Facing Ghosts: Return to Vietnam

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  • (2018 Regional Murrow Award-winner for Documentary) Aired March 10, 2017: John Becker travels with Vietnam veterans from East Tennessee to the nation where they fought a war as teenagers.
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    (00:00) Intro
    (01:35) Returning battlefield flag
    (05:49) Memories surface on the Mekong
    (10:39) Exploring Da Nang City
    (11:30) Returning to base
    (17:03) Touring Ho Chi Minh on motorbikes
    (22:00) Finding clarity in Da Nang
    (27:21) Surprise reunion
    (31:13) A surprise connection in Ho Chi Minh
    (34:35) Tossing the demons in Cu Chi
    (39:06) Exploring Thailand
    (41:07) Reflecting on the trip
    (44:21) Welcome home

Komentáře • 342

  • @Steveinthailand
    @Steveinthailand Před rokem +17

    I permanently moved from England to Thailand and eventually Vietnam, I've found the Vietnamese to be so hospitable, forgiving and compassionate. God bless these American vets who can finally find peace, knowing that their 'enemies' were in fact brothers all along

  • @nhattrung1515
    @nhattrung1515 Před 4 lety +40

    In the history of 4000 years. We had 1069 years of war with China, with France 91 years, with Japan 5 years, with America 21 years. My country is too tired of the war. Please no more wars in our country and around the world.

  • @patriot03062
    @patriot03062 Před 5 lety +21

    I came home from Vietnam. I was called names and insulted in Denver Airport. I will never forget it. I rather go back and visit Vietnam than set foot in Colorado

    • @MinhNguyen-ff6xf
      @MinhNguyen-ff6xf Před 4 lety +6

      patriot03062 You’re always welcome in Vietnam sir! I’m about fo finish my education in Denver and ready to go back home in the Mekong Delta, Vietnam.

    • @patriot03062
      @patriot03062 Před 4 lety

      Minh Nguyen Are you going to Can Tho City? 2 friends of mine are visiting Vietnam right now. My friend Ron married a Vietnamese women many years ago. This is their second trip back. Vietnam is on my bucket list. Angkor Watt in. Cambodia also

    • @MinhNguyen-ff6xf
      @MinhNguyen-ff6xf Před 4 lety +2

      patriot03062 oh yes, Can Tho is my hometown, and I’ll be going home with my American friend. It’s nice to see your new life flourished in the land where all troubles began!

    • @patriot03062
      @patriot03062 Před 4 lety

      Minh Nguyen Have a safe journey back home. My friend Linh lives in Can Tho and over the years she has sent me videos of Can Tho. Very nice place with the floating markets. Btw I have read many books about Vietnam over the years. Quite a history. If you ever get a chance read the book “Daughters of the River Huong” by Uyen Nicole Duong. A Vietnamese women who became a lawyer in New York City. Her story is incredible and so heart wrenching. Her heart always longing for her Youth until the Overthrow by North Vietnam. There were pages I had to read over and over again because the longing in her heart touches everyone heart

    • @MinhNguyen-ff6xf
      @MinhNguyen-ff6xf Před 4 lety

      patriot03062 it’s an emotional story and I always admire people who have been through that hard time. Now, it’s time to look into the future and rebuild it. My family had to suffer a lot during and after the war, and my parents witnessed horror daily as children.
      I think you would enjoy Can Tho because it’s quite laid back and relaxing compared to Saigon and Hanoi.

  • @scentlessapprentice88
    @scentlessapprentice88 Před 3 lety +32

    God bless the Vietnamese people who fought in the war as well as the American vets. Vietnam is a beautiful country and the people are absolutely amazing. Thank you for you're Service.

  • @drsjwhitman45
    @drsjwhitman45 Před 5 lety +83

    I am sitting in the Rex Hotel in Saigon watching this video while on my own ‘return’ to Vietnam. Spent a few days in Hue and a week in Saigon. Perfect video. OH, I am here serving the branch campus of a U.S. college in Saigon, soon to expand to Hue. This is the best way to ‘give back’ to today’s young of Vietnam; a truly beautiful people.

    • @minhtaile3845
      @minhtaile3845 Před 4 lety +4

      Thank you sir

    • @humanspecies5137
      @humanspecies5137 Před 4 lety

      Jim Whitman what campus is this and what is the US one?

    • @joshmacwhirter8221
      @joshmacwhirter8221 Před 4 lety

      Amazing.

    • @gracestrickland7766
      @gracestrickland7766 Před 4 lety

      Thank you so much for your service

    • @kientran7672
      @kientran7672 Před 4 lety +2

      I'm vietnamese live in California I'm so proud of you..and very very welcome back to Vietnam..thank you very much for your service in vn..we love all of u the Vietnam veterans...thanks..

