i think it piqued her curiosity because the vietnam she left is not the vietnam that i'm returning toll show you the golden bridge. before i got to ba na hills, i thought i'd be really dismissive of it. is it like this every day? but then, i stepped on to the golden bridge — the hands of god, as people say — to walk above the clouds. there's something really special about that. the most touring a day we do...serving...30,000. would you prefer it if there was a limit to how many people could come? no! of course no! everyone in the world knows we are amazing. we have a lot of things. the communists may have won the war, but it's very clear that capitalism rules the day. is it tacky? perhaps. but it's also monumental. vietnam is at a stage of development where that's a sign of growth and confidence. so, who am i tojudge? my shows me the european village, which includes a fake french cathedral. sort of feels like a gothic cathedral. but when you knock, it's more like cardboard, or one of those tubes you put a poster in. hello, hello. vietnamese people can go to here. don't need to go to e

the vietnam war. and a third is pulp. vietnam war and gender in cold war men's adventure magazines. now, these do largely stay away from the central political controversies, but they still are. i would say, politically charged, because they do fit into broader narratives about things like the us military being systematically racist or sexist. or point to this is that younger may get concerned that if they write about the big they might offend some senior scholars. if you write about vietnamese prostitutes or american racists you're probably unlikely to offend that hiring committee or tenure committee that you are depending. so in my opinion, say these micro histories are have become, in fact a pretty big waste of time and resources. educational establishments, because i don't think our society obtains a lot of value from analyzing toxic masculinity in men's adventure magazines, for example so that's my opinion should decide for at some point whether we should be funding and oftentimes with state money these sorts of histories that are read by almost nobody and seem to have some sort

war in south vietnam, peace in north vietnam.well, that their proposal peace for north vietnam and continuing war in south vietnam kissinger. so we have come to the reluctant conclusion that you have expressed it very well right now, mr. president, that this wasn't a peace document. this was a document for perpetual warfare in which they create nixon. perpetual warfare in, south vietnam. that's right. and peace in north vietnam. that's the way to put it. kissinger that's right. peace in north vietnam and perpetual warfare in south vietnam. and the united states and the united states cooperating with them in imposing a communist government on the people of south vietnam against will we, the party that wants peace in vietnam for sides. nixon and let the future of this poor suffering be determined by the people of south vietnam and not on the battlefield. that's what our proposal is. we call on the south and we call on north to agree to this kind of thing calling them both to agree agree. i am not sure disposal i think have a walkin

we went to vietnam and patrolled north vietnam. host: thanks for telling us about pr-21.n the foreign policy challenges facing america today, places where there has been plenty of discussions about what the u.s. presence should be and if there should be a military presence, this story from the op-ed pages of the "washington times trump facing challenges, russia, china, iran affecting the world order. deterrence as tactics for a perilous world and one more from the pages of the "new york times." it is the bottom story, trump shouldn't let putin claim a win in ukraine. a senior official suggesting that any peace deal negotiated by donald trump allows vladimir putin to claim victory in ukraine would undermine the interest of the united states, its admiral, the dutch chairman of the military community saying if you allowing nation like russia to come out of this, what does it mean for other autocracies of the world where the u.s. also has interests? president trump has said he could end the war in a day. an outline from jd vance echo what putin wants allowing them to keep the

would be out of vietnam by 1965.ecades after the fact, mcnamara was certain that this would not have been kennedy's goal. he never went as far as a public statement nancy did in his sessions with his editors. >> what he tells us, we went over and over it, there is quite a lot in the audio and an awful lot of it in the book, kennedy's first year in office he dealt with a complete disaster. the bay of pigs. the planning for that project had started under eisenhower. kennedy let it go forward. he believed he was seriously misled by the cia and the joint chiefs. he said it was really a kennedy took it very hard. in 1962, we had the cuban missile crisis. now all of these years later, everybody believes it was the most dangerous moment of the cold war. soviet nuclear missiles in cuba. which the u.s. could not tolerate. they could reach the mainland of the u.s. there was a time in which kennedy led a group of these senior people in the pentagon and the cia. a group of wise men, former secretaries of state and so on. all of

