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 Posted: Tue Aug 10, 2004 7:53 pm Post subject: North Viet Namese Commander's Memoirs |
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I read some where that the NVN top commander had been considering a truce '68-'70 due to him losing every major battle. He supposedly mentioned this in his memoirts. However, after watching what was happening in the USA with public opinion and groups like VVAW, he decided he would eventually win.
Can anyone direct me to this commander and his memoirs?
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You can use the search function at the top of the page to find discussions about Bui Tin and GEN Giap:
Here is one thread:
http://www.swiftvets.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=363
Here is a snippet from NewsMax - originally taken from Reuters:
| Quote: | Celebrating the 29th anniversary of the fall of Saigon, the North Vietnamese general who led his forces to victory said Friday he was grateful to leaders of the U.S. antiwar movement, one of whom was presidential candidate John Kerry.
"I would like to thank them," said General Vo Nguyen Giap, now 93, without mentioning Kerry by name. "Any forces that wish to impose their will on other nations will surely fail," he added.
Reuters, which first reported Giap's comments, suggested that the former enemy general was mindful of Kerry's role in leading some of the highest profile antiwar protests of the entire Vietnam war. Before the British wire service quoted Gen. Giap, it noted: "The Vietnam War, known in Vietnam as the American War, has become a hot issue in the U.S. presidential race with Democrat John Kerry drawing attention to his service and President Bush's Republicans disparaging Kerry's later anti-war stand."
North Vietnamese Colonel Bui Tin, who served under Gen. Giap on the general staff of the North Vietnamese army, received South Vietnam's unconditional surrender on April 30, 1975.
In an interview with the Wall Street Journal after his retirement, Col. Tin explicitly credited leaders of the U.S. anti-war movement, saying they were "essential to our strategy." Visits to Hanoi by Kerry antiwar allies Jane Fonda and former Attorney General Ramsey Clark and others, he said, "gave us confidence that we should hold on in the face of battlefield reverses.""We were elated when Jane Fonda, wearing a red Vietnamese dress, said at a press conference that she was ashamed of American actions in the war," the North Vietnamese military man explained. Kerry did much the same thing in widely covered speeches like the one he delivered to the Senate Foreign Relations Committee in April 1971. "Through dissent and protest [America] lost the ability to mobilize a will to win," Col. Tin concluded. |
Complete interview with Bui Tin on Grunt.com
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