and nick ut, who was born in vietnam. [applause] >> he joined ap in saigon at the age of 14 years old. this was after his brother, who is also an accomplished ap photographer was killed during the war. nick is best known for the iconic photo he took of a nine-year-old running naked and badly burned from a misdirected south vietnamese air raid. he won a pulitzer prize for that photo. many of the photos in the book were taken by nick. it is an impressive and exciting panel of journalists, whose experience total decades and are collected in some small part in this wonderful book. help me give a warm welcome to the photographers. [applause] nick: we are going to run through some pictures here and then have a conversation and then we will open it up some questions for everybody. >> you cannot see the end of the date there. nick: ok. [applause] nick: clearly an extraordinary set of images from the book, which is what we are gathered here today to talk about this evening. i thought it might be useful to put this work into a litt

vietnam!public secretary of defense mcnamara is full of bullish bravado, that we will prevail. but privately, he is gloomy about the prospects. >> until a strong government begins to function here in saigon, the war against the communists will continue to founder. >> i tell you, the more i stayed away last night thinking about this thing, it worries the hell out of me. i don't think it's worth fighting for and i don't think we can get out. of course, if you start running the communists, they may just chase you into your own kitchen. >> that's the trouble. >> gentlemen, this is a modern war but different war. we're here to advise and support our courageous vietnamese ally. >> the most complex war we had fought to this time and i think his plan for the war was an entirely conventional plan in a very unconventional war. >> we're over here to win, and we have what it takes to assist them in this victory. is that enough for you? >> yes, sir. >> i'm going to put this in two parts. i'll be a little m

but at the same time to vietnamize the conflict. >> we had to turn the war over to south vietnam.couldn't fight their war forever. >> the south vietnamese were taught to fight like americans. >> south vietnam's president said he wanted to take over full responsibility for the war. >> he had a lot to withdraw. there were over 500,000 men there. >> but he did have very slowly, as they supposedly shifted the burden of the fighting to the south vietnamese army. and a lot of people were getting killed during the process. >> 1969, vietnam moratorium day. >> never have so many of our people publicly and collectively manifested opposition to this country's involvement in a war. >> it wasn't hippies. it wasn't radicals and marxists, it was ordinary middle class americans, 2 million taking the day off of school, from work. it was a genuine democratic explosion of anti-war sentiment. >> loss of american support could induce the new leadership in hanoi to press on in the expectation that the united states would quit. >> the october moratorium made nixon go to the mountain top. he went to camp

but vietnam, vietnam was different, especially back at home. while wally had volunteered in 1966, there was growing sentiment in the united states against the war, and that sentiment led some to blame soldiers upon their return. >> i don't know what we did wrong but serve. >> but when you got back, you felt blamed. am i right? >> absolutely. bill, i have never had a feeling like that in my life. and i know many carry that. >> vietnam had all the horrors of war, but wally felt it was wrong to blame the soldiers who had served and fought for their country, felt that deeply. >> i want to impact lives. i'd probably still be working, had i not -- and -- >> how many heart attacks have you had? >> i've had a couple. >> wally's now 70, and he and janice raise money and help vets almost full time, especially near the holidays. they do so with the help of those wally calls 'angels,' who you can find in some surprising places. >> wally'll tell me, "hey, i got a guy that's hard up for somethin', he needs a car, he can't do somethin', and yeah, we just try

troops and the people's army of vietnam, the vietnam archive at texas tech university interviewed veteransthe battle of ia drang valley. these battles the north vietnamese forces began engaging in guerrilla warfare. the americans, outnumbered by the army, prevailed, but at a heavy cost. inxt, an interview with capta l" freeman, a helicopter who flew his unarmed helicopter into landing zone x-

that we are at war not only with south vietnam, but north vietnam and its strong army. ahead light even higher casualties, a point that every g.i. and general is acutely aware of. a point that many feel has not been fully grasped at home. we will not try to get the order of battle. there was none. we will try to give them move and feel of those farm -- five weeks. pleime.tarted at routine attack on this triangle shaped cap. this was a new kind of attack by a new kind of army. this was a full scale sustained atolls by regulars, aimed at wiping pleime off the map. this is what stopped than doing it. american air power. as they attacked our fighter-bombers roared in with rockets, firebombs and guns blazing. heavieste concentration of tactical air power ever unleashed in the vietnam war. nearly 10 bombing missions in our round-the-clock. the united states determined it would not. despite mounting losses, the north the these troops continued to storm the camp perimeter. we were shooting them straight off the wire, said one pilot. they were everywhere, like ants. defender, th

