in vietnam, and in fact he spent christmas with us in vietnam. we stay in touch with all of those people we served this, and al served for 30 years, and so people he served with, served in vietnam with us. i stayed in touch with several of my nurses friends, and then we got active here in georgia with the vietnam vets. in fact, vietnam vets, we're client of clannish. i think i can say that. we're very clannish. i think that's our protective mechanism clicking in, and there's just so many people that came inside the circle. >> yeah. >> kind of funny. >> was it difficult readjusting to life after the war? >> well, you know, i have analyzed that, and i often wondered why al and i did not end up with some of the ptsd and some of our fellow vets. i think it was because al was assigned to the 82nd, and he became an italian commander -- >> as a combat engineer? >> yeah. >> yeah? >> yeah, he was the commander of the 82nd airborne division, and then he became the g forward of the division. everybody at ft. bragg were either there or going. our farewell pa

some 58,000 us military personnel died in vietnam. and there were many tens of thousands of deaths of combatants and civilians in the country's of southeast asia during a 20 year period from 1955 to 1975. america's troop presence in vietnam was most pronounced from 1965 until 1963. it peaked. in 1969 with more than 540,000 us military personnel in the country. and they were deployed there. to help prevent the communist north of vietnamese from consolidating their power over the southern portion of the country over south vietnam, which a us ally at the time. this turned out to be a losing struggle in 1975 north vietnamese forces took over the south and consolidated their power. the last us forces had been withdrawn from vietnam two years before. the us began to deploy combat troops to vietnam in 1965. and by 19 by the end of 1967. the johnson administration was characterizing the war. as improving as having reason to believe that there was optimism ahead that the course of the war was progressing well. those rather upbeat characterizat

military action in vietnam. and unlike the cases, say of william randolph hearst and yellow journalism and the spanish-american war, the cronkite moment cast journalist and more heroic terms. asserting the journalists -- that journalists can make a difference, a policy difference as they tell truth to power. so at the essence, that is the cronkite moments implications. cronkite's words were supposedly so powerful that night that they supposedly swung american public opinion against the war in vietnam. in supposedly, cronkite's assessments came as a sudden, decisive, clarifying epiphany to the president of the united states, lyndon johnson. johnson, upon hearing cronkite's televised assessment, supposedly said something to the effect of, if i've lost cronkite, i've lost middle america. or something along those lines. and a month later, lyndon johnson announced that he would not seek another term as u.s. president. that's a rarity. seldom do sitting presidents announced that they are not going to seek reelection.

i have visited vietnam many times. and speaking now from that experience and his commander in chief of our armed forces. i feel it is my duty. speak up. for the two and a half million fine young americans who have served in vietnam. the atrocity charges and individual cases should not and cannot be allowed reflect on their courage. and their self-sacrifice war is a terrible and cruel experience for a nation. and it's particularly terrible and cruel. for those who bear the burden of fighting but never in history. have men fought for less selfish motives. for conquest not for glory only for the right of a people far away. to choose the kind of government they want. and while we here and read much of isolated acts of cruelly. we do not hear enough of the tens of thousands of individual american soldiers. i've seen them there. building schools rose hospitals clinics who through countless acts of generosity and kindness? tried to help the people. south vietnam we can. and we should be very proud of these men. they deserve n

vietnam. this trick attorney, navy, vietnam. -- district attorney, navy -- vietnam.re are people who came home and decided to do something. we decided when president bush ii declared war, that we were not going to let the men and women who are serving today come home to what we came home to. because, they were our sons and daughters, and in some cases, they were our grandchildren. we made up our minds, matter fact, my husband who was president of the georgia vietnam vets chapter one said, if we are the only one standing on the overpasses waving the flag for these young men and women, we will be the ones who welcome them home. a lot of vietnam vets went down and volunteered at the uso's all over the country. i think our experience made the american people realize that they had tolerated some things that they should not have tolerated. interviewer: what were the emotions in the heart of your tour? donna: sometimes i got angry. because they were too young to be so mutilated. sometimes -- i never got depressed. i don't remember being depressed. my emotion, sometimes i wa

