Fredrik Logevall - The Meaning of the Vietnam War - 11/09/17
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- Fredrik Logevall, winner the 2013 Pulitzer Prize for his book, "Embers of War: The Fall of an Empire and the Making of America's Vietnam." Logevall traces the path that led two Western nations to tragically lose their way in the jungles of Southeast Asia.
November 9, 2017
Gerald R. Ford Presidential Library
Grand Rapids, Michigan
I served as a medical corpsman (31 May 1967 - 31 May 1968) at the 12th USAF Hospital at the sprawling Cam Ranh Bay AFB situated on a desolate peninsula of towering white sand dunes jutting into the South China Sea. The war, according to wounded grunts on the ward who had already served in previous tours in the war, told me the war was essentially over, in a strategic sense, by around 1964 or 1964. The shock American civilians back in the world experienced as a result of the Tet Offensive of 1968 was merely the last nail in the coffin for the war. Our defeat in Vietnam was a tectonic shift in our history. It was the beginning of the end of our country as an imperial power and our slow but steady decline as a nation. I have Professor Logevall’s “Embers of War” in my library on the Vietnam War. It’s in the canon of important history books on the war. He’s made a great contribution to the literature on the war.
@Uncle Joe Stalin qqp
@Uncle Joe And? He updated his lecture...and isn't that a good thing? Not for sure why you keep posting this?
It was the end of the Truman Doctrine of containment.
I graduated from the Special Forces Officer's Course in 1975 after serving 18 months in Vietnam. Our graduation speaker was Col. Aaron Bank, a former OSS officer who served in both Europe and Vietnam and was the Father of US Special Forces. Seeing all the Combat Intanryman Badges in the classroom (we were a small group), he said, "Guys I hate to tell you this, but you deserve to know. I knew Ho Chi Minh personally and he was more nationalist than Communist. We could have worked with him. I wrote that to President Truman --- but he didn't listen. Vietnam didn't need to happen."
The National Archives and Records Administrators are to be commended.
Poverty is what one needs to fear especially from the ELITES !
We better keep an eye on THE NEOCONS IN WASHINGTON, they are the HAWKS !!
You mean the Neo Confederate Christian Nationalist Republicans and the Military industrial complex Democrats...?