  • @pointerlover3492
    @pointerlover3492 Před 3 měsíci +3

    God bless all our Veterans ❤💙

  • @thaichu3871
    @thaichu3871 Před 24 dny +1

    Thank you to all men and women who served in Vietnam. They are the heroes.

  • @DXPunx74
    @DXPunx74 Před 4 lety +45

    To all of you who fought in Nam, lots of love and respect.

    • @richardreeves4857
      @richardreeves4857 Před 3 lety

      Thank you brave veterans

    • @digitaluser1255
      @digitaluser1255 Před 3 lety +1

      Wait, how sure r u that invading Vietnam was a right decision? It’s not about being anti patriotic. Even Donald Trump is against global wars, focusing on America First. Isn’t there a contradiction (a little bit) on patriotic Americans? Was invading Vietnam 🇻🇳 good? What if China or Vietnam invaded America? Who is the good or bad guy? How sure are you that other countries such as Vietnam tried to stop Americans from practicing freedom in the US?

    • @douggauzy6258
      @douggauzy6258 Před 7 měsíci

      @@digitaluser1255 Go ram your head into the wall . Get over yourself . You sit back and disrespect those who died .

  • @carltonhall9878
    @carltonhall9878 Před 3 lety +5

    Thank u to my American soldiers for serving never forget your fallen brothers

  • @bundeswehr1131
    @bundeswehr1131 Před 6 lety +92

    I am a S.Korean. Many of our fathers and uncles came back S.Korea in body bags. But, American Vietnam vetrant's attitude is so impressive. They actually rebuilt diplomatic relation with Vietnam. Wrong decisions were made in U.S. policy level. U.S. soldiers who fought there were not to be blamed.

    • @inouelenhatduy
      @inouelenhatduy Před 5 lety +15

      south korea soldier in vietnam war commited war crime did you know it ? that why vietnamese most fear the south korea troop in the war + some korean reporter try to write artical about it end up being kill back in the 80-90s , heck even now day they get threat + let hope one day korea govt apologize for what they soldier did in vietnam war , right now the relationship is good and we need your invest but once country become richer i bet we gona demand apologize + the south korea troop in vietnam call them self blue dragon right ? + some korea vet and they family come back to vietnam and admit + apologize for they fellow soldier during the war even built statute of woman holding a baby in some province in vietnam , let hope more vet is like them and admit they wrong doing and korea govt apologize for what they soldier did during the war

    • @bundeswehr1131
      @bundeswehr1131 Před 5 lety +17

      You are absolutely right. Some of our troops committed disgusting war crimes during the war. Apologize must be made in individual level but our veterans just want those crimes to be forgotten forever. None of my family and relative went to Vietnam but many new Vietnamese immigrants are living in S.Korea. I treat them nice and kind. Maybe it is the only way to beg their forgiveness. Vietnamese people have hungry fighter spirit. They are role model immigrants in S.Korea and they are succeeding. I hope relation between our two nations become more interactive.

    • @juancarrera657
      @juancarrera657 Před 5 lety

      I’ve had some bad experiences with Vietnamese!

    • @ChiTownGuerrilla
      @ChiTownGuerrilla Před 5 lety

      I want to go to S Korea so bad to meet a pretty woman like yourself! 😊

    • @Hellion73
      @Hellion73 Před 4 lety +4

      Soldiers are just tools of death, the guilty ones are always the politicians, bankers and the merchs of the military industry, whom btw never get their hands stain on blood and dirt, bud...destruction, sufferings, people and casualties are just numbers for them, in the big pictures of their war profits.

  • @AndrewChristian-bg6vr
    @AndrewChristian-bg6vr Před 4 lety +6

    My dad was a Marine Corps tank crewman in Vietnam and I know he’s been wanting to go back. Watching this whole video made me super emotional and I know I’d be a complete wreck to see my dad sobbing if he was able to return. Semper Fidelis Marines and thank you to the rest of our Vietnam Veterans.

    • @B5Blue1968
      @B5Blue1968 Před 4 lety +2

      Get him to go back, and go with him it will be very emotional for both of you. But a great Father and Son moment that will never happen again. Tell your Dad for me "Thank You and Welcome Home.

    • @AndrewChristian-bg6vr
      @AndrewChristian-bg6vr Před 4 lety +1

      Mark Pierce yes sir absolutely. My dads not getting any younger either. I feel like this is something we both need to do, as in me being there for my dad. I remember going to the Vietnam war memorial with him when I was a kid and I didn’t understand the severity of everything. I sure do know now.

  • @fredjohnu1120
    @fredjohnu1120 Před 3 lety +3

    Dad served in the war and he has been back several times and this has been a huge part of the healing process for him.. Vietnam has long moved on from the war, they had no time to morn but to survive.
    I’ve been there several times with my kids.. To get the true experience of Vietnam you to get the hell out of the big city’ and into the country side and smaller coastal towns. This is a good program..

