vietnam is in our backyard.hile it appeared to be at a distance, for australia, where actually fighting for democracy in southeast asia, yet our region. for us, the war has a great meaning that goes well beyond just the statistics. thank you to all of the vietnam veterans for making democracy the rule of the day in our part of the world. we see why. -- we see why. -- thank you. [applause] >> we had almost 60,000 australians serving over there. many of them were fighting on the ground, but many were flying overhead, either with the united states air force, where their own aircraft -- or their old aircraft. it was a very big deal to us. we have, unfortunately, 500 or more that did not come back. the remembrance of those people is part of the reason why it is very important that australia be involved in the vietnam veterans memorial fund, and in the education center that is being planned. there are a bunch of stories about veterans and need to be told -- that needs to be told. a strike is keen to keep those memorie

vietnam era veteran.000 women who served during the is no more. i stand here to honor all of the 1.8 million women who have served their country, and those that continue to serve. women comprise approximately 20% of today's military, active-duty and reserve, and will eventually join the roles of u.s. military veterans. -- it is different than when i joined the army. roles and responsibilities have opened up to embrace the capabilities of women who serve. the vietnam women's memorial is an example of the significance of monuments and memorials that we see today. it is there not only to honor and remember, but also to educate our future generations, and continue to be an inspiration to many women serving today. the vietnam memorial, which the vietnam women's memorial is a part, speaks not only for the dead, but also for the living, and all of those who served during the turbulent times. for my husband and i, our military service is in a sense a memorial. joining the service in memory of our brothers, who di

story, vietnam side. >> you were how old when you were prime minister of vietnam, south vietnam, and what years? >> july 1965. >> to what year -- how many years were you prime minister? >> until the election -- the presidential election, 1967. >> and how old were you when you became prime minister? >> i am 34 1/2. 35 years, yes. >> and how old doe does that mae you today? that picture was what -- how old were you in that picture? >> i think this -- maybe 37, you know. i remember that someone, you know, doing -- trying to visit some country and someone took this picture. 37, yeah. >> as you know, when you walked in, i said to you, how did you do it? how did you -- all these years later almost look the same as you did then? >> yeah. yeah. i am 73 now, and many friends, you know, especially american veteran who met me, they all look at me and said, i think you were general ky, but are you? and i said, yes. how come you stay? and that's why they recognized me. but sometime i have some problem with my, you know, staying young. i remember one time coming back l.a., los angeles, from a trip

vietnam era veteran.0 women who served during the is no more. i stand here to honor all of the 1.8 million women who have served their country, and those that continue to serve. women comprise approximately 20% of today's military, active-duty and reserve, and will eventually join the roles of u.s. military veterans. -- it is different than when i joined the army. roles and responsibilities have opened up to embrace the capabilities of women who serve. the vietnam women's memorial is an example of the significance of monuments and memorials that we see today. it is there not only to honor and remember, but also to educate our future generations, and continue to be an inspiration to many women serving today. the vietnam memorial, which the vietnam women's memorial is a part, speaks not only for the dead, but also for the living, and all of those who served during the turbulent times. for my husband and i, our military service is in a sense a memorial. joining the service in memory of our brothers, who did

ho chi minh was then the premier dictator of north vietnam. the soviet premier party boss was in hanoi and alarmingly told ho chi minh, you better settle with the americans or they're going to send in more troops and the ho chi minh response was let them send in more troops. the argument being that let's play into his hands, let's go stumbling about in areas that we know little of and that will be counterproductive. ditto in going after the evil- doers following 9/11. why do we play into the hands of our opponents by crashing into iraq and thereby negating so many other possibilities? >> why did we go into iraq? >> we went into iraq because it seemed to be easy, because we were thinking magically. if there's any example of magical thinking, the notion that this could be solved within six weeks, six months or less, to quote both vice president cheney and secretary of defense rumsfeld, the notion that we could transform the middle east and the muslim world in general, that faith that everybody wants to be like us, a whole slew of illusions, plus

it would have been swallowed by north vietnam. i do not think there was any doubt about that, and that was the reason we started going in big in 1964 and in 1965. >> did we waste our men and our money? >> that is a sad, ongoing debate, the extent to which that was blood and treasure squandered we perhaps came close to winning by 1970 or 1971. didn't buy us time for thailand to go stronger or for indonesia to swing to the american camp? these are arguments that have no conclusion and no end. >> #5 is conjuring powerful but simplify images from the depths of history to rationalize huge end -- >> what i tried to do is get into why we keep screwing up. we screw up in foreign policy, which is probably not news to most people. there are countless books right now on afghanistan or iraq, but why do we keep making these mistakes time and time again? why do we keep making these false analogies, whether in korea, vietnam, or iraq? a lot of this comes in the keel of american experience. on one hand we love history. good we are a nation of law

