consumer is signed soldiering in the vietnam war. professor lair, what was the typical experience of the american soldier in the vietnam? >> guest: that is the great question to start because the american public has an assumption what it was informed by television, movies, media coverage of the war that tends to focus on the experience of the ground in the boonies in imminent danger living a life of obscurity and degradation and enduring the frequent danger and that is a powerful image and experience that many vietnam veterans have during the war but it is probably not the dominated experience of the war because by the late 1960's the united states had built an incredible logistical a apparatus to support its combat so most soldiers and the viet nam or serving in some kind of a support capacity living largely out of harm's way and as the war went on the and increasingly comfortable quote with the of life to minimize the difference between living conditions in the u.s. and conditions in the degette mom. >> how many u.s. soldiers of vie

that drug culture carried into the vietnam war. but trading was absolutely pervasive, and essentially encouraged because the u.s. military was the prayer out of. there were at times delivering beer to men in the field. it was available by the case. there was a ration program that set limits on what american soldiers could buy, but it was a shocking quantity, something like 45 cases a month was the limit and you're expected to consume what you had. there were concerns that there would create this epic blow up drunk and parties that could not be controlled. and then there were these clubs, little clubs that were started up by a unit where everyone in the unit would pony up $205 to the club going. over the course of the work the club proceeds are then reinvested in making the club nicer and nicer and nicer, so some start out and don't have running water and are just a little back room. warm beer. and then by the end they have leathers will chairs and incredibly sophisticated night clubs. live entertainment and slot machines and food. a

the latter. after he was succeeded for a war in vietnam. and even though in the latter. after he was succeeded for a war in vietnam. and even though in the latter. after he was succeeded things went much better near the end of congress and probably the people and support for the war and even when we were just given the money they were motivated to pull the plug. you asked me about the current situation. i'm not very well qualified to comment on that. you are looking at a genuine dinosaur. i occupied myself a night for 30 years thinking about the period 1962 night 1875. and while i have the general awareness that any use in this newspaper has about the situation now in iraq and afghanistan, i can't profess to any particular expertise there. i will say in the early and latter years of our involvement in iraq, we did seem to see a similar pattern in that the early commanders commanders one about the war in a way similar to what general westmoreland dead and then we change commanders general david petraeus came in and i think distributor mark abrams like understanding of the

viet has also written "steel and blood," an excellent book about armor in the vietnam war. ladies and gentlemen, colonel viet. [applause] as you know, we're going to talk today about the life ask career of general westmoreland. i warn you at the outset, this is not a happy story. but it is, i think, an important, even essential one. my contention is that unless and until we understand william westmoreland, we will never fully understand what happened to us in vietnam or why. his involvement in the vietnam war was the defining aspect of his life. he himself perceived that and was driven for the rest of his days to characterize, explain, rationalize and defend that role. his memoirs reflect the fixation in a long career totaling 36 years as an officer in a string of postings to increasingly important assignments, the four year he commanded american forces in vietnam and the aftermath constitute virtually the entirety of account. all the rest a meager tenth. understanding westmoreland is not easy. he turns out to be a surprisingly complex man. fueled by ambition, driving himsel

was born after the war in vietnam u.s. veterans found it difficult to read just for civilian life after all they've gone through in russia the show started to be talked about after its military campaigns in the ghana stand and later. remain who still lubov remembers how he was sent to change in one thousand nine hundred ninety nine here when i was a boy the focus in the city that was our first battles were of course we were scared to lose size militants were shelling us and it's also terrible to see your friends some dead others injured and crying for help now a veteran of many missions remonde says he's first but was a nightmare that will stay with him for the rest of his life likewise many veterans of the u.s. led was in iraq and afghanistan have faced significant physical emotional and fruition all these ruptures after they'd come back home or when their clash back sore or nightmares there really isn't any control or try to but there really isn't . and so here they're still shaking your your heart racing your mind is goi