  • @alphawolftactical160
    @alphawolftactical160 Před 3 lety +2

    My Dad served in Vietnam. 5th SF group. Like these gentlemen, he bears the visible and invisible scars.

  • @papaal7014
    @papaal7014 Před 6 lety +39

    Please no more war.

    • @1wannabee1
      @1wannabee1 Před 5 lety +2

      Pap? as long as their is GREED and Intolerance? there WILL be WAR! (thats just the way it is)

    • @supaloc
      @supaloc Před 4 lety +2

      If you want Peace prepare for War

    • @supaloc
      @supaloc Před 3 lety

      Thrillcekr is that so..

    • @supaloc
      @supaloc Před 3 lety

      Thrillcekr how old are you 11?

  • @dewayne2189
    @dewayne2189 Před 3 lety +2

    Much respect for all the nam vets yall are the heros of the United States yall will allways be Heros i have family in the Vietnam War and ww2

  • @gedisdiop
    @gedisdiop Před 6 lety +30

    Although not a era Veteran, I served for 23 years. After watching this, my body was filled with such emotion that tears streamed down my face. God bless out Viet Nam Veterans.

    • @mikebtrfld1705
      @mikebtrfld1705 Před 5 lety +1

      They came home and told me DON'T GO!

    • @ihl8608
      @ihl8608 Před 5 lety

      Wilbur Snaffel, than you for your service.

  • @RickRudesMustache
    @RickRudesMustache Před 2 lety +5

    I've read that those tunnels they visited during the tour are actually twice as large as the ones the NVA would have built during the war. I guess they're built on larger scale to allow tourists to pass through them more easily. It's amazing to imagine people basically lived in those tiny tunnels for extended periods of time. I hope Vietnam and the US can continue to build a good relationship for the future of both people's.

  • @randynixon5059
    @randynixon5059 Před 6 lety +47

    Men at war may quite naturally Hate the enemy, but now that I'm 60 and surrounded by grandkids I no longer can hate the enemies of my youth. Hopefully none of my enemies of 45 years ago would still hate me. Fear and rage cause Hate, but time can bring forgiveness to us as well as any former enemies. I missed Nam by 15 months and am damned glad I did. God Bless all who served, whichever Flag they flew.

    • @1wannabee1
      @1wannabee1 Před 5 lety +1

      Randy? like the saying goes, 'forgive and forget'. I'm not sure whether the vietnamese people will forgive you! but I am sure that they can NEVER 'forget'. THAT would asking for just a wee bit tooo much.

    • @marcjefferson9277
      @marcjefferson9277 Před 5 lety

      I wouldn't forgive you

    • @Joshua-ox5fr
      @Joshua-ox5fr Před 4 lety +2

      Marc Jefferson I wouldn’t forgive the communists

    • @huuduyvu9714
      @huuduyvu9714 Před 4 lety +2

      Joshua and you can just bark like a dog.

    • @Joshua-ox5fr
      @Joshua-ox5fr Před 4 lety

      Hữu Duy Vũ Ironic saying coming from a communist lap dog

  • @janshiff9942
    @janshiff9942 Před 3 lety +2

    Thank you for your service. 💕 It's nice you're going back .😀😀😀

  • @inouelenhatduy
    @inouelenhatduy Před 5 lety +29

    if you are vietnam vet pls do come back , we vietnamese dont hate you guy , war over for 40+ year let move on :) + we have common enemy in the future ( the big fat guy up north aka china well they allway been our enemy since ancient time )

    • @ilikesteakandbacon150
      @ilikesteakandbacon150 Před 3 lety +3

      always been fascinated with Vietnam!!! hope to visit some day!! greetings from Greece!

    • @xdgs567z
      @xdgs567z Před 3 lety +1

      I’ve been watching all the CZcams videos with the NVA + American Veterans and I came across a common agreement that most of the NVA mentality was to look to the future of friendship with the US and to forget the past....war is a terrible thing and soldiers on both sides were doing their jobs....we must forgive, set politics aside, and look to the future 👍

    • @maximusextreme3725
      @maximusextreme3725 Před 3 lety +1

      The U.S. made a mistake going to war with Vietnam, but it has become an up and coming country. Even though it's considered "communist" it's much better than some other countries I can name that are communist and surpress their people.

  • @mariosacripante5271
    @mariosacripante5271 Před 4 lety +2

    First of all, this video made me cry watching these Tennessee Vets returning to Vietnam and with their Memories. I visited Ho Chi Min City (Saigon) Cu Chi (same place in the video and read about about the "American and Aussie Tunnel Rats"), Na Trang, etc. I remember growing up, the TV news in NYC was Saigon this, Hanoi that and visuals of Our B-52s w/bombs trailing out of them and had worked w/Vietnam Vets while in the USAF ('79~83). Visiting The American War Museum (1999) in Ho Chi Min City (Saigon) made me feel so guilty as an American because of the atrocities, Agent Orange and the aftermath, etc. It was the first "televised war." The videos on youtube of returning NYC veterans is even sadder as they returned with drug habits, etc. and help was limited. Thank you all US Vietnam era US veterans living and dead for Your service.