. ♪ >> so, department of interior, national parks service, vietnam's better memorial fund, vietnam --eterans memorial fund, a vietnam women's memorial foundation, a goldstar mothers are coming down, followed by the gold star wives of america, sons of daughters in touch, as well are starting to walk right now. they are followed on the other side by the 82nd airborne division. take a look at some of these wreaths. they are kind of neat. it is the first cavalry division. that is the patch they wear on their uniform. the american legion is here. amvets, as well. we move forward. disabled american veterans, military order of the purple heart -- they have the cool breeze. paralyzed veterans of america placing a wreath. the f.w. of the united states. veterans of foreign wars have given us $1 million for the education gentle. -- education center. vietnam veterans of america is here. we will get it done, eventually, and we also have the fourth infantry division, searchlights, case on veterans are actually here today, lining up. it is quite a beautiful photograph. actually, when i will do after

being a vietnam vet on veteran's day, he saved like 40 other people.s incredible. >> reporter: incredible indeed. here we are l ive at the scene near the pentagon right by the exit for reagan national airport. traffic almost at a standstill. several lanes still feeding into this area. it is just crawling past the scene of the singed tour bus carrying about 40 vietnam veterans all here for their 40th reunion on this veteran's day. very quick thinking of one of those vietnam vets saved the lives and the safety no one was even injured. quite a fitting tribute for this veteran's day. reporting live from the 14th street bridge, andrea mccarren, the news now. >> amazing story. >>> meantime, who are these guys and what are they doing? that is what metro wants to know men who were taping passengers and metro operations on the orange line. >> it has issued a rare be on the lookout notice for the two men. now, metro wanted that alert to be secret but now it's been leaked and gary nurenberg is here for the latest on the search. >> reporter: this unusual be on the

i am sure i will make it to vietnam. like most americans, i am cheered to see the economic progress they have made host: if you go back, is there an area of the country that you want to visit? guest: i am sure i will end up back around saigon i will probably end up near the town of long phong which is near where i was shot in 1970. , i remember had♪ a great climate. i would like to see the whole country, especially the coastline. it is a very beautiful place. from we're joined cantwell, pennsylvania. good morning on republic and caller: line. caller: the general has had 15 years to give his side of the star and now it is my turn. i would like to take him back to the war in the balkans a s againserbs. the without approval of the u.s. congress, nato bombed a country that did not have weapons of mass destruction. there were never a threat to west for the war was a based onpro-bosnian/xhosa though media. in 1995, we bombed a bosnian serbs in a marketplace massacre. the bonds or used were designed by hezbollah. they were inte

vietnam. well there is always much more to sink your teeth into on our website that's our dot com including find out how poverty and despair pushes many iraqis to smuggle banned alcohol to neighboring iran and the risk of their freedom and life. in the future imperfect beauty becomes a game of russian roulette with tons of fake because medics flooding the market all the details waiting for you dot com. now let's get to some other world news making headlines this hour the british prime minister david cameron is in china for his first official visit to the country he's met with the chinese premier wen jiabao when described the talks were. cameron wants to double trade between the two countries but is also facing pressure to raise concerns over china's human rights record. iran has offered to reopen dialogue over its nuclear ambitions with six major powers the islamic republic is pushing for negotiations to take place in turkey next week four sets of u.n. sanctions have been imposed on terror wit

my wife's two brothers both served in army and fought in vietnam.as a helicopter pilot and the other an infantry officer who graduated from west point and served two tours in vietnam and went on to become a lieutenant-colonel. a born leader, he wrote a leadership 904 united states army before he passed away from cancer at age 39 while serving at fort leavenworth. i spent a lot of time talking and learning about the vietnam war from him. my wife's sister was in the army for 10 years, retired as a captain, and her son, my nephew, just returned from afghanistan, an infantryman. i did not serve myself but i am especially proud of my family members to have. in the early 1980's, i have the honor of directing a play in chicago that was written by a group of vietnam war veterans based on their experiences during that war. the time spent with these veterans along with my wife's two brothers and another brother in law was a medic in vietnam, left a lasting impression on me. i have committed my time and energy to veterans ever since. in 1993, i had the distinc