this is| armed radio services vietnam. my armed radio services vietnam. my parents met in vietnam.ther was in a suitable bullets out of bones. my dad fell in love with my mum and littlejohn and in 1973 he asked my mom to move to the us and her and herfamily reached my mom to move to the us and her and her family reached the decision that she should go, but she needs to leavejohn in vietnam because she doesn't know my dad. is he a good person or a bad person? so why don't you learn english, test out your husband, and then we will send john. before immigrating to the us, my mother used to work in the family market stall in saigon, in south vietnam. these marketplaces are still the lifeblood of the country. so i'm off to meet lylla. she runs food tours. she's a food influencer. and i'm not going to struggle to find her, because i've been following her for months. 0h, lylla! hi! nice to meet you. nice meeting you! 0h. how are you? like the women in my family, lylla's mother also ran a market stall. so, we are on the side of dong xuan market. dong xuan market is one of the largest and a

he was commanding the first cav in vietnam vietnam, served. colonel hal moore two months earlier as a lieutenant colonel. he commanded the first battalion seventh calvary in the battle of the eye, bill lee. and now he was commanding operation masher white wing. incidentally, he referred to this as another meat grinder. bombing song. the north vietnamese were. they were operating rice distribution in recruiting centers in the bullock selling area. intelligence from the district police there alone in the boxing area had pinpointed the locations and that was the objective of marshall white. can see here have bong song on the coast. in that first river valley that i had mentioned beyond little valley which to the west and the second river valley was to kim sun valley, which was to the south west. the operation was six weeks late june, late january 1966 to early march 1968. it probably about the most deadly battle of the entire vietnam war. there were 199 americans killed on the battlefield. there were another 46 who died in the crash of a u.s. air

let's go to let's go to vietnam, back. beginning august 1969, i got on an airplane that gets to georgia after a night of celebration and went to atlanta, changed airplanes to go to california with a stop in dallas. well, i went to sleep on the airplane between after we left atlanta and they landed in dallas. and the stewardess woke me up and says, we're in texas. and i went, i'm going to california. and i went back to sleep. well, we got california and i went down to pick up my duffel bag and i waited for the baggage come through. and i was not many duffel bags and i thought there was more than then. i never did find a duffel bag. so i went to the baggage claim. i said, hey, you know, where's my bag? and he says, and let me see your ticket. and he looked at ticket. he says, your bags probably in san francisco. you're in los angelus. that's supposed to change your plane to dallas. and i didn't make that. so i ended up going to oakland. when we got to oakland, one of the guys in my flight class with jim willingham and his fa

and they will go to vietnam. the goal is go to vietnam the same way the father's in world war two. that's by ship. and you can see there on the slides, you can we've got aircraft caring helicopters. we got troop ships carrying troops. these guys are tell tories of. the first receipt of their m-16 rifles shooting at targets as ths are going across the ocean, vietnam. and we got sleds behind, the s pulling targets, which are from your rising themselves with their new weapons. significant enough. so they're going to arrive in vietnam. next slide. we're going to arrive and immediately we're going to go in-country into the interior 101st airborne. it had been in ea and is still in the area and first c division is going to join them. and then the first battalion, seventh cav will be a mission to conduct an operation and the ia drang valley. so, matt dillon, you're the operations officer for that battalion. tell us a little bit about that you can set right there i think you're good. i want to step you're going to stand.

black men in vietnam by greater dignity on the front lines in vietnam than they find in civilian society. there was a sense that even though it wasn't complete, even though there were flaws, the military, the sign of what america could aspire be in terms of racial integration and what were some of the issues that they did face? i mean, what happened is in 1968, simmering following the assassination, martin luther king and the the widespread racial violence that was taking in the united states in general started break out in the us army. so in 1968, even as their in the streets during the democratic convention in chicago along been jail in vietnam explodes. there's a racial uprising of black prisoners overtake guards the prison the fellow prisoners and guards seize control of the jail. the the head of the prison who had a ph.d. in penology. he was a reformer. he thought he had great rapport with the people who were imprisoned. there. he wanted to try to talk to them. they beat him. he never recovered from brain. they killed a white private, seized control of the prison. i mean, this just