    • @ilikesteakandbacon150
      @ilikesteakandbacon150 Před 3 lety

      hope i get the chance to visit Vietnam also.I am from new york as well,the war was over when i was born,been living in Greece since 95

  • @markwoodworth9010
    @markwoodworth9010 Před rokem +1

    God bless you all vietnam veterinarian 🇱🇷🇱🇷🇱🇷

  • @tanyaleeletourneau3344
    @tanyaleeletourneau3344 Před 3 měsíci

    My husband talked to a vet while working at a hardware store. My husband asked what's the best thing to say to them.
    The vet said tell them welcome home...so....
    WELCOME HOME!
    🇺🇲🦅🫡🪖💪👍✌️🙏❤️

  • @1wannabee1
    @1wannabee1 Před 5 lety +13

    The thing that I found soooo significant? is the fact that this vietnam veteran seen 40 YEARS of his LIFE fighting for HIS country, IN his own country. I think its only fair to point out that, while I sincerely feel for ALL the americans who fought in this awful and unjust war,it is important to remember that MOST if not ALL american soldiers that did fight? they only fought for a few years at the most AND more importantly? they were fighting in a 'foreign' land. That said! it really is consoling to see these men from opposite sides, finally, if not becoming friends, at least recognising each others reasons why men on both sides, died and lets face it, history PROVES that ALL of this loss of life? 'could' have and 'should' have been avoided!

  • @sixmagpies
    @sixmagpies Před 4 lety +3

    Worked there from mid '88 'till end '92. Loved every minute and learned so much from these incredible people.

  • @marcryan6581
    @marcryan6581 Před 4 lety +4

    Thank you for your service and sacrifice and WELCOME HOME 🏡🇺🇸

  • @derrickstewart8814
    @derrickstewart8814 Před 4 lety +2

    It's sad to think that we still have remains of soldiers who never made it back may they rest in peace I hope there family's find closuer for there lost sons father's brothers and more RIP thank you for your service And Welcome home to who servived

  • @billbeason2376
    @billbeason2376 Před 3 lety +2

    Thank you, John and WBIR. I am from Newport and in 1969 & 70 I was stationed at An Hoa Combat Base. I also spent some time in Da Nang with the USMC. Your video was a joy to watch. Hopefully, someday I can return to visit Vietnam!

    • @chloekit4861
      @chloekit4861 Před 2 lety +1

      What was your tour like in Vietnam were you in combat ?

    • @billbeason2376
      @billbeason2376 Před 2 lety

      @@chloekit4861 IT was no walk in the park!

  • @fastkillmmmm
    @fastkillmmmm Před 4 lety +3

    Glad to see some Vets found inner peace at last. Thank you for your service.

  • @Kingite1
    @Kingite1 Před 4 lety +10

    This was heart felt & moving. Thank you for sharing with us your journey returning back to Vietnam. God Bless You from us here in New Zealand 😊🇳🇿

  • @lonelycarl1805
    @lonelycarl1805 Před 3 lety +1

    I am so glad to find so important informations with these videos around vietnam - war and backgrounds and their soldiers . I m from germany, 58 yrs, and vietnam - war was no theme at school , only the TV in 68 shown the vietnam side as victims, and I m glad today to know the truth of all victims until today. Thank you.

  • @thaichu3871
    @thaichu3871 Před 24 dny

    It is heart touching. Thank you for your service in Vietnam and WELCOME HOME.

  • @robertcombs55
    @robertcombs55 Před 5 lety +9

    Vietnam Vet 1968-69...I cant go back...I have had the opportunity....

  • @HoaNguyen-bx8hl
    @HoaNguyen-bx8hl Před 4 lety +1

    I'm very humble to see all these veterans from both sides found peace in their hearts and reunited as brotherhood. My hope is every corner of the world live with peace as these folks. LOVE YOU ALL!!!

    • @ilikesteakandbacon150
      @ilikesteakandbacon150 Před 3 lety

      imagine how everything would be if there was really peace all around the world!! wouldn't that be something huh!!! we can dream brother

  • @steve53LY
    @steve53LY Před 4 měsíci +1

    I'm speechless!

  • @HoangLe-ht5fo
    @HoangLe-ht5fo Před 6 měsíci

    I'm so happy to see veterans from both side finding peace. Knowing both countries are now good friends ❤🎉

  • @catfish252
    @catfish252 Před 6 lety +7

    Thank you WBIR for such an excellent documentary. Brought back a lot of memories. I was a B-52 Gunner flying out of U-Tapao 71-73, would love to go back someday. The hardest thing for me was being at the Vietnam War Memorial Dedication Ceremony in 1982, one of the hardest days of my life, Thanks to all my brothers out there and Welcome Home.

