Via Reborn
Fred of Fred On Everything
and his lovely wife in Ajijic. Expatriate's galore here but I feel just
fine walking the streets of Guadalajara and making do with the little
Spanish I know and dealing with many who have little or no English.
There are many Spanish who have not married outside their class/race
that it is difficult to tell they are not Caucasians and I think most of
the time they think that I am from here also. (Though Spanish are
considered Caucasian) Very friendly and they are extremely polite in
receiving your money and counting carefully when they hand your change
back. The weather is more pleasant down here, though only 1 1/2
hours away. As Fred says it gets almost cold enough that you want heat
and almost hot enough to want A/C of which he has none. It's not cheap
though, where new car dealers abound and is about 2 1/2 times more
expensive than Vietnam.
My comments concerning the article and although both of us were there until the end, the two of us may have experienced different happenings.
1. My first contact with Fred: I asked him if he remembered the flagrant flowers along the Avenue in Phnom Penh which he did. :)
2. We knew it was lost April 1, 1975 (Personal experience) as the shredders were running 24/7.
3. Anyone could get our with an American. Evacuation.
4. The South Vietnamese were fiercely anti-Communist. (Search Memories Of The Republic Of South Vietnam)
5. Can Tho fought until the end. THE SUICIDES ON APRIL 30, 1975
At 8:30 PM, 30 April 1975, his troops still kept the city of Can Tho
under control. A delegation of the city people came to see him and
convinced him - as he was the deputy commander - that his ARVN forces
should not fight to death as they certainly would, because the people
were sure that the Communists would spare nobody in Can Tho in order to win. They would not hesitate to shell Can Tho
into rubble. General Le Van Hung and the commander, General Nguyen Khoa
Nam, dropped their intention to fight to the last bullet. Hung then
said farewell to his men, his wife and children before he killed himself
by a .45 pistol. It was 8:45 PM, 30 April 1975.
6. We destroyed DAO Headquarters at TSN. The structures were wired to make
them unusable as we were leaving. Shredding machines had been going 24/7
since the first of April.
7. Sally Vinyard, the Last American Lady to Leave Vietnam and My Friend for 51 Years
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Forty-six years ago in a previous comedy I was in
Saigon, recently having been evacuated from Phnom Penh in an Air
America—CIA—Caribou carrying, in addition to me, several ARVN junior
officers and perhaps a dozen BUFEs (Big Ugly Fucking Elephants, the
ceramic pachyderms much beloved of GIs). America had already embarked on
its currently standard policy of forcing small countries into wars and
then leaving them in the lurch. In Cambodia this led to the reign of Pol
Pot, the ghastly torture operation at Toul Sleng, and a million or so
dead. In the unending fight for democracy, casualties are inevitable.
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