with nixon and vietnam is that he entered office with a plan of vietnamization, but it wasn't that at the beginning. at the beginning, it was this threat, this strategy, to force the north vietnamese to have specific concessions so that the u.s. could exit with credibility and honor, and we haven't talked about the details of what that settlement would be. it is a little bit obligated, but we could talk about this a -- bitbit later, perhaps complicated, but we could talk about this a little bit later, perhaps. imitation -- so vietnamization, or the ization process, began. that would be the withdrawing of the troops and finally by 1972, if all goes well, they would come up with a negotiated agreement. kissinger's strategy was, yes, villa terry escalation -- causation --military escalating. nixon-style version of nuclear threats, but nothing end of nuclear threat making altogether. today, that is called "all of the options are on the table." inay, we believe the stories this book holds important lessons of the past and the future and discusses the uncertainties of nuclear threat making.

troops went to vietnam and shot up to more than 150,000. >> when the unit deploys, to vietnam it redesignated to the cale vary division in air mobile. >> the division had received the first cavalry colors in a meeting ceremony in july. >> it was a famous unit. >> the seventh regulimine and se sported mustaches. >> cab patch is one of the most recognized in the world. >> general canard sported it on an eye patch he had to wear after an injury. >> i took a colored pencil and doodled it in. >> that part of vietnam is where the north voeeotietnamese tried cut the country in half. >> they tried to kill them. we thought was attempting to seize the central house. >> on november 14th, 1965 army intelligence said up to three were operated. >> it was selected on their rek recr recon early that morning. >> he called it landing zone x-ray. he flew the lead chopper. >> he would bring me a scar. >> saved my teeth. i would break down, and i swallowed this cigar. pretty exciting. >> artillery pieces were dropped about ten miles away. >> of course, on the first chopper. wanted to be there and i was on the sec

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troops went to vietnam and shot up to more than 150,000. >> when the unit deploys, to vietnam it redesignated to the cale vary division in air mobile. >> the division had received the first cavalry colors in a meeting ceremony in july. >> it was a famous unit. >> the seventh regulimine and se sported mustaches. >> cab patch is one of the most recognized in the world. >> general canard sported it on an eye patch he had to wear after an injury. >> i took a colored pencil and doodled it in. >> that part of vietnam is where the north voeeotietnamese tried cut the country in half. >> they tried to kill them. we thought was attempting to seize the central house. >> on november 14th, 1965 army intelligence said up to three were operated. >> it was selected on their rek recr recon early that morning. >> he called it landing zone x-ray. he flew the lead chopper. >> he would bring me a scar. >> saved my teeth. i would break down, and i swallowed this cigar. pretty exciting. >> artillery pieces were dropped about ten miles away. >> of course, on the first chopper. wanted to be there and i was on the sec

out of the 202 veterans, most of them are vietnam or vietnam-era. >> jim smith is convinced the poor reception gis got was more than some could stand. >> we had a 4-6-hour layover before we could catch a flight and we were attacked. baby killer centrum and all that. the police actually took us. >> they wanted so much and they what you do for them. >> the vietnam veterans that have made this change, they wanted to make sure that this population was not treated the way they were when they came home. be applauded and treated like the others, like heroes. >> i don' t consider myself say -- myself a hero. i think the heroes names are on your wall. 5, chelsea. >> at the v.a. in bedford, groundbreaking research is underway. a brain bank dedicated to the study of post-traumatic stress. the doctors are analyzing hundreds of brain samples, looking forces a call -- looking for physical simples that show signs of pts. their findings will help tailor treatments to veterans living with the condition now. >> there are certain treatments that reduce inflammation, certain treatments that he' ll blood

