Thursday, April 30, 2015

"The valiant taste of death but once."

Tinker

Remember how our American leaders let down our soldiers losing the war in Vietnam because they quit on them. Our solders had the war won, but the fool peace nicks who were running away from fighting for justice in Vietnam quit on the men and women who were brave enough to keep carrying the mantle of American freedom and social justice.

It was the Halls of the Ivy League, Media, and the cowards dodging the draft who used the weak American politicians, that lost the war in Vietnam.
And has been so justly recorded in the history book of our human history.

"Cowards die many times before their death, but the valiant taste of death but once."
--------------



  • South Vietnamese troops, one with a bugle strapped to his pack, line up to board CH-21 “Flying Banana” helicopters, March 1963.
  • Buddhist monk Thich Quang Duc is doused with gasoline during a protest demonstration in Saigon, June 11, 1963. The monk then struck a match, set fire to his gas-soaked garments and died, in protest of alleged government persecutions of Buddhists.
  • Flying at dawn, just over the jungle foliage, U.S. C-123 aircraft spray concentrated defoliant along power lines running between Saigon and Dalat in South Vietnam, early in August 1963. The planes were flying about 130 miles per hour over steep, hilly terrain, much of it believed infiltrated by the Viet Cong.
  • A contingent of the Royal Australian Air Force arrives at Tan Son Nhut Airport, Saigon, to work with the South Vietnamese and U.S. Air Forces in transporting soldiers and supplies to combat areas in South Vietnam. August 10, 1964. | Location: Tan Son Nhut Airport, Saigon, South Vietnam.
  • The sun breaks through the dense jungle foliage around the embattled town of Binh Gia, 40 miles east of Saigon, in early January 1965, as South Vietnamese troops, apparently joined by U.S. advisers, rest after a cold, damp and tense night of waiting in an ambush position for a Viet Cong attack that didn't come. One hour later, as the possibility of an overnight attack by the Viet Cong disappeared, the troops moved out for another long, hot day hunting the elusive communist guerrillas in the jungles.
  • Hovering U.S. Army helicopters pour machine gun fire into the tree line to cover the advance of South Vietnamese ground troops in an attack on a Viet Cong camp 18 miles north of Tay Ninh, northwest of Saigon near the Cambodian border, in March 1965 during the Vietnam War.
  • An unidentified U.S. Army personnel wears a hand lettered "War Is Hell" slogan on his helmet, June 18, 1965, during the Vietnam War. He was with the 173rd Airborne Brigade Battalion on defense duty at Phouc Vinh airstrip in South Vietnam.
  • 9/13/1965- Qui Nhon, South Vietnam - Guitar slung over his shoulder, a trooper of the United States 1st Calvalry walks ashore from a landing craft. More than 2,500 Cavalrymen arrived here 9/13, bringing the total of the Army's First Airmobile Division up to 16,000 men.
  • Paratroopers of the U.S. 2nd Battalion, 173rd Airborne Brigade hold their automatic weapons above water as they cross a river in the rain during a search for Viet Cong positions in the jungle area of Ben Cat, South Vietnam, Sept. 25, 1965. The paratroopers had been searching the area for 12 days with no enemy contact.
  • Associated Press photographer Huynh Thanh My covers a Vietnamese battalion pinned down in a Mekong Delta rice paddy about a month before he was killed in combat on Oct. 10, 1965.
  • Berkeley-Oakland City, Calif., demonstrators march against the war in Vietnam, December 1965.
  • U.S. soldiers hold a memorial service for seven men of the U.S. 101st Airborne Brigade in a clearing near a former French rubber plantation in Lai Khe, Vietnam, December 17, 1965.  The deceased men's boots, helmets and M16 rifles are set up with a field altar.  The seven paratroopers were killed in action during a search-and-destroy mission against the Viet Cong in the jungles and plantation areas of Lai Khe, about 40 miles north of Saigon, during the Vietnam War.
  • Actress Carroll Baker snaps her fingers at sailors cheering from bridge of aircraft carrier USS Ticonderoga as Bob Hope leads her across stage set up on flight deck.  More than 2,500 sailors saw the Hope troupe's show on the carrier off the coast of Vietnam December 27, 1965.
