want to retreat and lose the war. The democrats got into office because the American people want our leadership to show a scintilla of GUTS AND COURAGE!!
WE ARE SICK of PUSSY-FOOTING around and politicians who can’t take a stand on ANYTHING and who USE OUR SOLDIERS for their own POLITICAL GAIN.
Now, these ignorant hollywood elitists think they have an audience for their worn out slogans and sayings.
Read what this vermin, Jane Fonda, has to say now ….
`I haven’t spoken at an anti-war rally in 34 years because of lies about me that were used to hurt the anti-war movement,” [source]
LIES???? Then it was our imagination that you recorded propaganda footage for the enemy back then? It was our imagination that you SAT on an anti-aircraft gun that was used to shoot down AMERICAN planes??? You LIED about the condition of American POWs held in Hanoi??? We just imagined all that.
You can only get away with calling everyone else a liar, Jane, when your audience is people who are living in the same delusion or a bunch of college students who don’t REMEMBER what you did!
She tells the crowd she is ’saddened that we haven’t learned from the Vietnam War’. I say to YOU JANE that it’s pretty dadgume sad that you haven’t learned how to be a decent human being and YOU are still making the same mistakes you made during the Vietnam War. You are still a traitor and you still go out of your way to do HARM to American Soldiers.
Janie makes a passing comment of ’support for the troops and the mother’s of Soldiers’. WELL - KEEP YOUR KIND OF SUPPORT TO YOURSELF. You speak of support and try to give a passing disingenuous moment of sensitivity to the feelings of Soldiers and their Mothers.
Let me tell you JANIE - I don’t want your FAKE sensitivity and concern. You aren’t a good enough actress to pull off sincerity.
YOU and all the others who repeat the mantra that they support the Troops but don’t support the mission are fools and liars. It is IMPOSSIBLE to support the Troops and not the mission. As you undermine the mission, you undermine the Troops and you get more killed. JUST LIKE YOU DID IN VIETNAM YOU PIECE OF LYING NARCISSISTIC WHITE TRASH!
Jane - you were stupid white trash then and you are stupid white trash now.
Go get your hair and nails done and leave matters of importance to people who have an IQ above room temperature.
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Israelated has a much more coherent article about this and reminds us of Jane’s semi-apology. But here she is, doing it again.
Howard County Maryland Blog wonders if John Carry will be there too?? You know, for this publicity stunt protest.
Sweetness & Light has photos and commentary. It’s funny how the SAME faces are in all these protest pictures. I feel like I’m getting to know all the Code Pink fanatics, I see them in all the pics from all these protests. Not just that - but the same people are in all the photos to show the ‘crowds’. Gee, couldn’t they have gotten different faces from the crowds?
Michelle Malkin notices how much attention this rally gets versus the TENS OF THOUSANDS of Pro-Life marchers.
Little Green Footballs has photos of the anit-war protest with the new anti-war slogan ‘Just Poop’. You figure it out.
The American Pugilist Citizen is taking notes and lessons on PR from the moonbats.
The Median Sib notices the MSM referred to the ‘peaceful protest’ that was not too peaceful with 300 rushing the Capital and scuffling with police who were trying to restrain them.
UPDATE: The best line I’ve seen in regards to the Hanoi Jane raising her nasty head again comes from Southern Sass -
I find you lower than a yeller belly suck egg dog
BWAAAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
She also starts out her post with a line from SNL, ‘Jane, you ignorant slut’. EXCELLENT! Even better, she reminds us of the facts surrounding Hanoi Jane’s treason and disgrace from the Vietnam era. Just in case someone doesn’t remember - we do have short attention spans.
More at: Wake Up America,
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John Forbes Kerry just can’t seem to get past his past. He keeps repeating his own history.
As a Vietnam Vet, Kerry met with the Vietcong in France, even while American Soldiers were serving in Vietnam. He was in France secretly wining and dining with Vietnamese Communist while real Amercian Soldiers were fighting and dying at the hands of the Vietcong. TRAITOR.
Kerry’s Trail of Treachery goes back to the very beginning of his adult life.
Photograph of John Kerry meeting with Comrade Do Muoi, General Secretary of the Communist Party of Vietnam, in Vietnam, July 15-18, 1993. Photo taken in the War Remnants Museum (formerly the “War Crimes Museum”) in Saigon in May 2004.
In 1985, during the Cold War, John Forbes Kerry and Senator Tom Harkin met with the communist radical Manuel Ortega in Nicaragua.
