Quote Originally Posted by HOOKED ON HISTORY View Post
looks on the faces of the folks trying to get out is hard to forget.
As a Vietnam vet, it's still hard to come to grips with the bizarre way we fought the war. Most don't know that by 1969 we were well aware of Mao Tse Tung's genocide of over 50 million Chinese. He was a brutal psychopath.

What is unfathomable to me to this day:
Why was the information not made public by the US government about Mao's vicious slaughter of professors, doctors, lawyers, priests and professionals to show the folks at home and our boys dying in the jungles that this war really was worth fighting?

I prefer collecting WWII weapons and have very little militaria from my Vietnam days -- guess it's still hard to heal the wounds.