what are the lessons of vietnam? before we get into that we're going to show some excerpts of the film >> right. i would say there are many lessons about vietnam in terms of what i feel like i've learned in making this film is -- and having a deeper appreciation for getting out of a war after having made this film. that i feel that there were very few options available in 1975 or early april when it became pretty clear that the country was going to fall. and, you know, we were trying to get congress or kissinger and ford were trying to get congress to pass a bill that would provide $722 million to the vietnamese. i think that would have been helpful and make some difference. i don't think it would have changed things so dramatically. so what it says to me the real choice is when you enter a war, and when you enter a war pecially when it goes into a lesson you don't anticipation which is losing there are virtually no options. you know that decision of entering a war and understanding i think from the beginning what th

both vietnam and china claim the islands. china's move was followed by a series of collisions between the country's vessels. >> at the state department has taken steps to allow for the future transfer of maritime defense related articles to vietnam. this supports vietnam's efforts to improve the domain awareness and maritime secure capabilities. >> the they have released a statement saying the government welcomes any statement that provides the u.s. partner. approval of lethal equipment will be decided on a case by case basis based on vietnam's request. observers say washington could eventually sell hanoi surveillance aircraft. nhk world, hanoi. >>> britaibritain's prime minis made a surprise visit to afghanistan where a new government was sworn in earlier this week. david cameron became the first to make the trip since a drawn-out election crisis was resolved. britain is the second largest contributing to the international coalition forces in afghanistan. the united states is first. more than 450 troops have died on afghan s

he talked about the vietnam war. about the talk vietnam war.isten to a range of them and i thought they were really fascinating and insightful. i remember one engagement where he was negotiating with this get a esser to try and hairdresser or the -- johnson -- so, you know, he insight to rovided his personal sensibility as some insight into vietnam and other -- your mom talks about being republicans and conservatives, then on the other side democrats and all that. from what you know, what was the difference in the families? you say in your documentary that your mother's parents were well off. what made them republicans and what made the kennedys democrats? i can on't know that capture that right now, right here. think it comes from mostly a long lineage of where they all came from. i think that for my father's side of the family there is, going pretty far back, they had been an interest in public service and elected office. i think that for my mother's family that they kind of estly, generally speaking, less interested in politics. my grandfath

>> i'll come back to vietnam, always.one more time. ♪ >> this is who came out of the ground, out of the jungle, the darkness, when it was all over. and this is what they did. ♪ ♪ ♪ >>> i went looking for the dream of africa. i woke up in tanzania. ♪

>> i'll come back to vietnam, always.help. >> cheers one more time. ♪ >> this is who came out of the ground, out of the jungle, the darkness, when it was all over. and this is what they did. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ >> there's a place in america where for decades people farmed the land. everyone knew each other, and the pace was slow. and then -- almost overnight, things changed. it's all because of something found deep underground. something that brought men from every corner of america. they've come by the thousands to extract it from the

and kenneth mussleman, a distinguished disabled vietnam veteran, please join me -- please join me in a moment of silence to honor these three great men. i know they are here with us in spirit today. thank you for remembering them. we are also indebted today to many individuals, foundations, organizations, and corporations whose donation made this historic day possible. many of them are listed in your program. there are more than 1 million individual donors whose contribution made this memorial a reality. again, we thank everyone for their generous contributions. many of you are gathered here today. thank you all for your contributions. and now i'd like to welcome the reverend michael mccoy, the acting director of the national va chaplain center for the invocation. >> let us pray. oh mighty god, we invoke your presence as we come today on this ground in our national capital to dedicate our nation's first memorial to living and deceased disabled veterans. we thank you for the american veterans' disabled for life memorial and for those whom you use to bring it into being. we raise this

west moreland basically steppedded all of vietnam, south vietnam,as free-fire zone, and with guerrilla warfare you can't stipulate this part is okay to bomb and this part isn't. that was the case -- those were the issues at play in south vietnam during the war. so, although, as historian context is important, i hate to draw simple analogies with the vietnam war, with the wars today, but in certain other ways you can see mistakes being repeated again and again. >> just on the broader historical thing about education. this is hugely important, and hugely important for everyone here in part because we make choices about what gets taught and how things get taught in a democracy because we, the people, care, or don't, and if we really want to be an informed citizenry and participate in the big choices that our country is going to face, our citizen us also need to learn about history, about government, civics, and so on. and the way that happens is when we get together and clamor and ask questions of our elected representatives and so on, and try to get involved in making that happen. i thin