Secretary Shultz decried “self-appointed emissaries to the Communist regime” in Managua, and said, “We cannot conduct a successful policy when [such people] take trips or write ‘Dear Comandante’ letters with the aim of negotiating.” Henry Kissinger added, “If the Nicaraguans want to make an offer, they ought to make it through diplomatic channels. We can’t be negotiating with our own congressmen and Nicaragua simultaneously.” Senator Goldwater called the Kerry-Harkin trip just “wrong, wrong, wrong.”
In the end, the trip backfired. Not long after the senators left him, Ortega flew off to Moscow, to affirm his alliance with the Soviets. Democratic leaders — Tip O’Neill in particular — were embarrassed.
Even after Reagan’s policy in Nicaragua ended in democracy in Central America, Kerry refused to accept that his own actions against both Reagan and then Vice-President George H.W. Bush had been ill-advised.
Hmmmm … There seems to be a pattern emerging.
Fast forward to John Forbes Kerry’s recent attempts at pretending to be a stand-up comedian. He claims his critism of America and American Troops was a botched joke. No one is buying that, of course. His history tells us this is his pattern. He has repeatedly spent enormous amounts of tax dollars and time attempting to discredit every Republican president who has served while he has been in the Senate. He has inserted himself and his ego into every conflict America has had. He calls himself a multi-nationalist and has inevitably taken the side of whoever is the enemy of America.
He has never given a moments pause to criticize America, American presidents and American policies on foriegn soil and with the ememies of America.
Why should it be any different now? It isn’t.
Now he is running off to Iraq to impose himself on the already burdened American Soldiers. He’s going to fit getting a photo op with the troops in between acts of treason in the nations that are sending terrorists to fight those very same Soldiers. If he really wanted to give them something for Christmas, he would leave them alone. I sincerely hope he has trouble getting the Soldiers to pose with him.
A Gold Star Mother is urging American troops to snub Sen. John Kerry during his visit to Iraq. “I’m asking our men and women in Iraq to not allow themselves to be forced to pose with Kerry during his photo ops,” said Debra Bastian, who lost her son in Iraq in 2005.
“This man is a disgrace. He should be shunned by those serving in Iraq. He is not their friend. They [the soldiers] should not be forced to pose for pictures with Kerry the way they did when Sen. Hillary Clinton visited Iraq,” she said. [source]
The Tehran Times reports that Kerry has been busy criticizing America to Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak. Just like old times.
Senator John Kerry, visiting Egypt Thursday during a tour of the Middle East, accused the Bush administration of neglecting the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
Kerry met Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak and said they discussed Iraq as well as the Israeli-Palestinian dispute. “I have always believed that the Middle East peace process is the critical issue of the region, and it has not been focused on for the past 6-7 years adequately,” the Massachusetts Democrat told reporters after meeting Mubarak. “I think there has been a huge loss of opportunities.”
The Bush White House has reacted to Senator Kerry’s actions in much the same way the Reagan White House reacted to Kerry’s actions in the 1980s. With digust and disapproval.
The White House said Thursday that trips to Syria by U.S. lawmakers were “inappropriate,” giving a public relations victory for Damascus, which the Bush administration accuses of fueling crises in Iraq, Lebanon and the Palestinian territories.
Spokesman Tony Snow said a visit earlier this week by Sen. Bill Nelson, D-Fla. to Damascus, Kerry’s visit and others planned by Democrat Christopher Dodd and Republican Arlen Specter send a mixed message to Syria.
Obviously, for The Traitor John Forbes Kerry, it’s Anybody but Americans.
Sniper One cites the Logan Act in reference to Kerry’s seditious activities.
Other responses to Kerry’s actions: Something … and Half of Something, And Rightly So, MVRWC, Mary Katherine Ham, Op-For, Flopping Aces, Hot Air, Sister Toldjah, Demon Blog, Old War Dogs, Cop the Truth, Theodore’s World
More on Senators and Treason: MVRWC, Flopping Aces, And Rightly So, Blue Crab Blvd, Riehl World View, Hyscience, Freedom’s Zone
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My Beloved Curmudgeon has always told me that even though they fought a vicious jungle war in Vietnam, he always liked the Vietnamese people.
The picture above is from his collection.
‘Vietnam is proof that American soldiers are tough. They fought a mean, vicious jungle war with no support at all from the home front and kept it up for 10 years. It was a war where they had to literally kill the enemy by hand, one by one, by dragging them out from under the jungle bush. They only left when the politicians cut and run.’ ~Beloved Curmudgeon
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So What’s Everybody Talking About?
September 28, 2006
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Wild Thing is posting on a reunion for Vietnam era draft dodgers who re-named themselves ‘draft resisters’. The reunion is in Canada.
They seem to be working overtime to redefine their actions as something worthy of anything other than complete contempt.
In complete contrast, she has a wonderful tribute to Vietnam Vets.
Go see it!
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