the cobra and hughie jacks of vietnam agree. technology may have changed but not the men at the controls of today's helicopters. same kind of resolve. they go do the mission the same fierce determination, it's still there. >>> ahead on "war stories" the strong bonds endured to this day among the men that flew or road the helicopters in vietnam. stay with us. at ally bank no branches equals great rates. it's a fact. kind of like playing the boss equals the boss wins. wow! for my frequent heartburnmorning because you can't beat zero heartburn! ahhh the sweet taste of victory! prilosec otc. one pill each morning. 24 hours. zero heartburn. at ally bank no branches equals great rates. it's a fact. kind of like ordering wine equals pretending to know wine. pinot noir, which means peanut of the night. ♪ ♪ >> some of us were over weight, some of us were bald headed and had gray hair. we belong to the same brotherhood. >> in combat with somebody, you got a brotherhood forever, you know. >> and that brother hood of men that fought the bat

the cobra and hughie jacks of vietnam agree. the technology may have changed but not the men at the controls of today's helicopters. same kind of resolve. they go do the mission the same fierce determination, it's still there. >>> ahead on "war stories" the strong bonds endured to this day among the men that flew or road the helicopters in vietnam. stay with us. at ally bank no branches equals great rates. it's a fact. kind of like mute buttons equal danger. ...that sound good? not being on this phone call sounds good. it's not muted. was that you jason? it was geoffrey! it was jason. it could've been brenda. at ally bank no branches equals great rates. it's a fact. kind of like playing the boss equals the boss wins. wow! ♪ ♪ >> some of us were over weight, some of us were bald headed and had gray hair. we belong to the same brotherhood. >> in combat with somebody, you got a brotherhood forever, you know. >> and that brother hood of men that fought the battle may be one of the strongest of all. >> like i said before, the reason

they had hit dozens of cities all over vietnam. it was a tremendous shock. >> we have known for several months now that the communist planned a massive, winter-spring offensive. we do not think that our military operations are going to be at all materially affected. >> he was unable to be honest with the american people, because, of course, he was unwilling to simply say, this is an unwinnable war. >> cronkite's vietnam report, reel one, take four. >> these ruins are in saigon, capital of the largest city of south vietnam. >> when he went to vietnam during tet, it was the first time, and maybe the only time, that walter had shown any kind of bias in his public broadcast. >> it is increasingly clear to this report, that the only rational way out would be to negotiate, not as victors, but as an honorable people who lived up to their pledge to defend democracy and did the best they could. >> after walter cronkite, johnson's popularity sinks. >> to most ordinary citizens, it's become obvious the war is not being won. >> opposition to t

you can find much more from faces of the vietnam war on our website. just go to cbs 2 iowa dot com to learn more about how the war impacted people in the corridor. corridor.earlier tonight, people took in "iowa stories - play, at the r-h-c-r threatre - featured the vietnam war experiences of 18 different iowans.profits from the show were donated to healing our heroes of cedar rapids. students at metro high school got the chance to learn about careers in the military, along with other college and career options with a career and college readiness night. "most of the time they don't know about the careers here in the corridor area and we have a lot of jobs that are out there that are gonna need people when they get out into the corridor." corridor."over 25 different organizations were on hand for the event. this event also educated students on potential credits they can earn now to ease the stress when they get to college. that is cbs 2 news ten at ten -- the corridor's top stories and tomorrow's weather first forecast in the first ten minutes. minutes.b

the vietnam war ended.. nearly three-million americans served in vietnam... representing 10 percent of their generation.. 58-thousand men died.. and four decades later... the vietnam war is still a wound the nation as a whole is trying to heal.. 10:28- this is a huey dh1 d model. first had a,b,c,d. most of us know him as a former u-s congressman... but before serving in the iowa state senate... and u-s house.. 10:56- i spent hundreds of hours in this type of helicopter. leonard boswell served in the u-s military... 8:42- and im lucky to be standing here today. and i know that. he was a helicopter pilot during the vietnam war... two of the types of choppers he flew are here at the gold star museum at camp dodge... a place where memories come quickly.. 24:15- the night i went the first time. i put the children to bed. we were down in southern iowa on the farm. and my middle daughter came out and said, daddy, i dont want you to go. 9:18- there was a lot of taking of lives. but it was pretty special to save someones life. 9:24 something he was called to do many t

