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Originally Posted by WilliamTheIrish
Musgrave (Marine from Independence, MO) was pretty incredible in his interviews.
So was the Marine from Boston, Roger Harris.
Paraphrasing
"Don't believe what you read in the papers Mom. It's not going well. And I'm probably going to die"
"Thats not true. You're special".
"Mom, Every Mom thinks their boy is special. I'm putting a lot of body parts in bags of special boys".
JFC
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Watching this really pisses me off. Our military and politicians KNEW in 1965 that the war was unwinnable. The USA already had 2,765 dead why didn't they cut their losses and move on from a war that was unwinnable?
Their mistake in lives:
The human costs of the long conflict were harsh for all involved. Not until 1995 did
Vietnam release its official estimate of war dead: as many as 2 million civilians on both sides and some 1.1 million North Vietnamese and Viet Cong fighters.
The U.S. military has estimated that between 200,000 and 250,000 South Vietnamese soldiers died in the war.
In 1982 the
Vietnam Veterans Memorial was dedicated in Washington, D.C., inscribed with the names of 57,939 members of U.S. armed forces who had died or were missing as a result of the war. Over the following years, additions to the list have brought the total past 58,200. (At least 100 names on the memorial are those of servicemen who were actually Canadian citizens.)
Among other countries that fought for South Vietnam on a smaller scale,
South Korea suffered more than 4,000 dead,
Thailand about 350,
Australia more than 500, and
New Zealand some three dozen.