vietnam and was badly wounded. he said there is a wall five miles wide and 60 miles high between those of us who went in those who did not and that the wall is never going to come down. i think, i think that is true. of us have most figured out ways around it. it is not something we think about. you know when you meet someone and find out that he served in you spot-- in vietnam, toward the you probably would've. i do not think -- this is the thing i found the hardest to deal with. cruel you come up some way to not be inducted into the service? you have a smart lawyer or smart doctor or the money. and the kid a next-door that does not have this marches off to war. what do you do? how do you live with yourself? i do not think i could have lived with myself. unless i did something like david harris did, david harris who said, this is a terrible war and i am not going and throw me in jail if you want to. and they did. not do any tricks. david just said, if i have to go to jail, i will go to jail because i think of this

what did you think of the vietnam war? after all of these years, as an event, after what it did to you? >> as far as david is concerned, what he did was whether for the war or against the war, he wrote about it that told more about how everything happened than anything else i ever encountered before or since. my own feelings about the war were when i was a marine, you know was, i'm a marine. if there is a war, if my country is at war, this is what i do. i did not really think all that deeply about it. but i did not -- there were not any answers before or since. i tend to think the war was a mistake, but i think in many ways it was a mistake because of the way my generation reacted to it. >> how did they react? >> some went and some didn't. those that didn't, there was a friend of mine i'm not seen in a while, who is an army guy, said there is a wall. he was in vietnam and was badly wounded. he said, there is a wall five miles wide and 60 miles high between those of us who went in those who did not and that the wall is neve

and there are, of course, some examples from vietnam as well. the book is two parts pragmatism.ne of the things i'm proudest of is there's a great deal of material in the book with current applications from iraq and from afghanistan. and this twist, again, the title of the panel, politics, legality, tactics. it's proportionality that determines how those things interrelate and where you come out on a particular issue. one of the great scholars staid that the term itself -- said that the term itself is clunky and inexpressive, and this book is our answer to try to get around the inexpressivity of the term. there it is. but it took a whole book to do it. the concept of proportionality is hard in a sense partly because it's inexpress i, but also because it's very context explicit, which is why you've got to take the time to really get the depth of where it comes from and what it means and how it's been twisted over time in terms of meanings. the danger in that, though, is that it's always used in a highly emotional, highly emotive, highly politicized or highly charged atmosphere. f

anti-vietnam and now everybody knew who they were.that's a good example of narcissim. >> sensation seeking. >> sensation seeking follows the same train of thought. you have bungee jumping and skydiving and for some people you join a terrorist group. like the movie good fellahs. you teach somebody how to be a marter guy. it just expands. these sound like gangs and really act out. we have some of that here. i'm trying to think there is a number for the visit and a group that will identify with the number. it's their pockets all-around the country. >> they do it out of sensation. the failure to achieve diplomacy. that is the death of the states. when diplomacy fails and when two enemy entities meet and try to reach an agreement and after a few years, possibly for a few decad decades, no agreement has been reached. what do they do next? use terrorism. and do people come in before religion and communication doesn't work, you can't work out your differences. >> when diplomacy fails, sometimes people resort to terrorism. >> the attack on pea

new year in vietnam is like thanksgiving in our country. in 1968 varies from year to year. happened to fall on january 30. because it was a holiday and a among read understanding the south vietnamese that a fire would be in place in de facto basis, the soldiers went back to their home villages with ighborhoods to be their families. the north vietnamese with the the vietcong, a ommunist force took that occasion in an attack they never had before, the major cities of including saigon, including for a few years of the g portions american embassy in saigon. studied the tet offensive militarily has concluded it ended up being a military victory for the united states and the south allies.se the facts could not compare with psychological effect of the tet offensive that they were out leg, and the last that the war was drawn to a close. 1968, by march, the opular challenges to president johnson's renomination within a first the party, by anti-war senator eugene mccarthy and then senator robert f. kennedy of new york the ended up triggering president's withdrawal from that election.