its what drove jerry to go back to vietnam.. volunteering for tour after tour of duty.. 57:48- i had to. im a professional soldier. and i wanted to get even for one thing. and i did. on my second tour. / 58:00- it did cost me a marriage eventually because my wife could never understand why i had to go back. i got a lot of the hate out of me when i went back. for losing all my friends. 58:14 his duty in combat earned him the silver star.. and he still has the uniform he was wearing the day he was shot down.. 5:52- this is the jacket i had on when i was in the jungle at asho valley. 5:56 but he doesnt need the reminders.. almost 50 years later.. it is still hard to talk about.. jerry says.. its too depressing.. 5:14- very much. but you have to speak of it because you dont want peoples names to die in vain. and there was a lot of us iowans over there. i was one of the lucky ones... lucky.. but left with a lifetime of anniversaries that will never allow the

i think that one thing we learned from vietnam, oftentimes the people who serve in vietnam were, the individuals, were detested, they were spat upon, they were not welcomed home. i think we learned from that, that even if someone thinks the iraq war was not a good idea, i think everybody who serve their has been welcomed home and has been made to feel welcomed. we haven't made that same mistake again. on the other hand, i think it is, i'm happy we have a volunteer service. i think they are very professional. they are better, more qualified probably than they've ever been, but the trade off is that the people who fought in iraq and afghanistan feel very isolated because it's not a war that, i mean, there were some days when i would think section 60 is the only place you would know there's a war going on because there's no war tax, no gas rationing, no draft, none of the shared sacrifice that we have associate with earlier wars. so i think we are still grappling with that, and i think it is, it's an aspect of our recent conflicts in the all-volunteer force that we're still grappling wi

the front claimed to have a base behind enemy lines in vietnam. phong revealed the camp's real location, in the jungles of thailand. he wasn't ju editorializing against the front. he was endangering their military enterprise. bangkok, thailand. the u.s. has a long, close relationship with the military here. from the vietnam war when thailand was a base for covert missions, to the war on terror when it hosted a cia black site. i arrive in bangkok a year into a military coup. a junta of generals rules the country in the name of the monarchy. but if the generals are in power, maybe it will be easier for them to speak. >> that year that armitage stay no more... >> thompson: chavalit yongchaiyudh was prime minister of thailand in the '90s, but he prefers to be referred to by his military rank of general. the group that we're looking at was called the front and our understanding is that you set up a camp on the border with laos. do you remember the front? >> thompson: and they were operating with the acknowledgment of the thai government there on the bo

heart is still over in vietnam... with his comrade who never came home. 2:33- we all have our ghost. its what drove jerry to go back to vietnam.. volunteering for tour after tour of duty.. 57:48- i had to. im a professional soldier. and i wanted to get even for one thing. and i did. on my second tour. / 58:00- it did cost me a marriage eventually because my wife could never understand why i had to go back. i got a lot of the hate out of me when i went back. for losing all my friends. 58:14 his duty in combat earned him the silver star.. and he still has the uniform he was wearing the day he was shot down.. 5:52- this is the jacket i had on when i was in the jungle at asho valley. 5:56 but he doesnt need the reminders.. almost 50 years later.. it is jerry says.. its too depressing.. 5:14- very much. but you have to speak of it because you dont want peoples names to die in vain. and there was a lot of us iowans over there. i was one of the lucky ones... lucky.. but left with a lifetime of anniversaries that will never a

. >> the same thing in vietnam, i can remember as a vietnam veteran. it was the same sort of differentiation. >> my case was they were doing counterinsurgency and i went out in the vetted. in afghanistan i said to myself they are going to come back to do public service. i hadn't thought of that but it was probably right. he and paul went to work. in fact they are both acknowledged in the same paragraph. not in the same sentence. >> anyway i really look forward to reading it. >> there you are. who is following you? >> c-span. >> assistant secretary of state. [inaudible] one of the best overseas ambassadors that we have. [inaudible] >> the main thing was and i gave them -- [inaudible conversations] >> i have been to the middle east a number of times. >> i hadn't been out on patrol before. >> i wouldn't do that now. how did you like it? >> i liked it a lot. these guys, you should really be getting to spend more time with them. it would really be great if you could coordinate with them. they are brilliant. i was there today. [inaudible conversations] [inau