r t vietnam. well there's always much more to get your teeth into on our website r.t. dot com including find out how poverty and despair pushes many iraqis to smuggle bad alcohol to neighboring iran at the risk of bare feet up in their life. and that picture in perfect health chasing a beauty becomes a game of russian roulette with tons of fakers medics plotting the market all the details that are to dot com. now the far right a british national party is back in court to face charges that its membership rules discriminate against non-whites now the equality and human rights commission is behind the legal action and is demanding that clauses it says are racist are removed now a ruling is expected next week laura emmet reports. this is a case that the original legal battle that began last year when the b.m.p. was ordered to remove a cloth or its constitution that banned nonwhite members and this court appearance that's going on on monday and tuesday this week is about failing to comply with that order because the equality and human rights commission says that there are s

the vietnam war may have ended thirty five years ago but the suffering it created remains to this day the u.s. used a poisonous herbicide called orange to destroy forests and agricultural land but the deadly chemical also killed hundreds of thousands and continues to cause to rethink birth defects you may find some images it got that he does a lot of us report disturbing. vietnam may be one of only five socialist states in the world but its economic progress is notable business is booming hirees offices sprout up everywhere and the people have opportunities to improve their lives but that wasn't a vietnamese struggle and not for financial reasons. that saying all is fair in love and war has been used to justify many military decisions but when during the vietnam war the united states began deploying a chemical weapon nicknamed agent orange over this country not many could have predicted that those all suffer from that most will be the soldiers on the battlefields but their children most of whom one even more at a time. hootie whom is thirty four years old but you'd never guess by look

guess who knows r t vietnam. and now to some other world news this hour it is prime minister david cameron is in china for his first official visit to the country he's met with the chinese premier one job all will describe their talks as fruitful camera was to double trade between the conferees but he's also facing pressure to raise concerns over china's human rights record. iran has offered to open a dialogue over its nuclear ambitions with the six major powers this lawmaker public is pushing for negotiations to take place in turkey next week four sets of us sanctions have been imposed on terror with the latest rout issues after talks stalled last year international concern still remains over well. the iran is developing a nuclear weapon but tehran insists that its program is only for peaceful purposes . burma has made it pro military political party has won eighty percent of seats in the country's first election in twenty years election caused the fighting between ethnic rebels and government forces and even fo

vietnam. well there's always much more to get your teeth into on our website r.t. dot com including find out how poverty and despair pushes many iraqis to smuggle bad alcohol to neighboring iran at the risk of their freedom and their life. and a picture imperfect chasing beauty becomes a game of russian roulette with tons of fake a sweat exploding the market all the details are at our call. while kareen is here now with all the latest in business. how i welcome to our business program it's good to have you with us we start with our top story today gold and so it was such a record high fueled by. and that was gold is hovering around pick levels exceeded . the fourteen hundred dollars mark so it was also maintaining its gains having risen to a thirty year peak say the demand for precious metals could continue to climb amid low interest rates the european sovereign debt crisis and jitters over the global economic slowdown. earlier i spoke to my large larva senior trader at the iti x. capital from london and he said the sharp increase in demand for gold was also heavil

soldiers left in vietnam decades ago and find out how america's controversial use of chemical warfare continues to cool. doctors say russian journalist who was severely beaten up in moscow is still in a critical condition oh leg cash and was rushed to hospital after two men assaulted him with metal rods on friday night nearly beating him to death russian lawmakers say they'll consider a draft that would toughen punishments for attacking journalists cautions assault follows a series of attacks on reporters in russia in recent years investigators name because shien's worked for the comma sun newspaper and his internet blog as the most likely cause for the incident the journalist made a name for himself by slamming several high profile government officials president dmitri medvedev has vowed to bring the perpetrators to justice. while politicians are trying to bring peace to the middle east thousands of palestinians say they're living under an apartheid barrier almost seven hundred kilometers long has been dividing the west bank for eight years israel says it's for security but palestini