    • @inouelenhatduy
      @inouelenhatduy Před 5 lety

      did you know about raid on u tapao ? was you there ? man it amazing how our dac cong ( sapper but more like special force ) manage to sneak in to u tapao base and place bomb to destroy and damage b52 )

    • @chloekit4861
      @chloekit4861 Před 2 lety

      @@inouelenhatduy are you a veteran?

  • @grantt.9546
    @grantt.9546 Před 4 lety

    That was absolutely beautiful to watch. Well done to everyone involved. Much love to all.

  • @robertcao8484
    @robertcao8484 Před 5 lety +2

    Beautiful People, beautiful story. God Bless!

  • @franciscocastillo4687
    @franciscocastillo4687 Před 6 lety +6

    good video thank you vietnam veterans welcome home my bro was there in chulai 23rd americal division 1969 1969 rest in peace 2012

  • @langdao1396
    @langdao1396 Před 6 měsíci

    Thanks for sharing. Thanks you for your service!!

  • @davidbrooks1724
    @davidbrooks1724 Před rokem

    I’m glad to see these great men and women get to return to the place where they served and sacrificed. Thank you for your service

  • @chrisd2730
    @chrisd2730 Před 3 lety +2

    Amazing Video. Examples of how lifes are more important than governments and money. There is a person and his family in every fallen soldier of both sides of this senseless war.

  • @dontworrybehappy8080
    @dontworrybehappy8080 Před rokem

    WOW! Fantastic show. From the bottom of my heart, thank you for my freedom, thank you for your sacrifice, thank you for serving our country.

  • @thaichu3871
    @thaichu3871 Před 24 dny

    Should make more trips to Vietnam for the Vietnam vets. They deserve peace.

  • @alpringle5000
    @alpringle5000 Před 4 lety +1

    I was born in 1964. Grew up watching and hearing news about vietnam. Remember giving the peace sign to the MPs at the gate and they returning the sign in later years but before the war was over. I feel as if I was there. Which I wasn't but still feel very attached.

  • @mantrile
    @mantrile Před 3 lety +2

    The North Vietnamese veteran said at 3:45.... Có can đảm đóng lại quá khứ để tiếp tới tương lai hay không?
    In which the girl interpreted inaccurately. It should be:
    Are you Brave enough to close the Past, in order to look forward to the Future?
    He asked the US vet that question, a good opening of heart and mind.
    ... Thanks to all Veterans for their services!
    Greetings from a son of an ARVN, in Nashville, Tennessee, the Proud Volunteers State 🇺🇸

    • @hoanglongnguyen8584
      @hoanglongnguyen8584 Před 3 lety

      03:28 "...phải có can đảm để khép lại và nhìn về tương lai"!!! làm gì có từ "hay không?" để tạo nên câu hỏi nào bác ơi??? cô bé dịch gần như sát ý ông bác người Việt nói rồi. Bác nghe sao mà ra thành câu hỏi rồi đổ cho cô bé dịch không chuẩn??? tua đi tia lại mà nghe cho nó rõ

  • @jfro5867
    @jfro5867 Před 4 lety

    Wonderful & touching film on every level.

  • @hoangnguyen3424
    @hoangnguyen3424 Před 3 lety

    Thank you

  • @chrisking3849
    @chrisking3849 Před 6 lety +36

    so hard to watch so long ago, like last night, to my lost buddies, missed.

    • @Kimchiboy08
      @Kimchiboy08 Před 6 lety

      Chris King what is the charge if people refused the draft?

    • @xxxxxx5868
      @xxxxxx5868 Před 6 lety

      Prison

    • @DXPunx74
      @DXPunx74 Před 4 lety

      Thank you for your services. My Uncles also served over there. My one Uncle passed away in 1989 and had really bad PTSD. If he was treated for it like it is today, he would probably still be alive. You guys did what you had to do. Lots of respect and love to all of you.

    • @scentlessapprentice88
      @scentlessapprentice88 Před 3 lety

      Dereliction of duty would be one

  • @30mrgoodfellow
    @30mrgoodfellow Před 4 lety +1

    I did that .. its over .. its time to move on .... I thank you all for it..

  • @mariekatherine5238
    @mariekatherine5238 Před 5 lety +13

    It was a disgrace how returning vets were treated in the 60s and 70s. I believe there should be an official apology read by the President and some kind of reparation made to these people and their families, if no longer living. To any who may read this, Thank you for your service. May God bless and keep you.

    • @drsjwhitman45
      @drsjwhitman45 Před 5 lety +4

      President Trump is the only president with that kind of courage and patriotism.

    • @chasetonga
      @chasetonga Před 5 lety

      Trump would never apologize. He would just think our soldiers were losers for not winning the war quickly, just like he thought John McCain was a loser for getting caught.

