YES,

SOME

WENT

ANYWAY

Colonel Bui Tin, formerly of the North Vietnamese General Staff Was interviewed by Stephen Young for an article to appear in the August 3rd 1995 Wall Street Journal.

Q. What about the results (of the 1968 Tet Offensive)?

A: Our losses were staggering and a complete surprise. (General) Giap (North Vietnam’s leading General and war strategist) later told me that Tet had been a military defeat, though we had gained the planned political advantages when Johnson agreed to negotiate and did not run for re-election.

Q. Was the American antiwar movement important to Hanoi's victory?

A. It was essential to our strategy. Every day our leadership would listen to world news over the radio at 9 a.m. to follow the growth of the American antiwar movement. Visits to Hanoi by people like Jane Fonda, and former Attorney General Ramsey Clark … gave us confidence that we should hold on in the face of battlefield reverses. We were elated when Jane Fonda, … said at a press conference that she was ashamed of American actions in the war and that she would struggle along with us.

MUCH HAS BEEN SAID ABOUT THE HIPPIES OR YIPPIES IN THE 60S

FREE LOVE

FREE SPIRITS

TURNED ON

TUNED OUT

FLOWER POWER

SEX DRUGS ROCK & ROLL

THEY WERETHEY WERECOMMITTED TOCOMMITTED TO

THEY TRAVELLED TOPLACES LIKEWOODSTOCK

IN GAILY DECORATED BUSES

WHILE OTHERS TRAVELLED FROM PLACESLIKE HUE CITY

SO, WHO WASCOMMITTED?

?

Yes Ms. Baez, perhaps you could have better contributed.

Instead you and your kind detracted, disgraced, demeaned and vilified those with the courage to try to make a difference.

THE MYTHS OF VIETNAM

TOOK OUR YOUTH

OLDEST KIA = 62 22 52 YEAR OLDS OLDEST KIA = 62 22 52 YEAR OLDS

11% KIA = 32 + YEARS AVG AGE KIA = 2311% KIA = 32 + YEARS AVG AGE KIA = 23

ONLY 101 18 YEAR OLDS = KIAONLY 101 18 YEAR OLDS = KIA

TOOK OUR UNEDUCATED

MEDIAN SCHOOLING = 13 YRS MEDIAN SCHOOLING = 13 YRS 80% HS GRADS80% HS GRADS

VS 45% WW II VS 45% WW II ONLY 60% IN USA TOTALONLY 60% IN USA TOTAL

3 X THE NUMBER OF COLLEGE GRADS IN WWII3 X THE NUMBER OF COLLEGE GRADS IN WWII

THE DRAFT 33% 33% VSVS 67% IN WWII 77% KIA = VOLUNTEERS 67% IN WWII 77% KIA = VOLUNTEERS

PREYED ON MINORITIES

5% KIA = HISPANIC < % THAN DRAFT AGE POP5% KIA = HISPANIC < % THAN DRAFT AGE POP

12.5% KIA = BLACK < % THAN DRAFT AGE POP 12.5% KIA = BLACK < % THAN DRAFT AGE POP

Source – Stolen Valor - B. G. Burkett & Glenna Whitley – Verity Press 1998