...' (February 16 1916 – August 6 2001), known popularly as Big Minh, was a Vietnamese general and politician. He led the South Vietnamese army under Prime Minister Ngô Đình Diệm. In 1963, he became leader of South Vietnam after a coup in which Diệm was assassinated. Dương’s rule lasted only three months, but he briefly led South Vietnam again in 1975 before surrendering the nation to Communist forces. Read full entry
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- Dương Văn Minh (help·info) (February 16, 1916 – August 6, 2001), known popularly ... General Duong Van Minh Dies at 86, Asian Week, August 17-23, 2001 ...
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- Dương Văn Minh. Chữ Nôm. 楊文明 ... Duong Van Minh was born on February 16, 1916 in My Tho province in the Mekong Delta. ... Duong Van Minh went into exile in ...
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In a nutshell (and without copy and paste from Wikipedia), Minh was the second as well as the last president of South Vietnam. He wasn't in office long enough in either of his short terms to accomplish anything positive other than replacing President Diem and many of Diem's corrupt cabinet after Diem's assassination. Minh will probably be remembered best for surrendering South Vietnam to the NVA on April 30Th, 1975. That in mind, his greatest accomplishment as president could be trying to organize a peaceful surrender and prevent any further bloodshed. That was a debatable accomplished. |
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Why will the Iraq war end up 1975: Saigon surrenders:
The war in Vietnam ended today
as the government in Saigon
announced its unconditional
surrender to North Vietnamese
forces.
The President, Duong Van Minh,
who has been in office for
just three days, made the
announcement in a radio
broadcast to the nation early
this morning. He asked his
forces to lay down their arms
and called on the North
Vietnamese Army and Vietcong
to halt all hostilities.
.................Fast forward
to 2008, Will the article be
the same? Instead of Vietnam
it will read USA will halt all
hostilities against Iraq.
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The simple answer to this is question is Americans don’t learn from history. I have stated it before and I will state it again, we keep repeating the same blunders of our forefathers because once one generation passes, the next generation refuses to heed the lessons learned from a prior era. So the same vicious cycle continues of our boys being sent to fight pointless wars, so that the military industrial complex can profit, both monetarily and politically. So the same bloodshed, the same heartache, the same amputees, the same massive loss of life, the same expenditure of untold billions transpires each and every generation. I honestly believe that the poor grasp our students have for history isn’t the result of lazy students, or a defective system, but instead our government purposely designs ignorance into the education system, so that we will have a new batch of credulous youth who will again accede to the lie that the wars we fight in this country actually mean something significant. I just simply cannot believe that a group of people can be that obtuse. Our ignorance must come from a purposeful plan by the government to degrade our understanding of history and the humanities so that they will always have a fresh cache of automatons to do their bidding. It is time that we break this cycle so that every citizen can learn the basic truism that governments must look out for the benefit of its citizenry, and not for its own sake. |
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