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Last Days in Vietnam - Jim DiEugenio - 03-10-2015
http://www.ctka.net/2015/RoryKVietnam.html
If you have not seen this film, you should. Its very well done and presents material that has not yet been presented on film, as far as I know.
Some of the criticism of the film, by people like Nick Turse and the Nation crowd, is really unfounded.
It does a nice job cosideaing what its about. I did make some criticisms, but overall, this is a good film. Well wroth seeing.
Last Days in Vietnam - Albert Doyle - 14-10-2015
I once met the son of a Laotian army officer hired by CIA to spot Pathet Lao positions for US bombing. The CIA practically pulled out of Laos overnight leaving his father, himself, and his family at the hands of the conquering Pathet Lao. The father was sent to re-education labor camp where they gave them a wicker basket and ordered him to fill bomb craters with it. Luckily he got out and managed to get to the US. Thavi and his family were left behind in a kind of house arrest. He swam across the Mekong at night and made it to Thailand with his family and onto the US. A very interesting story in the documentary 'Nerakhoon' (Laotian for "Betrayal"). That's Thavi on the cover:
http://www.amazon.com/Betrayal-Ellen-Kuras/dp/B002EBRFAG/ref=sr_1_sc_1?s=movies-tv&ie=UTF8&qid=1444794124&sr=1-1-spell&keywords=Nerakoon
Last Days in Vietnam - Tom Scully - 14-10-2015
Albert Doyle Wrote:I once met the son of a Laotian army officer hired by CIA to spot Pathet Lao positions for US bombing. The CIA practically pulled out of Laos overnight leaving his father, himself, and his family at the hands of the conquering Pathet Lao. The father was sent to re-education labor camp where they gave them a wicker basket and ordered him to fill bomb craters with it. Luckily he got out and managed to get to the US. Thavi and his family were left behind in a kind of house arrest. He swam across the Mekong at night and made it to Thailand with his family and onto the US. A very interesting story in the documentary 'Nerakhoon' (Laotian for "Betrayal"). That's Thavi on the cover:
http://www.amazon.com/Betrayal-Ellen-Kuras/dp/B002EBRFAG/ref=sr_1_sc_1?s=movies-tv&ie=UTF8&qid=1444794124&sr=1-1-spell&keywords=Nerakoon
You must have thought a lot of the dvd because in this instance you did not have Ralph Yates do your four star review of it. The fish you described catching locally in the book review, sounded yummy, boru !
Last Days in Vietnam - Albert Doyle - 14-10-2015
That's off-topic Tom. Please stop stalking my posts.
Last Days in Vietnam - Tom Scully - 14-10-2015
Albert Doyle Wrote:That's off-topic Tom. Please stop stalking my posts.
You missed my point, there is no mention of Laos in Jim DiEugenio's review. You step on every thread in this section of the forum, thus it is impossible to avoid posting after you do, since your post almost always immediately
follows the opening post of every thread and the top of the page post of every ensuing page of every thread. We know you blame the CIA for anything and everything, we all get it.
Jim DiEugenio Wrote:........... Saying that a car was "planted" and then saying, "Gad, it was a CIA operation!" What does that mean?
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You insist on having the first word, the middle word, and the last word in each and every thread. It is no accident activity has dried up in this section of the forum.
Last Days in Vietnam - Albert Doyle - 15-10-2015
I saw a presentation on TV this summer about the US withdrawal from Viet Nam in 1975. It was a traumatic program for people who lived through the era. A massive rush to get to the evacuation ships before the North Vietnamese Army stormed the city.
Last Days in Vietnam - Tracy Riddle - 15-10-2015
Albert Doyle Wrote:I saw a presentation on TV this summer about the US withdrawal from Viet Nam in 1975. It was a traumatic program for people who lived through the era. A massive rush to get to the evacuation ships before the North Vietnamese Army stormed the city.
Laos and Cambodia fell at almost the same time. Corrupt officials and generals in those countries rushed to get out with their loot. There was never a better example of how dumb it is to prop up crooked, unpopular regimes.
Last Days in Vietnam - Albert Doyle - 15-10-2015
Which, if you read DiEugenio, was what JFK knew in advance and tried to stop.
The criticism of JFK by his detractors is only possible because of the fulfillment of his plans that never happened because he was killed.