the term post-traumatic stress disorder p.t.s.d. was born after good war in vietnam u.s. veterans found it difficult to read just for civilian life after all they've gone through in russia the show started to be talked about after its military complains in the ghana stand and later changed. remind the loop of remembers how you were sent to change in one thousand nine hundred ninety nine good ones were established my city that was our first battle for of course we were scattered in size militants was shouting at us and it's also terrible to see your friends some dead others injured and crying for help no one veteran of many missions remonde says he's first but it was a nightmare that will stay with him for the rest of his life likewise many veterans of the u.s. led war in iraq and afghanistan have faced significant physical emotional and ruination all these robson's after they'd come back home when their class perhaps are right there but i will miss america for we try to but there really isn't. and so here are still shaking your heart's racing your mind is going you know th

to continent number of conflicts across the world world war two the vietnam war and various military operations in all parts of the goalpost both countries thousands of missing soldiers after the iron curtain found a joint russia u.s. commission. prisoners of war and missing in action was created its primary objective is to i replied be to both russian and american servicemen as military conflicts of the past and the present. home is their welcome to the show thank you thank you very much for being with us thank you all so great to be here thank you very much great to how you are first of all i would like to ask you about the room the veterans of foreign wars association your association playing in what you call the full accounting mission it's aimed at recovering the traces of more than eighty thousand american servicemen those still missing is that true that is true well i've got to before i answer your question i would like to thank the russian government very much for appointing a co-chair recently to the u.s. russian commission for p.o.w.'s. we work together jointly and we apprec

the problems that the vietnam veteran faced with exception. more people are separating the war from the warrior and their appreciating the service that these young people have given their country yeah this was different than the oh absolutely no question about it it was a nice change i don't again i think i think so when i went when i was when i say yes propaganda i think the news media distorted a lot of the war and and people seem to. group the war and the warrior together and they blamed the war when he was doing what his country asked him to do this is this is understandable because what we remember that the vietnam war is the deer hunter the epic. movies like that but hollywood contributed to it put into the air you know you don't want to put to an end you think you know about the war right why why do we see films movies. this accountability today about the new war is going to war is different well i think the people understand maybe there's been better communication better pull bliss city but i think they seem to understand that there is

in the same four years westmoreland commanded in vietnam general johnson was the army chief of staff and early on he conducted a study, pacification and long term development of vietnam's. the study said flat out what general westmoreland is doing is not working and cannot work and the reason is it is ignoring the situation in the villages were the covert infrastructure was dominating the populace. so he said here is the real way to fight the war and this is exactly what general abrams did when he took command in the spring of 1968. he implemented the proven study which said instead of a war of attrition this has to be a war of population security. instead of search and destroy operations we will conduct clear and hold operations and the hold was provided by territorial forces of the south vietnamese given the m-16 rifle. first priority is general westmoreland would never give them and the measure of it now is not body count but population. very important and significant, i believe that by the autumn of 1966 at the latest two senior officers in charge of the forces fighting the ground

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julie banderas is live with that story. >> julie: the vietnam veterans memorial fund is asking for thes help to identify american heroes and build a collection of photographs that would make visiting the memorial even more powerful. the campaign launched this week is asking americans who lost anyone to submit pictures online or by sending a copy through u.s. mail. the idea is to show the faces and tell a personal stories of the 58,000 who lost their lives in the vietnam war. a wall that heals, is what it's called. a miniature wall started touring the country this week to collect those pictures. and it shows you just how the photographs will appear on a wall of faces to be built near the vietnam memorial next year. they will appear online and keep proper credit for people that died fighting for our freedom and never forgotten. >> and angel mendez, this is young man from manhattan who gave his life to save a fellow named castille. mr. castille is a supreme court justice for the state of pennsylvania. people like can't be forgotten. they have to be remembered. >> julie: they will celebrat

