Charlie and I were in Vietnam at the same time. He was down south in the Delta and I was up north near the DMZ. I hope you enjoy this interview. We haven’t finished augmenting it yet and we may have a few more tweaks, but it’s to the point I wanted to share it. I hope you enjoy it. NEVER FORGET! Once we complete the augmentation, this image along with our other images go in schools, libraries, and museums. We don't rewrite history, we tell it the way it was!
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1zJl5nOsCXP6TIF9Ct94g6c2Y9q6v9e2j/view?usp=sharing

Just a clarification. The two groups I referred to were two groups of people within the services working with the issues. There have been many more. (Within the services as opposed to "outside groups" and vets.)

Regardless, it behooves us all who have been in the services to remember that we all were CITIZEN-soldiers, not just soldiers.

There is still the idea that the US Military is a mercenary group to be used as desired by those who are placed in "authority". History does repeat itself. It is not a mercenary group.

This is more of stagecraft than anything. The inclusion of his hands in the shot. There were moments that his thumbs did the windmills and they distracted my view from his face. Americans are not good at talking with their hands. There are some moments that his hands should have been in full view, but they were only in as half to three quarters of the hands. My suggestion is to move the view to include the full hands when he is making important points and move in when he is just generally speaking not to include his hands in view. I will say that it is more art than anything.

His pace of speech is very good and well spaced. His sight is also very well placed as he converses about the issues of actions in real life situations on the battlefield.

Just to mention, there were two groups that worked hard at "keeping it real", the GIs United against the War in Viet Nam and the Officers United against the War in Viet Nam. I, personally, have not kept up with them since the end of the UN Police Action in Viet Nam (1975).

Keep up the good work. It is very important that there are as many views available of situations in which lives are at stake.

Charlie and I were in Vietnam at the same time. He was down south in the Delta and I was up north near the DMZ. I hope you enjoy this interview. We haven’t finished augmenting it yet and we may have a few more tweaks, but it’s to the point I wanted to share it. I hope you enjoy it. NEVER FORGET! Once we complete the augmentation, this image along with our other images go in schools, libraries, and museums. We don't rewrite history, we tell it the way it was!
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1zJl5nOsCXP6TIF9Ct94g6c2Y9q6v9e2j/view?usp=sharing

Charlie will relive his experiences everyday for the rest of his life. I salute Charlie. Robert I was also in the Army and I was there in and around Qui Nhon during 1965 and 1966. I went back there a little over 2 years ago and everything has changed. The only thing that I recognized was the Leper Colony, which had far fewer Lepers then when I first went there. I stayed for a little over 2 months and traveled to 5 or 6 different cities and found the people to be some of the friendliest people I'd ever met. I also saw 20 times more tourist there than I did in all 6 trips to China. It was much more fun this time than it was the first time I was there.
Enjoy the day, David

Charlie will relive his experiences everyday for the rest of his life. I salute Charlie. Robert I was also in the Army and I was there in and around Qui Nhon during 1965 and 1966. I went back there a little over 2 years ago and everything has changed. The only thing that I recognized was the Leper Colony, which had far fewer Lepers then when I first went there. I stayed for a little over 2 months and traveled to 5 or 6 different cities and found the people to be some of the friendliest people I'd ever met. I also saw 20 times more tourist there than I did in all 6 trips to China. It was much more fun this time than it was the first time I was there.
Enjoy the day, David

In 1969,it was "officially" referred to as "UN Police Action". But that is not the important aspect of it. It was never declared a war by the US Congress. Congress went as far as "taking back" the battle ribbon from the Ready-Strike units that were put together as back up for the forces in the "war zone" then.

The "transfer" from French control to the following group, I believe, was under the auspices of the UN. (De Gaulle>UN>Eisenhower) However, I am not going to find my reference material of the times. I can put my hands on my two Viet Nam travel posters (circa 1960), but not the other boxes lost in several moves over the years.

I have to disagree, some referred to it as a police action, but most did not. The UN never declared it anything because the Soviet Union vetoed anything concerning the whole affair. They supplied most of the weapons for the NVA and VC. The only reason Korea became a UN Police Action was that the Soviet Union was boycotting the UN over their recognition of The Republic of China as China. The Soviets didn't make that mistake again. No more boycotts, veto anything they didn't like in the Security Counsel.

Vietnam joined the UN in Sep 1977 at which time the UN became involved in sponsoring the rebuilding and development of Vietnam and humanitarian efforts.