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@JJ-Adams EISENHOWER WAS A REPUBLICAN....
.....hello
Ya' got to read the links

https://www.answers.com/military-history
/What_US_President_committed_the_US_to_the_Vietnam_War
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https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/committed

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@jj-adams said
How is what I said any different than the reference you posted?
"The first advisers went to Viet Nam when Eisenhower was president. Soon after President John F. Kennedy sent military advisors. US forces in Vietnam began to grow slowly. By the time President Johnston was in office, the US troop build up was accelerated. Before Johnson decided not to run for reelection in 196 ...[text shortened]... or so advisors in Vietnam, all senior officers, not combat troops. We weren't committed in any way.
You conveniently forgot Nixon and his Agent Orange and his napalm and his carpet bombing, even though that was too little too late. The US had to leave in defeat in 1975.

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@suzianne said
You conveniently forgot Nixon and his Agent Orange and his napalm and his carpet bombing, even though that was too little too late. The US had to leave in defeat in 1975.
Carpet bombing is a now a violation
of The Geneva Convention. It wasn't then.
https://www.leicestershirevillages.com/is-carpet-bombing-a-war-crime/


@suzianne said
You conveniently forgot Nixon and his Agent Orange and his napalm and his carpet bombing, even though that was too little too late. The US had to leave in defeat in 1975.
Nixon got us OUT of Vietnam.
Napalm, Agent Orange, and carpet bombing were going on long before he was president.
You people really do live in some kind of dream world.

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@jj-adams said
Nixon got us OUT of Vietnam.
Napalm, Agent Orange, and carpet bombing were going on long before he was president.
You people really do live in some kind of dream world.
You'll get no argument from me about weapons used...I was there
Ford actually was president, when we finally left in 1975.
Nixon kept us there from 1968 until he left office,
in disgrace, in 1974.

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@jimm619 said
Ford actually was president, when we finally left in 1975.
Nixon kept us there from 1968 until he left office,
in disgrace, in 1974.
I seem to recall being in Thailand, US Army, when the US withdrawal and end of hostilities and the American withdrawal was announced.
It was in 1973.
That was after doing a tour in Vietnam in 1971.
Yes, we had troops there overseeing the pull-out until we finally left Saigon in '75, but Nixon ended the war..

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@jj-adams said
I seem to recall being in Thailand, US Army, when the US withdrawal and end of hostilities and the American withdrawal was announced.
It was in 1973.
That was after doing a tour in Vietnam in 1971.
Yes, we had troops there overseeing the pull-out until we finally left Saigon in '75, but Nixon ended the war..
Technically you are correct, the Paris Peace Treaty,
was signed in 1973....Combat continued until they
marched into Saigon in '75'

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So yall hijack my thread to tell Nam stories? 🙄


@capacrapa said
So yall hijack my thread to tell Nam stories? 🙄
Naw, no need to rehash that.

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🎶 hello darkness my old friend 🎶

(The Sound of Silence...Great song 😉)

Redone by Disturbed. (Simon and Garfunkel original)


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Me in Viet Nam.

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@capacrapa said
Me in Viet Nam.

[youtube]/A82lRWA75FQ[/youtube]
Never made it to Saigon

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@jj-adams said
I seem to recall being in Thailand, US Army, when the US withdrawal and end of hostilities and the American withdrawal was announced.
It was in 1973.
That was after doing a tour in Vietnam in 1971.
Yes, we had troops there overseeing the pull-out until we finally left Saigon in '75, but Nixon ended the war..
Army not Air Force?

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@jimm619

So you ARE a Redneck 😉

I knew it.

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@capacrapa said
@jimm619

So you ARE a Redneck 😉

I knew it.
Hardly........More like an aged hippy,
//////// I like Willie Nelson too.