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treated vietnam as a second-tier issue until 1963.had his domestic challenges. he sent troops to train the south vietnamese army. but he wasn't happy about it. >> in the final analysis, it's their war. they're the ones that have to win it or lose it. we can help them, give them equipment. send our men out there as advisors. but they have to win it. the people of vietnam against the communists. >> kennedy felt that the united states had to draw a line against communist expansion but the soviets supported the north vietnam regime. we supported the south. >> it's what becomes known as the domino theory. if south vietnam falls, then all the rest of southeast asia laos, cambodia, the philippines, they might be defeated. >> as i believe i reported upon my return from previous visits, i'm very much encouraged by the progress the south vietnamese have been making and the assist our forces have rendered to them. >> when vietnam started up, they believed that they so expertly micro managed the cuban missile crisis that they can do the same in t

in the mean time, company is increasing investment in vietnam, a member of the tpp. new factory there will be completed next month. a company plans to employ 5,000 workers in the factory and more than double production in vietnam. raja lee is the company's ceo saying the tpp was an added bonus for his investment plan in vietnam. 80% of his firm's products are exported to the united states. he says the u.s. imposes a nearly 20% hike on those items, but goods made in vietnam, well, they are skracrapped once the t is in effect. >> for tpp, when we plan to invest further in vietnam, we knew there were negotiations going on for tpp so customers will be happy to move production to vietnam. >> reporter: the company currently uses chinese textiles in garments exported to the u.s. under tpp, tariffs remain in place from apparel made from textile manufacturers in nonmember countries such as china, so lee decided to source more textiles from malaysia that signed on to their free trade pact and plans to build a textile factory in vietnam to concentrate a full range of operations

they said you will be going to vietnam .. and that was an eye opener. " " booom boom ratatatatatat chop ron says he was lucky - most of his platoon - ended up in the snake and viet cong infested jungles - he was ordered to guard convoys and the u-s base atlong bihn. he did his duty - even met bob hope entertaining the troops - finished his tour - took off his uniform - and on his first night back home with friends in iowa - realized - he coululnever* talk abououit again. again." i had a fairly good tan and they said where have you been, florida .. and my younger brother said no he just got back from vietnam .. and it was like hush .. nobodydy wanted to talk about it. " " i was in world war two fella and i know what it's about. " ron knew what was happening back home - this was not* his father's war. even before he left - a clasas he wiwiessed at the university of iowa - convinced him - he was more hawk - than dove. dove." when i saw the protestors reacting the way they did .. it bothered me. " " it was pacifism .. i didn't be

the same thing in vietnam. come back -- [inaudible] >> the theory was that -- they were doing the insurgency, and i said to myself, they're going to come back with a -- i called petraeus, and he said i hadn't thought of that. he said, think you're probably right. so he and -- went to work and found the people. >> really. >> the fact is, acknowledged in the same paragraph and not in the same sentence. [inaudible] >> making a movie about you? >> now, here's the guy you got to meet. [inaudible] [inaudible] [inaudible] [inaudible] >> the main thing was when i gave him -- [inaudible] [inaudible] [inaudible] >> i hadn't been out in an area that was 90% taliban controlled. >> i do that now. >> how are you. >> how do you like it? >> i like it a lot. >> that's great. >> we have to get together and talk about it. these guys, these guys you should really be getting to spend more time with because they've had trouble with usaid in the past. trying to coordinate with them. they're so good at doing disaster relief. they're b

they plan to investment further in vietnam, we knew they were negotiating the tpp. i think customers will be happy to move the production to vietnam. >> reporter: the company currently uses chinese textiles in garments it exports to the u.s. but under the tpp tariffs will remain in place on apparel made from textiles manufactured in nonmember countries such as china. so li has decided to source more textiles from malaysia, which has signed onto the free trade pact. he also plans to build a textile factory in vietnam so that he can contemplate the full range of operations from procurement through production and shipment within the tpp zone. his lab since labor costs in vietnam are less than half those in china, li thinks more will follow his example. >> it will change because more and more people will see business opportunities to set up textile mills, thread factories in tpp countries. and i think that that will continue to happen. >> reporter: officials in hong kong say the impact of the tpp is spreading to other industries as well. >> garment industries are lookin

