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Alphamale 05-07-2010 04:28 PM

Vietnam, 35 Years Later
 
I think this is a particularly sweet set of photos.

http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/201...ars_later.html

http://inapcache.boston.com/universa...9_00000031.jpg

http://inapcache.boston.com/universa...7_00000030.jpg

Vansterdam 05-07-2010 04:41 PM

awesome post.

seeing the viet cong tunnels first hand and how small they were shows you the crazy mobility they had.

that and the m16 sucked

but the war was fucked

Meowjin 05-07-2010 04:42 PM

cochi tunnels are legit...

the made the tunnels bigger for tourists.... here is my fat ass trying to go through

http://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/photos-a...197_177441.jpg

Bouncing Bettys 05-07-2010 04:51 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Vansterdam (Post 6942409)
that and the m16 sucked

yeah my dad wished he could have used the m14 he had in basic

my mom has tried to talk him into going back to visit but he isn't ready. understandably there are certain memories he'd rather not revisit.

JSALES 05-07-2010 05:09 PM

wow, just wow. such powerful pictures.

Kim Jong Un 05-07-2010 05:26 PM

Stunning pictures.

tonyvu 05-07-2010 05:34 PM

damn, my dad was only a kid when this happened...

Vansterdam 05-07-2010 05:36 PM

i thought my family were all american supporters, but a summer vacation turns out we were all viet cong/supporters

heard some preety crazy stories

rymack 05-07-2010 05:39 PM

I went to the war museum in Hanoi. Pretty moving to see some of the effects of that war in the photo's they had there. If you are ever in Hanoi ( nice city actually) make sure you go there.

sas 05-07-2010 06:22 PM

odd, i just finished watching: vietnam a television history. Question to vietnamese revscene members: how divided was the country and how strong was the south politically? the documentary painted the south as a un organized group and lacking any real motivation to fight. True?
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Tegra_Devil 05-07-2010 09:05 PM

great pics!

murd0c 05-07-2010 09:12 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by MajinHurricane (Post 6942411)
cochi tunnels are legit...

the made the tunnels bigger for tourists.... here is my fat ass trying to go through

http://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/photos-a...197_177441.jpg

wow i'm actually shocked that you are white.

rien 05-07-2010 09:48 PM

Accidently posted

Tegra_Devil 05-07-2010 09:49 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by murd0c (Post 6943141)
wow i'm actually shocked that you are white.

cause people with greek heritage cant be white? haha :p

sleazyho 05-07-2010 09:56 PM

those pics blew me away. just shows you how violent war really is

PDKGD3 05-07-2010 10:07 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by MajinHurricane (Post 6942411)
cochi tunnels are legit...

the made the tunnels bigger for tourists.... here is my fat ass trying to go through

http://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/photos-a...197_177441.jpg

http://i98.photobucket.com/albums/l2...ott/enigma.jpg

http://images.encyclopediadramatica....cd/Amigara.jpg

twitchyzero 05-07-2010 10:55 PM

'Nam was a failure for the western countries cause you cannot win guerilla warfare on foreign soil

tool001 05-08-2010 12:21 AM

thanks US for fucking up almost every part of the world, in one way or another..

LiquidTurbo 05-08-2010 12:40 AM

The 'mood' of those pictures is incredible.

CP.AR 05-08-2010 12:46 AM

the desensitized modern day teenager (due to stuff like COD:MW) should see the full set of photos the Vietnam war generated - including all the disgusting, gross, horrifying of the devastating effects of Napalms.

High schools should just pull a surprise assembly and show the pictures. Kids these days think of war as "cool" and mentally link them with the thought that "in a war, death is clean, bodies are removed immediately from play and there are no repurcussions"

no joke - go talk to some grade 8-9 kid what they think about war and that's pretty much the answer you will get

fishing666 05-08-2010 01:03 AM

what was that war about anyways.
why do we still have wars?

BinsentoW 05-08-2010 01:14 AM

those american soldiers all look so young. Like 16ish.

shawn79 05-08-2010 01:37 AM

Went on vacation to japan last year and majority of the people that went as well were Vietnamese people from the states. Hearing their war stories and escaping to north america was :crybaby:

HonestTea 05-08-2010 01:46 AM

Touching pictures :(

iwantaskyline 05-08-2010 03:32 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Vansterdam (Post 6942476)
i thought my family were all american supporters, but a summer vacation turns out we were all viet cong/supporters

heard some preety crazy stories

I don't understand how any Vietnamese people can support the Americans. They dropped more bombs on Vietnam then all the bombs they used on Germany and Japan in WW2. Thats a fact and it includes the two nukes.

Here's an article about how the war still affects people in Laos.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/rep-mi..._b_558370.html

75 million bombs still remain in Laos due to American bombing campaigns during the war.


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