vietnam. and a top afghan government official has been killed by a roadside bomb in the east of the nato all or two of its service members were killed in action in afghanistan over the past twenty four hours u.s. led international coalition is struggling to bring peace to the country as the alliance plans to begin a troop drawdown next year however britain's top military commander says at least a thousand u.k. troops might stay after twenty fifteen. jamar says a party with links to the military has won eighty percent of the vote in the country's first election in two decades the poll promoted fighting between rebel and government troops leading to more than fifteen thousand to flee across the border to thailand the vote has been internationally can damn four being fixed with opposition parties alleging fraud. the death toll from an outbreak of cholera in haiti has risen to over a five hundred people with fears of the epidemic reaching the capital about eight thousand people are being treated i

the roads are severely flooded as well, and also in vietnam.ee the floodwater almost reaching the s.e.a.l. levceilin what looks like the ground floor. three people have died as a result and conditions have been critical since the weekend in vietnam. here is the setup for your tuesday. very active low pressure in place, helped by this tropical cyclone in the south. really intensifying that storm system. more torrential rains expected in the next couple of days. looking at well over 100 millimeters in vietnam. 19 degrees in shanghai and 25 in hong kong. as for the americas, keeping a watch on tropical storm thomas over the caribbean. it looks like it will maintain that strength as a tropical storm but will be intensifying later on in the week and head towards haiti. keep a close eye on where this storm system is headed. across the u.s., a couple of thundershowers to watch out for down in the south, for texas, mississippi and elsewhere. high pressure system dominating much of the area. there will be wet and windy weather for british colombia. thos

guess who knows r t vietnam. doctors have a russian journalist who was salvaged that talks in moscow just days ago will be able to speak again soon after undergoing a third operation like cashen was rushed to hospital after two men nearly beat him to death on his way home in the early hours of saturday morning russian lawmakers say they'll consider a draft law to allow stiffer punishment for attacking john let's investigate a suspect kushner's work for they called their son newspaper and his internet blog as possible motivations for the vicious assault the journalist made a name for himself by slamming several high profile government officials president dmitri medvedev has vowed to bring the perpetrators to justice cautions assault follows a series of attacks on reporters in washington recent here yes. let's now take a look at some other news from around the world u.k. prime minister david cameron is on his first official visit to china taking with him the largest ever british delegation one official visits to th

the vietnam veterans health study. he was an author of the first evaluation report on the fledgling vietnam veterans' counseling service and subsequently was invited to become a member of the department of veterans affairs governing committee of the vvs for 18 years with funding from the australian national health and by the council he has recently completed a follow-up study of the vietnam veterans three decades after the war and has completed field work for an adjunct study of veterans' wives and partners, from which preliminary results are now emerging. jason is the integrated ethics primm officer at the cleveland louis stokes va medical center and the director of ethics consultation at case western reserve university's center for biomedical ethics at metro health medical center, where he serves as a clinical ethicist. he's a graduate of the cleveland fallujah and advanced bioethics and has served as the william lyons chair in professional ethics of the united states air force academy. his book, quote cutter was on

the operation that long and the south of vietnam. when i learned of the terrible attack launched by the vietnamese, at 515 planes were destroyed and the ground before they could take off. miraculously to nesses minutes to evacuate. i was very sad. far from the battlefield to be the first attack was directed to miles of the central position with artillery fire. heat supporting position fought fiercely, but already in the trenches they had dug ten times greater in number. in a few hours this shelters exploded under enemy fire. by early morning there was practically no able-bodied officers. a shell landed in the middle of the central position. it fell on the shelter. the commander of the last regime our -- around 5:00 p.m. in the artillery barrage started. after the dailies and shells and the ground assaults the bookish and fell into enemy hands. it could oddly.fought all night. the collapse of the post, to important posts which protected landing. on march 16th 120 mortar shells fell. 3500 refugees. there were wounded. several were kill

