CIVILIAN BULLSHIT

I read some time ago where a protester of the war, one of the many ill-informed here in Australia who demonstrated against us, the soldiers who fought the war, said:

"I fought for freedom. I was an active anti-war protester
who gave years of my life to focus on ending a war that
was trying to limit the freedom of the Vietnamese people
to determine their own fate."

Yeah Right… I mingled around a demonstration once between my two tours of duty in Vietnam to see what it was they had to say because I wanted the war stopped too. All of the so-called demonstrators that I saw were ignorant of anything to do with the war and were there for a day out. It was fun for them. Some of them were listening to the speakers but as I listened for their reaction I realized that they had no idea. They simply responded to anyone who would help to keep them from doing their duty. They knew nothing about Vietnam. They were short on guts and this was the best way to justify that. I heard them say things like “ soldiers are murdering women and kids over there” and “our soldiers spend most of their time fucking Vietnamese harlots”.

So let’s not mince words here. If you were one of the mob, and if you believed what that misguided soul said then you were on the wrong side of the war.

"A war that was trying to limit the freedom of the Vietnamese people to determine their own fate."

That is bullshit!  Propaganda that has been yelled by anti-war protesters, news media, left wing government officials such as Jim Cairns , who in my opinion should be strung up along with Jane Fonda for treason or supporting the enemy.
I fought in Vietnam over two tours of duty and I have been back to Vietnam since the war. In 1995 I saw first hand the result of communist control over the south.
 
Tell me, where is the freedom to determine their own fate the invading North Vietnamese Army (NVA) promised the South Vietnamese citizens?
Why are the South Vietnamese citizens without a country today?
Where were the loud praises of liberation, and the songs of victory sung? Certainly not in the South. The South was never liberated.
An invading Communist Country backed by China and Russia and not by their own countrymen robbed the South Vietnamese citizens of their fate.
Today it is a repressive government that denies South Vietnamese citizens the freedom we tried to obtain for them. They are non-people, they don’t exist. They are not allowed to own property, or hold a job, or educate their children or grandchildren. They live in the street, millions of them, as if they don’t exist to their so-called victorious peoples government.
Perhaps we could have done more had we had our fellow countrymen’s support.
Perhaps if we hadn't had to fight communist supported demonstrations and dis-information at home many Australians would not have lost heart for the plea of the South Vietnamese citizen.

That is what happened. All the demonstrators here and in America should be ashamed of their part in bringing about the occupation of South Vietnam by the communist North and aiding in the cruelty that followed when the North declared victory in April 1975.

Now we veterans’ find ourselves having to beg for proper care and income from the aftermath of that war. The war that we fought against the NVA and VC and our own people at home who live like spoilt kids compared to the South Vietnamese, but were not prepared to back the armed forces who were trying to give the people of South Vietnam a taste of the same thing…DEMOCRACY.

Remember all you veterans that the civilians who are now making the decisions about how we live are probably the same ones who called you names and blamed you for the horror that they watched every night in the news on their TV sets. Get back your old fighting spirit and start yelling and screaming for fair and proper treatment as war veterans of this country. Not enough veterans are writing or ringing or faxing or emailing or visiting these parliamentarians and telling them the real facts and demanding that we are lifted above disabled civilians and elevated to a level of proper respect, and paid accordingly.

Gary McMahon

Vietnam veteran and damn proud of it.