I'd Just Like to Acknowledge and Salute, the Dedication of our New World War Two Memorial! Today's Dedication has Inspired me to Do So.

Tasteful and Well Fitting, -are Certainly Among it's Complimentary Descriptions!

Here Goes a Generally Comprehensive Representation and List, -Concerning World War Two, -in this Following Paragraph;-

Attu. Kiska. Pearl Harbor. Atlantic U Boats. Phillipines from Baatan to the Return! The Graf Spee and the Bismarck. Guadalcanal. The Battle of Britain. Our *Own* Subs Being such Magnificent *U-Boats* Against Japan!, in the Pacific War! The Great North African See Saw Battles! Midway and Coral Sea! Sicily! New Guinea. Salerno and Anzio. The Burma Campaign and Flying the Hump! The Rats of Tobruk! Tarawa, Eniwetok, Kwajalein, Truk, Saipan, and All the Other Pacific Island Hopping we Did! The Rushan Turnaround at Kursk and Stalingrad! (I Prefer it's Proper Name of "Volograd"). Getting Yamamoto! And the Dolittle Raid! Normandy D-Day and Patton's Dash Across France! Earlier Dunkirk and Dieppe. The China Front and Theater, -Along with Chennault's Flying Tigers! The Steady March Up Italy. Iwo Jima and Okinawa! Heroically Beating Back and Dealing With those Kamikazes! The St Lo Carpet Bombing and Breakout! LeMay's B-29 Bombing of Japan! The Battle of the Bulge and the Dash Across the Remagen Bridge! Our Two Atomic Bombings of Japan Itself, -Which Spared U.S. a Costly Invasion! And the Resulting Surrender in Tokyo Harbor, and V-J Day! The French and Other Allied Resistance Forces! OSS and Other Special Operations and Forces. The Manhattan Project. B-17 and B-29 Strategic Long Range Bombers, on Maximum Effort Missions! Against Places like Hamburg, Dresden, Schweinfurt, Ploesti, Normandy, Tokyo, and Berlin. Monty's El Alamain Breakout! The Free World Home Fronts! Darker Moments such as the Fall of France Earlier in the War. That U.S.-Russian Meeting over the Bridge at Torgau! Another Bridge in Holland that Ended Up Being a Bit Too Far. The Fall of Berlin, Potsdam, and V-E Day Itself! Destruction of the nazi Heavy Water in Norway! These and Much Else Have Been World War Two!

I'd Like to Paraphrasingly Quote a Schoolmate of Mine, -Who I once Saw Enjoyably Reading a Library Book on World War Two! (This was Several Months After I Came Across It!, and Similarly Couldn't Put it Down! -"The Story of World War Two", -by Robert Leckie). And This Kid Wasn't even what you'd Call a Reader! But World War Two Did it for Him! And was a Notable Exception!

I'd like to Generally Quote What he Wrote Up in Review of It, at the End of the Year in our Class Paper. Of Which I've Always been Fond of! It Wasn't All that Much or Long. But What he Said, -He Said So Very Well! It Essentially Went, -

"You Will Follow the War Across the Ocean, Deserts, Jungles, and Mountains!....You Will Meet Great Leaders who Led to Victory!"

This is Indeed World War Two! And This is What we Indeed now Commemorate! That Freedom and Victory of Which our Sustained, Hard Work Efforts, -Led To!

Today's Dedication and Commemoration is Only Ever So Fitting and Deserving! A Very Survival of Such Values and Freedom!

A Quick Word on our Korean and Vietnam Commemorations too. Before Basically Following Up with some words on our Vietnam Efforts in Itself.

May we Have Korean Ones Throughout our Nation as Well! (I Must Sheepishly Admit, that I'm Currently Foggy on the Status of our National Korean War Memorial!)

And Concerning our Less Belated, but Still Quite Belated, -Vietnam War Memorial, -It Too is Very Great, Tasteful, and So On.

But I've Always Felt that it Should be Made of *White* Marble!, -Not Black!

When's the Downing and Crying About our Largely Fine Nation and Free System Gonna End!?

The Names Can and Should be in Black. But the Great Background of our Wall and Memorial Itself!, -Should be White! Shamelessly and Unabashedly White! Our Vietnam and Indochinese Efforts are Nothing to be Ashamed of!!!!

Of Course our Cowardly Bugout that we Did Come to Do!, -Is Something to be Ashamed of! But Not of Our Efforts There Itself!

If the War Ended Up Being in Vain, -It was the "Out Nowers!" who *Made* It be so in Vain!

Somewhat Briefly and Basically, -We and the Other Freedom Desiring Peoples of Indochina Could Have Won that War! It's Not Written in Stone Anywhere that that is an Impossibility!

How?, -Here's How!,-

A). An *Earlier* Vietnamization, -Johnson Shud Have Done the Vietnamization that Nixon Later Did.

The Above Shouldn't Preclude *Any* American Ground Prescense. But Still, -the South Vietnamese Should Bear the Majority of their Own Country's Ground Defense! Via *Our* "Held To" Vietnamization Backup. It just so Happened that the Republic of South Vietnam had the Population Base / Manpower, -to be Able to Do So! -Enuff for a Million Man Army!

(Now with Soviet Supplies Pouring into Haiphong and Smaller North Vietnamese Ports, -We for Our Part Must Also Still Supply a Vietnamization Aid. South Vietnam could Supply it's Own Manpower. But it Couldn't Manufacture and Operate it's Own Tanks and B -52s! "Operate", -Not Applying here to ARVN Tank Operations. But South Vietnam Itself Certainly Couldn't be Manufacturing Them! Thats *Our* Part! Thats What We Can and Should Do! In Freedom's Common Cause and Purpose! With the Soviets Pouring into Haiphong What the North Can't Do of Itself!, -It's Only Fair Game that We Even Out the Score!, -the Same!)

