Ride the Thunder: A Vietnam War Story of Victory and Betrayal will speak for itself. It will be enough if every younger American reads the book and sees the movie; nevertheless, I have a few words from excerpts in an article by Chelsea Schilling that I want to offer.
Let me lay out my premise by repeating the Vietnam War should be called ‘The Battle of Vietnam’ because it was but one hot battle fought during the Cold War.
First, to understand those “Americans” who betrayed their country while the Battle of Vietnam was being fought, one must first understand Communism and Communists. Nobody can understand the people who still brag about giving Communism a major victory; people like John Kerry, Jane Fonda, Joe Biden, the Clintons, and countless others whose names are never connected to Communism even though they are in higher places today than the positions they held throughout the Battle of Vietnam. My fond hope is that Ride the Thunder will start an avalanche that will bury them once and for all under their most effective lie:
Vietnam was an unjust war
Secondly, and most importantly, Communism represents more than a political debate about one form of government over another. Simply read the excerpts to know exactly what Communists will do to everyone who dares to fight to keep their country free of Communism.
Separated from their wives and children, they saw friends and loved ones brutally murdered by North Vietnamese guards during their communist “re-education.”
. . . stop the spread of communism.
. . . in the future, people will realize that America was right to fight in Vietnam, to stop communism, and that our South Vietnamese allies were worthy of our sacrifice and that they fought well also.”
The main character of the film is South Vietnamese Marine commander Le Ba Binh, who was a prime example of enduring courage in a battle of David and Goliath proportions as his battalion of only 700 men held 20,000 communist invaders in Dong Ha.
Binh, a man with few equals in the war-fighting profession, served 13 years in heavy combat (1962-1975) and another 11 years in communist prison camps. Despite numerous battle wounds and lost comrades, he showed unwavering courage in the face of extreme hardship.
At the end of the war, the communists put him in prison – they called it euphemistically ‘re-education camp’ – for 11 years.
“No one dies breaking in to communist countries,” Botkin said.
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. . . stop the spread of communism.
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. . . in the future, people will realize that America was right to fight in Vietnam, to stop communism, and that our South Vietnamese allies were worthy of our sacrifice and that they fought well also.”
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The main character of the film is South Vietnamese Marine commander Le Ba Binh, who was a prime example of enduring courage in a battle of David and Goliath proportions as his battalion of only 700 men held 20,000 communist invaders in Dong Ha.
Binh, a man with few equals in the war-fighting profession, served 13 years in heavy combat (1962-1975) and another 11 years in communist prison camps. Despite numerous battle wounds and lost comrades, he showed unwavering courage in the face of extreme hardship.
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At the end of the war, the communists put him in prison – they called it euphemistically ‘re-education camp’ – for 11 years.
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“No one dies breaking in to communist countries,” Botkin said.
Parenthetically, I have always been critical of the DESIGN, —— I repeat “THE DESIGN” —— of the Vietnam War Memorial. This excerpt from an article by Duncan Maxwell Anderson said it all for me:
What these modern war memorials have in common with each other is nothing. They portray nothingness. They have no people in them, never mind men carrying guns or swords, statues of Winged Victory, or even doves of peace. Just death and names -- grief without glory.
November 11, 2007
Monuments to Wimpdom
By Duncan Maxwell Anderson
http://www.americanthinker.com/2007/11/monuments_to_wimpdom_1.html
November 11, 2007
Monuments to Wimpdom
By Duncan Maxwell Anderson
http://www.americanthinker.com/2007/11/monuments_to_wimpdom_1.html
I was always uncomfortable with the design of the Vietnam War Memorial but never said anything against it. I felt that any criticism from me would be twisted by Lefties into a slur against the men and women whose names appear on the “Wall.” The anti-Vietnam War traitors defending America’s fallen heroes because of something I said would have been more than I can bear. Unfortunately I was right. Whenever I broached the topic over the years the Left’s perpetually outraged morality had a field day criticizing my objections.
Since 2007, the worst people in our society have acquired more political power than they ever had since they worked so hard to give America’s enemy in Vietnam a victory at any cost.
The Democrat party’s contempt for the thousands who died in Vietnam, and, indeed, contempt for most men and women who serve in the military for this country was not a campaign issue in 2008, or in 2010, in 2012, or in 2014. It should have been because the Democrats who came to power in 2008 are the very people who despise the military unless it can be ordered to fight for the United Nations.
There is a subliminal political message involved in Anderson’s “grief without glory” aspect of the Vietnam War Memorial’s design. Traditional designs honor the sacrifice as well as those who made it. The Vietnam War Memorial is different in that the dead are listed, but the message is that their sacrifice was a waste. How many visiting the Wall remember that the Vietnam War was fought against Communism? That was not a waste.
The political message incorporated in the Vietnam War Memorial also justifies the anti-Vietnam War demonstrations by American Communists who did not, and do not, care one iota about the men and women who gave their lives fighting against Communism.
Peaceniks continue to claim that the Wall’s design is an anti-war statement. Their message is that the men and women listed on the Wall would be anti-war liberals were they still alive. That’s an insult to those who knowingly sacrificed their lives fighting against Communism’s expansion in Southeast Asia.
There is a danger inherent for the Left in their anti-war rhetoric whenever Communism is threatened. All- encompassing anti-war messages must include anti-self-defense wars. That line of reasoning could easily grow to include anti-revolution sentiments. Then where would Communists be?
Many years ago I said that I would like to see a national monument dedicated to the tens of millions who were murdered by totalitarian governments in the last century alone. Perhaps a national day of remembrance, too.
There's a growing movement to build a memorial to Communism's dead on the National Mall, so that the current generation of Americans are made aware of the true nature of a philosophy that has justified the murder of at least 100 million people in the last 100 years.
August 25, 2014
Never forget: A memorial to Communism's 100 million dead
By Rick Moran
http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2014/08/never_forget_a_memorial_to_communisms_100_million_dead.html
Never forget: A memorial to Communism's 100 million dead
By Rick Moran
http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2014/08/never_forget_a_memorial_to_communisms_100_million_dead.html
Such a monument copying the design of the Vietnam War Memorial would be acceptable because there is no glory in dying a victim. A monument containing all of the names murdered by their own government would dwarf the Great Wall of China. Obviously, the names of more than 100,000,000 million murdered will never be known; so perhaps a wall depicting 100,000,000-plus question marks will suffice.
Finally, this country’s vast propaganda apparatus is bringing American Communists dangerously close to acquiring the same political power that victory handed to Vietnamese Communists: Do you accept Communism? Answer NO and Americans will be “reeducated” with techniques infinitely more brutal than Socialism's brainwashing they have been subjected to for decades.
“I think that Col. Binh was illustrative of all of those other Vietnamese officers who served their country,” he said. “He really laid his life on the line so many times. Then he became a prisoner. All he had to do was say, ‘I accept communism.’”
Vietnam heroes: 'I've been waiting 40 years for this!'
Posted By Chelsea Schilling
On 03/30/2015 @ 7:38 pm
http://www.wnd.com/2015/03/vietnam-heroes-ive-been-waiting-40-years-for-this/
Posted By Chelsea Schilling
On 03/30/2015 @ 7:38 pm
http://www.wnd.com/2015/03/vietnam-heroes-ive-been-waiting-40-years-for-this/
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