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[Arkansas Granny]

9. Something that has amazed me over the years is the fact that none of the Vietnamese or other

SE Asians I have known harbor any ill will toward America. It's not just the young people who were born in this country, but people of my age who lived through that conflict, as well. I truly expected that they would resent the fact that we killed so many civilians and devastated their land and then abandoned them.

This series is really educating me on the reasons for our involvement. At the time, we were so focused on stopping communism that I didn't realize that the regime that we were supporting was so corrupt. I was really struck by the fact that Ho Chi Minh used the words of Thomas Jefferson in his speeches as he tried to establish independence from the French.