THE VIETNAM WAR THROUGH OUR EYES

THE VIETNAM WAR
THROUGH OUR EYES

The Vietnamese text (Bản tiếng Việt): 
 Cuộc Chiến Việt Nam Qua Cái Nhìn của Chúng Tôi 

Trailer: https://facebook.com/tam.pham.75098/videos/10214589713348950 
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How the World and Future Generation see the Vietnam War, depends on Us. 

We have two choices:

First, for the South Vietnamese to tell their own stories.

The second, is to continue to let people like Ken Burns and John Kerry tell the wrong history for the South Vietnamese people.

John Kerry says, «The Vietnamese people hate us. And you can sense it, you can hear it. Once I asked a Vietnamese, “What the best thing I can do for you.” And he said, “Go Home.” And I think this is the attitude that does. And I turned to one and I said, “Fine, then you got to go in there and fight, because this is your country. And he said, “No!”

“Most of the 2 millions that you often heard quoted under arms, most of whom are regional popular Reconnaissance force  that is just to say a militia, the very poor militia that who simply lay down their arms, if they have done so already, and not fighty. I can cite many many many instances, sir,  when as in combat,  when these men refused to fight with us, when we were taken under fire, we Americans were supposed to fight with them, they pinned down and they ditched and they refused to come in to help us, they frankly refused, I don’t believe they want to fight, sir.”»

Among the many omittions in Ken Burns’s 18-hour Vietnam series, he refused to tell the story of the millions of Vietnamese refugees, or the 250 thousands boat people who died trying to escape. Or the 1 million people in prisons and re-education camps, nor that he showed that there are patriotry and heroism of the South Vietnamese military. Why did Burns refuse to show this broadcast announcing a great South Vietnamese victory,

Walter Cronkite says, «First and in simplicity, Vietcongs suffered a military defeat, their missions proved suicidal,  as they intended to stay in the cities as at negotiation point. They failed that the Vietnamese army reacted by the most ardent there are no defection from their ranks as the Vietcongs have expected. And the people did not rise to support the Vietcongs as they also believed and have expected.»

There are those who want to re-write history to say that South Vietnamese wanted communism. And that the country of South Vietnam never existed.

Jane Fonda says, «I think something like 12,000 South Vietnamese desert every month. So, if they’re doing that, they’re very successful. The other side, the National Liberation Front, they know what they’re fighting, that’s why they’ve been fighting so well for so long. I mean, It’s the people’s war, it’s a truly a war of the people, by the people, and for the people» (applause).

It’s time for the South Vietnamese tell their own story. Help us tell the world of the Vietnam war.