diplomatically, at least, all is forgotten with vietnam.m tomorrow and stay in the sheraton saigon or the marriott renaissance in saigon or use our credit cards to buy gr ande nonfat lattes at starbucks in saigon and try vietnam's version of a big mac while we're at it. we all have our government's blesings to go spend our money in a country that killed 58,220 american soldiers. now, i suppose i can go there and rent a car and go and try to find the spot where my cousin johnny was killed, but we can't go to cuba tomorrow and rent a car and go to the beach. what did cuba do to deserve this? what did cuba do that was worse than china and worse than vietnam beating the united states in a war and killing 58,220 american soldiers just 20 years before we correctly normalized relations with vietnam. we were wrong to go to war in vietnam, but we were right to normalize relations when we did. when 2,500 americans soldiers a month were being killed in vietnam in 1968, no one in the world would have told you that the united states would normalize rela

including china, vietnam, indonesia and places as far as way as uzbekistan.n weekends the town's center is a melting pot of different ethnicities. >> hey, how are you? >> recently many stores offer a wide range of products from all over asia, making life easier for the foreign population. foreign laborers are permitted to stay in south korea for up to four years and ten months. as long as they are working they are under no particular restrictions. the south korean government introduced the employment permit system in 2004, one that is unprecedented in the world. up until then the nation only accepted foreign workers as interns. because of low wages interns would suddenly quit their jobs, leading to an increase in illegal immigrants. south korea needed a new foreign labor policy because its own high school graduates, 70% of whom go onto college, rarely apply for factory jobs. >> what's unique about south korea's labor policy is that the government treats foreign workers as official laborers regulated by the state. jobs are limited to certain types of manual la

i was in vietnam only 32 days when i was wounded.d to a recon unit with the united states army 9th infantry division in the mekong delta, we were on patrol when we came to a canal that we needed to cross. with the tide coming in causing a strong undercurrent, those of us who had already crossed went back to help the nonswimmers across. after getting back in single file formation, little did i know that i would walk the last three steps of my life. for after that third step, my life was going to start over. i never heard the explosion that day, june 26th, 1969. never losing consciousness, i could see exactly what had happened to my legs and my left arm, and my immediate reaction was let me die. knowing that he must keep me from going into shock, sergeant reynolds slapped me across the face and screamed, joyner, you have a lot to live for. you have a wife back home waiting for you and a son, and you want to die? sergeant reynolds, i would never have survived without you on the battlefield that day or for the last 45 years without the a

i was in vietnam only 32 days when i was wounded.econ unit with the united states army 9th infantry division in the may congress delta, we were on patrol when we came to a canal that we needed to cross. with the tide coming in causing a strong undercurrent, those of us who had already crossed went back to help the nonswimmers across. after getting back in single file formation, little did i know that i would walk the last three steps of my life. for after that third step, my life was going to start over. i never heard the explosion that day, june 26th, 1969. never losing consciousness, i could see exactly what had happened to my legs and my left arm, and my immediate reaction was let me die. knowing that he must keep me from going into shock, sergeant reynolds slapped me across the face and screamed, joyner, you have a lot to live for. you have a wife back home waiting for you and a son, and you want to die? sergeant reynolds, i would never have survived without you on moo battlefield that day or for the last 45 years without the ass

finally, we very strongly promoted defense cooperation with vietnam. we see the fruition of our efforts in that regard with the partial lifting of the ban on lethal weapons sales to vietnam yesterday. so our implementation of the rebalance in vietnam certainly was multi pronged. again it relied on all the tools of state to pursue our interests. that's what we are doing throughout the region. the if there is uncertainty in the region it shouldn't be uncertainty about the u.s. commitment to continued peace, security and prosperity there. >> thank you. >> just a brief point. i agree completely with what both dave and the ambassador said. tpp is critical to get done. without it, it will be a real problem the u.s. faces. it cannot be one dimensional. the challenge is if you look at it, it is a positive trend. i think the concern is the security trend may be headed if not in the opposite direction, not in the same direction. maybe not fragmentation but rising tension. this is something that was pointed out. can you continue to have economic integration when