and to the idea that you were in vietnam. and you were working in their rice paddies where walter cronkite was reporting nightly. this was the real world. and that night you the unit could be attacked was attacked, you know. once you began to realize that this was your a lot. everything had the fall online. to the extent you could but what i was not prepared for was the kind of segregation that they began to take place. after five o'clock black troops and back the barracks and hung out together. and listen to soul music and talked. white troops went back the barracks. back to their groups and talked we might share a drink. in the mess hall or the place where we were able to do that. but there was a sense that there was unequal treatment and resentment directed at the leadership. for fostering or not dispelling the business that was developing and i think what it was occurring was that. black soldiers were being reprimanded and reduced and rank. and given dishonorable discharges for infractions of military law in purport this

donna roe served as vietnam army nurse during the vietnam war. up next she describes her, training experiences, and interactions with the enemies people. this interviews from the veterans project and was conducted by the atlanta centers keenan research center. >> how old were you when you went to vietnam? >> i was 24. >> 24. >> what was your family status? >> i was married to my husband al who was also in the military and we want together. and at home was my sister, brother, mother, and father back in massachusetts. >> and your hometown? >> sterling, massachusetts. small town. 750 people outside of worcester, massachusetts. >> outside worcester. >> what year was it that he went to vietnam? >> i was in vietnam, 68 69. >> what was your sense of the vietnam war before you decided to enter the military? >> appetite and have much of a sense of it at all. the way that i entered the military was that the army nurse corps and the navy nurse corps came around to different nursing schools, and they had formulated the stood nervous program which was a rotc

it's like they knew we would we were vietnam historic tours. all vietnam veterans. but they didn't care about that. they just knew we were a tourist group and we stayed at nice hotel. it was fabulous. it was family went up north to danang where the marines we had a contingent so marines with us because that's what they thought. and we went up there. we went to all those battlefields it got emotional for one or two guys one guy got shot in the leg. he could he we went right to where he got nailed. it was unbelievable. we went right up to caisson where i fall out of caisson when some of the guys had fought in the okay sign battle and it was that area right there. if you go back that's a museum a first class museum and naturally it's tilted towards how they beat us back and all that, but it was great i said, i want to bring my grandson to say if you want to know what it was because i've got pictures of me in the dirt and a dust and digging holes in case on because we lived on the ground i said, oh man when you get old enough, i took him to europe two years ago to see p

vietnam is my war and my library, i have as many books here about the vietnam war totally. like i said, the ninth division had already went home from four corps, the 25th was on its way going home. the fourth infantry division was back in kansas. the 173rd had already went home. the americal division had already went home. all of the first cav, 101st and whatever was the marine corps. they moved around like roaches in a puerto rican kitchen. they were everywhere. this guy tells me he's there '70, '71. i said, where did you go to jump school at? he said ft. hood. i'm like, that's wrong. and i'm with jean, and he looks at me, and he says, clyde, did he say something wrong. i said, i don't know right now. so we ate lunch and i knew, i really knew. so i said, gene, look up -- and now with your iphone you can google anything. i said, gene, just so i'm not going to taint this, google 82nd airborne vietnam, it will come right up. wikipedia. it comes up bigger than dallas, you know. '68, '69. he brought him in for tech. and they went right back home. they're a quick reaction force.

the government of south vietnam. both men in the resources, the americans enforcing corruption and destroying the vietnamese society. stunning work. next slide please. and here's caitlin, the australian bring you can see her sister anna, she was talking about the story, she gave a full a attention and her intelligence. she writes, thinking that she could cover this. they had the same goal against women as the americans did the australians actually enforced it. and the americans have been convinced not to enforcement in vietnam. so this is one of which weighs that the few women before kate, including katrina had convinced them to suspend it. let the woman stay in the field as long as they didn't cause any problems. it hasn't turned out, that became permanent. in these women effectively opened the way for women of the future cover the war. but kate, made her name first of all always, she was a freelancer but kate made it in 1968 in january at the beginning of the - remind everyone a turning point of the war. january is

