Iconic Photos From the Vietnam War (23 pics)

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There are some graphic photos from the Vietnam War.



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№31 Author: 400 (9 May 2010 17:15) Total user comments: 411


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№32 Author: dazen (9 May 2010 20:22) Total user comments: 1213


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very interesting posts 04
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№33 Author: lepsy (9 May 2010 20:39) Total user comments: 1252


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One pic is from hiroshima , no ? The one with children crying when running away ....sad .
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№34 Author: mortex (10 May 2010 02:17) Total user comments: 740


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I didn't mass your point; I was just giving you a hard time ;) Just b/c you win one war, it doesn't mean you will not have to fight the next...especially when the USSR is involved. Post WWII Soviet Russia was chomping at the bit to find any country w/ a weak government and manipulate things for communism to take root. I don't think we need to get into the minutia of what countries are more communist/socialist than the other, it is really immaterial to the big picture--the big picture being, bigger government equals less personal freedom. Classify China how you like, communist/socialist/capitalist
, the fact remains it's a big government cesspool just like N. Korea, Vietnam, Cuba, Venezuela, Laos, Myanmar, Iran, etc. The question you should ask yourself when evaluation a form of government is, "how much personal freedom does it offer its citizens?" If only it were true that the US ran on pure capitalism, if it were true then the US government wouldn't be taking well over a 1/3 of my paycheck every payday.

Surely you don't believe that the turmoil within the Vietnamese governement in the 1960's was strictly in-house? You have to know that the Soviets were pulling some of the strings, in this little "civil war" as you like to call it. For the US to let the Soviets get away with infecting the world w/ its filth was unthinkable. If it were up to me the US military would be in lots of other places including Sudan and Somalia.

I choose to not take lightly the contributions our allies provide us in our military operations, that's all I was saying when I mentioned all countries involved in Vietnam.

If it were up to me I would have the US sever all ties w/ the UN.

Surely you don't think WWII would have come out the same without US involvement? Albert Einstein wasn't captured ; he immigrated to the US on his own free will as the Nazi's increased their persecution of the Jews. I'm not sure why you decided to shout "GERMAN", but if you think I have a problem w/ German you are wrong--I am of German decent. The US's use of the atomic bombs in Japan promptly ended the war, saving millions of lives on both sides. Without these bombings, Japan would have drug out the war for years costing a much greater loss of human life than that brought by the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombings. Regardless of the reasons the US helped Japan after the war; they got a pretty sweet deal in the end.
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№35 Author: Louie (10 May 2010 05:42) Total user comments: 8189


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pff
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№36 Author: Jimmy Johnson (10 May 2010 05:46) Total user comments: 0


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It's curious to me how you think big government means less freedom. The Patriot Act has ensured less freedom for American citizens since it's formation as a country.

I'm not sure why you think there are valid reasons to continue justifying why the US chose to use atomic bombs on Horoshima and Nagasaki. It's not like the general population of Japan is the same as enlisted soldiers. Seems to me, that should be classified as the greatest act of terrorism in recorded history.

Whatever influence you think Russia has had in the world is far outwieghed by US foreign policy. The US has waged war, in one part of the world or another for the past 200 years, practically since it's inception.

Albert Einstein immigrated to America in the 1930's. If you want to believe his immigration and stay in America was entirely of his own free will, then that's your perogative. His last few words ever recorded detail his deep regret for his particapation in developing nuclear weapons.
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№37 Author: Joe78 (10 May 2010 08:03) Total user comments: 0


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Troll harder, mortex.
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№38 Author: khannibal (10 May 2010 14:33) Total user comments: 4711


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№39 Author: spirit72 (10 May 2010 15:28) Total user comments: 583


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№40 Author: Matt (10 May 2010 16:49) Total user comments: 0


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Jimmy Johnson,

In response to "I'm not sure why you think there are valid reasons to continue justifying why the US chose to use atomic bombs on Horoshima and Nagasaki. It's not like the general population of Japan is the same as enlisted soldiers. Seems to me, that should be classified as the greatest act of terrorism in recorded history." I do not think you have studied the Imperial Japanese Government much. You seem to forget such things as the Rape of Nanking, Bataan Death March, and how the Japanes attempted to ethnically clense the Chinese, Maylaysians, Filipinos, and pretty much every other asian country they invaded.Also by that point in the war, the Japanese government was training all civlians in the country to be soldiers. The bomb was dropped to stop a tyrannical regime from commiting even more attrocities around the pacific. Not to mention the millions of American, British, Australian, etc. lives that were at risk who comprised the invasion force poised to invade the Japanese mailand. Going up against an army of civilian soldiers? How many would have been lost then? It was that or the bombs.


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№41 Author: mortex (10 May 2010 17:57) Total user comments: 740


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Big government = Less freedom. The larger a government is, the more resources it requires to sustain it i.e. the more taxes the said government requires to function. The more of my money the government takes in taxes = less freedom. I'm happy to pay taxes to a certain extent, but when the tax rate creeps up close to 50% or more, that's where I draw the line. I would like you to tell me how the Patriot Act has affected your life adversely, I haven't noticed any loss of freedoms. I think it's great that it is easier for the government to watch bad guys, but then again I'm not a bad guy.