. >> vietnam. >> vietnam. >> vietnam veteran. >> all right. >> my dad was there, too, sir. thank you for your service. >> marine corp, thank you. steaks are coming. the newest abc 2 news member, charlie helping to serve all the vets. how is it going? >> we have the three cheese panee and we have -- talking about steak. >> steak looks good. >> and we're serving the veterans tonight. this is the nationwide program, from applebees for three years now. >> we will talk to you more. >> i wonder when you will start doing this. >> i will get on that real quick here. i promise. i will help you out. and you know what, it's a great scene here in applebees. we're talking about serves veterans a free meal in applebees. this, the one that's east point mall. many of them until midnight tonight. plenty of time to get out and get your favorite veteran, maybe a steak in the house. for veteran's day, it turned out to be a beautiful day, fantastic really. we saw temperatures running in the 60-degree range for the veterans. that was great weather. sunshine, you have to love it. sending it out a

vietnam. coming up next hour here on our t.v. setting an example. this is america and everybody always looked up to us and it was not america's destiny to look after the rest of the world then whose is it the next hour the resident gathers opinion on the streets of new york. russia has been making a number of firsts in formula one as of late the season's or its first ever driver taking part the country now will host its first ever grand prix in sochi in two thousand and fourteen will be a russian car competing to be first past the checkered flag. russian race driver mikhailov the option is still somewhat unknown. but that might not be the case for much longer he has on bishops and aims i hope that my fish will be a formal one. in the best case and actually the point that i wanted for ages to develop this one side project but the now is currently stuck in go carts. that's because no russian company has ever built a formula one car in fact the image of russian cars internationally is quite the opposite. that is until now. enter a new russian comic. th

vietnam. the us has laid upon earth which it expects everyone else to follow however with newly emerging powers on the world scene. in the case so it's not america's destiny to be the world to a better future than who's is it oftenest as a resident went to gauge opinion on the streets of new york. is the united states still leading the world this week let's talk about that i don't think so right now things going on a lot of issues going on and living in europe for a little while and things seem to be going pretty good over there right now do you think it matters who's the leader in the world. of me personally no you have to look at china. and. taiwan you know you can look at any of the asian countries india look at their economies are booming i mean it's and here we are in a stagnant economy and we are hard to take the jobs for americans so there is a downward trend going on in america some by looking after the world not the chinese. india. did you think the united states is doing a good job f

gas runners are r t vietnam. with all special report that today find out about those who are content to suffer. a moment when the world has changed forever. thousands passed to nothingness. thousands wounded. left home. to suffer to the end of the line. was the first but probably not the last unitarians this weapon. call many more will make come. home armageddon in the future. now this week the u.k. saw a massive protest over part of the plans to tackle its massive debt tens of thousands of students marched in london against a planned hiking tuition fees because mission governments move would raise the cost of education three fold but testers burnt banners a break windows and hold on jacks a nice wooden fifty people were arrested for harsh budget cuts current song to the youth any one to raise the money that pays you next year david kendall dunham or each member of the european parliament told r.t. why he thinks increase in the evenings budget is pointless. we've only been clear really in the last week of what's

well, we lose in vietnam. but we win the cold war anyway. did we need to fight in vietnam?hink if john kennedy had been president or had lived into a second term, i don't think he ever would have escalated that war in vietnam the way that lyndon johnson did. you know, so these judgments -- misjudgments are made. they have huge consequences. but to get back to your point about the u.n., i think it's done some wonderful things. it is a very important mediator, so to speak, on the international scene. it's not the holy grail. it doesn't give the answers that people would like. the world is not yet at a point where it's the -- the nations are willing to subscribe to woodrow wilson's idea of collective security and abandon the kind of sovereign and selfish interest that manages to motivate them. it's a good point. important development coming out of world war ii. but it's not going to fulfill -- never fulfilled the hope, the expectations that people had for it. yes, sir? >> yes, sir. richard nixon was -- is usually described as a consummate american realist. even the effort, and

gas runners are our team vietnam. and there's always much more for you to sink your teeth into on our website that's all i'm waiting for you there right now you can find out how. many iraqis to smuggle alcohol to neighboring iran at the risk of their freedom. chasing beauty becomes a game of russian roulette with tons of fake cosmetics flooding the market all the details whether. the business news with korea. our welcome to our business program here in r.t. and we go straight to our top story gold and silver surged to a record high fueled by inflation and eurozone sovereign debt woes gold is hovering around peak levels exceeding the fourteen hundred dollars per ounce mark silver is also maintaining its gains having risen to a thirty year peak and say the demand for precious metals could continue to climb and with low interest rates the european sovereign debt crisis and just as over the global economic slowdown. well for more of the prices for precious metals we're now joined by and my knowledge flood via senior trade