begin to vietnam the light craft into gnat for of first time america completed over 6 hundred capacitates and delivered we're pleased to have the expanding officer who became the chief of the navel officer please join me in welcoming the units retiree (clapping.) >> following the mediterranean employment in 1981 he fluid to vietnam and america received 5 battle scars and america aircraft sank a road site and had nurmsz missions in early 1991er mernl america had might want strikes in desert storm and disruption of much of theicic army it was did he commissioned in 1996 after thirty years of fathered that service the fourth uss america this fantastic ship behind me was built in mississippi she's an identification warship that provides war projections on intrarm is part of the maritime forces displaying 45 tons she can embark over 45 hundred marines and sustains the assault marine war craft the f 35 strike fighter and the super sky and help out the support and hospitality we've received in the city of san francisco is transmittal successful we look forward to carry this to those the far-reac

he was hired by a japanese manufacturer in southern vietnam in june. he helped to design robots that are used to make parts. >> translator: my experiences at robocon were a great help for me at work. i'll continue to do my best to contribute to the company. >> reporter: the company is pinning high hopes on employees like min. >> translator: we're hiring them as industry ready to work in the front line. they certainly haven't disappointed us. >> reporter: lakong university students are devoted to making robots. they are acquiring valuable manufacturing skills through their experiences at robocon. nhk world, vietnam. >>> authorities in japan have been facing difficulties in finding places to put radioactive waste. they've agreed on new criteria for long-term storage sites. the ministers approved a plan that gives experts authority to narrow down candidate sites. the experts will take into consideration population density and accessibility of proposed sites. they also judge geological conditions, such as proximity to volcanoes and active earthquake faults

war in vietnam. he went into the american archives and he dug up the true city that it was not a runoff, there was hundreds of of civilians, deliberate killings, using civilians as target practice. pushing them out of helicopters. executing them in the field for no good reason. by the hundreds and by the thousands. this is what we did. this is what our nation did. so, now i'm going to skip ahead. you know, you think all of that is in the past and then all of a sudden we elect an idiot from texas -- i had the bumper sticker on my car somewhere in texas there's a village missing its idiot and he invades iraq. now, look, the war in iraq, you know, i'm really tired of hearing it being called a mistake or a blunder or something like that. this was a deliberate war of aggression, an illegal one as many people, including koe fee anonhave said. it was another criminal enterprise by the united states. we went to war in an unconningsable -- how could this have happened zbhen how could this possibly be happenin

[applause] >> and kenneth muscleman, a distinguished vietnam veteran.lease join me, please join me in a moment of silence to honor these three great men. i know they are with us in spirit today. thank you for remembering them. we also indebted today to many individuals, foundations, organizations, and corporations who made this historic day possible. there are more than 1 million individual donors whose contribution made this memorial a reality. again, we thank everyone for their generous contributions, one and all. many of you are gathered here today. thank you for your contributions. [applause] >> now i would like to welcome the rev. michael mccullough, acting director of the national va chaplains center for the invocation. >> let us pray. we in vote your name as we come today on this ground in our national capital to dedicate our nation's memorial to living and indices disabled veterans. we thank you for the american veterans disabled for life memorial land for those who knew bring into being. we raise this memorial to a reminder of disabled veterans

one of those angry with vietnam.is the leader of the minority community and a member of cambodia's national rescue party, which has been accused of having an anti-vietnam agenda. he and his supporters have staged several protests this year, demanding that vietnam acknowledges. >> translator: we want vietnam to recognize history, apologize to the cambodians and stop meddling with cambodia's politics. >> reporter: under pressure from the opposition, the cambodian government is reviewing its immigration laws and starting with a national census. but many vietnamese feel they've been deliberately singled out. this man's parents are also vietnamese. he says he has cambodian nationality, but like many people living here, he doesn't have any identification papers. >> translator: now the opposition has joined the national parliament, i'm afraid there will be some kind of backlash against the vietnamese because the opposition doesn't like it. >> reporter: the cambodian government says no one will be targeted unfairly. but with

