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...DIED. VU KY, 84, former personal secretary and confidante of 24 years to Vietnamese leader Ho Chi Minh; in Hanoi. Born to civil servant parents, Ky joined anti-French revolutionary movements as a student in Hanoi, and joined Ho after the August Revolution of 1945, in which Ho declared Vietnam's independence from France. Ky was said to have witnessed Ho writing his will and testament and was trusted to keep the documents from 1965 until the leader's death four years later...
...read the excerpt from Jane Fonda's book My Life So Far [April 11], my mind flashed back to 1968-69, Quang Tri, Vietnam, when I was a Navy physician assigned to the 3rd Marine Division. Fonda will always be remembered and despised--not because she opposed the Vietnam War but because she was a traitor who went to Hanoi and gave aid and comfort to the enemy. She appeared in photo ops with the very military equipment that the North Vietnamese used to kill U.S. pilots and crew. Her actions were an insult to American troops. Many...
Fonda's explanation for posing for a photo with North Vietnamese antiaircraft gunners during the Vietnam War is hollow, self-serving and 33 years too late. To many Vietnam-era vets, she is and always will be a traitor...
People want to forget just how wrong our country was to be in Vietnam and how much courage it took for Fonda to protest the war as she did. The traitors were the people who kept sending U.S. troops there to get killed. Fonda was and always will be a hero. We need people like...
...started out with a bang, because we played really difficult stuff and everybody was tremendously enthusiastic,” Yannatos says. “It was wonderful. And then the Vietnam thing just sort of depleted everything, the wind got knocked out and the kids were much more interested in protesting than playing...