Fall of Saigon - 40 years ago

[shadycon]

A couple of yrs. ago I saw pic's. on one of these forums of piles of rusting guns and used equip. parts left over after we left. I believe they were taken in the 80's. GK.

Thanks Jim: this is the one I was taking about.
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[Seaspriter]

A couple of yrs. ago I saw pic's. on one of these forums of piles of rusting guns and used equip. parts left over after we left. I believe they were taken in the 80's. GK.

Thanks Jim: this is the one I was taking about. Gun Graveyard | Armory Blog

As gun collectors we are saddened to see the waste. These are but rusted symbols of the real heroism that held these guns. We collect these symbols as reminders of the stalwart courage of the brave souls who risked their lives for our freedom. To see these symbols rust is to tarnish and corrode the patriotic spirit, like letting buddy's lives be tossed into a rubble heap. The photos symbolically remind me of the bones of the dead from the WWI concentration camps we discovered in Poland.

But I'm sure many of you that read this post wonder each day we see terrorism and destruction rampant abroad and even at home: What is wrong with people that causes them to revel in killing. The destruction of all these guns didn't make the world safer, smarter, or more compassionate. It is only the courage of strong and righteous warriors that keeps the likes of Hitler, Mussolini, Mao, Pol Pot, and Osama and all the terrorist psychopaths from pillaging the world.

Thanks guys for standing tall, bearing the pain today, forty years later, and being willing to fight for what was actually a war worth fighting (even though people at home didn't realize it at the time). Some knew that we had to stop Mao somewhere -- Vietnam was where we put a stake in the ground.

While in tactical terms, we did not "win" the war; we won enough time for Mao to die, to be replaced by Chow En Li, for Henry Kissinger to talk some sense into Chinese leaders, and for China to see the world from a less aggressive perspective.

In this sense we did win the war . We should all stand proud of what we did. (Yes, we can also say that China is still to be feared, but I'd rather fight the economic war -- it's more civilized.) Let's all hope the battles in the Middle East are successful in changing the mindsets of some very perverted thinking.