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| Friday, October 12, 2007 6:16PM | | | | Re-thinking Vietnam | Tags: Vietnam, died in vain, War Atrocity Museum, Saigon, Berlin Airlift, Eisenhower, Truman, US, UN, Korean War, Kennedy, Laos, southeast asia, SEATO. ASEAN, nuclear war, communists, communism, Kruschev, Westmoreland, Nixon, China, Brezhnev, Cold War, Ford, Cheney, Rumsfeld, Wolfowitz, CIA, Team B, Soviets, Arms Control, Reagan, Iran/Contra, arms race, Iron Curtain, San Antonio Express-News
| | | | April is the pucker factor for Vietnam Veterans. Saigon fell to the North Vietnamese Army on April 30. Every anniversary Vietnam vets are told again that their service, suffering and sacrifice was for nothing, that their comrades died in vain.
In 1989, the War Atrocity Museum in the city still called Saigon displayed the photograph of the arch war criminal, Dwight Eisenhower. The Vietnamese consider him the primary villain because he did not sign the Peace Accord between France and Vietnam but signed the Southeast Asia Treaty Organization (SEATO) agreement committing the US to defend South Vietnam. More foreign troops, other than US, fought in Vietnam under the SEATO Treaty than fought in Korea under the UN flag or in the Coalition... | | | | | |
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