would be outf vietnam by 1965.ecades after the fact, mcnamara would have been certain it would have been kennedy's goal and never went as far as his public statement and did in his sessions with his editors. >> kennedy dealing with the bay of pigs, complete disaster in which a group of exiles were sent in with the effort to take down fidel castro. that project that actually the planning for that started under eisenhower and>> believe it was the most dangerous moment of the cold war and soviet nuclear missiles and could not allow and could not touch and the wise men and former secretaries of state and so on. all of them basically were moving kennedy towards a military solution of getting rid of those missiles. kennedy ultimately opted for a naval blockade and the soviets would have to go through if they were going to take on the u.s. and in the end they blinked and pulled back. that would have led kennedy to go ahead with the withdraw and his view of the vietnam wharves his view of the -- war was his war and we can

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the majority of america service personnel were not in vietnam the majority of people in vietnam wereot in combat. the united states had a major presence worldwide during this period. cold war tensions were really high. it mattered an enormous amount. yes people were conscripted. there's more volunteering at that make sense for. >> what is the racial makeup of the army or the armed forces at that point? >> black soldiers served at slightly higher percentages for their 12 or 13% when the population was about 10.5%. the complication is where they served black men tended to have less education than white men. ended up more likely to be in the infantry rather than positions with higher technicald demands. >> how was that? >> the educational system they were coming out of there was discrimination, there is segregation. however by 1968. the army leaders will recognize the reasons for this. a much higher disproportionately higher death rates for african americans higher effect on black americans are seeing disproportionate death rates of their own is a very powerful sense. the majority of am

training and and to vietnam. let's talk about vietnam for it for a minute. what kind of missions were you doing with your four and this is 1971 time. this 6970. and then again 72, 73. right. so the missions were i was lucky. i applied for a couple of special missions on my first tour and i took some pilots and they made the the fast forward air controllers out of the and fast facts that would spot targets for other fighter aircraft so. we i was flying there for phantom we had rockets on one wing we had a gun the belly and we went out looking for targets that the other pilots and their fast aircraft would have difficulty seeing. so we learned a particular area, studied all the time and were able to find these targets and direct others in alignment. that was exciting because you flew by yourself and occasionally have a reconnaissance bird with you to to help you. but generally you were on your own and it was your territory you went up, flew for four or 5 hours directing flights, hitting the air, refueling tanker ab

we were not allowed to shoot the tv series in vietnam. we are not being allowed to show the tv series in vietnam. so i feel personally be rejected by the government. oh, by whatever system is preventing these words from being available. and it prevents me from returning to vietnam, but in a larger sense, i worry about whether a country that prevents different kinds of voices, not just mine, but many different kinds of voices from being heard can be a healthy society. i mean, there are writers in vietnam who are being sent to prison for writing things about inadequacies or injustices and getting them in society. great sacrifices were undertaken by the getting his people with deliberate and unifying the country for freedom and independence. and is, it's arguable that that has not been fully realized for the vietnamese people. there is a question here in this age, religion right now, do you feel that there's an important topic? those probably not discussed as much. and is there something you would like to see from other artists more? i think

vietnam, the nation's longest war, as you alluded to at that point, vietnam. i think people just desire to return to a more normal political era. whatever normal might mean and i think that's why we ultimately saw a series of sort of shorter transitional presidents after this period. what about civil unrest, racial tensions during this period? oh, you we can we could fill a whole conversation, you know, just about the this you know, this was the high watermark of civil rights. you know, after the civil rights act of 57, which was the first major piece of legislation since reconstruction the sixties, were really known for civil rights. 60 civil rights act of 64 voting rights act of 65, higher higher education acts of voting a fair housing act of 1968. i mean, you could go on and on in terms of the centerpiece achievements of lyndon johnson's great society. and at the same time, yet, there was also increased tension and increased tension between races, between cities and suburbs. and so at the same time, while i think lyndon johnson fulfilled many of the aspirat