So it Should Be a Vietnamization of Which We for Our Part, -Remain Behind and Faithful Towards!

B). A Great U.S. Airpower and Seapower Backup! Of Which we Aren't a Bit Sheepishly or Squeamishly Afraid to Use! After All, -Thats What its There For!

C). Bombing and Mining of the North! As Well as Other Enemy Occupied Areas of Indochina.

And,-

D). Cutting of that Ho Trail! Via a Strong, Well Tree Cleared, Fortified Line, -Clear Across Southern Laos to Thailand and the Mekong! Beginning at the Westernmost End of the South Vietnamese DMZ .

Bombers and Other Airpower could Continue Bombing and Interdicting North of that Line! As a Bonus, -Onetime Airpower Efforts South of that Line, -Could Now be Freed Up Toward Augmenting this Northern Air Effort.

And I'd Like to Add an

E).-! Which is Solidarity Behind our War Efforts Here at Home!

We Could Have SO Won that War! We Did NOT *Have* to Lose it!!!

North Vietnam and the VC would Have Withered on the Vine! They'd Eventually be Isolated, and Looking Quite Odd and Stupid for it!

Perhaps an Even Stronger and More Confident South Vietnamese Armed Forces, -Could Eventually have Invaded North Vietnam Itself! -For Once and For a Change! North Vietnam's Entire Southern Panhandle, -for Instance, -Could Have Been Taken! North Vietnam would Thus be Even More Isolated. Being Limited Only to the Much Smaller Hanoi / Haiphong / Red River Valley Area.

South Vietnam, Cambodia, and Laos could be Free Countries Today! Prosperous Partners with the Other Southeast Asian Economic Tigers!

North Vietnam and the VC, -Would Again Now Look as the Real Oddos!

I Deplore the Large Amount of Corruption, Nepotism, and Such in South Vietnam, Saigon, and the ARVN. But PHRASECENSOREDPOSTERSHOULDKNOWBETTER. is Worse! PHRASECENSOREDPOSTERSHOULDKNOWBETTER. from the North, the Viet Cong, Khmer Rouge, and Indeed even the Soviets and Red Chinese, -is Worse! Let U.S. Never Forget That!!!

Our Doves and our Congress Really Let Them Down!, -in 1973 to 1975! It Didn't Have to Be So Lost!

I Refer Anyone to Nixon's and Kissinger's Books! -For the Real Lessons and Story on Indochina and Vietnam!

We Grew Tired After Awhile as Ho Said! And Tragically Threw In a Towel that we Really Didn't Have To!

There *Was* Light at the End of the Tunnel! But the Doves Stood In the Way and Eclipsed That! And Then they Turned Around and Said it Wasn't Even There! Of Which Much of the American Public just Bought Up and Beleived! -Mis-Believed!

And the So Called Discrediting of the Domino Theory, -is Something that we've Got to Disabuse Ourselves of too! For the Falls of Both South Vietnam and Cambodia, -Occurred within a Month or Less!, of Each Other! And Before that Year of 1975 was Out!, -Laos Too Fell! To the North Vietnamese and Other Communists. At Least Much Thanks Going to our Own Short Sighted, War Weary, Ball Dropping and Running Out!, of a Way!, -Here at Home! And So Goes It!, -For the Notion that the Domino Theory has Somehow Been Discredited! Or Didn't Occur! The Three Free Indochinese Countries All Falling in Short Order of Each Other! Within that Same Year of 75! And There's Suppossedly No Domino Theory?! No!, -To Boot, -It was Domino Facthood!

Again, -It Just Didn't Have to be Lost! And Could Have Been Won! Had We just Stayed the Course and Kept At It!

It's Suppossedly Being an Unwinnable War! That we Really Shouldn't Have Gotten Into! What a Silly Notion! On Both Counts!

We Did Additionally Hand Osama and Co, -Much Encouragement, -By Our 1975 Bugout Carry Ons! As he More than a Few Times has Made Mention Of!

It Needn't Have Been Lost! And Actually *Could* Have Been WON! The Preceeding has been the Basic How!

Now Talking About the Lessons of Vietnam!, -These are Some of the Real Lessons of Vietnam!

We Need(ed) More of that GI Joe Going After Charlie Spirit! And that Patton and Curtis LeMay Spirit! Or Vietnam's General John D. LaVelle.-He Said, -"If I Had to Do it Over Again, -I Would Do It Again!" He Got in Official Trouble over Protective Reaction Strikes. Add McArthur and Bull Halsey to that Distinguished List Too! How Bout Dolittle?! And His Famous Surprise Tokyo Raid! Medium Army Bombers being Launched from a Carrier at Sea! How Bout that Dolittle Raid!? Dolittle was Mis-Named! -He Did a Lot!

Incidentally, -I Still Call it's Capital City as Saigon! Refuseing to Suscribe to "ho chi minh City"! Moreover, -"Saigon" is So Much Nicer a Name in Any Event!

So Our Vietnam Memorial Wall, -of Which we Had Finally Got to Building!, -This Should Be of White Marble, -Not Black!

Let U.S. Respect, Mourn, Honor, and Grieve our Losses, -Yes! But to Be Somehow Tail Turningly Ashamed of our Entire Effort!, -NO! -A Ringing and Resounding NO There! As Reagan's Often Said on a Number of Things, -"I Utterly Reject that View!"

We've Been Belated About it Once Again, -But Now We've At Last Addressed our Latest Lacklapse! And Now Have our National World War Two Memorial. As We Only Long and Well Should!

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