    • @brandonstonestone1795
      @brandonstonestone1795 Před 4 lety +2

      The vets were treated fine. Many of them were anti war themselves.

    • @cyan3504
      @cyan3504 Před 4 lety

      Marie Katherine thousands of those vets raped and murdered vietnamese women, kids and old men.

    • @mariekatherine5238
      @mariekatherine5238 Před 4 lety

      Cyan You witnessed or have direct knowledge of these thousands? Rape is clearly unacceptable because it’s targeted and deliberate against specific women. Murder? Some, yes. In war not all killing is murder. People get killed in war, even the “innocent” die. In a truly just war, only the combatants fight and get injured and killed. When was the last “just” war? War is inevitable so long as human beings exist. That doesn’t mean war isn’t evil, but not all warriors are evil. MOST do their duty to defend their country, yes, by killing the enemy, without resorting to individual acts of rape and murder of civilians.

  • @052CThomas
    @052CThomas Před rokem

    This was a tremendous documentary and I hope it might inspire other Vietnam vets to "go back", to see, as all who watch this see, how Vietnam has changed and how Americans are welcomed. And how the war is over for both of our nations and hopefully for the men who served there.

  • @ezkul95828
    @ezkul95828 Před 2 lety +1

    Forget or Forgive?. I may forgive and never forget.

  • @Fred5612
    @Fred5612 Před 4 lety +3

    These old enemies treated them better than their own country men when they got home.

  • @danielroydrawe
    @danielroydrawe Před 3 lety +2

    I wish my brother could've found the healing many Vietnam veterans found before he died from complications of Agent Orange. He spent many years bitter about his two tours in country and suffered a lot physically.

  • @edwardlomaseng9120
    @edwardlomaseng9120 Před 4 lety

    As Asia man living in United States not by choice but by war. Most of us face more discrimination in US than our old enermies. Asian ppl have good hearts to forgive n forget n moved on. They welcomed me here bette than my first times home. God bless u sir n I hope n pray u find peace n wish u well.

  • @garrywagner7717
    @garrywagner7717 Před 4 lety

    Welcome, home guys love you

  • @dongle4271
    @dongle4271 Před 5 lety +4

    All of you were brave soldiers, who had spirit of knight.

  • @stoneblue1795
    @stoneblue1795 Před 5 lety

    Well done.

  • @inouelenhatduy
    @inouelenhatduy Před 5 lety +5

    24:27 wow da nang back then , gotta show my friend :) it look like some small village town vs now day :)

  • @TaiTran-iw5je
    @TaiTran-iw5je Před 5 lety +1

    Thanks for your service

  • @chritopherherrera2349
    @chritopherherrera2349 Před 5 lety +2

    Amazing! Thank God for the reconciliation and healing of both peoples and countries.

  • @jeffsmith2022
    @jeffsmith2022 Před 6 lety +8

    God bless them all...

  • @dogcopweg7696
    @dogcopweg7696 Před 4 lety +1

    Quang Tri was more than 5 miles from the DMZ. I was our battalion rear. We worked north to the Z.

  • @alanmartin6268
    @alanmartin6268 Před 4 lety +1

    They will never know how much they contributed to Vietnam and how they have contributed to the history of the world.God surely watches over all the Vietnam warriors.

    • @johnsmith-zf1fd
      @johnsmith-zf1fd Před 3 lety +2

      they contributed by slaughtering 2 million civilians- great guys, not!

  • @TK-ml5pv
    @TK-ml5pv Před 2 lety

    Respect to both sides

  • @braincrashtv8377
    @braincrashtv8377 Před 4 lety

    It was their best years in their lives,for sure

  • @TheConfederate1863
    @TheConfederate1863 Před 6 lety +2

    Poor Guys

  • @spadeysay6846
    @spadeysay6846 Před 4 lety +3

    There should be no surprise that quite a number of veterans cannot face returning to the fields where they inflicted enormous atrocities and inhumanities on the innocent Vietnamese. They must never forget that they were the invaders and not the vietnamese. Hopely the ability of the vietnamese to forgive these veterans will be a lesson that the veterans will bring home and stop the US government from their never ending wars on other nations; every one of which has been based on lies and falsehood.

  • @brandonthunderblood7023

    Song?

  • @Janellabelle
    @Janellabelle Před 10 měsíci

    Does anyone know why tn is called The Volunteer State?

  • @camy2003
    @camy2003 Před 4 lety

    Don't apologise for what you had no control over .Great men n women

  • @craigsteadman2700
    @craigsteadman2700 Před 4 lety +1

    How can I get my grandfather on a trip? He was a Marine in Vietnam. A field radio operator.

  • @chritopherherrera2349
    @chritopherherrera2349 Před 5 lety +3

    I hope one day the same can take place for the people and countries of the USA and Iraq/Afghanistan.

    • @1wannabee1
      @1wannabee1 Před 5 lety

      I dont think THAT day will EVER happen. Hell will freeze over 1st!

