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STARS and STRIPES - May 1, 1975 !!!
Did this U.S. MARINE receive his medals ?
(Isn't this part of "serving in Vietnam" ?)
"Operation Frequent Wind" Helicopter on the roof of
the Pittman apartments in Saigon.
(8,000+ US and Vietnamese persons were airlifted to ships offshore).
- April 29 - 30, 1975 !!!
Did those U.S. Military personnel assigned to South Vietnam
and "ALL" others involved in "Operation Frequent Wind"
receive their medals ?
At 03.30 on Wednesday April 30,1975 - from the White House,
President Ford gave the orders for U.S. Ambassador Martin
to board a helicopter on the embassy roof and
get to the U.S. fleet in the South China Sea.
"At 04.45 Amabassador Martin was on board 'Lady Ace 09'
the last evacuee left at 05.09 and by 07.53 the last of the
defending Marines left the rooftop.
The Vietnamese mob surged through the building,
held back from the top floor by riot control agents.
The Marine commander, Major Jim Kean, was on the last
helo out of Saigon and by 08.25 was safely with the Task Force.
'Frequent Wind' was over"
"IT AIN'T OVER til IT'S OVER" !!!
Making room on deck for more "fleeing" South Vietnamese piloted
U.S. choppers !!!
This is but one of 15 U.S. supplied RVN choppers pushed from the deck
of the
USS BLUE RIDGE - April 30, 1975 !!!
Did these U.S. NAVY sailors receive their medals ?
(Isn't this part of "serving in Vietnam" and "contiguous waters" ?)
Fleeing Vietnamese Refugees aboard the USS BLUE RIDGE
- April 30, 1975 !!!
Did these U.S. NAVY sailors receive their medals ?
(Wasn't this part of the closing chapter of THE VIETNAM WAR ?)
Mayaquez Rescue - Koh Tang Island, CAMBODIA - May 15, 1975 !!!
Did these U.S. MARINES receive their medals ?
Qualifications for the
VIETNAM SERVICE MEDAL
(in part):
("During this period, a military member who participated in combat
or who served with a unit
directly supporting a military operation or participating in combat
in Thailand, Laos, Cambodia, or Vietnam qualified for the medal.")
That period was:
("In effect, the authorized period of military service to quality for the
Vietnam Service Medal spans 1 July 1958 through 28 March 1973.")
Mayaquez Rescue - Koh Tang Island, CAMBODIA - May 15, 1975 !!!
Did these USAF CH-53 CREWS and U.S. MARINES receive their medals
(if so, how many posthumously) ?
Are those US Military personnel who died here on CAMBODIAN soil,
listed on the
VIETNAM VETERANS MEMORIAL WALL
in our Nation's capitol of Washington, DC ?
NEWSWEEK - April 15, 1985 !!!
and for many today -
"IT STILL AIN'T OVER" !!!
VIET-FORNIA - SEPT 12, 1978 !!! The Refugees Are All Around Us - Did We Really Fight A WAR For This ? (page B4 - "The REGISTER" - Orange County, California) |
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U.S. To Ask Some 70 Nations To
Double Quotas On Refugees (Mon. July 16, 1979 - "The REGISTER" - Orange County, California) |
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WASHINGTON (AP) - The United States is going to next weekend's international refugee conference in Geneva with hope of persuading other nations to follow President Carter's example and double their quotas of homeless Indochinese. ....
The United States was taking in 7,000 refugees a month - two of every three refugees fleeing from Vietnam, Cambodia, and Laos. Carter's decision to double that quota will bring 168,000 refugees a year to the United States. Now, the idea is to persuade other countries to do as much, doubling their quotas from 40,000 to 80,000. The "boat people" who make it to land - an estimated 20 to 50 percent drown - are packed in overcrowded camps in Malaysia, Thailand, and Hong Kong. .... |
US merchant ship - PIONEER COMMANDER
APRIL 1975 !!!
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South Vietnamese Marines
"the humiliated remnants of a routed army" throng Pioneer Commander (page 10-11 - "TIME MAGAZINE" - APRIL 14, 1975) |
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Just before the Communists took Danang, there was looting, pillaging, murder and madness. In their panic to get away, soldiers elbowed past women and children to board the planes and boats that managed to evacuate 90,000 people from Danang in the hours before the city fell to the Communists. In some cases civilian refugees were killed by troops stampeding away from the enemy.
"True enough," said one Army tactician, "the Vietnamese soldiers fight with their families along, but they even deserted their families to fight their way aboard a plane or a boat." On board the American ship Pioneer Commander, sent to Danang to take refugees to Cam Ranh, 300 miles to the south, passengers were shot or pushed overboard by soldiers trying to make room for themselves. .... |
These "fleeing" South Vietnamese did NOT stay and
FIGHT for THEIR
FREEDOM and DEMOCRACY
they had let
AMERICANS "FIGHT and DIE" for their LIBERTIES !!!
"HANOI JANE" FONDA, TOM HAYDEN, JOHN KERRY,
Vietnam Veterans "AGAINST the WAR" (VVAW)
and "others"
wanted the WAR to END !!!
This appropriate gesture is also being extended to
JOHN KERRY and his VVAW,
and to "ALL" those of the
ANTI "VIETNAM" WAR movement,
whom all
did NOT SUPPORT the US MILITARY still serving in Southeast Asia
nor support the Veterans of S.E.A.
upon their return HOME, (those who did RETURN HOME that is) !!!
A Very Important Petition,
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