marine during the vietnam war. he talks about his initial reluctance to serve in vietnam and his lone journey to meet his unit in caseson. >> tell us a little bit about your upbringing. >> preacher's kid. huge family. great time as a kid. i kind of began to realize that we were poor by the time i started into junior high school. i never understood or knew what that meant because we were always happy. we had -- at the time i was coming along -- i was the seventh of what at that point was eight children. seven of my mom's plus my older brother of my dad's. and at that time, six of us were still in the house. shotgun house. okay? i learned many years later what shotgun house meant. but nonetheless, there was a front room which served as the living room and my mom and dad's bedroom. and then there was the kids' room. and there were three girls over in the one bed and three guys, three boys on the other side. and i can remember in the kitchen you went out the back door to go into the kitchen. and of course we had no pow

you are quite alone in vietnam.ou are at every moment obligated to be that upbeat more row person at any event, whether -- upbeat more row person --morale person. we would go out on a mission to go different places. it meant we were serving the special forces teams all over the country. they were in groups of 10 or 12 men. we were assisting them in trying to teach them how to work in isolated areas. we would go out in helicopters to land at their surprised in all of these way out places and serve them kool-aid and play again. -- a game. the idea of being available all of the time even in the evening, you had no time off. even though you were with another doughnut dolly on trips out, you might go to six or seven places in a day and meet 20 people here, 50 people here, whatever. but because you needed to spread yourself thin, when you came back, you are immediately scooped up the moment you walked in. you always meeting new people. people ask me if i remember so-and-so. going out in the morning at dawn and going on a

i later saw him in vietnam. another fellow i learned about recently who was not in my class but we hung out together in san diego, he played host to me when i came into vietnam when i was trying to work my way up to my base. i never saw any of these people again. i go to marine air force base beaufort and great. marine air wing 31 was stationed there along with marine air wing 32, each of which had three flying squadrons and about three or four of the total six flying squadrons were f4, b phantom jets. the other squadron was an f8 crusader squadron. at the time the structure was that each of the marine groups would have three flying squadrons and a headquarters and maintenance squadron and airbase squadron. i was in the airbase squadron. airbase squadron 31. they no longer have that designation. it has subsumed into a different type of structure. by the way, while i was in san diego i kind of came to a realization that gee, i miss my dad and i realize how right he was. i wrote him a long letter and we reconciled

in vietnam. and another fellow who i just learned about recently. who was not in my class, but we hung out together in san diego. he played host to me when i first came into vietnam when i was trying to work my way up to my base, but never saw any of these people again, and so i go to marine career station beaufort and great. with marine air wing at that time marina wing 31 was stationed there along with marine air wing 32 each of which had three flying squadrons squadrons and at that time. about four three or four of the total six flying squadrons were f4 b phantom jets. probably a couple of a4 skyhawk jet squadrons, and then the other squadron was an f8 crusader squadron anyway. at the time the structure was that each of the marine air groups would have three flying squadrons and a headquarters and maintenance squadron and an air base squadron and i was in the air base squadron marine air base squadron 31, they no longer have that designation. it's been subsumed into a different type of structu

and the results of the specific context of the vietnam war. the fact that refugees were fleeing a region where the united states had been directly involved in years of brutal warfare heightened american sense of obligation. americans were particularly committed admitting southeast asian refugees who had worked closely with the us military with the cia as translators in the diplomatic corps. americans who had worked in vietnam felt terrible about potentially abandoning their southeast asian colleagues. and other refugee advocates argued that americans must aid and admit southeast asian refugees who suffering was the direct consequence of us military action. for some religious people accepting refugees for resettlement was an act of penance for america's sins in vietnam. just as powerful as american guilt was the idea of american goodness. pride in american compassion and generosity spurred americans to take action the idea that the united states with the benevolent leader of the free world also converged with religious ideas the idea that the u

