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WE ARE GOOD AND BAD PEOPLE

From ann nguyen, on Sun, 09 Mar 1997 21:21:12 GMT (in response to: why we lost the Viet Nam war.)

I am a high skool student that is the result of the war. 
my family, my friends are the result of the war. 
if it was'nt 4 the war i would'nt be the 1st american born 
viet of my family. if it was'nt 4 the war my sister wouldnt
 have 2 come over here 2 america after 16 yrs of not living 
w/ my parents but instead living 16yrs w/ grandparents w/ 
hardly any contact. get the point? the viet cong was good
 ppl wen the group juss started they wanted ngo dinh diem 2
 step down. ngo dinh diem was a result of the americans. 
they chose him 2 be viet nam's leader. viet nam and its ppl
 did not. ngo dinh diem drove our country into poverty and
 caused its ppl to starve and suffer. so then the viet cong 
was formed 2 b against all of this. the american gov. wanted 
ngo dinh diem 2 remain in power 2 show that the americans had
 power in viet nam so it sent troops over to help ngo dinh 
diem. ngo dinh diem hated the viet cong becuase they were 
against him and wat he was doing which was starving his ppl..
 and causing his ppl 2 suffer.so then "some" americans were 
killing tons of innocent vietnamese ppl thast they thought 
were communist. i saw in a book, a photogragh of an ederly 
couple about 80yrs old.. were supsected to be viet cong..
 im like "that is so crazy.. those ppl are old.. they dont
 even know wats going on.. how can THEY b viet cong" so i 
thot that was silly and dumb that we're juss going to another
 country and killing these ppl 4 no reason juss "thinking" 
they mite b viet cong and killing and arresting them. 
tats wat makes me ashamed 2 b an american.but also i know 
there were good americans over there fighting also so im not
 so mad. also a funny(woerd0 thing that was going on during 
the war was that wen the american soldiers were ovr ther in
 viet name the vietnamese ppl didnt want them there and hated
 them ( 2 wat i have heard from my family members there) and 
the americans back ovr in the us didnt want them over there 
either.. so why are they in viet nam wen either side wanted
 them there? but wither way in both the viet cong side and
 american side there are good and bad ppl. ho chi minh and 
"some" other ppl juss didnt want ngo dinh diem in any of this 
so they fought back( ngo dinh diem was juss being a bad 
president that didnt kno how 2 do hgis job u can say) also 
some viet cong ppl juss killed amwerican ppl because they
were mad that the americans put such a bad pres. in place. 
on the americans side they juss wanted 2 show they had power 
in viet nam.. showing off that " oh we're a really powerful 
country" but some really juss wanted the vietnamese ppl to 
have their own independance.. so all in all we r good and bad

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