vietnam is betting high-tech know-how from japan can keep it a step ahead. the trend is a win-win for many small japanese firms, too. >> reporter: japan and vietnam held a joint economic forum in hanoi in october. japanese companies encouraged vietnam to enter its manufacturing, paying special attention to production. asia's many hubs, china and thailand, are losing their edge as labor costs rise. cambodia and myanmar are emerging as low-cost alternatives. but vietnam's strategy bet on tech. >> translator: developing the manufacturing parts industry is a priority for the vietnamese government. collaborating with partsmakers from japan, we want to strengthen technology transfers and nurture the workforce. >> reporter: local governments from japan are ready to facilitate such collaboration. they see vietnam as an overseas growth opportunity for small and medium-sized japanese enterprises in their areas. another prefecture west of tokyo launched its own industrial park near hanoi in october. with so-called rental factories. to help kanagawa companies expand in

influenceso try to vietnam's politics. the government will be having a political transition next year during the party congress in which new leaders will be taking different positions, and the concern from china is that those in the government now who are more favorable to developing closer relations with the united states and our much more critical of china will gain even more power. the united states and vietnam have been inching closer in their diplomatic ties. there have been talks of even military cooperation. president obama could visit hanoi before the end of his term. so all of this unnerves china. study same time, that noted that 80% of the enemies hold favorable views of the nine states. will havexi jinping his work cut out for them as he launches a public relations campaign. rishaad: thank you very much. talking about president xi jinping, he is meeting the president of taiwan. the taiwanese leaders sang the -- and said the united states was notified about the meeting, but they were not instrumental in getting t

in the meantime, the company is increasing its investment in vietnam. a member of the tpp. a new factory thereill be completed next month. a cpany plans to employ 5,000 workers in the factory and more than double production in vietnam. roger lee is the company's ceo. he says the tpp was an added bonus for his investment plan in vietnam. 80% of his firm's pructs are exported to the u.s. he says the u.s. currently charges 20% tariffs on those items, but tariffs of items made in vietnam will be eliminated. >> we think customers will be happy to move production to vietnam. >> reporter: the company currently uses chinese textiles in garments it scpoerts to the u.s. but under the tpp tariffs will remain on tariffs on items made in non-member countries. lee plans to build a textile factory in vietnam so he can concentrate the full range of operations from procurement to production and shipment within the tpp zone. since labor costs in vietnam are less than half those in china, lee thinks more companies will follow his example. >> i definitely think the whole supply chain will chan

look at the vietnam memorial. it took 20 or 30 years for that to take root. it takes time for things to settle down, for skies to begin healing, focus on that sort of thing. iraq and afghanistan are too recent for there to be any memorial at the moment. >> the museum in quantico opening iraq and afghanistan in 2018, i am not aware of anyone else's building, have you been in touch with people about that? >> i have not. that is a great museum and anyone who hasn't missed it happened recommended it. it is the best. iraq and afghanistan, it should. that is another thing. section 60 is characteristic of the most recent wars. the marines always do their part and then some. you really see what sacrifice they made and you also see something else that is characteristic of recent wars, the importance of special ops. it has become increasingly important in all that we do because there are so many special locks people out there, you see fighting, doing things out in the world. they are very well represented, section 60, many of them. not just people killed in action. it

its what drove jerry to go back to vietnam.. volunteering for tour after tour of duty.. 57:48- i had to. im a professional soldier. and i wanted to get even second tour. / 58:00- it did cost me a marriage eventually because my wife could never understand why i had to go back. i got a lot of the hate out of me when i went back. for losing all my friends. him the silver star.. and he still has the uniform he was wearing the day he was shot down.. 5:52- this is the jacket i was in the jungle at asho valley. 5:56 but he doesnt need the reminders.. almost 50 years later.. it is still hard to talk about.. jerry says.. its too depressing.. 5:14- very much. but you have to speak of it because you dont want peoples names to die in vain. and there was a lot of us iowans over there. i was one of the lucky ones... .. but left with a lifetime of anniversaries that will never allow the wounds of war... to fully heal. eight years ago, jerry meek and his wife established a scholarship in delbert petersons name. it is presented annually to an ai

and now this new portrait, and particularly in vietnam. that was, how many people, i was at, yesterday, at the army war college in carlisle, pennsylvania, speaking to 400 colonels and lieutenant colonels who were there at the school. and one of the questions i asked of them, and these are the best in the u.s. army who are going to be the generals some day. i said how many of you think the vietnam war made since? and they were six hands that went up. they will never make a general. [laughter] but six hands, and you know, this is, vietnam is in our history and culture, and it is agony in this country. and to discover that the commander-in-chief was bombing the bejesus out of the country and people, and continued this war, you know, something, i think, i was in the navy, you know, that is unthinkable that is not as bad as watergate because nothing is as bad as watergate but it is a moral failing that is really significant to understand because we get into wars, and we've seen presidents in wars recently who, i did for books on george w. bush'