vietnam. and u.s. officials warned of rising chinese sentiment in washington could spark a crippling trade war with beijing that's despite china being america's biggest creditor at its number two trading partner but as artie's garnished account reports the chinese aren't the only improvised bogeyman on the u.s. horizon. when the economy's bad unemployment hard i blame china many u.s. politicians use that tactic to get elected this year maybe you ought to run for senate trying something close to hatred is being promoted against china here to the point when new york city mayor michael bloomberg said enough is enough. i think in america we've got to stop blaming the chinese and blaming everybody else and take a look at ourselves but china is not the only scapegoat u.s. politicians used to score points. when it comes to security and defense issues there is a host of other countries actively promoted as bogeyman in the u.s. fliers like this are being turned out by a major conservative think tank in washingt

vietnam may be one of the only five socialist states in the world but its economic progress is notable business is booming hirees offices sprout up everywhere and the people have opportunities to improve their lives but that wasn't a vietnamese struggle and not french reasons. that saying all is fair in love and war has been used to justify many military decisions but when during the vietnam war the united states began deploying a chemical weapon nicknamed agent orange over this country not many could have predicted that those from the most well be the soldiers on the battlefields but their children most at home or even born at the time. hootie whom is thirty four years old he would never guess by looking at or born blind and with many severe physical difficulties her parents feed and bathe her to this day her life was taken away from her before she was even born. my daughter was born blind and we didn't know why until would soakers of the hospital in. and the doctors did some blot says that's when they said she was affected by agent orange it's very difficult to in care of her because

the vietnam veterans health study. he was an author of the first evaluation report on the fledgling vietnam veterans' counseling service and subsequently was invited to become a member of the department of veterans affairs governing committee of the vvs for 18 years with funding from the australian national health and by the council he has recently completed a follow-up study of the vietnam veterans three decades after the war and has completed field work for an adjunct study of veterans' wives and partners, from which preliminary results are now emerging. jason is the integrated ethics primm officer at the cleveland louis stokes va medical center and the director of ethics consultation at case western reserve university's center for biomedical ethics at metro health medical center, where he serves as a clinical ethicist. he's a graduate of the cleveland fallujah and advanced bioethics and has served as the william lyons chair in professional ethics of the united states air force academy. his book, quote cutter was on

i am sure i will make it to vietnam.ricans, i am cheered to see the economic progress they have made host: if you go back, is there an area of the country that you want to visit? guest: i am sure i will end up back around saigon i will probably end up near the town of long phong which is near where i was shot in 1970. , i remember had♪ a great climate. i would like to see the whole country, especially the coastline. it is a very beautiful place. from we're joined cantwell, pennsylvania. good morning on republic and caller: line. caller: the general has had 15 years to give his side of the star and now it is my turn. i would like to take him back to the war in the balkans a s againserbs. the without approval of the u.s. congress, nato bombed a country that did not have weapons of mass destruction. there were never a threat to west for the war was a based onpro-bosnian/xhosa though media. in 1995, we bombed a bosnian serbs in a marketplace massacre. the bonds or used were designed by hezbollah. they were intended to shock

out of the grounds in utah and issued me in the vietnam era m-16 and i could not make it work. i did not have one single-day i could get through a single magazine without it double feeding and i could not make it work. a completely different weapon. take it forward. today it has a different m-16 and the carbide which is a shortened version and if you read the internet there seems to be a loss of complaints although in the field i have never seen one j.m.. have never heard any significant complaints for those involved and firefight about the liability. there are a lot of complaints if it is the right weapon. not reliability based in a more. every war is different. vietnam was a perfect war for the kalashnikov but the worse for the m-16 because of dense vegetation vegetation, complete mismatch. but the range tends to stretch out and people were fighting americans know that they have, the new forces, have very good optics, communication, weapo ns, and they tend to issue debt good distances and don't like to get in close to. they tend to hang back so lot of the american soldiers ar

