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  STONERS

  Nov. 13, 2007, 11:01 p.m.

  "The ships usually go south but these are the first military ships to make an official visit to a northern port since normalization of relations in 1995."
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  saneman

  Nov. 14, 2007, 8:05 a.m.

  Nearly 60,000 U.S. soldiers died for what? Apparently, to prevent the Vietnamese from economic growth, because Vietnam is now booming in the manufacturing of goods worldwide.
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  aceofspades1

  Nov. 14, 2007, 9:40 a.m.

  As I sit here in my "made in Viet Nam" shirt I think of all those guys who would be out of work now because of outsourcing had they not ended their futures in VN -
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  Jaydee40

  Nov. 14, 2007, 9:51 a.m.

  How many lives were lost trying to stop what the UN had already agreed to, the unification of north and south Vietnam. Forty years later we see it wast not a bad thing but what the people wanted, most of them anyway.
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  NelsonR

  Nov. 14, 2007, 3:38 p.m.

  A prime example of WHY America should not be a belligerent on the world stage. Vietnam or Iraq never attacked us yet here we are at war again and squandering Billions.

  Vietnam did not turn out to be a boogeyman nor will Iraq in the future yet our lunatic leaders, Bushie especially, have continued to lead us to the toilet with the use of "Fear".

  Our infrastructure suffers, our debt is horrendous yet our leaders still remain year in and year out without change. America deserves what it votes for, WHOS NEXT?

  Stay out of the business of nation building and intrusion, if not then stay the god our leaders think we are and continue to saddle our next generation with more debt and death.
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  crespi

  Nov. 14, 2007, 4:39 p.m.

  I hope we're not invading them again.
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  Teech

  Nov. 14, 2007, 6:56 p.m.

  Lots of sensitivity and touchiness still evident after over 30 years after our debacle in Viet Nam.

  Isn't it comforting, however, to know that the U. S. A. learned from it's mistake over there with one generation, and will never repeat that insanity again?
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  canadianrancher57

  Nov. 14, 2007, 8:24 p.m.

  I have not really looked into the history of the start of the Vietman war but from what I recall was not the military action to stop the spread of communism sort of what happened in KOrea as well. I will say that a lot of young Americans died in this war but they may have been fighting for a cause, when the U.S. pulled out it made the war look like a loss and all the deaths were for nothing. Vietnam has recovered from this war and is once again an important member of the world comunnity, I am glad to see events like this take place, we may question the motives behind normalizing trade with former enemies but I think it is the high road and think we should commend the governments of both countries.
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  aceofspades1

  Nov. 14, 2007, 8:47 p.m.

  canadian - Viet Nam was called French IndoChina but the French were deposed about 1954 & Viet Nam was split in two like Korea - the North alined with the communists - the south with the west - Eisenhower was not the greatest on foreign policy & didn't see the true threat of what was really a civil war started by the North - Dulles had his head up his ass - but the true failure of our VN policy lays at the feet of JFK he abandoned the leader of South VN who was assasinated - as was JFK shortly after - then LBJ used the Gulf of Tonkin incident to escalate the war & 50,000 Americans died - now we wear VN clothes & Coca Cola is big there - end of story
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  klr60

  Nov. 14, 2007, 10:55 p.m.

  As a Tet vet, I just wish you were there-you have not a clue as to what you are talking about. War is War. We were in VN for same(basically), same reason-to promote a Democracy-what a joke. Bush is on the wrong track & should be assainated. If this country does not turn around-god bless us all-my year in VN, was a waste-lucky to be alive.-you people have not a clue to what really happened over there-forget baby boomers & think about 58,000 lives being lost for nothing, much like Iraq & afghanistan-some of you have no conscience at all-
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  klr60

  Nov. 14, 2007, 10:59 p.m.

  PS-go visit the Wall & see if you see any friends there-
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  canadianrancher57

  Nov. 14, 2007, 11:25 p.m.

  klr60- I was not in favor of the war but for the times the excuse used for the war at the begining was easier for the people to accept. I will agree with you that this was a terrible loss of good people, and when you look at things today between Your country and Vietnam no one can blame the vets for being bitter, it to was a war for nothing.
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  ekklesiawarrior

  Nov. 15, 2007, 4:48 a.m.

  Forty years ago but even more, American forces were in Vietnam before the Kennedy years.

  NO ONE WINS, IN WAR!! :-(

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