i will end up in vietnam. i will be dead so what's the point. he says no, why don't you go to the university of nebraska, omaha where i am teaching and i will make it possible for you to get teaching assistant. little did i know, by going there i would become the first black student in their graduate history program in the history of that university. >> we will get back to that. it makes me think of, i heard you mention your mother was from birmingham. did you travel south or were you able to -- >> know its closure to the south save stories from the family. parents had migrated to minnesota in 1919. the first branch of the family to migrate in minnesota in 1898. there was a large family of them and they were called the vassars. they were biracial people. by the time they got to minnesota, they married white and passed for white. i was raised in a family where education was paramount. my mother and sisters, nearly all of them went to college and finished. as children we were all admonished to be in college. >> let's transition to your early days

and i came back from vietnam. i didn't like crowds much myself, and i walked out there in those woods and for the first time ever. uncle jig started telling me about his service and what he saw in the new guinea campaign and things like that, but they didn't think it was worth. talking to you if you did not understand what they had gone through. and i understand it stood that a whole lot more when i had gone through it myself. sure you did. so, what did you do after you got out of high school? i went to college for six weeks. and those six weeks stood me in good stead. i was the campus stringer for the local daily newspaper in victoria, texas. the victoria daily advocate and it to me, it was a junior college and to me it just seemed like an extension of high school and i'd had that right up to here. so i i was i just turned 17. and i i was begging my mother to sign the papers so i could enlist in the army. i wanted out of south, texas. i wanted out of texas and i wanted out of school. and i finally browbeat the po

air force during the vietnam war. he was held in north vietnam as a prisoner of war for five years. up next he recount his years in a captivity including his torture. this was conducted by the atlantic history centers research center. >> i grew up on a farm near athens georgia. this was growing up in the fifties, i was born in 1943. growing up in the fifties on the farm and my grandfather had been a farmer, we live with him or he live with us, we moved in when my grandmother died, and took care of my grandfather. he was kind of winding down on his farming days. we still had mules, we had a pair of mules when i was really young. we

so we ought to let the refugees from vietnam in. throughout the cold war, americans continued to feel a special obligation to people who were fighting against communism. people who were the less fortunate human beings who faced retribution and persecution. and this was also another reason why a lot of americans were open to accepting southeast asian refugees. a 1986 poll found that a majority of respondents agreed that the united states should accept political refugees who were specifically fleeing communist countries. and there was also the specific context of the vietnam war. the fact that refugees were fleeing a region where the united states had been directly involved in years of brutal welfare heightened american's sense of obligation. americans were particularly committed to admitting southeast asian refugee who is had worked closely with the u.s. military, the cia, as translators or in the diplomatic corps. americans who had worked in vietnam felt terrible about potentially abandoning their southeast asian colleagues. other r

i want to go cover the vietnam war. he said i just sent a second american to saigon, we will never need more than that. and, i do better. but, i thought i will hide and watch. i worked on the tokyo desk. writing all of the china stories. and all the copy from asia came through to be edited, rewritten, shortened, lengthened, sent to new york. and, that is what i did for a few months. but, then things got hot. in march of 65, the first marines landed. and, the pressure was on. my boss was having to send people in temporary duty. so we cover this. finally, he just said ok, you are going. get on the plane. early april of 65, i was on a plane to vietnam. i got there, took a couple of days to get the accreditation cards and everything. i got on ac 123 flight, stopping at every town and basic vietnam. and, i was in the war. i was in it so quick i had not even got to the black market to buy fatigues. and boots. i was wearing chinos and loafers. and, i even have a picture of myself on my first combat operation. i got to danang,

marine during the vietnam war. he talks about his initial reluctance to serve in vietnam, and his journey to meet his unit in the case on. part of the vietnam war oral histories conducted by the atlanta history centers and the research center for the veterans history project. watch tonight beginning at 8 pm eastern and enjoy american history tv every weekend on+++ f america exploring the american story watch american history tv this weekend on c-span 3 next milton jones recalls his experiences as a us marine during the vietnam war. he talks about his initial reluctance to serve in vietnam and his loan journey to meet his unit in caisson. this interview is part of the veterans history project conducted by the atlanta history center's kenan research center. tell us a little bit about your upbringing. preacher's kid huge family ah great tim a