. i producing china went to mexico however vietnam.— however vietnam.nam. i think we l will see the same dynamic this time _ will see the same dynamic this time around. energy is relatively cheap for a whole _ energy is relatively cheap for a whole variety of other things _ a whole variety of other things. if you are starting to deport — things. if you are starting to deport millions of people, labour— deport millions of people, labour shortages will be a real problem — labour shortages will be a real problem in the us. even the labour— problem in the us. even the labour that is here is more expensive was, and secondly, as any economist could tell you, and the — any economist could tell you, and the financial times, trade deficits — and the financial times, trade deficits don't work bilaterally. unless usual fundamentals. either— unless usual fundamentals. either they consume less of the government bars less. republicans will say that they voted for this. what happened to the christ when all the ships are backed up? favour screaming these goods were not

they were between world war ii and vietnam. they had no, you know, they had no parades when they came back. and, you know, someone who is a oral historian spent 20 years talking to these folks it's both forgotten and untold. right. they never told their families these stories. many of the people that i interviewed the first time they had told these stories. i had some interviews where i got an hour and a half into the interview and turned around and realized there were 20 people in the living room when there had been two of us because dad's telling a story that he had never told before. and so in terms of takeaways i would say that's one part of it is recognizing the war itself that really was not looked at in the same way. but also recognizing the veterans, right. and recognizing those who served. i think that's a takeaway too. no matter the conflict. >> okay. here's how i would answer this question. i grew up often very critical of u.s. military and other intervention abroad in the cold war. and as i got older, like many peop

so the question about vietnam was directly related to that. we've talked about cause a genocide is on its own and speak up a word for some people black lives matter and then speaker will phrase for some people, trans rights is unspeakable for some people. and that tells us, i think that we have identified an issue that is crucial and transformative, who would cover that same cause and intellects that you look towards. and that might offer us hope and in the 21st century, it's a, it's well, it's more difficult today. first of all because they'll a lot of new and telic show new ideas of multiple generation who have access to a you know, to publishing to film to on a. so the situation is different and it's true that we don't have any more the kind of great intelectual that everybody look up on. you know, you can't, they assume a territory and, and be like the, the go of your or your fact of your to magic. is that a good thing? it's a good thing and it demands much more effort for a younger or just to find those people. you know, if you have teach

that's the vietnam service medal. this is a bronze star.cey, a transgender woman who recently transitioned, says her perspective on war changed one evening in a saigon nightclub when she was approached by a vietnamese man. the guy asked me, why was i there killing his people? and i couldn't answer it. a year and 87 days into the war, bracey was court martialed for misconduct and sent home to the u.s, where she began fighting a whole different kind of war. i was called a baby killer and everything else up under the sun. my mother said. i slept a whole entire year. she felt that there was something wrong with me. i did try to seek help with the va hospital, but there was nothing available. there was no such thing as ptsd. bracey story is not all that uncommon for vietnam war veterans. yeah, there's very little for that generation of veterans. they had to fight for everything. michael blecher, director emeritus of the veterans support group swords to plowshares, says the military wasn't equipped to deal with the psychological issues faced by r

the white house supported the corrupt but governments of southern vietnam. 1965 americans began their invasion following the aim to defeat the forces of vietnamese patriots. the pentagon was confident that the victory would be on the american side, due to its military superiority. with that, the vietnamese during this war into total hail for the occupants. unable to cope with the guerrillas, the american army started blanket bombing alongside using chemical weapons and naples, which burned to all alive the village of my lay, where he 1969 american soldiers killed 504 civilians, including $210.00 children, became a tragic symbol of this war, all and all, during the whole period of this conflict, the usa dropped on vietnam more than $6000000.00 tons of bonds, which is 2 and a half times as much as on germany during the 2nd world war. in 1973, the american army under the pressure of the rebels, withdrew from vietnam, and only 2 years later did the puppet regime inside on fall. however, the vietnamese paid a high price for their freedom. more than 1000000 in vietnamese people became the v

