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2018-10-01 Government

Will America Once Again Abandon Its Christian Montagnard Allies?

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Posted by Besoeker 2018-10-01 02:49|| || Front Page|| [5 views ] Top

#1 Three generations ago an old Baptist missionary with a long white beard ( actually looked like God Himself ) rode a horse up into northern Laos on the borders of Jungle China and converted tribal Hmong and Lahu and others to Christianity. The next generation during the second world war were hymn singing and fought the japaneses. The generation after WW2 fought for the US against the Communists. A hundred thousand died fighting to save downed US pilots and and were fighting a war to protect mountain radar stations on the North Viet border so the US could target the Ho Chi Minh Trail. They fought until Laos fell to the Communist invasion and they fled to Thailand Refugee camps. American settled 250,000 in America. They are citizens today. Their leaders Kong Li and Vang pao died in America. The american friends of that generation are all old veterans and are dying off now. These are good brave people, America should protect them if it can. Good brave men.

Posted by Whaviling Johnson4497 2018-10-01 04:31|| 2018-10-01 04:31|| Front Page Top

#2 Agree J. We hunted with some of them for 15 years. Good folk.

Posted by Woodrow 2018-10-01 11:48|| 2018-10-01 11:48|| Front Page Top

#3 A lot of the practice of Protestant Christianity by the "Montagnards" and others in the Central Highlands of Vietnam goes back farther than 3 generations, to missionary work performed in the 19th century by English and American missionaries during the time when Vietnam was run by Catholic France.

Posted by Thing From Snowy Mountain 2018-10-01 15:33|| 2018-10-01 15:33|| Front Page Top

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