"to me it's a sign that that they're giving back to me for what we've done in vietnam," said vietnam veteran cherokee, iowa vfw the freedom rock was unloaded to the courthouse lawn. design plans will begin soon and they hope to begin painting it by 2017. sioux city public transit will be providing free rides to all active and former veterans this veteran's day. on november 11th, for a free bus ride, all veterans have to do is tell their bus driver what branch of the armed forces they were in and the period of their active duty. a big milestone surrounding the bird flu outbreak in iowa. today, state agricultural officials lifted the quarantine of all commercial poultry farms in the state. that includes 72 facilities. that means all the site have been cleaned and disinfected and clear of the virus. bill northey says we're at least a month away from knowing whether or not the state has made it through an addition exposure to the virus. bird flu affected 31- and-a-half million egg producing, chicken and turkey flocks. all turkey farms should have birds in barn by the middle of next month

lauren moss- now, i spoke to numerous vietnam vets all with rrognition. don hines- "after serving, we got rid of our uniforms, let our hair grow and didn't tell anybody what we did. we were classified as bay killers and there was so much againint the war at that time, so we just reporting. the musuem offered free admission to all of the veterans today. cedar falls high school students remembering those who served with an assembly this morning -- they listened to a special guest speaker who served in vietnam. in werloo, students at west high school participated in an assembly for veterans day... students getting to watch a movie which featured west high school alumni who served our country. while we remember those who have served,some troops are getting eady to ship out... the 649th regional support group out of cedar rapids will be deploying as a part of operation enduring freedom. the unit will be gone for a year but first, they're training -- spending time at the armed forces reserve center in cedar rapids. these vehicles are similar to the ones they wi

jack harper has some of their stories. >> clearly vietnam veterans did most of our returning veterans do today. >> father patrick healy served two tours in vietnam and will never forget the brutal homecoming some men received. >> when we landed in san francisco, there were organized groups that wanted to harass the soldiers that were come back, you know. made them feel very despondent. >> some of the veterans at the chelsea soldier's home were absolutely certain the lack of support and outright hostility helped push many returning g.i.'s over the edge. >> the amount of alcohol and drug abuse is horrendous. >> i stayed at the shelter for a couple of months and was unemployed for almost 10 years. >> ray is one of thousands who spent time for homeless vets in boston. it's estimated on any given shelters or on the streets, and a majority of them, vietnam vets. >> out of the 200 or 300 people i kept in contact with afterwards probably 2/3 of them ended up getting divorced and it because of how we were. >> today's returning combat veterans are often helped with housing and employment. it's

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made the disastrous decision to ramp up its involvement in vietnam.ident obama repeating the same mistake? we're going to talk to someone who can really talk to this, lieutenant colonel bill cowan served more than three years in vietnam as a marine and continues service to our country in a variety of different roles since then. of it's nice to have you, as always, on the program. >> nice to be with you, jenna. thank you for inviting me. jenna: we have some photos i have never seen before of you serving in vietnam, and i want to show our viewers the handsome young man, if you don't mind me saying, that was stationed over there and spent a great deal of time in vietnam. what do you make of this comparison? we hear it a lot with different wars at different times. how do you think it applies to syria? >> well, look, jenna, you know, we started putting advisers in vietnam in the early '60s. by the mid '60s, we were still not winning that war by all accounts, and we started putting ground troops in. when we look at these 50 advisers going into syria, we hav

vietnam, in our history and culture it is in agony in this country. to discover that the commander-in-chief was bombing the crap out of a country and people and continued this war is something that i -- like i said i was in the navy in the 60s, this was unthinkable. it is not as bad as watergate because nothing is going to be as bad as watergate. it is a moral failing that is really significant to understand because we get into wars and we have seen presidents and wars recently who, i did four books on george w. bush's wars and the politics enters and why did we have that war, do we get out of it, can we get out of it? when i did a book on obama and i went to see him and interview him, i asked him about war and gave him a quote from a book that rick atkins had done and just as war corrupts everyone in stains every heart. obama says if you -- read my nobel prize acceptance speech. while i had seen seen it, i had read it. i if you have ever seen something and read something and not understood it, that's me. and i went back and read it and there it is he

