I was 17 years old in 1972 and I was pissed off. It was getting near Christmas and every day that I turned the news on the radio I would hear about another flurry of bombing raids on northern Vietnamese cities by hundreds of US bombers. Hospitals were being bombed. Civilian neighborhoods were being destroyed and Richard Nixon, Henry Kissinger and the rest of the war pigs were getting ready for their particular holidays. I recall going to a protest in downtown Frankfurt against the bombings. Particularly galling was the targeting of the hospitals. Indeed, Bach Mai hospital was attacked more than once, killing more than 25 doctors and an unknown number of patients. Here is a recollection from Vietnam Veteran Against the War Barry Romo, who was in Hanoi during the bombings.
http://www.vvaw.org/veteran/article/?id=2204
An alternative look at the history of the 1970s by Ron Jacobs
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Tuesday, December 20, 2016
Monday, August 22, 2016
August 23, 1972: Last Official US Combat Troops Leave Vietnam
Although the combat troops had left, there were still several tens of thousands of troops in country, not to mention CIA mercenaries, Special Forces, and others. In addition, the bombing would go on for years, including the Christmas bombings at the end of 1972--some of the heaviest bombing raids in the history of bombing raids. I thought I would link to this pamphlet written by Overseas Weekly writer Richard Boyle describing GI resistance to the war....Overseas Weekly was an unofficial newspaper written for GIs and sold in the PX alongside the official Stars & Stripes.....The resistance Boyle writes about is part of the reason the war was Vietnamized and US troops were slowly removed from in country....while the killing dragged on....
https://libcom.org/history/gi-revolts-breakdown-us-army-vietnam
https://libcom.org/history/gi-revolts-breakdown-us-army-vietnam
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