even in american memory today it's often associated more with the vietnam war. it's during the korean war that napalm was used. not only did it impact the soldiers that were fighting, but you can imagine the impact on the civilians. so, the comparison is that in all of the pacific theater during world war ii, there were 500,000 tons of bombs dropped. so, during the short period of the korean war there were more bombs, at least by 100,000 more bombs dropped in north korea than all of the pacific theater during world war ii. >> in terms of the comparisons with vietnam from the communist point of view, it's really similar in the sense of attempting guerrilla war first because north korea attempts to basically destroy south korea via guerrilla war in the late 1940s and leads to the conventional invasion, which is over a much more protracted period of time in vietnam. but the takeaway from the military historian's point of view is the korean war, like the vietnam war, is both a conventional and guerrilla war at the soldier level, with -- with a mix of ingredients com

the total casualty rate are roughly similar between, vietnam and korea, despite the fact that the vietnam war is conventionally dated to about, you know, almost 20 years, whereas the korean war is only three. so much, much deadlier and the north, as i think others, have mentioned already, because of this kind of bombing, i mean, after the military targets were more or less gone in the first few months of the war the bombing continued. and so i think some estimates put that about 20%, upwards of 20% of the north korean population were basically killed by the war. i mean, that's that's equivalent to the kind of casualty rates that i think the soviet union is known to have suffered by the end of world war two. so, you know, almost every single family was impacted by the war in the north and to this day, the does anyone know what the conscription years, the mandatory conscription for all bodied males in north korea today are it's 8 to 10 years. so basically your entire youth, more or less, is spent in the military and even for women who are not necessarily require to serve, many women actuall

my father was a vietnam vet. it was -- he said he had the time of his life and i really appreciate it. host: for folks who do not know what an honor flight is, could you explain it real quickly? caller: they take a bunch of veterans from around the united states and they fly them down to d.c. and it is like a second home coming for the veterans because when they originally came back from vietnam they were treated horribly. they take them around washington, d.c., they give them breakfast, lunch, and dinner. they take them to the monuments, tomb of the unknown soldier. it made my father's -- it made his day. host: what was your father's name? caller: my father is also named jerry. host: thanks for telling us about jerry. have you ever experienced an honor flight? guest: i am blessed to live in a gorgeous city and running on the mall on saturday mornings, you run by the world war ii memorial and see these honor flights, the buses come in with the veterans. little-known thing. for years senator robert dold, even unti

patterson in american heroes, you feature korea, vietnam and the war on terror. do you think that vets from the war on terror get the same adulation or treatment that some of the bigger wars? well, i think i think that the group that got the worst treatment is vietnam, to be honest with you, because most of those men and women came home to two booths and, you know, how can you know? it's just a horrible horrible things that people would say to them. and it wasn't i mean, we've we've sort of moved on in a good way in terms of, you know, thank you for your service. although the reality of when people think these people are they service, they have no idea how incredible the service is. but vietnam, i think that's that's the war where i think those people came back and a lot of them really heroic and certainly had done nothing wrong. and they took a lot of a a lot of harsh talk and action. so but, you know, more recently, think once again, you know, people who have served in in afghanistan and other places in the middle east, i think people respect that. but i and th

patterson in american heroes, you feature korea, vietnam and the war on terror. do you think that vets from the war on terror get the same adulation or treatment that some of the bigger wars? well, i think i think that the group that got the worst treatment is vietnam, to be honest with you, because most of those men and women came home to two booths and, you know, how can you know? it's just a horrible horrible things that people would say to them. and it wasn't i mean, we've we've sort of moved on in a good way in terms of, you know, thank you for your service. although the reality of when people think these people are they service, they have no idea how incredible the service is. but vietnam, i think that's that's the war where i think those people came back and a lot of them really heroic and certainly had done nothing wrong. and they took a lot of a a lot of harsh talk and action. so but, you know, more recently, think once again, you know, people who have served in in afghanistan and other places in the middle east, i think people respect that. but i and th

