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To: Karen Lawrence who wrote (2539)4/9/2006 11:58:53 AM
From: epicure  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 14758
 
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"the names of the first and last to die in Vietnam are inscribed on the center panels at the apex, and that no one knows exactly who the last man was. (Actually, I could make a case that the last man to die in Vietnam was a female nurse who was sucked out of a C-5 cargo plane during the “babylift” of orphans during the final days of the fall of the South Vietnamese government in 1975."



To: Karen Lawrence who wrote (2539)4/9/2006 12:36:51 PM
From: michael97123  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 14758
 
What/Who are you quoting in this post? IKE and JFK had little to do with the war. Big escalation was under LBJ and it is doubtful that IKE would have undertaken it after Korea and we all do like to think JFK would have backed off, particularly after the failed Bay of Pigs attack where the the value of intel and military advice alone proved wrong and CBM in 1962 where the world almost blew up.



To: Karen Lawrence who wrote (2539)4/9/2006 6:37:08 PM
From: KLP  Read Replies (2) | Respond to of 14758
 
Here's a really good Timeline for the events that happened in VietNam...You will note that even in Truman's era there were problems, and Americans there...Also note, Kennedy did send American "advisors" in who said they would fire back if fired upon.Under Johnson, events erupted...Nixon finally was able to get us out of there....

Time period covers 1930 to 1995....

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