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2011-01-15 Southeast Asia

DOD Announces Vietnam War 50th Anniversary Commemoration Program

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Posted by Atomic Conspiracy 2011-01-15 01:58|| || Front Page|| [11130 views ] Top

#1 just saw this on Fox:

Posted by Frank G 2011-01-15 09:01|| 2011-01-15 09:01|| Front Page Top

#2 Vietnam War 50th Anniversary Commemoration Program*

*Not available to local primary or secondary schools or where prohibited by Party Authorities. /sarc [or maybe not]

Posted by Procopius2k 2011-01-15 09:21|| 2011-01-15 09:21|| Front Page Top

#3 Gosh, Frank, I didn't notice Senator John F. Kerry in the video.

Posted by trailing wife 2011-01-15 09:39|| 2011-01-15 09:39|| Front Page Top

#4 50th Anniversary?

Vietnam War: 1 November 1955 - 30 April 1975.

U.S. military advisers arrived beginning in 1950. U.S. involvement escalated in the early 1960s, with U.S. troop levels tripling in 1961 and tripling again in 1962.

U.S. combat units were deployed beginning in 1965.

Posted by Anonymoose 2011-01-15 09:41|| 2011-01-15 09:41|| Front Page Top

#5 heh, TW. Nope, those are all actual MOH recipients, not lying self-awarded PH's or Lucky Hat bearers. Jahn Karry is SOL

Posted by Frank G 2011-01-15 09:45|| 2011-01-15 09:45|| Front Page Top

#6 Tom Kelley was head of veterans affairs up here and apparently a quite capable one. I say "was" because, a couple of weeks ago, he was screwed by Deval Patrick.

Posted by tu3031 2011-01-15 09:56|| 2011-01-15 09:56|| Front Page Top

#7 Indeed it is as Moosey said, my Uncle Harold was seconded somehow to Flying Tigers (airlines) even prior to formal commitment. And yes, he was magically accepted back into MAC 3 or 4 years later. There is a lot of blurr. I own two Montagnard crossbows, both childhood gifts from my Uncle H. The first has a bow string made of woven bamboo, the darts are (in a museum) 1 singular piece of bamboo with the fletching teased out of the back. The second bow is made out of what I think is a salvaged jeep spring (?) The darts look like perhaps they are left-end-of-Piano-wire, I dunno. But the Indo-Civil war started early and lasted for a damn long time.

Posted by Zombie Hillary Lover 2011-01-15 10:30|| 2011-01-15 10:30|| Front Page Top

#8 Hey Zombie; Had an Uncle like that also. He was a flying Tiger pilot. He was always larger than life. Sent us stuff home also. Reddish cheeks like the English he had. Went on to fly for Pan AM. Helped airlift Cubans fleeing castro(yea lower case). Never ever would have expected Pan Am to go down.

Posted by Dale 2011-01-15 16:11|| 2011-01-15 16:11|| Front Page Top

#9 Petard self-hoisted there, Zombie Hillary Lover?

Posted by trailing wife 2011-01-15 16:17|| 2011-01-15 16:17|| Front Page Top

#10 I had been looking at the craft used in this service. This site also has patches which will fascinate any collector.

http://www.warboats.org/patches.htm

Posted by Dale 2011-01-15 16:21|| 2011-01-15 16:21|| Front Page Top

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