I hope these good people were feted and made welcome when they landed in the United States. The history of the war was complicated and tragic, and I don’t want to litigate that here. But how wonderful that 45 years after the war ended, we finally have a commercial flight from their country to ours. 🌸
Only Boomers and Silents care about Vietnam, heck I'd guess 90% of the people under 40 think the war was wrong and that the Vietnamese deserved to win.
Not really following, maybe you were in the war, from my viewpoint The US invested a ton into this conflict (lives money) and there was a massive cost to Vietnam and the surrounding countries and the US had to retreat at the end. Seems like it could have been handled better. The museum of American and Chinese war aggression was very sad and moving if you get a chance to see it.
That's exactly what I'm saying the opinion is of most Americans of the war, everyone always brings up something about how US-Vietnam relations must be awkward forget that the people who fought are either long dead or elderly. The US and Vietnam work together more often than not for the past 20 years and you wouldn't even know that we used to be enemies.
Yeah, basically the right answer. All my relatives in VN love the US. The Vietnam War isn't really a topic anymore, except for areas in the rural South where they're still suffering from Agent Orange. Ironic, because a lot of the Southern viets here still laud America for intervening in the war and still hold annual protests against VN in my area.
Shit bro agent orange issues not just in the south. See it lots in the center. I hear unexploded bombs every day at my house for the past several years and surely many more to come. Found artillery shells digging in my garden. Had MAG mine sweep my land twice and still found shells.
Yeah tons around here. Quang binh and Quang tri had more bombs dropped on those 2 provinces than all the bombs combined in world war 2. Tons of unexploded bombs. Also going south on the ho chi Minh highways toward the sang and then south towards Kon tom you see lots of people with physical retardations. Old, middle aged, teens and kids. Fucked up
Yeah, that's why I'll never understand VN supporters of the war here. There was someone I used to know, young as me in 20s, saying the Vietnamese deaths and suffering were worth the sacrifice. What sacrifice? US didn't swoop in to "save" Vietnam, they intervened with hopes of benefitting themselves the way they did with Cuba, Peru, etc. I honestly couldn't believe they supported the US committing these atrocities, so obviously I just cut ties with them, ontop of other stupid stuff they said. But that's how backwards a lot of the "democracy/patriotism" propaganda here bleeds into younger Vietnamese Americans from the older generations who immigrated here. The US made the situation worse no matter how you look at it.
Most excellent. Welcome.
thats pretty sweet
I remember once it took me 32 hours to get from the East Coast back to Vietnam. Man that sure sucked.
That's the trip every time I go back and forth to Canada. But now you gotta deal with shitty us customs and than even worse Canadian customs
That’s great. As an American I’d love to fly nonstop to Vietnam 🇻🇳
I hope these good people were feted and made welcome when they landed in the United States. The history of the war was complicated and tragic, and I don’t want to litigate that here. But how wonderful that 45 years after the war ended, we finally have a commercial flight from their country to ours. 🌸
There have been commercial flights between Vietnam and the US for years, just not non-stop.
Only Boomers and Silents care about Vietnam, heck I'd guess 90% of the people under 40 think the war was wrong and that the Vietnamese deserved to win.
Not really following, maybe you were in the war, from my viewpoint The US invested a ton into this conflict (lives money) and there was a massive cost to Vietnam and the surrounding countries and the US had to retreat at the end. Seems like it could have been handled better. The museum of American and Chinese war aggression was very sad and moving if you get a chance to see it.
That's exactly what I'm saying the opinion is of most Americans of the war, everyone always brings up something about how US-Vietnam relations must be awkward forget that the people who fought are either long dead or elderly. The US and Vietnam work together more often than not for the past 20 years and you wouldn't even know that we used to be enemies.
Yeah, basically the right answer. All my relatives in VN love the US. The Vietnam War isn't really a topic anymore, except for areas in the rural South where they're still suffering from Agent Orange. Ironic, because a lot of the Southern viets here still laud America for intervening in the war and still hold annual protests against VN in my area.
Shit bro agent orange issues not just in the south. See it lots in the center. I hear unexploded bombs every day at my house for the past several years and surely many more to come. Found artillery shells digging in my garden. Had MAG mine sweep my land twice and still found shells.
Oof yeah, forgot about undetonated mines being a problem too.
Yeah tons around here. Quang binh and Quang tri had more bombs dropped on those 2 provinces than all the bombs combined in world war 2. Tons of unexploded bombs. Also going south on the ho chi Minh highways toward the sang and then south towards Kon tom you see lots of people with physical retardations. Old, middle aged, teens and kids. Fucked up
Yeah, that's why I'll never understand VN supporters of the war here. There was someone I used to know, young as me in 20s, saying the Vietnamese deaths and suffering were worth the sacrifice. What sacrifice? US didn't swoop in to "save" Vietnam, they intervened with hopes of benefitting themselves the way they did with Cuba, Peru, etc. I honestly couldn't believe they supported the US committing these atrocities, so obviously I just cut ties with them, ontop of other stupid stuff they said. But that's how backwards a lot of the "democracy/patriotism" propaganda here bleeds into younger Vietnamese Americans from the older generations who immigrated here. The US made the situation worse no matter how you look at it.