#Viet Cong

[lilithism1848]

[degeneratedworker]

"They're having problems with their economy again" Ron Cobb United States 1975

[kemetic-dreams]

Why did Muhammad Ali refuse to fight in the Vietnam War?

Muhammad Ali, now deceased, world boxing legend, gave this answer in an interview, being pressured to go to fight in Vietnam, suffering from being imprisoned, which actually happened..

'′I'm not going to dodge. I am not burning any flag. I will not run to Canada. I stay right here.

Do you want to send me to jail? Okay, go ahead. I have been in jail for 400 years. I could be there for 4 or 5 more, but I'm not going to go 10,000 miles to help murder and kill other poor people. If I want to die, I will die right here, right now, fighting with you, if I want to die. You are my enemy, not any Chinese, nor Vietcong, nor Japanese. You are my opponent when I want freedom. You are my opponent when I want justice. You are my opponent when I want equality.

Do you want me to go somewhere and fight for you? You will not even defend me right here in America, neither my rights nor my religious beliefs. You won't even defend me here at home.

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Viet Cong fighters with an anti-aircraft gun, 1970s

[cid5]

A French colonial holdover: A Reibel MAC mle 31 machine gun captured from the Viet Cong on the Ca Mau Peninsula during 1964.

[redditreceipts]

19 years old, Nguyen Thi Hien is the squad leader of Yen Vuc militia, Ham Rong district, Thanh Hoa province. She went through 800 bombing raids and was buried alive by B52 bombs 4 times, 1966 – author: Mai Nam.

[blueiscoool]

Eleanor Ardel Vietti: She was America’s First Woman POW in Vietnam — And was Never Found

In the dense jungle terrain in Darlac Province, near the provincial capital of Ban Me Thuot, South Vietnam, American doctor Eleanor Ardel Vietti had found her calling to heal.

Yet that same calling led her to become America’s first female prisoner of war in Vietnam. To this day, Vietti remains the only American woman POW whose fate remains unknown.

According to the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency, 1,244 Americans are still unaccounted for in Vietnam. Fifty-nine civilian women were killed during the war.

Called to service, Vietti, alongside the Christian and Missionary Alliance and tribal nurses, worked to treat those afflicted with leprosy within South Vietnam’s largest ethnic minority, the Montagnards — a French phrase for “mountain people.”

Within Montagnards communities the rates of the disease could reach a staggering 30 percent, among the highest in the world.

However, amid escalating tensions between guerrilla factions under Ho Chi Minh and South Vietnamese forces and their foreign advisors, the U.S. State Department cautioned all American expats to leave the country.

Targeted attacks against the Montagnards were also on the rise, but despite that and government warnings, Vietti and other missionaries — notably, Daniel Gerber, a member of the Central Mennonite Committee, and Rev. Archie E. Mitchell — believed they were in no inherent danger and continued their work within the Leprosarium compound.

The night of May 20, 1962, was one of the last nights Vietti and the two men were ever seen alive.

That evening 12 armed guerrilla fighters descended on the colony, tying up Archie Mitchell and Gerber, and ordering Vietti out of her house. Vietti and the other two captives were bound and taken away. With no ransom demands ever made, it remains unclear why the three prisoners were taken.

Mitchell, incidentally, was the lone survivor of the 1945 Japanese balloon-bombing attack off the coast of Oregon that killed his first wife, Eloise, and five neighborhood children. The Japanese strike was the only successful enemy attack on mainland America during World War II.

It seems likely that the Viet Cong raid was aimed at obtaining hospital equipment, with Rev. T. Grady Mangham, director of the Christian and Missionary Alliance, telling the New York Times in 1962, “I rather think they were in need of medical supplies.”

Since that evening Vietti’s status remains “Unaccounted For,” with the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency concluding, “The three missionaries were forced to march south, and were eventually executed while in Viet Cong custody. The exact locations and circumstances surrounding their deaths are unknown.”

Rumors remain about their status, with jungle tribesmen through the years claiming that they spotted a white woman with two white men. These assertions have never been substantiated.

Since 1994, the official position within the U.S. government has been that no American captured during the war remains alive.

By Claire Barrett.

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[the-outer-topic]

1967 01 Male Magazine - Saga of Mad Mike- Morton Künstler

[bedroom-kingdom]

Stained unnecessarily Unrestrained inevitability Overwhelmed by all the drunken silhouettes Entertained with their broken cassettes

Hey, is there any consequence In getting lost in international time? Uncontrollable spontaneous tirades Trying to unmake all of the things that are made

Secondhand industry Rusted out viciously All the days are delayed Becoming memories

There’s no connection left in your head Another book of things to forget An overwhelming sense of regret Relay, reply, react, and reset

Relay, reply, react, and respond The simple task of turning it on Only receiving electrical shock Not everything can stay interlocked Maybe too late will be much too soon It isn’t something that’s safe to assume And anyone can disappear in a spark

There’s no connection left in your head Another book of things to forget An overwhelming sense of regret Relay, reply, react, and reset

Silhouettes Preoccupations Viet Cong

2015 • Canada

[lilithism1848]

[degeneratedworker]

"Neither a stick, nor a carrot, Nor napalm, nor smoke will help... The whole people will stand up for freedom, And the last word belongs to them!" Joseph Efimovsky Soviet Union 1981

[plasticine]

René Mederos, National Liberation Front of South Vietnam - 9 years. 1969.

[dorozedoro]

Osamu Tezuka for the January 29, 1967, edition of Akahata (Red Flag), the newspaper for the Japanese Communist Party.

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A VC grenadier unit with a US M79 Grenade Launcher (left), a US M1 Carbine (middle), and a North Vietnamese K-50M (right).