army nurse during the vietnam war. she describes injuries she treated, the night the hospital came under fire and the impact the job had on her life. this interview is from the veterans history project and was conducted by the atlanta history center's kenan research center. >> i was born and raised in a small town called gettysburg, pennsylvania, very historic place. very small town, my whole family was there, aunts, uncles, grandparents, so it was real easy to have a family relationship. it was my mom and dad and three girls. i was the middle of the three girls. my dad was in world war ii, in the army corps of engineers, served in alaska. his brother, john dierdorf, was a physician and he served in the european tour in belgium and also in the korean conflict. my mother's brother, uncle, his name was jim slaybaugh. he served on the aristony. i wanted to call it something else for a long time. so i did have service people in my family. one of the real highlights of gettysburg is memorial day. when i was a little girl, t

they always talked about vietnam, always. it was like they were preparing us to go whether we were going to be assigned or not. they were pushing for nurses to be o.r. nurses. i knew i was not going to do that because i had done a post in intensive care. my close friend wanted to be an o.r. nurse. she knew that she was going to go to colorado and have a three-month training and she would definitely be sent to vietnam. i, on the other hand, my wish list was for walter reed, which was close to home, hawaii, which i always thought would be great, or something like that. i did not want to go to vietnam. my roommate, diane, she also was from pennsylvania. but we had not known each other basic training. when we found out that the two of us got walter reed together, we decided we look at our woq. walter reed had its own campus for the hospital, but no place for us to live, so we were given -- and i still have it to this day -- my approved places of living in the washington, d.c. area. you have to realize that we were second lieutena

— vietnam? this time it is about a map on the _ vietnam?? this time it is about. a map on the company's website, but we don't know exactly which one it is. first beijing was not happy with that map so china told h and correct it. then the changes made consumers in vietnam angry who said the company was infringing on vietnam's maritime sovereignties —— h&m. we think it has something to do with the south china sea. of course, china claims more than 80% of it but others like the philippines, brunei, malaysia and taiwan claim part of the same area as well, and vietnam has been the most forceful, if you like, nation in pushing back against beijing's claims. as you say it does not been a few busy weeks for h&m, facing a boycott in china for standing up a boycott in china for standing up against human rights abuses in china's xinjiang which produces about one fifth of the world's cotton but this renewed controversy that it finds itself between vietnam and china will be a very tricky one as well because china obviously has a huge market there for t

air force during the vietnam war. he was held in north vietnam as a prisoner of war for five years. up next he recount his years in a captivity including his torture. this was conducted by the atlantic history centers research center. >> i grew up on a farm near athens georgia. this was growing up in the fifties, i was born in 1943. growing up in the fifties on the farm and my grandfather had been a farmer, we live with him or he live with us, we moved in when my grandmother died, and took care of my grandfather. he was kind of winding down on his farming days. we still had mules, we had a pair of mules when i was really young. we sold off the mules, and we had one mule that we use for gardening. and we had a full acre of garden. there was always a lot of work to be done there. we did some farming ourselves, we grew corn and some hay, and some wheat and oats from time to time. and as a 12 and 13 year old boy, i was plowing that mule. in the garden and in the cornfield and so on. so before or shortly before i flew supersonic jets, i was on the south end of a mule. it was a unique exp

you know, i didn't really want to go to vietnam. so my roommate that i actually die in mumper became my roommate she also in pennsylvania, but we had not known each other basic training, but when we found out that the two of us got walter reed together we decided well, we will get our woq. well the issue was when we got to walter reed. there's no such thing as billeting because walter reed had his own campus for the hospital, but no place for us to live. so we were given and i still have it to this day my approved places of living in the washington dc area. well, you have to realize that we were secular lieutenants on very small amount of money and trying to find a place to live that was appropriate for us was harder than what you'd ever think and you only had a week to find your building. we did find one. it was in silver spring which was still quite a drive in the morning to get into walter reed, but diane was in the medical field. and so she went to the wards and i was assigned the recovery room. ago icu the soldiers that we took

donna roe served as vietnam army nurse during the vietnam war. up next she describes her, training experiences, and interactions with the enemies people. this interviews from the veterans project and was conducted by the atlanta centers keenan research center. >> how old were you when you went to vietnam? >> i was 24. >> 24.

