Re: But..who won the (3) wars? Who has sophisticated army? Who has support of US? If you answer last question correctly, you can guess who has an upper hand...<g>
May I enter for your quiz?? I love quizzes.... Hmmm... let me see.... support of the US?... upper hand?.... BINGO:
SOUTH VIETNAM!!!!
Indeed, as Andy put it, you can't lose....
PS - Reminder:
Indochina and the Vietnam War.
Introduction.
Seven years after the fall of Saigon, American soldiers killed in the Vietnam War were finally honored by the unveiling of the "wall" in Washington, D.C., and the parade on Veterans' Day, November 11, 1982, honored the survivors. The reason for this belated recognition was not only the U.S. defeat, but also, and above all, the divisive nature of that war. Indeed, some historians claim that the Vietnam War divided U.S. opinion as no other issue had done since the civil war.
Although direct U.S. military involvement began in August 1964, with the full support of Congress and public opinion, this consensus began to erode by late 1967 and open protest erupted in 1968. Between 1968 and 1975, opponents of the war in the United States engaged in unparalleled protest actions, some going as far as to support the North Vietnamese communists against the U.S. government. During the Democratic Convention in Chicago in 1968, the "Youth International Party," founded by Jerry Rubin and Abbie Hoffman, led a protest demonstration. There was a violent clash with police, who clubbed both demonstrators and bystanders -- all of which was seen on TV. Students conducted mass protests on the campuses.
In spring 1970, after the accidental shooting of four students protesting the extension of the war to Cambodia by nervous soldiers of the National Guard at Kent State University, Ohio, mass protests broke out all over the country, including the normally staid University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas. There were two bomb explosions: one in the Kansas Union and one at the high school, and feelings ran high on both sides. The Chancellor, Lawrence Chalmers, decided to avert any confrontation between students and the National Guard by cancelling final examinations; instead, he allowed the students to conduct "workshops" discussing the war. Some professors gave their male students As and Bs for inferior work, because a B average would keep them out of the army, and thus out of Vietnam.
Some students, particularly in California and New York, burned their draft cards, while others went into hiding or escaped to Canada and other countries. The U.S. flag was burned on occasion. Famous people like Jane Fonda, Joan Baez, former Attorney General Ramsey Clark and others even went to North Vietnam to manifest their opposition to U.S. policy. Jane Fonda was even filmed sitting on an anti-aircraft gun and joking with North Vietnamese soldiers in Hanoi. In 1988, she apologized for her actions to U.S. veterans, who were opposing the making of a film starring her; she then claimed she had gone to Hanoi to help release U.S. prisoners of war. (In fact, she was allowed to interview some prisoners, who had been bullied or tortured into telling her they were being well treated).
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