  • Two South Vietnamese children gaze at an American paratrooper holding an M79 grenade launcher as they cling to their mothers who huddle against a canal bank for protection from Viet Cong sniper fire in the Bao Trai area, 20 miles west of Saigon, Jan. 1, 1966.  The 173rd Airborne brigade was making a sweep in Bao Trai area to round up Viet Cong suspects.  The farmers and their families were rounded up by combined Vietnamese, American and Australian battalions in area long held by Viet Cong.
  • US Marines carry their weapons even to take a bath which is where they are headed near their camp in Chu Lai, Vietnam on Jan. 16, 1966.
  • A napalm strike erupts in a fireball near U.S. troops on patrol in South Vietnam, 1966 during the Vietnam War.
  • Water-filled bomb craters from B-52 strikes against the Viet Cong mark the rice paddies and orchards west of Saigon, Vietnam, 1966.  Most of the area has been abandoned by the peasants who used to farm on the land.
  • American soldiers listening to a radio broadcast in Vietnam during the war in 1966.
  • A peaceful anti-Vietnam War demonstrator holds up a flower to armed soldiers protecting the perimeter of the Pentagon. - photographed: 1968
  • Pfc. Lacey Skinner of Birmingham, Ala., crawls through the mud of a rice paddy against heavy Viet Cong fire near An Thi in South Vietnam, as troops of the U.S. 1st Cavalry Division engaged in a fierce 24-hour battle with the enemy along the central coast, Jan. 28 and Jan. 29, 1966.
  • A helicopter lifts a wounded American soldier on a stretcher during Operation Silver City in Vietnam, March 13, 1966.
  • PFC Richie sniffs at the delicate perfume of a girl far away as he opens a letter April 12, 1966 from his girlfriend in Jay, Oklahoma. Mail call is held daily and letters are a welcome interlude in the daily grind of events in Vietnam.
  • A Vietnamese mother and her children are framed by the legs of a soldier from the U.S. First Cavalry Division in Bong Son, Vietnam, September 28, 1966.
  • A crowd of American soldiers swarm around U.S. President Johnson on Oct. 26, 1966 shortly after his arrival at Cam Rahn Bay in South Vietnam visiting troops during the war.
  • U.S. trooops of the 7th. and 9th. divisions wade through marshland during a joint operation on South Vietnam's Mekong Delta, April 1967.
  • A wounded U.S. soldier of the 1st Infantry Division, 26th Infantry Regiment, 1st Battalion, receives first aid after being rescued from a jungle battlefield south of the Cambodian border in Vietnam's war zone C, April 2, 1967. A reconnaissance platoon ran into enemy bunkers, and their recuers were pinned down for four hours in fighting that left 7 U.S. dead and 42 wounded.
  • Defense Secretary McNamara and Gen. William Westmoreland, commander U.S. Forces in Vietnam, sit with muffler type radio earphones as they ride in helicopter toward the DMZ on McNamara's first field trip during his current visit to Vietnam, July 10, 1967.
  • The address is muddy bunker and the mailman wears a flak vest as CPL. Jesse D. Hittson of Levelland, Texas, reaches out for his mail at the U.S. Marine Con Thien outpost two miles south of the demilitarized zone in South Vietnam on Oct. 4, 1967.
  • A U.S. 1st Air Cavalry Division soldier throws a rice basket into flames after a peasant woman retrieved it from the burning house in background.  American troops destroyed everything of value to the enemy after overrunning the village near Tam Ky, 350 miles northeast of Saigon, during the Vietnam War on Oct. 27, 1967.
  • A U.S. air cavalryman lends a helping hand to an aged Vietnamese woman who grew tired as she and her neighbors were being resettled from their village to a refugee camp, Jan. 5, 1968. Other villagers had refused to assist her because, according to custom, they would then have borne responsibility for her for the remainder of her life.
  • ** EDS NOTE: GRAPHIC CONTENT ** South Vietnamese Gen. Nguyen Ngoc Loan, chief of the National Police, fires his pistol into the head of suspected Viet Cong officer Nguyen Van Lem (also known as Bay Lop) on a Saigon street Feb. 1, 1968, early in the Tet Offensive.
  • As fellow troopers aid wounded comrades, the first sergeant of A Company, 101st Airborne Division, guides a medevac helicopter through the jungle foliage to pick up casualties suffered during a five-day patrol near Hue, April 1968.
  • President Lyndon B. Johnson receives word that North Vietnam is willing to negotiate on April 3, 1968
  • Refugees fleeing their burning homes in Saigon in May 9, 1968
  • ---------------

No comments:

Post a Comment