On this day 39 years ago the last US troops left South Vietnam.

We should have learned that we can't win without stomping the crap out of the enemy. No rules of engagement unless it is to kill everything until they surrender. Saves lives...out lives.

That is not the lesson I meant, that was missed.

Then I don't know what that lesson was. Peace? Yes, after the enemy is defeated. All is well, just as with Japan and Germany. Friends now?

Sounds good to me. We should have. Look at what they have now. I'd whack them all,

May a generation of Veterans never be treated with anything less than unending gratitude.

The war of memories hasn't ended with the Vietnam Vets who survived. Words cannot express my gratitude.

And Welcome Home Brothers...

And for the 58,000 who did not make it, you will never be forgotten.

Piss on Hanoi Jane.

Can't you forgive her she apologized in fact here's a direct quote from her apology.

"I would like to say something, not just to Vietnam veterans in New England, but to men who were in Vietnam, who I hurt, or whose pain I caused to deepen because of things that I said or did. I was trying to help end the killing and the war, but there were times when I was thoughtless and careless about it and I'm very sorry that I hurt them. And I want to apologize to them and their families. [...] I will go to my grave regretting the photograph of me in an anti-aircraft gun, which looks like I was trying to shoot at American planes. It hurt so many soldiers. It galvanized such hostility. It was the most horrible thing I could possibly have done. It was just thoughtless."
-(Hanoi)Jane Fonda

The fact that it was in her to be so cavelier makes her apology worthless. Maybe she is sorry that it caused so much anger directed at her, but that is her only real regret. I think so, anyway.

Some might forget; I won't. Others may forgive; I never will.

Until my dying day, I'll willingly stand bare-assed in a blizzard on the end of a five-mile line, solely for the opportunity to piss on that woman's grave!

Look her methods were wrong but her intentions were ultimately good. I see that your in the military and have good reason not to forgive Jane Fonda but, when it comes to history and the Vietnam War were the bad guys for invading a country that was defenseless and had done nothing to us. Direct your hatred at your countries leadership not someone who intended to end an unjust war albeit with bad methods.

You're a little thin on your history there. Forget the crap the left wing fed you in school and do some actual research. We invaded no one. We were meeting our treaty obligations to The Republic of Vietnam under SEATO. North Vietnam was the aggressor and invaded the south. Neither were they defenseless.

I do direct my wrath at the cowards in Congress such as Fank Church, Ted Kennedy and others of their ilk for failing to support those of us they sent to war.

As to it being an 'unjust war' and the US being the 'bad guys', how about asking the the survivors of the estimated 2 million southeast asians that died after we left. Better yet, try asking the 1.4 million that have settled in the US as 'boat people'.

Fonda's actions were those of a traitor, pure and simple.

I salute you, Sarge.

I'll join you, Smaj. And I'll bring plenty of beer so we can fill/stock up.

She broke hearts of our POWs when she gave their secreted messages she had palmed to their capturers, not to mention punishment that was inflicted once they were out of the presse's view.

She's a dog.

Her concern was ending an unjust war not helping our enemies, Her methods are wrong but her intentions were good and she apologized for her methods. Why don't you read up on her.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

No way. No desire.

Why? How do you have an informed opinion if you don't read about her?

I, personally, read enough about her during the war. I won't forgive her! I know what went on in Vietnam. I know about our soldiers's experiences and how those experiences continue to haunt them. Hanoi Jane might be sorry, but that can't change all that resulted from her treasonous actions!

Well the only thing she did was protest the war in vietnam and have one bad picture taken of her.

That's called TREASON.

Gregory, I feel that asking our Veteran's to forgive "Hanoi Jane" is about as easy as asking them to erase the visions of the wartime atrocities that are etched in their minds and visit them, regularly, in their nightmares.

Well to be fair it may be a bit harder than that because their actually is a pill that does erase memories now but is rarely ever used.
http://bodyodd.msnbc.msn.com/...
Feel free to read this article if you want to know more about the amnesia pill.

Let's get one for Jane...cyanide. That way she will forget too. Remember, she's a 1%er. Came back from N. Nam and settled back into a life of luxury.

SFC RET US Army
71-92

Thanks, Sarge.
4th Inf. Div. Pleiku, SVN 09/18/67 - 04/14/69
Me with my M-16 outside of a bunker Jan 1969

Thank you and welcome home.

to bad for many years our goverment has tried to sweep our nam vets and this war under the rug. they never got what they deserved from our country or the people.and from one vet to all nam vets MY THANKS GO OUT TO ALL OF YOU

Thank you all!

Thank you veterans for fighting a war we couldn't win. You're all remembered, and plus we made a lot of great movies about the Vietnam war. :)