Too many tears, this morning. Too many memories. I woke up with Edwin Starr’s voice in my mind.
BITD, when I was singing pretty much fulltime, I performed many anti-war songs. Never tried this one on simply because after Edwin Starr’s performances, no one else could touch it.
I just wanted to remind holier-than-thou Americans where we come from as a nation. We’ve already waltzed away from the conscience that grew from our murderous war in VietNam. Maybe a touch remains inside the few folks who understand history lessons and politics. Damned few, as far as I can see.
Eideard 
David Low, Ken magazine , November 3rd, 1938. (click to enlarge)
(click twice – takes a moment to load) Magazine reads “Democracy’s Fools’s Paradise”
November 1938 events: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/November_1938
Re: Ken magazine see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ken_(magazine)
“You can have peace. Or you can have freedom. Don’t ever count on having both at once.” [Robert A. Heinlein]
Office of Strategic Services (OSS) Deer Team members pose with Viet Minh leaders Hồ Chí Minh and Võ Nguyên Giáp during training at Tan Trao, Vietnam, in August 1945.
PFC Paul Hoagland, the team’s medic, is standing at the right edge of the frame – reportedly he saved Hồ Chí Minh’s life by treating him with quinine and sulfa drugs. https://www.historynet.com/how-american-operatives-saved-the-man-who-started-the-vietnam-war/
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“Ho, Giap and OSS Agent Henry Prunier” [center in above snapshot] https://www.historynet.com/ho-giap-and-oss-agent-henry-prunier/ Lengthy article by Claude G. Berube, who teaches at the United States Naval Academy and has researched the role of the OSS Deer Team extensively.
Archimedes Leonidas Attilio Patti headed OSS operations in Kunming and Hanoi in 1945. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archimedes_Patti See also “Why Vietnam : Prelude to America’s albatross” By Archimedes Patti. University of California Press, 1980 (.pdf) https://www.chinhnghia.com/Why-Vietnam.pdf
On August 30, 1945, Hồ Chí Minh invited several people to contribute their ideas toward his Proclamation of Independence, including a number of American OSS officers. OSS officers met repeatedly with Ho Chi Minh and other Viet Minh officers during late August and Archimedes Patti claims to have listened to Ho read to him a draft of the Proclamation and offered several corrections on what he perceived to be a nearly-exact copy of the U.S. Declaration of Independence.
On September 2, 1945, Hồ Chí Minh read the Proclamation during a public meeting in front of thousands of people, at what is now Ba Đình Square, Hà Nội, announcing the birth of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam and the country’s independence from France.
The Proclamation of Independence of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam (Tuyên ngôn độc lập Việt Nam Dân chủ Cộng hòa) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proclamation_of_Independence_of_the_Democratic_Republic_of_Vietnam
“Sometimes you have to pick the gun up to put the Gun down.” (Malcom X)
7AM MDT, tomorrow morning, 19th
Battle of Antonov Airport https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Antonov_Airport
Not this sequence but “Footage of helicopter attacking convoy is from video game, not invasion of Ukraine” https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/factcheck/2022/03/18/fact-check-footage-attack-convoy-video-game-not-ukraine/7060853001/