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foreign policy because public and congress was fed up with the memory of the vietnam and the possibility of anything that might resemble vietnam chapter 74, 75, 76 and the allies, cuba, for example were promoting socialist revolutions and africa parts of the world and in the political times residing foreign policy he was focused left and right attacks from the left were rising and the dictatorships and attacks from the right or not tough enough on the soviet union and that is where reagan came from 1976 the taut and sailed on the answer was to be even tougher so he got it from both directions. >> would you teach at george mason you? >> george mason politics, security, defense policy, book graduates and undergraduates. i did great work at oxford. >> or economic interests important in foreign policy? >> i think that sometimes they are over the estimated. i didn't find the major decisions belong with the narrow economic interest it's not as though they get on the phone and ask the leaders of the oil companies should we in iraq or something like men. i think the context is pretty much every

veterans of the memorial fund started a project for those who lost their life vietnam war. julie bandaras has more on the story. >> the vietnam war memorial wants to act for the men and women who lost their lives in the war. this is asking americans who lostt anyone submit picturos line by e-mail or copy through u.s. mail. >> a wall that heals. featuring and started touring to collect pictures. the photograph will appear on a wall of faces like from this animation center built near the vietnam memorial. and the photos will appear on line. it will make visiting the vietnam memorial more powerful by showing the faces and telling their story. in order to do so they need the public's help. >> call for photos is an important part of the exercise. we need 58,000 photos. we have over 22,000. important because the photos bring them alive. you can identify with them. they are just not names on a monument. these are the real people. >> new education center will celebrate the service of not just viet nam vets but all american service people going back to 1775 and irackk and afghanistan

consumerism and sold during in the vietnam war. at was the typical experience of the american soldier? >> guest: i think the american public has the assumption to be informed by television, movies and media coverage of a rifle platoon and those and limited danger living a life a of deprivation and a dead in during frequent danger. that is a powerful image and an experience that many vietnam veterans had during the war but not the experience of the war because by the 60s the united states had built an incredible apparatus to support its troops who more soldiers serving in a support capacity out of harm's way and as the war went on in jury the increasing comfortable way of life that was designed to minimize the difference between living conditions in the u.s. in the u.s. military bases in vietnam. >>host: how many soldiers in vietnam? >> 542,000. >>host: how many american soldiers were killed. >> off the top of my head i don't it was the deadliest year in vietnam because of the tet offensive and the operations but i don't know if the

we stood in that same spot 40 years before with tear gas protesting the war in vietnam. >> reporter: orleans native arntd jackson young was pastor of a church in marian, alabama when he joined king's movement. he would eventually become one of the sclc's chief mediators. >> i remember specifically going to see the president after the nobel prize speech, president johnson. and he spent over an hour complaining about why he couldn't pass a voting rights bill. and when we left there at night, late at night, dark, walking down the white house lawn, martin said almost whimsically, the president doesn't have enough power to pass a voting rights bill. i guess we've got to figure out how to get him some power. >> reporter: that same year young was named sclc executive director. four years later he was with king and jesse jackson in memphis when the civil rights leader was killed. young would go on to serve three terms in congress. and in 1977 was picked as president jimmy carter's ambassador to the united nations. the first african-american in that position. dr. king's friends have no doubt t

we got the hell out of vietnam eventually. it gives me hope because i've seen it that maybe these people in the street because of stories like this, maybe they can force change. how are we going to turn this economy around? if we keep having maytag and whirlpool stories? 5,000 here, 4,000 here, 10,000 here, profits go on the top. how are we going to stop this recession? how are we going to turn this around? i'll be back with you on monday and i'll give you a report on what it's like in newton, iowa, now that that plant is all gone. i'll try to run into some of the retirees who had their health care benefits taken away from them after whirlpool came in and bought maytag. those maytag folks. oh, by the way, that went to court, but the retirees lost that battle. that happened this year. get your cell phones out. i want to know what you think. tonight's question, is corporate greed running this country? text "a" for yes, "b" for no to 622639. our blog is ed.msnbc.com. we'll bring you the results later in the show. joining me now, b

