Thread: Danang Vietnam

Danang me - Danang me, oughta take a rope and hang me.

A few years since I was there. The town looked like Rayong with an airport. China Beach however...well, that is something and I don't even like beaches.

Originally Posted by SkyyWalker

What was your experience like?

We had no cameras to shoot the landscape. We passed the hash pipe and played our doors tapes. And it was dark, so dark at night.

Danang figured significantly in the Vietnam conflict.........

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a little off topic here...

But I've often wondered what difference Vietnam made.

The Americans never did accept that they had lost this conflict...

Perhaps the nation has been in denial since that conflict?

But then again, it's always impossible for a nation to say "we lost"

Even the Germans vis-a-vis WW1, were not willing to say such a thing.

Originally Posted by russellsimpson

But I've often wondered what difference Vietnam made.

If you mean the Vietnam (American) War and what difference it made, then I will tell you that it made a hell of a lot of difference. Don't dismiss it. The world that you and I live in now, is shaped in myriad ways by that conflict and by that time.

So, please don't 'wonder' about it. Read.

Originally Posted by cluezo

Don't be a boob, Russ.

Thanks cluez....

I sometimes get a tad carried away,

cheers,


carry on..................

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Originally Posted by Anna Key

The world you live in now

Hi Anna.

Of course.

Thing is though...

...we all have our own worlds...

I got mine, you got yours. the twain can never meet...needless to say.

This is why I am never disturbed by folks announcing the end of the world..............


Some folks actually take that stuff seriously........

Know what I mean?

No, I don't know what you mean.

I'm not going to be a participant in one of your meta-dialogues. I was being literal.

Originally Posted by Anna Key

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details please..............

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Originally Posted by Anna Key

I'm not going to be a participant in one of your meta-dialogues

How about a nice little Vbookie?

I'm easy...............

never to good with the women though, tbo.

Originally Posted by russellsimpson

details please..............

I always go back in to try and correct punctuation. I type very quickly (like I talk), and I ponder over commas and the like. Even then, in the cold (hot?) light of day, I chastise myself for the badly placed ones.

Is that a good enough explanation?

^ One of the lesser recognised benefits for which I am eternally grateful.

By the way, I was in Banchang the other day, er, shopping and stuff and all that sort of thing, and I was actually amazed - I was, I was amazed - by the amount of civilian 737s coming over, undercarriage down, and then turning over the hills to land at Sattahip. I saw three of the buggers in about an hour. All the same livery. Didn't recognse it.

That there U-Tapao is getting busy I tell you.

Also a lot of fighter jets. I'm guessing F-16s, but the buggers were going so fast they'd been and gone and were just a speck in the distance before I could focus.

Originally Posted by russellsimpson

The Americans never did accept that they had lost this conflict...

Perhaps the nation has been in denial since that conflict?

I think the whole Peace Accords and Vietminization were a stark admissions of the loss. The whole country wallowed in post-war angst for a good 20 years after the final admission of loss. What on earth are you talking about, Russ?