#Vietnamese#Actor Hoa Xuande stars in the new espionage thriller “The Sympathizer” based on the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel about the #VietnamWar. On Wednesday, May 22 at 3:00 p.m. ET, the breakout star joins The Post’s Jonathan Capehart to talk about playing a double agent in the miniseries, exploring the #VietnamesePerspective of the war and his journey from #Australia to #Hollywood.
"The important dividing line isn’t between 1968 and 2024. Rather it’s between those who refuse to “take sides” and those who understand that in times of war, there is no defensible “middle ground.” At the end of the day, the “liberal” position which finds fault with both the Zionist and Palestinian positions is a function of privilege and fundamentally ends up supporting the status quo"
Bob Stein
TikTok CEO #ShouZiChew has said the company will take the fight against the new law to the courts, but some experts believe that for the #US#SupremeCourt, national security considerations could outweigh #FreeSpeech protection.
Young people, in particular, are following the #Israel-#Hamas war on social media, and many are horrified by what they see.
They’ve also grown up with protest movements — #OccupyWallStreet, #BlackLivesMatter, the Parkland, Fla., students’ gun control campaign — as the backdrop of their lives. #VietnamWar
"Nguyen, who is an executive producer, and the creative team hope the series will force viewers to center the Vietnamese perspective of the conflict while rethinking fundamental American myths, including about how the country still wields its geopolitical power in a fractured world today. 'Everything that the United States was doing in 1975 are things that are still happening now,' Nguyen says."
#VietnameseSkyraiders rent the air with ferocious whines as they dive-bombed sections of the city, notably the #Chinese quarter of #Cholon, which was honeycombed with #VietCong. The planes sent #refugees scattering in all directions and plumes of smoke shooting into sunny skies that mocked the city's agony. In six of #Saigon's nine districts, 24-hour curfews were still in effect, meaning that those districts harbored at least small bands of #guerrillas still operating as units.
Flak-jacketed [#AmericanMPs, weapons at the ready, roared along the tree-shaded boulevards. #TriggerHappy#police fired frantically in the air to halt vehicles approaching #checkpoints and #barricades strung about the city. Tough #ARVN#marines and #paratroopers blasted their way through narrow alleys in running gun battles with the #VietCong, 700 to 1,000 of whom were believed still mingling with the city's population.]
Although #GeneralWestmoreland had at first acceded to #SouthVietnameseArmy wishes to clear the city with #ARVN troops, by week's end U.S. help was clearly needed; soldiers of the U.S. #199thInfantryBrigade were helilifted onto the racetrack turf to join the battle.
#TaskForceGibler and #33rdRangers moved north through #Cholon and as they approached the Racetrack they began to take fire from #VietCong in windows and on rooftops of the 2-3 storey row houses lining the road. The #USA#ARVN infantry fanned out into alleys and side-streets to engage VC, while #M113s continued down the road firing on the VC with their machine guns, with the command vehicle being knocked out by an #RPG.
#USA#ARVN forces now supported by #helicopter#gunships began blasting #VietCong in the Racetrack's concrete stadium building with 106-mm recoilless rifle fire while also engaging them with machine gun and rifle fire. By late afternoon the VC abandoned the Racetrack, exfiltrating in three-man groups into the residential neighbourhood to the west, pursued by the Rangers and Republic of Vietnam National Police.
On 4 February the residents of #Cholon were ordered to #evacuate the area and it was declared a Free-fire zone allowing the full weight of #USA & #SVA air and artillery support to be directed against the #VietCong still holding out there.
#VietCong were #entrenched in the pagoda and in #bunkers and #tunnels in the adjacent cemetery. In a day of hard fighting #TaskForceGibler supported by fire from #M42Dusters overran the position killing 49 VC and capturing four together with maps, radios and other equipment for the loss of six U.S. soldiers killed.
My #Dad, aged 27, at #RefugeeCamp in #Indonesia - 1979. Photo was taken by humanitarian aid workers to help #VietnamWar#refugees get sponsored to go to Europe, Canada, USA & Australia, under asylum.
My Dad passed away June 9, 2023.
He went through hell & back, several times. He beat almost all odds. Until #covid infection in hospital in 2022. #LongCovid killed him last year.
"The reality is that self-immolation registers the near-total impotence of protest—and even public opinion as such—in the face of a military apparatus completely insulated from external accountability. It the rawest testament to the absence of effective courses of action. When war consists primarily of unelected men in undisclosed locations pouring fire on the heads of people we will never know on the other side of the world, there is very little that ordinary people can do to arrest its progress. But we still have our bodies, and it is in the nature of fire to refuse containment."
I have difficult relationships with Western #VietnamWarVeterans. Especially #Canadian ones who volunteered; weren't sent by CAF. I think most folks can understand why. Me & my family suffered from US led war on our peoples. I don't care how much you respect military veterans, if you can't understand the horrors inflicted upon #POCpeoples by peoples you consider military heroes in US & Canada. Your 'heroes' #murdered many of my innocent family & countless millions of others. We don't get support.
I'm unable to be kind to any #VietnamWar veteran from ANY Western countries, unless those same #WarVeterans have spoken up/out about their #WarCrimes & aiding/abetting foreign violence on our peoples.
Unless #VietnamWarVets have fully repented, are doing work to help the peoples they tried to mass murder over Westernized #propaganda - NONE of them deserve respect, in present day.
Most #SocialJustice movements, like #BlackLivesMatter, take years to take hold, and #protests against our government's military actions are only embraced in guilt-ridden retrospectives decades later. Very few #Americans warmed up to protesters during the #VietnamWar, and a mere 16% of respondents in a national Gallup poll had a favorable opinion on the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom before the historic event was held in 1963, the Roper Center study pointed out.
#Israel has said it has informed the families of 31 people held in the territory since 7 October that their relatives are dead. The news came as the Qatari prime minister said #Hamas had given a “generally positive” response to proposals for a deal trading a break in the fighting and release of #Palestinian prisoners for the return of more #hostages.
Vietnamese buddhist monks used to set themselves aflame to protest the #VietnamWar. It's a fatal form of protest with great symbolic power.
"A video posted online showed a man in a uniform shouting '#FreePalestine' as he burned while identifying himself as an active air force member. The man was reportedly on fire for about a minute before law enforcement put it out." #US#Israel#Gaza
USS Orleck • Downtown • Saint Johns River
The U.S.S. Orleck earned the nickname "The Grey Ghost of the Vietnam Coast" by firing more rounds in support of ground troops than any ship in the Navy. The Orleck, a Gearing Class destroyer that was built in Texas and launched in May of 1945, is now a memorial and museum docked at pier one of the Jacksonville shipyards.