The Briefing Room
General Category => Science, Technology and Knowledge => History => Topic started by: TomSea on December 23, 2019, 12:30:31 am
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Excerpted:
Final Evacuation of Saigon Signaled by Song “White Christmasâ€
By April 1975—after almost twenty years fighting in Vietnam–the United States began its pull-out. That winter the North Vietnamese pushed the South Vietnamese back forcefully and definitively.
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Note evacuational signal. Do not disclose to other personnel. When the evacuation is ordered, the code will be read on Armed Forces Radio. The code is: “The temperature in Saigon is 105 degrees and rising.†This will be followed by the playing of “I’m Dreaming of a White Christmas.â€
Those who were not U.S. citizens but expected to participate in the evacuation, contacted Americans they knew and asked them to sing the tune. They feared they might not recognize it.
Read more at: https://americacomesalive.com/2017/12/13/final-evacuation-of-saigon-signaled-by-song-white-christmas/
Yes, so sad.
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There are a lot of ethnic Vietnamese people here in Silicon Valley. The past couple of years I did a 10K charity event organized by the Silicon Valley Running Club. One co-worker was a child on one of the boats that escaped Vietnam. Another lady was surprised to learn I was not going to vote for Kerry (she wasn't going to either).
The "anti-war" people have a lot of blood on their hands and caused a lot of suffering in getting their way.