From Huey Gunner, on Sat, 25 Mar 2000 09:50:58 GMT (in response to: This War was for the freedom of the HMONG people)
We armed you, we trained you, we helped build or we rebuilt your villages, and we protected your people. We helped feed you, and we helped clothe you, and we gave you medical care and tried to cure some of your diseases. We risked our lives for you and your countrymen. Many of you died, many Americans died, some of you fought with us, some of you fought with the south vietnamese, some of you helped the north vietnamese and turned against us for fear of them. It was a very long conflict and war, and wars have consequences by how they are fought and won. We fought and won the battles both with and without you. You and the south vietnamese and politicians and leaders lost your country and land to an enemy you were too tired and weak in mind and spirit to fight. Because you were too bitter, or too corrupt, to fight against the communists in unity, you were politically weak with a corrupt military. Now you want to blame others who died and fought for your freedom. It was your mistakes and the fighting amongst yourselves in civil and tribal wars over territorial boundaries and cultures and your abuses of your own people. We came, we helped, and then we left because of corrupt people we were trying to help. We handed to you the tools and the chance to determine your own destiny. Your people chose to run and your country failed to unite and fight the communists. That is not our responsibility, it is your failure and legacy. You had your chances, but you chose to fight tribal and internal civil and religious wars not the communists. So, blame your own countrymen's inability to make peace among yourselves instead of making war...that's not the fault of Americans...it's your own fault for turning and running from a cause. You wanted it to end, or you wanted others to fight it for you. Freedom has a price which many of you did not want to pay...so now you must live with those facts and that remorse.
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