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Vietnamese Deportation - Remembering Operation Baby Lift (Original Post) orangecrush Dec 2018 OP
Fifth rec. sheshe2 Dec 2018 #1
Thank you orangecrush Dec 2018 #3
There is no bottom to his barrel, brer cat Dec 2018 #7
I know. sheshe2 Dec 2018 #8
that's what Putin bought him to do Hermit-The-Prog Dec 2018 #2
Amazing orangecrush Dec 2018 #4
Thank you. sheshe2 Dec 2018 #5
I did too orangecrush Dec 2018 #6
The babies. sheshe2 Dec 2018 #9
... orangecrush Dec 2018 #10
Thanks sheshe2 Dec 2018 #11
Ditto. iluvtennis Dec 2018 #12
amazing video thank you gopiscrap Dec 2018 #13
Thanks for watching. orangecrush Dec 2018 #15
this cannot stand. We promised these people a home, and we did it decades ago, Haggis for Breakfast Dec 2018 #14
I am not a vet orangecrush Dec 2018 #16

sheshe2

(83,770 posts)
1. Fifth rec.
Wed Dec 12, 2018, 11:36 PM
Dec 2018

My heart is breaking.

Yesterday, maybe it was the day before that, when I did not think he could hurt us any more than he already has. I was wrong.

Hermit-The-Prog

(33,346 posts)
2. that's what Putin bought him to do
Wed Dec 12, 2018, 11:43 PM
Dec 2018

Besides, they're not his kind of "very fine people".

I want that orange turd put under the jail.

orangecrush

(19,555 posts)
6. I did too
Thu Dec 13, 2018, 01:14 AM
Dec 2018

When I listened to live reporting of it in 1975 as a young man, when I first saw this video 10 years ago, and now afgain.

"Suffer the little children unto me"....

sheshe2

(83,770 posts)
9. The babies.
Thu Dec 13, 2018, 01:29 AM
Dec 2018

The babies strapped in baskets in the plane. The little children looking out the windows.


Sorry, no words tonight. I can't.

Haggis for Breakfast

(6,831 posts)
14. this cannot stand. We promised these people a home, and we did it decades ago,
Thu Dec 13, 2018, 02:43 AM
Dec 2018

Back in the day in Southeast Asia, the U S government could not have survived without the assistance of these people. Many of the adults and younger people put their own lives at risk to give US military every possible intel from troop movements to supply lines to build-ups to flight routes to jungle operations. They put everything at risk to help US troops. And in return we promised that they could come here, that we would evacuate their families, provide then with homes, take care of their babies, let them live their lives.

This is like stabbing in the back the man who saved your life. This is wrong. This cannot be allowed to happen. NOT to these people. We OWE them, and we owe them big time.

Start making those phone calls to your elected reps and sens. THIS IS WRONG. On so many levels.

Ask any (other) Vietnam vet . . .

orangecrush

(19,555 posts)
16. I am not a vet
Thu Dec 13, 2018, 11:33 AM
Dec 2018


My older brother was infantry in Vietnam, 67 to 68.

What I gather is that out of all the horror, death and bloodshed, a lot of service members felt that at least something good came as a result of it, that is, saving some of these children.
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