oil companies from those indian and vietnam agreed in september to work together on development in the south china sea. observers say china has become alarmed by such moves but india and vietnam reconfirmed their continued cooperation in oil and gas development. in response china on tuesday demanded india not to interfere with the territorial issues in the region. chinese foreign ministry spoke person said if the two nations activities threaten china's sovereignty or national interests, they'll fully oppose them. >> afghanistan's new president is on his first foreign trip since taking office last month. he's in beijing. he's courting chinese investment to rebuild his country. and promote regional stability. chinese president xi and other leaders welcomed ghani at the start of his four-day trip. ghani took office in september after an election standoff that carried on for months. china and afghan's remote far northeast share a border. leaders in beijing have a keen interest in afghanistan's mineral resources. afghanistan has deposits estimated to be worth over $1 trillion. china's state

he criticized the war in vietnam and talked to white students about american democracy, racial privilege and what can be done in the context of the civil rights and black power struggle to transform democratic institutions in the united states. i have interviewed people who were there at the speech at berkeley and what they all say is that speech for them was a human rights speech. carmichael's anti-war activism inspired them to speak out against the car. king and carmichael my april 15th, 1967 are on the same platform at the largest demonstration up until that point in the new york city at the un building. 400,000 people are there. carmichael speaks before king criticizing the war in vietnam and criticizing violences that is happening in the united states and connects the war in vietnam to the civil rights and black power movements domestically. ma dr. king speaks after that and they meet ever the speech is over and stokely teases king and this gives you a great portrait of their relationship. king ask stokely to go to church to him and he said i am out here doing the work of the people

war in vietnam. he went into the american archives and he dug up the true city that it was not a runoff, there was hundreds of of civilians, deliberate killings, using civilians as target practice. pushing them out of helicopters. executing them in the field for no good reason. by the hundreds and by the thousands. this is what we did. this is what our nation did. so, now i'm going to skip ahead. you know, you think all of that is in the past and then all of a sudden we elect an idiot from texas -- i had the bumper sticker on my car somewhere in texas there's a village missing its idiot and he invades iraq. now, look, the war in iraq, you know, i'm really tired of hearing it being called a mistake or a blunder or something like that. this was a deliberate war of aggression, an illegal one as many people, including koe fee anonhave said. it was another criminal enterprise by the united states. we went to war in an unconningsable -- how could this have happened zbhen how could this possibly be happenin

vietnam in disaster relief and humanitarian assistance, for example. and it was time. the reason we did it partially is that we wanted to see further progress in human rights on the vietnamese park. but we thought the current progress was sufficient for us relating to items in maritime security. >> just following up on that, you guys worked on that vietnam issue on the hill with the bipartisan support for that movement? >> yes, and this is something that we have been working on previous to the decision maintaining it under executive authority. and so it didn't require an act of congress to ease it. but the administration i think rightfully wanted there to be political support for this and they wanted them to be favorable. senator mccain introduced a resolution back two weeks ago and had on it is cosponsored senator pat leahy and senator corker, very key leaders of the senate when it comes to asian issues and asia policy issues and so yes, there is a very good degree of bipartisan support this kind of building further into that. >> the lady here? >> hel

it was vietnam. i literally got rejection letters from university presses asking why i did not focus my talents on something with more relevance. it wasn't until after september 11 that i was able to get it published. recentthe best and worst book on counterinsurgency. when counterinsurgency became important again, it was read by dozens of people. what convinced you during the first gulf war that counterinsurgency was the wave of the future. guest: i learned that american confessional military superiority -- i learned that militaryconventional superiority was so great that they would have to be crazy to fight us like that. it was reflecting on an army training experience i had almost exactly a year later. at the army national training center in california. the army plays in intricate game of laser tag and we were to fight tank on tank battles. a group of rebels crept up on us from behind and killed all our tanks with light weapons. the juxtaposition of those two experiences. fighting a conventional e

. >> not telling anyone and never checking in with vietnam air traffic control. >> the fact that the westerly turn happens at the point of handover between malaysia and vietnam, for many, is the strongest evidence that something nefarious was going on. >> you've investigated many incidents. is that coincidence that everything seems to go wrong at this particular critical moment? >> it can't be coincidence. i don't believe in coincidence with my accidents. it seems to me that there was something. it doesn't mean it was nefarious, it doesn't mean anything else, but, remember, there is a lot of systems doing a lot of things at that time as well. >> so the critical moment is immediately after this handoff. when you're in this kind of no-man's-land in the sky. >> yeah. nobody is watching right now. >> for 19 minutes, no one was watching. and flight 370 would vanish. coming up, a critical mistake by air traffic control, with time running out. >> the aircraft was still flying as we know now. that was painful to think about, that four hours later, no one is looking yet. ♪ [ male announcer ]