nixon's quaker mother unsure was upset, but nixon on vietnam inherited a terrible war. we have 550,000 men in the country when he became president. he took a long time to get us ts out, more than four years, too long. too many young american men died but he had a very, he faced a very difficult problem getting us out of that war. he wanted to get that kind out with honor. you can mock and ridicule but i think nixon was sincere about trying to do that. the north vietnamese were difficult to deal with. he thought he could get help from china and russia. he finally got it in small ways but not really. he felt stock in that war and frustrated by it and he would lash out, and a lot of young men had to die post the text message, how does nixon make his comeback after loss to california election for governor? >> guest: famously nixon said after loss that raised you won't have dick nixon to kick around anymore. and people thought he was finished, that was his obituary. but nixon was a guy who never gave up. he said to his friend if i don't get back into public life i'm going to

married,er you got vietnam. how did that unfold? i knew you knew you would have to go to vietnam while you were in the white house. i've beenbb: requesting overseas expeditionary duty for years. i always got much more time than i asked for. i would doubt that there is anybody during the. of the decade that i served in the marine corps that had as many good assignments as i did. some nice things happened, and each thing seem to influence -- seemed to influence the next. the marines gave me better assignments. should go back a little bit. my first assignment after quantico as i was on the north hampton. ship on very secret which the president of the united states was prepared to fight a nuclear war. we had then, president kennedy, and the joint chiefs and the senior and ranking members of the armed services and intelligence committee, they all came out and spent two days at sea with us. on the second day, in the morning, all the available ships, and i think every ship that was not in dry dock that was deemed to be available on 81 man-

itame back from vietnam, happened after vietnam, it happened after korea.re are 14,000 positions in the v.a. that are unfilled. >> how often do you think about your service? >> there is not a data goes by that i don't think about my service. i had an experience, just to put it mildly. ir many years i wondered if had done things differently if the outcome might have been different. you can choose what happens. you need to move beyond that. i have brothers who struggle with ptsd, cancer, you name it. i think about them every day. i think about my brothers on the wall every day. what can i do to help them by helping others? mr. priest from farmington hills, michigan. thank you for your time. host: one of our nation's veterans there with the veterans memorial behind him talking to c-span. he pointed in the direction of the capital when he said lawmakers need to think about -- when they say we are going to war -- what needs to happen with the veterans affairs department. "the washington times" this morning with this quote, hillary clinton vowing to fix the v.a.'

they came from vietnam. later, most of them came from bosnia. they opened stores and helped revive the economy. local authorities were keen to ensure the new arrivals started working straight away. these days, 69% of the population supports giving refugees asylum. robert palmieri is the mayor of utica, and he's very hands-on in his job. here, he's visiting a refugee from myanmar. mayor palmieri: i'm telling you, this gentleman has been here for eight years. you have a house that is freshly painted. you have a lot of pride. you have someone who has put a house back on the tax rolls. he is raising our family in our city to grow. the benefits far outweigh anything we could ever ask for. reporter: a few problems are inevitable. the mayor doesn't mind taking a tough line when he feels he needs to. mayor palmieri: some people with chickens are slaughtering lambs. it's a way of life. but they're in america now and we have codes. you can't have unopened room in your house -- have an open grill in your house. reporter: once class is over, fatuma heads ho

>> i mean, vietnam was a very interesting time for arpa. and many different programs came out of it. i mean, they were working on, as you say, soft science, anthropology be programs. they were also working on conventional weapons. the ar-15 was a darpa weapon, it's now the m-16. there were early gliders which led to stealth technology. but the one that i found the most impactful was the idea of sensor technology. the ho chi minh trail was sort of dreaded problem of the pentagon, and all of the fighters, the insurgents would come from the north to the south by way of this trail. and the secretary of defense tasked the jason scientists with figuring out a way to stop this. they really saw it almost like it was a human, and it needed, you know, to have its artery severed. and the jason scientists in a lot of their documents spoke about it that way. it was really like that was the locus. and so they tried, they thought about nuclear weapons. that was not an option. it was discussed. and then this idea of an electronic fence which the reason tha