in paperback was through and during the vietnam war. it spoke for that generation. >> the madness of war. >> the madness of war. >> b, you know, we alwaysad the madness of war, and the real reason it survived is so that -- that is usually tru >> i have to say a the tng about making a movie that is going well is that you are not sure, t you are not terribly unhappy, but some sometimes you have a terrible suspicion this is an end of all of you and you can't say anything to anybody. that is how i felt all through catch-22. >> there was no moment that i didn't feel that this was going to be a humiliation for everyone concerned, and i remember arkin had a sort of quiet tantrum is the wrong word because he wasn't visibly -- he wasn't yelling or anything, he said i don't like anything about it. i don't like any of the performances, the only one i like is marty sheen. >> he said everything that was wrong with it and i didn't terribly disagree. >> i reviewed the sequel to catch-22 in -- for the new yorker in 1995, i titled it -- 22. >> and it wa

they start affecting the middle class a disproportionately white middle class where indeed during the vietnam war the protests only really started to gain media traction when the draft started impacting not just the poorest of the poor but also the white middle class so there's not only a history of what i what i would say to the larger question of why is the reaction been so intense i think it's because this movement is fundamentally challenging a political establishment a base of power it's a legitimacy in the sense that most of the people in office. who are deploying book police against these protesters are people who represent the wealthiest most powerful people in this country the governor of colorado the mayor of denver these are people who were elected with huge amounts of money from the richest people in the state and in this country and they are expected on behalf of their donors to try to stop in their tracks this kind of protest that was our own governor going to go back to colorado where he said his biggest fear was that this is something it would catch on those are hugh's words s

we're not going to get to the discussion of vietnam service in which i wanted to try to explain my frame of that. but melissa harris-perry, please give us the last word on this. we're running out of time. >> maybe i shouldn't have the last word. i'd say, you know, i absolutely agree with what both goldie and reverend sharpton are saying. i will repeat, it madeby squirm. had those questions been asked in the exactly forthright way by reverend sharpton, not because he's black but because he has a personal history obviously with the american civil rights movement that is kind of unquestionable, i don't think it would have made me feel as uncomfortable. i want to acknowledge that as much as i completely disagree with herman cain's positions, i was made uncomfortable by that particular interracial interaction and i think that that matters, too, and we should be willing to pause and think about how the continuing realities of american race and american racism mean when we're having frank discussions across racial lines, it can still be a very, very difficult set of conversations to have. >> i

longer than the revolutionary war, longer than the civil war, longer than world war ii, longer than the vietnamwar. the human toll for those 120 months of afghanistan involvement -- u.s. dead in afghanistan, 1685. u.s. wounded in afghanistan, 14,342. u.s. dollars spent in afghanistan, $450 billion. with 90,000 u.s. troops in afghanistan, the u.s. is currently spending $2 billion a week, and is on pace to spend i year. question, what explains general allen's seeming divergence from the commander in chief, barack obama's deadline for withdrawal by 2014 december, which is about three plus a few months, years from now. >> right. >> is it -- this commander in the field -- denying the validity of the commander in chief? >> not necessarily, more typical not announcing your withdrawal date as being vague as how long we'll be here the one thing the pentagon does to the want for the enemy to wait us out and then suddenly move in as soon as we pack up and leave. but the fact is we can't stay there forever. we are occupying the place, making progress in the tribal areas. we need to wind our effort down and

to the end of the room -- >> i am from the vietnam veterans of america. i want to thank all of those representing the private sector up there for all you are doing, particularly the u.s. chamber, and wal-mart because much of the ingredients that were missing when we came home from vietnam many years ago after the peloponnesus and wion war [laughter] picÀ monday for what you are doing because it will take that kind of leadership in our society to get the job done. i am concerned about what is not happening in the government -- at the government level. the work force investment act is supposed to have priority services for veterans and it does not. there has been no enforcement for the last 10 years. frankly, the tax credit that the president is talking about is part of the jobs for america act. that will not tip the decision to get people to hire veterans. they will take it from the back and but it has to be money up front. we can take work force investment acts and if there is the political will, forced those service delivery areas to start putting veteran