some of these vietnam war vets hadn't seen each other in 43 years. >> who is that? >> im -- . [ indiscernible ] botox! oh, my gosh. [ indiscernible ] [ laughter ] >> there. give me a hug. >> how are you? [ laughter ] >> golly. >> yeah. >> how are you doing? >> just like it was yesterday. >> reporter: yesterday for this group was the late 1960s, when these navy veterans were stationed aboard a destroyer called the uss storms. when they went into uniform, they were kids. bill was a signalman. >> you're 19 and fear nothing. >> reporter: on their world war ii-era ship, not everything worked when the vessel was deployed to vietnam. >> we had an evaporator leak. we could not make enough water to hardly run the ship. the only showers we got the whole time we were gone were salt water showers. >> reporter: when they returned to the u.s. from the increasingly unpopular war in vietnam, they were shocked at how many of their fellow american citizens treated them like enemies. >> you were spit at? >> yup. twice. they call you baby killer and, you know, all that kind of stuff. i

but the complaints aren't anything like in vietnam. i think when people take this weapon out each day, they don't wonder whether it's going to work. >> is that it? >> [inaudible] in light of your comments, the conversation that's been going on for two years about whether the weapon's well suited, how do we deal with that in policy? >> [inaudible] >> how do you deal with the policy if we've been talking about it for ten years. you know, there's a great -- david boyd george had a problem with lord -- [inaudible] in world war i where the germans had machine guns by the tens of thousands, and the british had about 1200, and the british were being slaughtered in the trenches. he was the minister of munitions before he became the premier, and he wanted to ask kitchener, why aren't we making more weapons? why aren't you ordering more machine guns? why are we suffering this horrible institutional imbalance, and, you know, we're losing a generation of our young men to it. and kitchener wasn't really interested in machine guns. even though he'd

vietnam war-- strongly affected by it, strongly affected the outcome, strongly affected the length of that war. we know that now. we looked at this, and we said, "jeez, you know, nobody's looking at it as what it is." how did it get here? where did it-- nobody mandated, "there shall be benefits," you know? how did this come about? well, right away, you run into the name pete seeger. right away you run into woody guthrie. we--i asked david to research it, and david came back with, there is no other work written on this subject, and that was irresistible to us. you know, we feel very strongly about it. we knew we had an advantage if we went to speak to the people who do it, you know? i don't have to walk in cold. i'm not, you know--it's like, "how did you boys meet?" i know, you know, who i'm talking to, and generally, we're at least acquaintances if not close friends, and we're talking about events that we did together or that we've done, you know, separately, but the same event, you know, at different times. and it gave us a window into these people that other people didn't have. we a

the side effects of the vietnam war raging on destroying thousands of lives with many vietnamese saying no amount of us compensation can give them back to or else the american army sprayed some twenty million gallons of a poisonous herbicide causing deaths as well as birth defects. trying to get some competition as a bogeyman was washington using the start treaty to make moscow the new scapegoat in town negotiators of the arms deal warned the smear campaign could become destructive to the ratification and the relationship between the two countries. palestinians are making it marking international day against a wall by demanding israel breaks of barrier with a palestinian west bank but some locals are making money out of the separation israeli companies are using the site as a tourist attraction and organizing tours showcasing the five hundred kilometer long wall. as we had allies here in r.t. time now for sports update with kate. hello welcome to the sports news and these are the top stories. moving on up saturday corner like us toward the ninety fourth minute equaliser to see rubin ris

we are going to the vietnam veterans memorial.d president of the vietnam veterans memorial fund. this is live coverage. >> okay, we are just about ready to begin today. by the way, how many people, when they served in vietnam, iraq, other places, spend time with soldiers from australia? well, we are here today, in part, because we have someone here from the australian embassy. if you could stand up for a moment. two people. [applause] >> i feel like going to the outback steakhouse right now. i love that commer o

the vietnam veterans health study. was an author of the first evaluation report on the fledgling vietnam veterans' counseling service and subsequently was invited to become a member of the department of veterans affairs governing committee of the vvs for 18 years with funding from the australian national health and by the council he has recently completed a follow-up study of the vietnam veterans three decades after the war and has completed field work for an adjunct study of veterans' wives and partners, from which preliminary results are now emerging. jason is the integrated ethics primm officer at the cleveland louis stokes va medical center and the director of ethics consultation at case western reserve university's center for biomedical ethics at metro health medical center, where he serves as a clinical ethicist. he's a graduate of the cleveland fallujah and advanced bioethics and has served as the william lyons chair in professional ethics of the united states air force academy. his book, quote cutter was on and