Showing posts with label Vietnam. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Vietnam. Show all posts

Wednesday, March 14, 2018

On This Date In 1973, John McCain & 107 other American prisoners of war were released by North Vietnam

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Saturday, November 11, 2017

“We want progress, not provocation...We want stability, not chaos. And we want peace, not war!”














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Friday, November 10, 2017

What a difference 52 years make.














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Wednesday, March 29, 2017

Today we recognize the men and women who served, the 58,220 killed in action and the 1,622 who never came home.

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Tuesday, March 31, 2015

The Wall That Heals visit to Eureka, CA


◼ The Wall That Heals will be hosted by AMVETS Humboldt Bay Post 96 for 4 days of events and activities dedicated to honoring and remembering veterans. - Juniper Rose/Times-Standard

Alongside the more than 58,000 soldiers who died as a result of injuries suffered in the Vietnam War are the names of 58 Humboldt County residents etched on the half-sized replica wall that will be erected Wednesday.

For many, Wednesday through Sunday may be their only chance to see the names of loved ones or locals who died serving their county, said Allan Dollison, member of the local veterans group AMVETS Post 96, which is hosting the wall. It has been 30 years since a Vietnam War memorial replica has visited the county.

“We really needed to get this wall back here,” Dollison said. “We are losing Vietnam veterans. This will really likely be one of the last chances to bring the wall here while these veterans are able to be here.”

Bringing the wall to Humboldt County has been a group effort that has taken collaboration from many different individuals, businesses and groups, said Dean Glaser, a Vietnam War veteran and commander of AMVETS Post 96.
SCHEDULE OF EVENTS
Tuesday, March 31, 2015
9:00AM: TWTH is escorted to site from Redding Civic Auditorium

Wednesday, April 1, 2015
9:00AM: Volunteers set up TWTH

Thursday, April 2, 2015
10:00AM: Opening Ceremonies
All Day: TWTH open to the public

Friday, April 3, 2015
All Day: TWTH open to the public

Saturday, April 4, 2015
All Day: TWTH open to the public.

Sunday, April 5, 2015
12:00PM: Volunteers take down TWTH
- See more at: http://www.buildthecenter.vvmf.org/page/event/detail/thewallthathealsevent/jtj#sthash.38zDGW8b.fy3qx08y.dpuf

For more information visit: ◼ http://www.buildthecenter.vvmf.org/page/event/detail/thewallthathealsevent/jtj
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Sunday, February 15, 2015

(N)either Kennedy brother was genuinely sympathetic to their cause, concerned as they were with losing the support of white southern Democrats in ’64.

◼ Secret tapes reveal JFK’s duplicity in Cold War, civil rights - Larry Getlen/NY Post

...Based on recently uncovered, secret tape recordings Kennedy made in the White House — including of the Eisenhower call above — plus declassified documents, Sloyan says that Kennedy was deceitful about some of his most important accomplishments and positions due to his desire to win re-election in 1964....
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Friday, September 19, 2014

WATCH: Rare Footage of John McCain's 1973 Release After 5 Years as a Prisoner of War (POW)



◼ In honor of National POW/MIA Recognition Day, we celebrate veterans like Sen. John McCain. - Heritage

In March 1973, a limping Air Force pilot stepped off a bus in Hanoi, North Vietnam, after being shot down, beaten, tortured and held more than five years as a prisoner of war. In 2008, amid the heat of Sen. John McCain’s campaign for president, a former reporter for the Swedish broadcasting network SVT came across previously unseen footage of his initial release before the flight home. In honor of POW/MIA Recognition Day in the United States, watch this AP video depicting McCain and other newly freed POWs.
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Thursday, July 3, 2014

Gov. Jerry Brown 1975: Don't 'Dump Vietnamese' Refugees on California



◼ Democratic Governor Jerry Brown once fought to keep out South Vietnamese refugees from being delivered to his state during his first stint as governor of California in the 1970’s, and although he remains silent on the crisis that is happening on the southern border of his state, Brown’s position, via legislation previously signed, on illegal immigrants from Mexico, Central and South America is much more favorable than the cool response he gave to the Vietnamese refugees who had escaped the tyrannical Viet Cong. - Breitbart
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Saturday, April 13, 2013

Another change story

(Link to Video that accompanied this expired.)

