10-27-2011, 08:54 PM
|
|
|
It's 42
Industry Role:
Join Date: Jun 2010
Location: Global
Posts: 18,083
|
You probably don't understand what was going on in 1969. I was there and this was part of the propaganda last hurrah of the "establishment". The Chicago Democrat Convention, The Yippes, SDS and Weathermen ... Then Red Skelton on his TV show dispensing more propaganda.
Quote:
[C]ambodia officially had a policy of neutrality in relation to the Vietnam War, but nonetheless there were North Vietnamese bases in Cambodia during the conflict. In 1969 the United States began secretly bombing these bases along the Vietnam/Cambodia border and in Cambodian territory. This covert action was codenamed ?Operation Menu?, and by the time it ended more than 3,000 sorties had been flown.
It was in 1970 that the invasion by American and South Vietnamese ground forces occurred. They crossed the border in the hopes of defeating an estimated 40,000 North Vietnamese troops and capturing their headquarters, but in the end neither of these objectives were met, as both the enemy forces and their headquarters proved to be elusive.
One lasting effect of the bombing and invasion by American and South Vietnamese forces was unfortunately to create a climate in Cambodia that later allowed the Khmer Rouge to come to power, with devastating consequences for the country.
The invasion by American forces was very unpopular in the United States, and it caused a wave of protests. During a protest at Kent State University in Ohio, United States National Guardsmen shot at student protesters, killing four of them.
http://www.holiday-in-angkor-wat.com...-cambodia.html
|
My friend Sam was a Green Beret Sergent -- he was air dropped in the Cambodia incursion, it was another illegal act of Richard M Nixon and his yes man Henry Kissinger, Mr. Peace with Dignity. My friend Danny, who fought in Da Nang and came home one brick short of a load. My friend Ron, who's older brother returned from the Nam and OD'd (we kept quiet the part of the suicide), my science teacher's son who came home in a closed casket ... and the list goes on ...
Red Skelton dishonors the men that died.
20,863 US Servicemen, many draftees, that were too poor to go to college and get draft deferments died in Nixon's Meat Grinder, 1969 -1973. After this bunk; the following year, 1970, the Kent State Massacre occurred. |
|
|