40 Years Ago Today, The Last US Combat Troops Left Vietnam

[WilliamPitt]

http://bigstory.ap.org/interactive/vietnam-anniversary

[mountain grammy]

1. Madness! I'll never forget the films of people surrounding the American Embassy

trying to get out. What a fucking fiasco.. My husband was a crew chief on one of those Huey's two years earlier. He said he cried for the Vietnamese when he watched the evacuation of Saigon. He left so many friends behind.

[sinkingfeeling]

2. Thanks, Will, now I feel so old cause I remember it.

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

3. Yet our "leaders" still believe that getting involved in civil wars is necessary.

And, we still keep losing them.

"The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary." H.L. Mencken

[MichiganVote]

4. People to this day still do not understand how horrific this war was on American families

[datasuspect]

5. and we still haven't learned not one goddamned motherfucking thing

[Bigmack]

6. What you said times 1000. nt

[Paladin]

7. X 1000, for sure. (nt)