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| Vipers Vietnam Veterans Page, A Vietnam
Veteran & Proud Web Site is dedicated to those who served in Vietnam
and returned home, and to those who are still waiting to return, and
to those who will never return. God bless, and thank you for your service
and sacrifice.
About Vietnam The Vietnam war was the longest in our nation's history. Two American advisors were killed on July 8, 1959. Although 1959 is marked as the beginning of the war on Panel 1, East wall, The first American soldier killed in the Vietnam War was Air Force T-Sgt. Richard B. Fitzgibbon Jr. He is listed by the U.S. Department of Defense as having a casualty date of June 8, 1956. His name was added to the Wall on Memorial Day 1999. The last casualties in connection with the war occurred on May 15, 1975, during the Mayaquez incident. With the addition of four names added on May 8 ,2008 the total is now 58,260 names listed on the Memorial Wall. Approximately 2.7 million Americans served in the war zone; 300,000 were wounded and approximately 75,000 permanently disabled. Officially there are still 1,870 Americans unaccounted for from SE Asia. Approximately 1200 of these are listed as missing (MIA's, POW's, and others). Vietnam was a savage, in your face war where death could and did strike from anywhere with absolutely no warning. The brave young men and women who fought that war paid an awful price of blood, pain and suffering. As it is said:
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"I now know why men who have been to war yearn
to reunite. Not to tell stories or look at old pictures. Not to laugh or
weep. Comrades gather because they long to be with the men who once acted
at their best; men who suffered and sacrificed, who were stripped of their
humanity. I did not pick these men. They were delivered by fate and the military.
But I know them in a way I know no other men. I have never given anyone such
trust. They were willing to guard something more precious than my life. They
would have carried my reputation, the memory of me. It was part of the bargain
we all made, the reason we were so willing to die for one another. As long
as I have memory, I will think of them all, every day. I am sure that when
I leave this world, my last thought will be of my family and my comrades...
Such good men."
How can we repay these great warriors?
By not wasting the gift, they gave us. No gift is
greater than sacrifice for another, and those war dead made that sacrifice
and, if asked to repeat their lives, would do it once more. Yet it is up
to us, in how we live, to make sure those sacrifices were not made in vain.
They died to give us liberty, we must honor and repay them by never surrendering
that dearly won gift. Di Di Mau!!!!!! |
The Vietnam war was not lost on the
battlefield. No American force in ANY other conflict fought with more
determination or sheer courage than the Vietnam Veteran. For the first
time in our history America sent it's young men and women into a war run
by inept politicians who had no grasp of military strategies and no moral
will to win.
These young soldiers were led by "top brass" who were concerned mainly with furthering their own careers, "getting their tickets punched" either in combat or just close enough to it to become a medal wearing hero. As the Late Col David Hackworth called them, "the perfumed Princes." Most of these officers neither understood the nature of the war nor had a clue about the impossible mission with which they'd tasked their soldiers. And the war was reported by a self serving Media who penned stories filled with inaccuracies, deliberate omissions, biased presentations and blatant distorted interpretations. ( Television's Vietnam, The Impact of Media ) The Vietnam War became more about journalists (Dan Rather, Walter Cronkite) than about a war for the survival of liberal democracy in Southeast Asia. If only they loved their country's young and willing warriors as much as they loved their own children. The welfare of the troops and the TRUTH took a back seat to the press' sense of its own importance. Thanks to John Kerry the "Opportunist", Jane Fonda the "Communist" and Walter Cronkite and the other left wing journalists who were too swept up in their own danse macabre to even notice the murderous consequences of their own malfeasance -- or to hear the demands of simple decency. We never lost a battle in Vietnam but we lost the war at home under color of the coward and liar. Thirty years ago we watched a spectacle of John Kerry and the Winter Soldier bunch - composed of largely fraudulent "veterans" and overt traitors financed by Jane Fonda and Tom Hayden -- indelibly stain the honor of every legitimate Vietnam vet. Kerry's Senate testimony paved the way for a parasitic political career constructed on the heroism, sacrifice, and dedication of men and women whose reputations are tarnished to this day by his reprehensible behavior. It was Kerry and Fonda and their fellow protestors who were directly responsible for creating the false image of Vietnam veterans as a "barbarian horde" which raped and murdered innocent civilians daily as a matter of policy. It's that mythology, first popularized in the testimony of Lt. Kerry and repeated for more than three decades by the media and the popular culture, that continues to haunt our young men and women serving in the military today, propaganda that threatens current U.S. foreign policy and our national security. "....Recent scholarship on the military aspects of the war argue persuasively that the military situation on the ground following the battles of 1968 made military victory in the south a possibility and this seems confirmed by the relatively peaceful years of 1970 and 1971. This poses the interesting question of whether it is possible to win a war, and if no one believes it, do you really win the war?" It can be debated that we should never have fought that war. It can also be argued that the young Americans who fought so courageously, never losing a single major battle, helped in a huge way to WIN THE COLD WAR. This site is dedicated to those brave Vietnam Veterans, men and women, living and dead who did their duty to the fullest in war of attrition we were not ALLOWED to win. We never ran, never abandoned our wounded, never stopped loving America even when America abandoned us ... and still abandons our POW/MIA's. We, the Vietnam Veterans ... shall never forget!
Welcome home Bro's and Sisters it's been a long
time coming
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Important information for all Veterans and Americans
Gathering Of Eagles
Click on Eagle below go to the GOE web site
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| "The Vietnam veteran remains the object of fantasy,
not an object of history. And this is not always a bad thing. With every
accusation directed against the vet as "committing atrocities," comes the
laudatory image of the vet as superhuman warrior. And with every attempt
to portray the Vietnam veteran as being "just another soldier," comes the
risk of marginalization from mainstream American interests. Today Americans
are interested in Vietnam veterans, perhaps fancifully to be sure, but for
reasons now increasingly obvious. The war, despite being on the other side
of the globe, never left America, and despite South Vietnam's 1975 surrender,
has never ceased to be fought in the combat zone always most important to
Americans: the United States"
Nathan Alexander |
Viper's is now the home of
"Vietnam Veterans & Proud Site-Ring"
The largest Vietnam Veteran Web Ring on the Internet
Webmasters please consider joining our SiteRing, no pop up ads, no
commercials, nothing to sell. Just honor our Vets click on the join button
now. Go
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for the choice of seven different Ring Graphics, General Guidlines, Ring
Code Instructions and Disclaimer |
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STOLEN HONOR
WOUNDS THAT NEVER HEAL
Click arrow to start, you may have to click several times or right
click on the player and click play several times
Go here to purchase the CD, show your Democratic friends the truth about
John Kerry
Stolen
Honor
( former Vietnam POWs )
Vietnam Veterans Legacy Foundation
The following may be the most important summation of so called Vietnam "War Crimes" Charges any Vietnam Veteran or any American will ever read...please take the time to consider what is so obvious to those of us who were there and know the truth. Click below |
VIETNAM
365 days of complete boredom interrupted by moments of sheer terror
Run mouse over
graphic
The worst atrocity was committed when America abandoned us!
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Permission was recieved to use the song "Welcome Home"
granted by Eric
Horner. Proceeds from
this song "Welcome
Home" will initally benefit the Wall and at some point in the future
Homeless Vets
This site nor the author will receive any benefit from this work that is
donated from "the heart".
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