https://padlet.com/200901320/9m4tj389qufx Made with panache en-us 2018-12-05 21:23:04 UTC 2025-11-06 15:44:45 UTC hello@padlet.com 200901320 https://padlet.com/200901320/9m4tj389qufx/wish/311611387 "For it seems now more certain than ever, that the bloody experience of Vietnam is to end in a stalemate. To say that we are closer to victory today is to believe in the face of the evidence, the optimists who have been wrong in the past." - Walter Cronkite in an editorial at the close of the CBS Evening News. 

This belongs in this category, because it is told from a news point of view. They don't believe that they have made any progress in the war at this point. 

"Hey, Hey LBJ, How many kids did you kill today?"-A protest chant that first became popular in late 1967.

The public didn't like that our soldiers are out in Vietnam killing kids just because they are in the area of the war. Soldiers will be killing kids out of cold blood and the public were horrify about these actions.
"Now we have a problem in trying to make our power credible, and Vietnam looks like the place"-President John Kennedy in a June 1961 interview with the New York Times reporter James Reston
So basically what is being said is that we started the war because we under estimated what Vietnam had fighting wise. We thought that they were weak, and like Americans we thought we could show off how much power we have by starting a fight without thinking.]]> 2018-12-05 21:35:45 UTC https://padlet.com/200901320/9m4tj389qufx/wish/311611387 200901320 https://padlet.com/200901320/9m4tj389qufx/wish/311612105 "The bastards have never been bombed like they're going to be bombed this time." -President Richard Nixon 

This belongs here because it is said by President Nixon. He believed that with him in charge, the Vietnamese will get the worst bombing they have ever had. 

"I am not going to lose Vietnam. I am not going to be the presidents who saw Southeast Asia go the way China went." - President Lyndon Johnson 

This belongs here because this is said by a president. Presidents Lyndon didn't want to be the first president to lose a war, just because it would make him look bad. 

"We are not about to send American boys nine or ten thousand miles away from home to do what Asian boys ought to be doing for themselves." - President Lyndon Johnson

President Lyndon Johnson didn't think it was their job to send American boys to fight a war that wasn't even for America. He thought that the Asian boys should have fought for their own country. ]]> 2018-12-05 21:38:30 UTC https://padlet.com/200901320/9m4tj389qufx/wish/311612105 200901320 https://padlet.com/200901320/9m4tj389qufx/wish/311612178 "You can kill ten of my men for every one I kill yours. But even at those odds, you will lose and I will win. - Viet Minh  leader Ho Chi Minh. "

This is a message from the Viet Minh leader. He believes that even if we kill more men, they would still win. 
"I believe this resolution to be a historic mistake. I believe that within the next century, future generations will look with dismay and great disappointment upon a Congress which is now about to mistake such a historic mistake."-Senator Wayne Morse(D-OR) on the Senate's impending vote to adopt the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution on August 7, 1964.
The Vietnam war was a big mistake and war that was all for nothing. It was just a blood shed and the future generations will remember the mistake that was the war and learn to avoid a war like Vietnam to happen again.

"All men are created equal; they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights; among these are Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness." - The first lines of the Vietnamese Declaration of Independence. 

Vietnamese leaders used the same ideas and concepts as the American Declaration of Independence.They thought that this was the correct way to run a country. ]]> 2018-12-05 21:38:41 UTC https://padlet.com/200901320/9m4tj389qufx/wish/311612178