A Reminder in History

[LuckyLady]

Received this email from a friend and thought it to be interesting and does not represent any political view of mine

Received the following from a life-long friend, retired military. Thought you would be interested.


A Reminder in History



General VoNguyen Giap. General Giap was a brilliant,
highly respected leader of the North Vietnam military.
The following quote is from his memoirs currently
found in the Vietnam war memorial in Hanoi :

What we still don't understand is why you Americans
stopped the bombing of Hanoi . You had us on the ropes.
If you had pressed us a little harder, just for another day or two,
e were ready to surrender! It was the same at the battle of TET.
you defeated us! We knew it, and we thought you knew it.

But we were elated to notice your media was helping us.
They were causing more disruption in America than
we could in the battlefields. We were ready to surrender.
You had won!'

General Giap has published his memoirs and
confirmed what most Americans knew.

The Vietnam war was not lost in Vietnam -- it was lost at home.
The same slippery slope, sponsored by the US media,
is currently underway. It exposes the enormous power of a
Biased Media to cut out the heart and will of the American public.
A truism worthy of note: ... Do not fear the enemy,
for they can take only your life.


Fear the media,
for they will destroy your honor

[Big Fish Billy]

Well said....by all.......

[clt_capt]

So if the media had been at the Civil War, we would have lost?

[Robja]

So if the media had been at the Civil War, we would have lost?

I thought everbody lost in that one.

[clt_capt]

I thought everbody lost in that one.

Sorta my point

[gottaflylee]

Shame of it was the way most vets were treated upon their return to the states, they were beaten twice in their eyes.

[Big Fish Billy]

I thought everbody lost in that one.

I'm afraid everybody looses in every one........the key being, while everybody's interest, whether media driven or not, is focused on a war ANYWHERE, what is really going on right under our noses.....puppets on a string...being controlled by........

[LuckyLady]

Media sparks to much attention where it doesn't belong