Vietnam Voices.

[the other mike]

This is an interview from the Billings Gazette YouTube channel. ...
A particularly insightful, often heart-wrenching, with very thoughtful and interesting insights into what the Vietnam experience was really like. Doc Pickard is a hero who saved many lives over there as a medic, probably the most stressful job over there.

(Vietnam War veteran Doc Pickard talks about his experiences..... Pickard graduated from Billings Senior High School (Montana) in 1962. He went to Eastern Montana College in business administration from 1962 to 1964. He transferred to the University of Montana to finish his degree but by the second year was “totally flat broke.” He enlisted in the Navy in 1966.)

 

[Mr Natural]

You kids can thank us Boomers for getting rid of the enslavement known as The Draft and the costly military escapades that went along with it.

 

[sparky]

These guys were my mentors......

~S~

 

[mikegriffith1]

The Democratic Party was North Vietnam's greatest and most important ally. Without the treasonous actions of congressional Democrats, South Vietnam would be a free nation today, much like South Korea.

When North Vietnam violated the peace treaty and began to invade South Vietnam, congressional Democrats refused to allow President Ford to honor our promise to provide air and logistical support to the South Vietnamese if the Communists invaded. As a direct result of this betrayal, the Communists were able to conquer South Vietnam and enslave the entire country.

 

[the other mike]

The Democratic Party was North Vietnam's greatest and most important ally. Without the treasonous actions of congressional Democrats, South Vietnam would be a free nation today, much like South Korea.

When North Vietnam violated the peace treaty and began to invade South Vietnam, congressional Democrats refused to allow President Ford to honor our promise to provide air and logistical support to the South Vietnamese if the Communists invaded. As a direct result of this betrayal, the Communists were able to conquer South Vietnam and enslave the entire country.

Never heard that version , but it wouldn't surprise me.
JFK wanted to end it didn't he ?
1964;
The outcome of these two incidents was the passage by U.S. Congress of the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution, which granted U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson the authority to assist any Southeast Asian country whose government was considered to be jeopardized by "communist aggression". The resolution served as Johnson's legal justification for deploying U.S. conventional forces and the commencement of open warfare against North Vietnam.

Gulf of Tonkin incident - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

 

[the other mike]