vietnam war was america's most severe trauma since churchill spoke in fulton. i think churchill who was pignatious even occasionally bellicose. but was selectively so would have approved of the words of karl malantes has spoken about vietnam. mylanta's was a decorated combat marine in vietnam before he wrote one of the great novels of that war. matterhorn or lentes regrets he says quote. that the prudence we learn from our involvement in indochina has been widely derided as vietnam syndrome. or rent is good is on to say if by vietnam syndrome, we mean the belief that the us should never again engage in a military interventions in foreign civil wars without clear objectives and a clear exist strategy. be nation building in countries about whose history and culture. we are ignorant and see. sacrificing our children when our lives way of life or government of buy and for the people are not directly threatened then we should never get over the vietnam syndrome. it is not an illness. it's a vaccination. close quote that vaccination wore off. and so we went off to ir

the hard learning continued in vietnam. it continued in iraq in the first decade of this century and it continues today in afghanistan where the united states seems to be in the painfully slow process of disengaging from what clearly is an impossible task. the task of nation building in a country that is not really a nation. more than a decade ago when our involvement in afghanistan was already a decade old i had a conversation with then secretary of defense robert case, in his pentagon office. i asked him -- i said, secretary, when was the last time that afghanistan had a government who ran throughout the country? secretary gates answered, never, he said. so, once again, we've received a redundant lesson in nation building, a phrase that would have appalled churchill because it would have offended his insistence on realism. in 1965, president lyndon johnson's vice president former minnesota senator hubert humphrey said he thought the vietnam undertaking was exhilarating. he said, quote, we ought to be excited about this ch

what is approved of the words of kamala until -- about vietnam.e was a decorated combat marine in vietnam, before he wrote one of the great novels of that war, matter when. his regrets, he says, quote, that the prudence we learned from our involvement in china was derived from vietnam syndrome. he was not to say, if by vietnam syndrome we mean that belief that u.s. should never again engage in a, military inventions in the form of civil wars and without clear objectives and clear exit strategy. and b, nation building and countries whose history and culture we are ignorant and see, sacrificing our children when our lives, way of life or government for the people are not directly threatened. then, we should never take over the vietnam syndrome. it is not an illness, it's a vaccination. close quote. that vaccination war off and so we went off to iraq. thereby validating the accident, the only thing we learned from his threes that we do not learn from history. today however, we commemorate the 75th anniversary of one of the great contributions to west

army nurse during the vietnam war. up next she describes her training, experiences and interactions with the vietnamese people. this interview is from the veterans history project and was conducted by

i think the withdraw from afghanistan though it does tie into lessons learned from vietnam it also is drawing from lessons from the last 20 years itself as sundra just noted that there is a question of legacy here the united states has been deployed in afghanistan longer than anywhere else including its war in vietnam and what we have here seems to be an admission by the biden and ministration that the legacy of u.s. involvement was itself already perhaps not for the better what we heard in biden's speech and the remarks of other senior officials is is less about giving up any hope of being able to provide more for the afghans in the future or to lead to better results either on the battlefield or the peace table and it sounded more like an added knowledge months that that hadn't been accomplished thus far and the question was baghdad if not after 20 years then how much longer. yeah that's the question excellent analysis from all of you 100 pages from here at the big table with me teri schultz in brussels and andrew watkins in new york to all of you thank you. well it's now just $100.

the vietnam war was america's most severe trauma since churchill spoke in fulton. think churchill, who was occasionally bell akoes, but was selectively so would have approved of the words spoken about vietnam. march hrapb tez was a decorated combat war veteran. his regrets, he says, quote, that the prudence we learned from our involvement in china has been widely derived as vietnam syndrome. he goes on to say, if by vietnam's syndrome we mean the belief should never again engage in, a, military interventions and civil wars without a clear exit strategy, and b, nation building in countries whose history and culture we are ignorant, and c, sacrificing our children when our lives, way of life or government by and for the people are not directly threatened, then we should never get over the vietnam syndrome. it's not a illness, it's a vaccination. closed quote. that vaccination war off and so we went off to iraq, there by validating the axyam that the only thing we learn from history we do not learn from history. today we celebrate the anniversary of the western's trad