first let's talk about the tropical depression that is going to be heading towards northern vietnam thursdayorning. it looks like it will be affecting for the next 72 hours, a few days, it will be lingering around a similar area and bringing torrential rain accumulating up to 200 millimeters or more in some areas, especially the coastal sides and hainan as well. so these areas are going to be affected with further flooding that may trigger as well as landslides and mud slides. in the southwest, monsoon is enhanced so much of these areas looking messy with hefty rain to come as well. here as well in the philippines, this area, the flood situation still remains not alleviated yet, the low pressure system will be moving in towards the similar area, so similar flooding there as well. now, this cold front and the low pressure system are well developed and will be moving away on thursday afternoon. so lots of rain to be passing through along this storm, maybe even some hail and gusts. and isolated thunderstorms as well. in southwestern islands of japan, especially in kagoshima, the accumulation is

hu said that vietnam should not make any moves that complicate or expand the disputes. some countries including vietnam and the philippines are trying to coordinate an effort to negotiate with china for an end to territorial disputes in the south china sea. >>> now the world's largest opium producer is getting even bigger. according to the latest united nations survey, poppy production in afghanistan will increase by about 60% this year. the u.n. office on drugs and crime made the forecast on tuesday in its annual report on afghanistan's poppy farming. the plants are used to make opium and other narcotics. >> we still have around 1 million afghans. that means 1 million afghan families who are being and are affected by drug addiction. >> the u.n. says that more and more land is being used to cultivate poppies. three provinces that had been declared poppy-free are said to have returned to production. half of the country's provinces are now growing the crop. the report says farmers are returning to poppies because of the slow progress in establishing security and rebuilding

the vietnam cause was a lie. -- the vietnam veteran. the vietnam cause was a lie. nobody likes to say the allies were wasted. they were. -- lives were wasted. they were. now here we are in afghanistan. knocking on the door of pakistan. the weapons of mass destruction in iraq were never found. where do you stand in where our country belongs in the world? do we still need troops in germany, in japan? >> no, we do not. we have to be careful. we have to be careful for unnecessary war. you have to prove that you have a vital american national interest to ever put an american man or woman soldier in harm's way. we have been put in libya and then also now in you gonna. -- uganda. if there is anything we learned, once you get in a conflict, it is difficult to extricate. when you go, you need to go and get the job done right. you need to go to win. secure peace, and get out. now, we are deeply involved in afghanistan. iraq is kicking us out by the end of the year. the problem is iran is working in the wings. it is a mess. it is a mess. it is a real mess. the best thing that

foreign policy because public and congress was completely fed up with the memory of vietnam and the possibility of anything that might resemble vietnam, 74, 75, 76. the soviet union and its allies, cuba, for example, were quite assertive in promoting socialist revolutions in parts of africa, other parts of the world. if you read kissinger's memoirs, it was a very difficult time to preside over foreign policy. actually, he was attacked from left and right, the left supposedly cropping up inhumane dictatorships. attack from the right for not being tough enough on the soviet union, and that is where reagan came from. reagan actually ran against ford in the primaries in 1976 saying that it had failed. the answer was -- for data from both directions. >> what you teach? >> i teach u.s. foreign-policy, international security, u.s. defense policy, a variety of courses, both present and undergraduate. >> economic interests. >> i think that sometimes the overestimated. i didn't really find the major decisions of the want peace. really narrow. it's not as the president's get on the phone and ask the leade