this time in vietnam.ng up on "war stories." >>> by 1966, america was embroiled in the vietnam war. before its end, almost 9 million men and women would serve in vietnam. more than 50,000 would never come home. the best jet in the world was the f-4 phantom. its top speed 1650 miles an hour. 1200 miles per hour faster than the p-51 mustang. it relied not on guns but on heat-seeking, radar-guided missiles. >> i loved the f-4. >> in october of 1966, world war ii ace robin olds went into combat again. for the now 44-year-old colonel, the planes looked different but dogfights were very familiar. >> so you were thinking in a three-dimensional sphere of action. trying to keep track of some 20-odd airplanes all at once. and everything changes. second to second to second to second. so your mind is just buzzing. >> olds commanded the tactical fighter wing better known as the wolfpack. >> i managed to get four migs only because they got in the way, not because i was looking for them. but i was told that when and if i

my cousin went to the vietnam war when i was a little kid. he came back. he even lived in my room. he was totally changed by the war. and its affected him to this day. so, i think that that understanding fuelled me. and then there was a bunch of incidents in my community. i lived on east 49th street. the black panther used to have a stoop at the end of the corner, they would invite me to the breakfast program. i remember going by and seeing their building blown up and then, behind my grandmother's was the sla, actually s where they caught the sla. >> family for patty hearst? >> yeah. i remember walking through that building as a kid, and i think that started to affect me and then with the birth of the gangs in los angeles, and seeing them move from, i think at the time it was like the brims to the parus to the crips and the bloods and, of course, many other gangs but that affected me. even like caused me to change my life because at one point, i had some difficulties with a gang and my mother decided to send me an hour away to school, actually, took about two hours on a bus and and

some vietnam vets getting the heroes women they never had when they came home from the war. don't want to miss that. george clooney making waves at home. what was he doing? surprising fans after his wedding. find out why he was in new york city. >> it is not lost on me that i am spending my honeymoon at comicon. from bank of america to help entertain some friends at the beach. before earning 1% cash back everywhere, every time. and 2% back at the grocery store. even before he got 3% back on gas. all with no hoops to jump through. rafael was inspired to use his bankamericard cash rewards credit card to spend a night watching the stars, under the stars. that's the beauty of rewarding connections. apply online or at a bank of america near you. >>> fox news alert. more information because the army war college has just revoked senator john walsh's degree after a plagiarism investigation. the carlisle, pennsylvania, college launched the probe back in august after the "new york times" published a story showing the montana democrat borrowed heavily from other sources for a research

kenneth musselman, a distinguished disabled vietnam in aan, please join me moment of silence to honorthese three great man. i know they are here with us in spirit today. thank you for remembering them. we are also indebted today too many individuals, foundations, organizations, and corporations whose donations made this historic day possible. many of them are listed in your program. there are more than one million individual donors whose memorialions made this a reality. again, we thank everyone for their generous contributions, one and all. many of you are gathered here today. thank you all for your contributions. [applause] welcome thelike to reverend michael mccoy, acting director of the national v.a. chaplain center, for the invocation. >> let us pray. oh my god, we invoke your presence as we come today on this ground in our national our nation'sdicate first memorial to living and deceased disabled veterans. you for the american veterans disabled for life memorial and for those whom you used to bring it into being. as aise this memorial reminder of disabled veterans sacrifice, mad

i had been a student of vietnam before that. but his basic outrage came from, after being part of the pentagon papers study is what it was, he came to the conclusion that american policy makers weren't stupid. they had done analysis after analysis and they kept coming to the conclusion that what they needed to do in vietnam was x but politically they weren't willing to do that so they were only willing to do y so they were following policy y cynically, knowing that the probability of success was low. so they were taking a politically expedient route against what they -- what policy prescription actually said if you wanted to succeed you would have to do. i thought a lot about that as we went through this. it is a very difficult question to ask because you ask yourself at each stage, what do the american people know? who is supposed to tell them? how much are they supposed to know? i think that we struggle today with trying to explain something as complex as afghanistan and not doing it in an organized enough manner. you know, if