    • @SectorSos
      @SectorSos Před 4 lety

      I was deployed both to Iraq and Afghanistan, and it's the last two places I EVER want to go back too.

    • @adelsanjak4823
      @adelsanjak4823 Před 4 lety

      @@SectorSos can you please elaborate on that? Why is that? What's the difference between these Nam Vets, who accepted that they were fighting the wrong war and came back to male peace with their former enemies. ..and you not even considering doing the same thing.

    • @ieatass4226
      @ieatass4226 Před 4 lety +1

      Adel SANJAK The people.

    • @adelsanjak4823
      @adelsanjak4823 Před 4 lety

      @@ieatass4226 was is wrong with the people ???

  • @duanejessup3708
    @duanejessup3708 Před 3 lety +1

    I know this is old, but i wish her brother would have went it would have brought healing to his scars . tho i hope they r healed by now anyway. 🙏. The letter from the wife was awesome .
    17:38 covid 19 preview. 😷

  • @01HILARYKEEGAN
    @01HILARYKEEGAN Před 5 lety +3

    Anyone served with a Marine - surname Halpin?! Cam Ranh Bay 1967/68, thank you

    • @RobPetty622
      @RobPetty622 Před 4 lety

      Hilary Keegan A guy named Marty Halpin has contributed many photos to a few Facebook groups. Look up “MCAS Iwakuni”and “Marine Airwing.” He was in Chu Lai in ‘65. Maybe a relative of yours? He was at the same base as my Dad a few months before my Dad.

  • @kathryndrury6495
    @kathryndrury6495 Před 5 lety

    Your feelings are valid. Be angry, sad, horrified, terrified - you earned it. You are a hero - 18 YEARS OLD - can you just imagine.

  • @kvue2807
    @kvue2807 Před 5 lety +2

    Don't get mad but at least your people's to have a country or half a country we lost our country my great-grandfather a father and mother great grandmother all decked out of their grave

    • @bamboo9666
      @bamboo9666 Před 4 lety

      What your country? you sound like native american..

  • @dansnyder2494
    @dansnyder2494 Před 5 lety +4

    Wonder if the Vietnamese soldiers would find similar welcome in America after inflicting the kind of atrocity on its citizen what they suffered at the hands of Americans themselves?

    • @angeloscalabrin3982
      @angeloscalabrin3982 Před 4 lety +3

      What about the atrocities of the Vietnamese government after the war, 450,00 I believe, after the "peace". The atrocities were on both sides and this should not be forgotten.

    • @huuduyvu9714
      @huuduyvu9714 Před 4 lety

      Angelo Scalabrin you don’t have morals to judge us, invader.

    • @angeloscalabrin3982
      @angeloscalabrin3982 Před 4 lety +7

      @@huuduyvu9714 first of all my countries did not invade your country, so I am not an invader. Secondly I am not judging Viet people, who are good people. I can judge your political system and your leaders, just as I can judge my own, as a human being who is on the side of people in general. Your leaders recently sent about 160 people to prison ( for up to 20 years) for criticising the government on social media; that can be criticised, by anyone.

    • @huuduyvu9714
      @huuduyvu9714 Před 4 lety +1

      Angelo Scalabrin no invader commits their own crimes, that’s the point. Your millions tons of bombs, Dioxin, Napalm, Phosphorus,... here, plus your countless “seach and destroy” campaigns which destroyed innocent civilians’ properties and lives, a lot had been driven far to genocides like My Son massacre are living proofs of your direct invasions for at least a decade here, not to mention direct helps to French colonists by funding 80 percent of their war budget. Are you sure your regime doesn’t arrest “any potential threat to existence of the governance over the country”? Oh yes, you justified it under the name of “terrorist planning” and even use it to create false facts aiming invade countries throughout the world just because “they hide and feed terrorism” no matter it is right or wrong. Like Iraq, no bio-chemical weapons found, and you said a ridiculous “sorry” after all you have done there, made them a hell from where was rich before.
      No regime can tolerates actions against their rule, yours, mine, none of them either. At least our living condition in prisons for political prisoners is much better and number of them is also much lower than American’s, that’s for sure. So you have no morals to judge someone who does better than you, in another country that you don’t belong to.

  • @kieronbevan7489
    @kieronbevan7489 Před 6 lety

    Help them

  • @edstyer2566
    @edstyer2566 Před 4 lety

    Thank you my brothers and welcome home 🇺🇸❤️

  • @waltertodd4281
    @waltertodd4281 Před 3 lety

    God Bless the 'Nam vets!