like many of the 6 million men who volunteered for vietnam. (plane engines thundering) however long our hair was, we all lived through the same traumas. the assassinations of our most beloved icons, race riots, the vietnam war, the threat of nuclear war. it wasn't all bad. we saw a man walk on the moon. we witnessed historic achievements in civil rights, women's rights, gay rights, and the movies we watched and the music we played were as good as it gets. (crowd cheering) we came of age in a technicolor world where our fingers did the walking, where for the first time dinner was served on a tray and where tv went off the air at the end of the night closing with the national anthem. (instrumental national anthem) (static noise) if you lived through all of this, settle in and relive it. if you didn't, watch and learn. (dramatic music) - [reporter] senator john kennedy of massachusetts, democrat, throws his hat in the presidential ring. - [john f. kennedy] i am today announcing my candidacy for the presidency of the united states. - i was too you

does the us crackdown on that shipments coming from china through vietnam, violating trade laws.f he does carry through with tariffs, other countries, will they not turn away from the us and look more towards each other? tt and look more towards each other? , ., , other? it is not so simple because _ other? it is not so simple because the _ other? it is not so simple because the us _ other? it is not so simple because the us is - other? it is not so simple because the us is such i other? it is not so simple because the us is such a| other? it is not so simple - because the us is such a strong market and investor here. but i think you are right for some companies and markets are starting to think how to rework the supply chain. a lot of asia investment into the us as well. japanese automakers, south korean businesses as well as well as mexicans. 80% of production in mexico goes to the us and what happens if mexico gets tariffs. it is a complicated picture. there is a whole reworking of supply chains if tariffs are implemented. chains if tariffs are imlemented. . ., implemented. wh

so he did support the vietnam war too long. and when his career was over and he had the opportunity reflect back on the entirety his life and his entire political career. he said unequivocally the greatest mistake that he ever made in his entire political life was supporting the vietnam. he said, we had no business over there. he said he wished he'd asked probing questions. he did. when the gulf of tonkin resolution came, which authorized the the use of massive armies and troops from the us. my father did take the senate floor and he asked the chairman, bill fulbright, is there anything in gulf of tonkin resolution that will authorize the president of the united states have a blank check to send troops to vietnam? and the chairman, chairman fulbright, said, said, no, that's not contemplated. what contemplated is that it will intimidate the enemy by giving this authority so that they'll surrender. well, it didn't intimidate them. they didn't surrender. and my father, to the day he died i regretted his support for the vietnam. a

buckley jr about exposing the lies that led to vietnam. take a look at a younger hr mcmaster. - these are lies and they're interesting in that they're lies not just because they're untruths, but because they have very real consequences that seem to lead inextricably in retrospect to an american war in vietnam. but if we had substituted even a modicum of honesty in this period, at several of these turning points, an american war in vietnam was not only not inevitable, but it would've been impossible. - it really feels like the transcendent theme here, from the book, from that appearance is that telling the truth matters. - absolutely, it matters, you know. and what happens is if you sweep something under the carpet, or you try it, you're not honest with the president, that problem will grow and grow. and it'll come back to do tremendous harm later. - even really outspoken about january 6th and president trump's undermining of his oh to the constitution after that day. i wanna show you a montage of things donald trump has said he will do aft

the white house supported the corrupt above and governments of southern vietnam. 1965 americans began their invasion following the aim to defeat the forces of vietnamese patriots. the pentagon was confident that the victory would be on the american side, due to its military superiority. however, the vietnamese, during this war into total health for the occupants. unable to cope with a guerrillas, the american army started blanket bombing alongside using chemical weapons and naples, which burnt all alive. the village of my lay, where he 1969 american soldiers killed 504 civilians, including 210 children, became a tragic symbol of this war. all and all. during the whole period of this conflict, the usa dropped on vietnam more than $6000000.00 tons of bonds, which is 2 and a half times as much as on germany during the 2nd world war. in 1973, the american army under the pressure of the rebels, withdrew from vietnam, and only 2 years later did the pop and regime. and so i got involved. however, the vietnamese paid a high price for their freedom. more than 1000000 in vietnamese people becam