i'm a vietnam veteran. i'm a member of an organization called veterans for peace.you may or may not be aware of it but i have met a lot of iraqi veterans of that organization although we tend to be overly represented by old folks like me. but i just want to say our perspective is really that we can't allow ourselves to say war is normal and that's acceptable. no one knows better than a veteran what the cost of war really is. unfortunately we have a country where that's 1% of the population at this point that i've experienced it. our mission is really to educate the american people are ultimately accountable for sending you guys wherever you went and for people to understand it. we have to find alternatives to wars as an instrument of our national policy. if anyone is interested in learning more about the organization veterans for peace you can google it and get our web site. he just wanted to let people know that there are veterans who are i think finding some healing in trying to prevent their kids from having to live through what they have lived through. thank yo

trns out he did not serve in the vietnam war.perience was he visited the cannot once befo country once on a tour while on leave from noncombat duty somewhere else and walter rob robinson nailed him for it. royal switzer did not become governor and reporter walter robinson is a vietnam veteran. and for a generation when massachusetts politicians have lied about their military service in order to advance their political careers, walter robinson has been there at the boston globe to tack them up to the wall and make them pay for it. walter robinson is still around and just broke a story that's the antidote to all of that dishonorable muck he's had such a great career muck-raking through. get this. this is seth molton. served as a u.s. marine in iraq. running for congress in one of the congressional districts that's a competitive district. he beat out democrat john tearney to get the democratic line. he has not been shy about his military career. he talks about being a u.s. marine. he talks about volunteering to go to iraq as a marin

>> right. >> vietnam.everal groups from laos like the myans and the lua, the kamu, also from laos. >> oh, you really have to know your stuff. don't you? there're a lot of different-- >> yes, very diverse and fresno county is the most diverse and also now has been the leading number in agriculture in the nation for several years or so. >> richard, did you have to learn all of this, when all of this started happening? >> my education in college was strictly with the traditional american vegetables. so, i had to learn about the unique southeast asian vegetables and the cultures when i came here and part of my previous training was peace corps. so i got some cross cultural training in peace corps. >> but you know what, you've learned not only about these new exotic asian vegetables and fruits, you've learned about the people and about the cultures of that part of the world as well. >> which makes it extra rewarding because to work with the hmong and the laos and the myan, and these other southeast asian farmer

it was vietnam. literally got rejection letters from university presses asking why i did not focus my talents on something with more relevance. it wasn't until after september 11 that i was able to get it published. recentthe best and worst book on counterinsurgency. when counterinsurgency became important again, it was read by dozens of people. what convinced you during the first gulf war that counterinsurgency was the wave of the future. guest: i learned that american confessional military superiority -- i learned that militaryconventional superiority was so great that they would have to be crazy to fight us like that. it was reflecting on an army training experience i had almost exactly a year later. at the army national training center in california. the army plays in intricate game of laser tag and we were to fight tank on tank battles. a group of rebels crept up on us from behind and killed all our tanks with light weapons. the juxtaposition of those two experiences. fighting a conventional ene

this time in vietnam.hat's coming up on "war stories." ♪ [ female announcer ] we love our smartphones. and now telcos using hp big data solutions are feeling the love, too. by offering things like on-the-spot data upgrades -- an idea that reduced overcharge complaints by 98%. no matter how fast your business needs to adapt, if hp big data solutions can keep wireless customers smiling, imagine what they can do for yours. make it matter. imagine what they can do for yours. an unprecedented program arting busithat partners businesses with universities across the state. for better access to talent, cutting edge research, and state of the art facilities. and you pay no taxes for ten years. from biotech in brooklyn, to next gen energy in binghamton, to manufacturing in buffalo... startup-ny has new businesses popping up across the state. see how startup-ny can help your business grow at startup.ny.gov >>> by 1966, america was embroiled in the vietnam war. before its end, almost 9 million men and women would serv

i was at the original dedication of the vietnam veterans memorial. i was there at 3:00 in the morning with my dog, lady, and a 5th of jack daniels and i thought i was going to leave it all there and never happened. this happened and i can leave it here. >> reporter: architects used granite and glass to convey strength and vulnerability. and there's a reflection pool with a star with a flame in the middle sitting next to a grove of trees to show persist especially in hope.