  • @mariekatherine5238
    @mariekatherine5238 Před rokem

    All respect to these brave men and women! (Commie Jane Fonb

  • @papaal7014
    @papaal7014 Před 6 lety +3

    'Military men are just
    dumb, stupid animals
    to be used as pawns
    in foreign policy.'
    - Henry Kissinger -

  • @Joker-Leto
    @Joker-Leto Před 4 lety +2

    awesome video.. but the weird part maybe..is.. looking at the short stature people who fought like giants.. Then after the war they went back to the fight of rebuilding their county .. our respects and admiration for this brave soldiers of authentic real honor....
    wtf "who was talking, "Whether communist like it or not we won the war.." you didn't won the war, they pulled you put because you were getting massacre, after they got home at US you were shamed by your own people; after 50 years 68% are still fighting back in US from wounds and 32% died of Agent Orange, in drug addiction, alcoholism, metal disorders, depressions, see the title ---> Facing Ghosts: Return to Vietnam.. and look at the Vietnamese, after the war they dropped the riffles and picked up the shovels to rebuild the country..

  • @inouelenhatduy
    @inouelenhatduy Před 5 lety +5

    should have give the flag to the military museam in ho chi minh city

  • @collinhoey2186
    @collinhoey2186 Před rokem

    CLOSURE., One aim One love One destiny.

  • @riitaalin
    @riitaalin Před 5 lety +1

    Tough to watch for many that was our youth and it wasn't honest or pretty

  • @scotttet5223
    @scotttet5223 Před 4 lety +1

    When the Vietnam war was ended I was 13 years old I still remember a lot of wars.

  • @rosivo3142
    @rosivo3142 Před 5 lety +8

    this narrative needs some serious reconsideration and research. the intro in the first minute talks about the miraculous recovery of the vietnamese people after the war and, i think, serves the guilty consciousnesses of americans who know their country shouldn’t have been there. as a vietnamese person it is very apparent to me that america did a lot of convenient “forgetting” (ie abandoned amerasian children). in vietnamese communities across america, in marketplaces and community centers, we are still raising money for victims of agent orange (mostly people born with deformities because of the chemical.) it is very clear to me that we are not as recovered as americans hope we will be as a way to absolve their guilt

    • @coyleigh2860
      @coyleigh2860 Před 5 lety +6

      Im an American, i think you are 100% correct.

    • @1wannabee1
      @1wannabee1 Před 5 lety +3

      You speak like capitalism is a bastion for the free! Oh yeah, your 'free' to walk into a hospital and get treatment on demand? For every example you can pick to bolster capitalism? Any 1 with half a brain cell can come back with a similar counter claim for communism. Now in 2018? you have Russia slowly but surely improving the quality of life for their people. What is America doing for theirs? except that is, increasing their military budget beyond ANY other country on this planet while you have people DIEING for the insane, pathetic reason that they are unable to obtain 'suitable' health care. Thing that you and others like you conveniently miss? is the simply 'name' of this war proves the wrong that was committed! VIETNAM? YOU were fighting on somebody elses country ffs! You had NO reason to be there. It was your stoopid insane phobia of communism that lay at the heart of your desire to stick your nose where it did NOT belong. The result of that idiotic action? 100',1000 of people dies in the most brutal way. Yet YOU, have the brass neck to sit there and state quite catagorically, that NO1 should feel ANY shame what-so-ever? THAT is possibly THE most grotesque statement I've EVER heard and you should hold your head in total SHAME! Grrrrr

    • @1wannabee1
      @1wannabee1 Před 5 lety

      GREAT comment and Spot on too.

    • @guypalumbo7892
      @guypalumbo7892 Před 4 lety +1

      You also do a lot of convenient forgetting about "Re-Education" camps to indoctrinate the citizens of Vietnam into good Communists. Why did so many Northerners flee to the south in the late 1950's? To escape the North Vietnamese bloodbath!

  • @thomashibben3247
    @thomashibben3247 Před 5 lety +2

    To you VietNam vets: I love you all. welcome home.

  • @henryweaver667
    @henryweaver667 Před 4 lety +1

    The VC very different than the regular Norh Vietnamese army.
    You may search yourself the difference.

  • @kathryndrury6495
    @kathryndrury6495 Před 5 lety +1

    He gave too much, and so did we.

  • @JR-jp7mi
    @JR-jp7mi Před 4 lety +2

    I've actually felt safer riding motor bikes in Vietnam compared to normal streets in America lol. Sounds weird right?

  • @johnmosbrook9964
    @johnmosbrook9964 Před 5 lety +4

    Ask Navy man Cliff Willis what his swift boat crew did to Vietnamese operating boats containing weapons.

  • @catdaddy3302
    @catdaddy3302 Před 6 měsíci

    This would be too hard for me.

  • @daveb9698
    @daveb9698 Před 4 lety

    Yes I respect all who served.. but many Vietnam vets Said it was a waste of time....

  • @albertramsay8688
    @albertramsay8688 Před 5 lety

    I'm sure that old soldier fought the Aussies and the Brits just as much as he did with the French and Americans.

  • @mareksicinski3726
    @mareksicinski3726 Před 2 lety

    23:39 well the country itself