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DESCRIPTION:We will discuss the article by Michael D. Yates, “Honor the Vietnamese, 
 Not Those Who Killed Them” in the May, 2015 Monthly Review. 
 \n\nhttp://monthlyreview.org/2015/05/01/honor-the-vietnamese-not-those-who-killed-them/ 
 \n\nIntroductory notes from the editors of Monthly Review:\n\nAs we write 
 these notes in March 2015, the Pentagon’s official Vietnam War 
 Commemoration, conducted in cooperation with the U.S. media, is 
 highlighting the fiftieth anniversary of the beginning of the U.S. ground 
 war in Vietnam, marked by the arrival of two Marine battalions in De Nang 
 on March 8, 1965. This date, however, was far from constituting the 
 beginning of the war. The first American to die of military causes in 
 Vietnam, killed in 1945, was a member of the Office of Strategic Services 
 (a precursor of the CIA). U.S. intelligence officers were there in support 
 of the French war to recolonize Vietnam, following the end of the Japanese 
 occupation in the Second World War and Vietnam’s declaration of national 
 independence as the Democratic Republic of Vietnam. The French 
 recolonization effort is sometimes called the First Indochina War in order 
 to distinguish it from the Second Indochina War, initiated by the United 
 States. In reality, it was all one war against the Viet Minh (Vietnamese 
 Independence League). By the time that the Vietnamese defeated the French 
 at Dien Bien Phu in 1954, the United States was paying for 80–90 percent 
 of the cost of the war.…\n\nNow the history of that long war is being 
 rewritten by our government to erase the memory of the role of the United 
 States in bringing death and devastation to Vietnam, and to erase the 
 memory of the widespread organized opposition to the war, including among 
 the troops, which helped end it.  \n\n \n\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2015/05/19/18772458.php
SUMMARY:“Honor the Vietnamese, Not Those Who Killed Them” discussion
LOCATION:Colonial Heights Library, 4799 Stockton Blvd., Sacramento, CA 95820, in the 
 Community Room.\n
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2015/05/19/18772458.php
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