As I previously stated, the use of nuclear bombs in WWII saved lives on both sides by putting a swift end to the war. The Japanese frame of mind at the time was much different than that of today; they were indoctrinated in the same form of radical fanaticism as the Germans were times 10. The Japanese populace as a whole looked to their emperor as a God and were trained to die for him, and that's what would have happened. Without the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the fighting would eventually have made it to the Japanese mainland resulting in the loss of millions of civilian lives. While the use of atomic bombs was not pretty, it saved lives on both sides civilian and military.

When the US engages in military activity it not only benefits the United States but also the countries involved to some extent e.g. Japan, S. Korea, Kuwait, Iraq, France, Germany, Europe as a whole, etc. As I said, the world would be better off if the US were engaged in more places, specifically Sudan.

I really would like to know where your getting your information about Albert Einstein, I'm open to taking a look at any information you wish to share e.g. website, books, etc. Alfred Nobel said similar things at the end of his life, but think where we would be w/o dynamite.

I would like to take the opportunity and express my appreciation to you Jimmy for some very engaging conversation, I really didn't expect to run into such exhilarating discourse on this website. I look forward to further discussion :)
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№42 Author: Jimmy Johnson (11 May 2010 09:58) Total user comments: 0


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So the bomb couldn't have been dropped on an atoll or island, before vaporizing half a million people then?
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№43 Author: Matt (11 May 2010 15:24) Total user comments: 0


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Jimmy Johnson,
Actually estimates are that 200,000 total died in the blast and from effects afterwards. So "vaporizing half a million people" is a bit off. Th Japanese Army raped and murdered over 300,000 civilians alone in the Nanking Massacre. Maybe they could have practiced on an atoll or island before they did that. The Japanese Miltary murdered over 10,000,000 people, most likely around 6,000,000 Chinese, Indonesians, Koreans, Filipinos, Indochinese, and not to mention the torture, starvation and murder of countless western prisoners of war. Nobody would say a thing if we dropped it on the Germans but people seem to forget that the Japanese were just as ruthless if not worse than the Nazi party.
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№44 Author: Creion (11 May 2010 18:32) Total user comments: 102


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f&&k the usa 46
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№45 Author: Jimmy Johnson (12 May 2010 05:46) Total user comments: 0


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Matt -

I see.... We're going there are we? The Japanese army raped and murdered over 300, 000. The US army seems to be right up there with half a million dead Iraqis. Estimates are that 200, 000 total died... So we're using western estimates, I presume. The cities of Nagasaki and Hiroshima had a combined total population of 1.1 million people.

I never said the Japanese army weren't ruthless. Are they supposed to kiss your ass in war?

Please provide any information on the Japanese murdering 10,000,000 people before you start throwing such idiotic numbers at someone that actually has a sense of how the modern world was created.
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№46 Author: Matt (12 May 2010 13:42) Total user comments: 0


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Jimmy Johnson,

Actually has a sense of how the world was created? I think not. I have lived in both China and Japan. I studied at the Hopkins-Nanjing and worked with my father in Zhuhai, I Was sationed with the Military in Yokosuka, Japan. These are not western estimates. The Japanese deny these claims in their history books, yet the mass graves and countless survivor testimonies from southeast Asia tell a different story. Go and study history in another country and then you can maybe claim you have a faint idea of "how the world was created". Until that time, you can keep listening to your biased media reports and ignorant denials of war crimes.
Also, about Iraq my friend, I have been there and seen for myself what happened there and what is still going on. Do not think you have the right to talk about that war unless you have been through it yourself. You only hear a fraction of the story here, and most of it is lies and doctored media. Just like the photographs above, the media wants to demonize the U.S. Military. I will not even start on what the NVA and VC were doing in Vietnam before the U.S. entered. You can also study the French history of Vietnam if you would like to hear their side of it as well.
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№47 Author: mortex (12 May 2010 17:28) Total user comments: 740


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Jimmy Johnson,

Still waiting to hear form you on how the Patriot Act has changed your life for the worse. Also, I really would like to investigate your claim that Albert Einstein was a prisoner of the US, please provide your sources. Thanks
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№48 Author: mahedi (24 Jun 2012 19:08) Total user comments: 10772


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Yes, war is hell
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№49 Author: Flashbackjack (4 Apr 2015 15:23) Total user comments: 0


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All of your points are valid. I am a veteran. Take a visit to the Vietnam Memorial in D.C., for what did the 58,000 men and women give their lives, it is a rhetorical question because it is next to impossible to answer. Hundreds of thousands more came home broken in mind, body and spirit. The outreach that is there for today's Veteran did not exist post Vietnam and Korea. Indeed, we couldn't even wear our uniforms in this country because we would be ridiculed. What changed? 9/11. . . Americans got scared, our home land was attacked. The only course of action is to question the gov't . . . they work for us. Question them as though it is you or your kids going to fight. Make sure there is a plan, a start and a finish. make sure we have the moral high ground. Make sure they plan on winning and further, define what winning is. There are moral wars, there are reasons for sending our troops into harms way. Let Nam be a lesson.
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