. -- when it comes to vietnam.he also shaped an approach to political partnership in the white house and the way she used the platform of the east wing that is quite singular and really has not been fully appreciated up until now. host: can you give an example as we close? guest: that environmental agenda helped raise public consciousness in a way that allowed what came subsequently under richard nixon, the creation of the environmental protection agency, the establishment of the redwood national forests, the celebration in 1970 of the first earth day by the american public , the second nature with which we now approach to keeping our natural environment clean and beautiful and preserving it. all of that is something that lady bird johnson put into the american consciousness during her time in the white house. host: after spending this much time with lady bird johnson, if you could have her seated right here and ask her a question, what would you want to know from her? guest: i would like to know if she was as awar

i think the withdraw from afghanistan though it does tie into lessons learned from vietnam it also is drawing from lessons from the last 20 years itself as sundra just noted that there is a question of legacy here the united states has been deployed in afghanistan longer than anywhere else including its war in vietnam and what we have here seems to be an admission by the biden administration that the legacy of u.s. involvement was itself already perhaps not for the better what we heard in biden's speech and the remarks of other senior officials is is less about giving up any hope of being able to provide more for the afghans in the future or to lead to better results either on the battlefield or the peace table and it sounded more like and it knowledge meant that that that hadn't been accomplished thus far and the question was baghdad if not after 20 years then how much longer. yeah that's the question excellent analysis from all of you sandra peterson here at the big table with me teri schultz in brussels and drew what kinds in new york to all of you thank you for. well it's not just

vietnam is home to 2 of its 8 species the chinese and assumed pangolin. both are critically endangered globally and their numbers are thought to have fallen by 80 percent or more in recent decades. wildlife trade monitoring network traffic estimates that between 201620 nearly 90 tons of the animals scales these globally were linked to vietnam. but there is still hope for this disappearing mammal. i am traveling south of annoyed to cook for a national park where local n.g.o.s working tirelessly to rescue and release penguins. try i'll be out. with a good time with our. time and his team have returned nearly a 1000 pangolin us to the wild since 2014 and are comparing. to release another 7 over the next few days. there are currently 20 at the center all rescued from trafficking networks between vietnam and other southeast asian countries many of the animals that come here are week d.h. read it and have serious injuries. like this one penguin 1588 identified by the last few digits of his coat a number at the center of this 7 year old lost part of his front pa

marine during the vietnam war.rve in vietnam and his journey to meet his unit in the caisson. part of vietnam war oral histories conducted by center's research center for the veterans history project. watch tonight beginning at 8:00 p.m. eastern and enjoy american history tv every weekend on c-span 3. ♪♪ >>> american history tv on c-span 3 exploring the people and events that tell the american story every weekend. 60 years ago this weekend more than 1,400 cia-trained cuban ex aisles launched a failed invasion to overthrow fidel castro's government at the bay of pigs. live on american history tv and washington journal we will look back at the invasion and its consequences with former cia histrionic lass dujmovic. and sunday four films op u.s.-cuba relations, an edited version of the 1961 nbc report, kwgs, bay of pigs, president john f. kennedy's 1961 speech after the failed invasion, a compilation of universal news reels from 1959 to 1961 on the cuban revolution through the bay of pigs invasion. and a 1960 broadcast

in vietnam at that time. so southeast asia men, it could be vietnam. it could become leia where we were going to fly in laos. it could be assignment to thailand because we had air bases in thailand that were bombing over the north and in south vietnam. i was assigned to george air force base and the high desert of southern california near victorville and apple valley. and roy rogers lived just around the corner from where i lived and i went by his house every day going to work. so it was a neat place. high desert doesn't rain much little bit cool in the wintertime wind blows a lot. but we were 90 miles from los angeles, maybe an hour and a half and about two and a half hours over to las vegas. i never went to las vegas, but we're right on the main highway that goes from interstate from los angeles to las vegas. the flying was great. we did everything they did in top gun. plus we did the air to ground the bombing and strafing and all that. so it was a lot of fun. we played some golf. along the way and one of my buddies that i met in our survival school