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At the end of page 7, I left you with the speech by President Ford just 5 days before the fall of Saigon.

President Ford’s Speech on the Fall of Vietnam,
24 April 1975

We are saddened, indeed, by events in Indochina. But these events, tragic as they are, portend neither the end of the world nor of America’s leadership in the world. Some seem to feel that if we do not succeed in everything everywhere, then we have succeeded, in nothing anywhere. I reject such polarized thinking. We can and should help others to help themselves. But the fate of responsible men and women everywhere, in the final decision, rests in their own hands.

8/22/2007 

President Bush Attends Veterans of Foreign Wars National Convention, Discusses War on Terror

THIS IS ONLY A PORTION OF THE SPEECH, LINK IS ABOVE PHOTO FOR FULL SPEECH

Three decades later, there is a legitimate debate about how we got into the Vietnam War and how we left. There’s no debate in my mind that the veterans from Vietnam deserve the high praise of the United States of America. Whatever your position is on that debate, one unmistakable legacy of Vietnam is that the price of America’s withdrawal was paid by millions of innocent citizens whose agonies would add to our vocabulary new terms like “boat people,” “re-education camps,” and “killing fields.”

There was another price to our withdrawal from Vietnam, and we can hear it in the words of the enemy we face in today’s struggle — those who came to our soil and killed thousands of citizens on September the 11th, 2001. In an interview with a Pakistani newspaper after the 9/11 attacks, Osama bin Laden declared that “the American people had risen against their government’s war in Vietnam. And they must do the same today.”

The Old Sarge says: OK folks, you see what President George W. Bush said, much of which has been ridiculed by the press and those on the left, did we add those words to our vocabulary………..

BOAT PEOPLE: From Wikipedia

Why Did Three Millions Vietnamese Leave Their Homeland? Of that three million, did you know 25% died in stormy seas or were murdered by pirates on the high sea? Did you know these people knew the risk and elected to leave Vietnam in search of freedom?

Thuye^`n Nhân: Boat People, term used to describe the Vietnamese refugees who fled Communist rule after the Vietnam War (1975) in small boats. More than one million people became refugees. Many perished, and others, upon reaching other Southeast Asian countries, discovered they could not remain permanently. The United States, Canada, and other nations accepted most of the refugees in the late 1970s and the 1980s. It was estimated that up to 25% of those who left Vietnam have perished in the stormy seas. Thousands have died when their boats were robbed repeatedly then sank by Thai’s pirates. Many women and young girls were raped then murdered or sold to brothels in Thailand.

These people loaded on boats with little or no hope of survival but that was better than what they faced in Vietnam.

From Wikipedia

Reeducation camp (tra.i ho.c ta^.p ca?i ta.o) is the official name given to the prison camps operated by the government of Vietnam following the end of the Vietnam War. In such “reeducation camps”, the government imprisoned several hundred thousand former military officers and government workers from the former South Vietnam. Reeducation as it was implemented in Vietnam was both a means of revenge and a sophisticated technique of repression and indoctrination which developed for several years in the North and was extended to the South following the 1975 North Vietnam takeover.

“OFF TO ANOTHER DAY AT SCHOOL”

THIS WOULD BE PHYSICAL EDUCATION

YOU KNOW YOU MUST FOLLOW THE RULES

THEY ARE BEING KEPT AFTER SCHOOL

Yes, reeducation was just another day at school, teaching you how to live under communist control.

The Killing Fields

From Wikipedia The Killing Fields were a number of sites in Cambodia where large numbers of people were killed and buried by the Communist regime Khmer Rouge, which had ruled the country since 1975. Estimates of the number of dead range from 1.7 to 2.3 million out of a population of around 7 million.

LINK

Did you know that the Khmer Rouge forced all of the people living in cities to move to the countryside where they were forced to work as peasants in the fields? Did you know that they taught the children to report their parents for violations of their rules? When reported the parents were killed. Did you know if they could speak English they were killed. Did you know that all of the educated people were killed.

The Khmer Rouge was thoughtful, they took their photo before they executed them.

This is part of a memorial to the dead..

WE LIVE IN A DANGEROUS WORLD, IT IS NO DIFFERENT TODAY, WILL WE ALLOW THIS TO HAPPEN AGAIN?

President Ford’s words, words have meaning………..

AND ACTIONS HAVE RESULTS……..

We can and should help others to help themselves. But the fate of responsible men and women everywhere, in the final decision, rests in their own hands.

An Act of Congress

Prohibits obligation or expenditure of funds “heretofore or hereafter appropriated” to finance the involvement of U.S. military forces in North Vietnam, South Vietnam, Laos or Cambodia or to provide direct or indirect assistance to North Vietnam “unless specifically authorized hereafter by the Congress

“Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn’t pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same, or one day we will spend our sunset years telling our children and our children’s children what is was once like in the United States where men were free.” -President Ronald Reagan

The old Sarge Says: We have been down a bloody road in our history, it seems shameful to me that we would repeat the errors of our past, yet your elected officials are trying to do just that. Will America have the blood of millions more on our hands because America has lost its will to finish what has been started? The actions of Congress have results, are we going there again?

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