budgetary miscalculation from 1976 when lyndon johnson's administration underestimated the cost of the vietnam war by $10 billion cause the blow up in the federal budget. eleven years later complained one observer of the federal budget was in a state of chaos. the shortfall in stimulus spending helped create a condition in which the u.s. economy is set of taking off as projected plateaued and paused and appeared headed for a nose dive in the form of a recession at the end of 1976. that in turn meant u.s. imports of goods from europe would pay off which would place further pressure on already struggling european economies. the second half of 1976, the greenspan pause. the u.s. economy was not growing as fast as he had ascended with earlier in the year. barrett, he conceded, it was not going in all. it was greenspan who won the president that the economy was so fragile even a 15% increase in the price of oil must be enough to tip the u.s. economy in the economies of its trading partners back into recession with the rest of government failures and bank collapses. in the oval office that day green

eddie hall, intentionally struck a motorcyclist and dragged the motorcycle several miles under the vietnam. officers say the motorcyclist was with a group believed to the hells angels and had some type of freeway confrontation with hall. >> sounds like the van was moving over to get into a lane that maybe the motorcycle was in. i don't know if there was any communication between the two. that's unknown at this point. and then suddenly the van turned and hit the motorcycle. >> alan: police say hall tried to run away from the scene but he was caught and arrested. >>> a hells angels motorcycle club member wanted in the fatal shooting of a fellow member is still on the run tonight. he is still -- officers said he was stopped but after a search, he was nowhere the sight. police believe ruiz is armed and dangerous. >> also in san jose, an apartment fire has about 50 people looking for a new place to live. firefighters rescued six people from a fire that damaged a 20-unit complex on bolling green drive. it happened just after one this morning. no one was hurt. >> so much smoke and flame they coul

then, of course, came the war in vietnam, which is only been over for 16 or 17 years. thanks to the lies and deceit surrounding that war, it is no surprise the very same condition was called "post-traumatic stress disorder." still eight syllables, but we have added a hyphen and the pain is buried under jargon. i bet a crystal calling it "shellshock," some of those vietnam veterans might have gotten the attention they needed at the time. >> the person who tried to educate america about battle fatigue after a war ii was none other than audie murphy. audie murphy got hooked on a sleeping pill and locked himself in a hotel room in denton, texas for over a week to get himself off of it. he went around to veterans groups talking about what was called "battle fatigue." he did not have a lot of success in raising awareness. to overcome the stigma that exists related to these and visible wounds and to avoid the same outcome on the other side of this war, we must continue to study and learn while raising awareness of programs and support services put in place to make sure the men

this shows how it will appear on a wall of faces that are built near the vietnam memorial. for the people who died fighting for our freedom. >> angel mendez gave his life to save a fellow named cas still. mr. cas still is the supreme court justice for the state of the pennsylvania. >> the new education will celebrate the service of not just viet nam vets but all service members dating back from 1775 and to iraq and afghanistan. if you want to send a photoand/or donate can go to build a center.org. >> great story. and in boston, zoo keepers tryying to figure out how two zeb raas escaped. they bolted from the franklin park zoo in boston. they confined the adult in the corner of the zoo and coaxed her back in the exhibit. no one was in any danger there. >>> and two cross dressing con men making off with goods. it is our top stories in america. new york, taking dress up to a new level. wearing women's clothes and wigs. they browse in a shop. and the store owner knew something was up. >> the manner they were speak manage was off. >> the pair went to a fitting room and then they t

hu told wen that vietnam should not make any moves that complicate or expand the disputes. some southeast asian countries including vietnam and the philippines are trying to coordinate an effort to negotiate with china for an end to territorial disputes in the south china sea. >>> now the world's largest opium producer is getting even bigger. according to the latest united nations survey, poppy production in afghanistan will increase by about 60% this year. the u.n. office on drugs and crime made the forecast on tuesday in its annual report on afghanistan's poppy farming. the plants are used to make opium and other narcotics. >> we still have around 1 million afghans, that means 1 million afghan families, who are being and are affected by drug addiction. >> the u.n. says that more and more land is being used to cultivate poppies. three provinces that had been declared poppy-free are said to have returned to production. half of the country's provinces are now growing the crop. the report says farmers are returning to poppies because of the slow progress in establishing securi