◼ I wonder—would this be a good video to send to liberal friends who seem amenable to persuasion? - neoneocon

Read the excellent comment thread.

◼ Neo's story: Previously a lifelong Democrat, born in New York and living in New England, surrounded by liberals on all sides, I've found myself slowly but surely leaving the fold and becoming that dread thing: a neocon. - neoneocon
◼ Condescension and leaving the political fold - neoneocon
◼ Archive for the 'A mind is a difficult thing to change: my change story' Category
◼ A mind is a difficult thing to change: Part One–Intro
◼ A mind is a difficult thing to change: Part 2–Therapeutic change
◼ A mind is a difficult thing to change: Part 3–Beginnings

How does a political identity begin?

Political identities, like religious identities, start when we’re very young, and they start with the family. Later on, in our teens and early twenties, we may rebel, or we may continue along the path laid down in childhood. But as little children we can’t possibly understand politics rationally. For children, politics is mostly a matter of affilliation, plus some vague information swirling around in the public domain and filtering down to the child in childish terms: What does my family think and believe? Who are the good guys and who are the bad guys?

◼ A mind is a difficult thing to change: interlude
◼ A mind is a difficult thing to change: Part 4A (Vietnam–the home front)
◼ A mind is a difficult thing to change: Part 4B (Vietnam–photographic interlude)
◼ A mind is a difficult thing to change: Vietnam interlude–after the fall
◼ A mind is a difficult thing to change: Part 4C (Vietnam–change and betrayal)
◼ A mind is a difficult thing to change: Part 5 (The quiet years: tanks vs. pears)
◼ A mind is a difficult thing to change: Part 6A (9/11: the watershed)
◼ A mind is a difficult thing to change–Part 6 B (After 9/11: war is interested in you)

The motivation was provided by 9/11 itself, as I wrote towards the end of my last “change” post:

It now seemed to be no less than a matter of life and death to learn, as best I could, what was going on. I knew it wasn’t up to me to solve this; I had no power and no influence in the world. But still something drove me, with a force that was almost relentless, to pursue knowledge and understanding about this event. The pursuit of this knowledge no longer seemed discretionary or abstract, it seemed both necessary and deeply, newly personal.

The access was provided by the internet. The worldwide media was newly at my fingertips. Without it, I would never have encountered the varied sources that led me down the path of change, but would instead have stuck with the old tried and true–the Times, the Globe, the New Yorker, Nightline, and NPR–and I am certain I would not be sitting here today, writing this blog.

Prior to this, I’d been neither a news junkie nor a history buff. My consumption of such things seems to have been about average: the usual cursory high school history courses plus one or two in college; the quick reading of a daily newspaper and a weekly periodical; and the viewing of the nightly news on TV, background noise while I concentrated on cooking dinner or tending to the family.
◼ A mind is a difficult thing to change: (Part 7A: Jenin, Jenin)
◼ A mind is a difficult thing to change: (Part 7B: the Vietnam photos revisited)

And Breitbart's watershed event:

The Left's Treatment of Clarence Thomas Changed Breitbart from Papa Giorgio on Vimeo.

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Thursday, April 4, 2013

Jane Fonda: I Will Go to My Grave with 'Unforgivable Mistake'


◼ “I made one unforgivable mistake when I was in North Vietnam, and I will go to my grave with this,” Jane Fonda says on the Oprah Winfrey Network. - Greg Richter/Newsmax

The actress and activist made an infamous trip to North Vietnam in 1972 in which she was photographed singing with North Vietnamese military members as she sat on an anti-aircraft gun.

She was criticized then — and ever since — and says she understands the anger.

Fonda said she knew immediately that she had made a mistake and has apologized repeatedly, both privately and publicly.
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