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Sep 15Liked by Zinderneuf

Thanks! Informative and beautifully illustrated.

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A big thanks to your Cartographer !! I have a story about a South Vietnamese Captain who was stationed in the Mekong Delta near me during the War, and he was a cartographer by trade. I never met him in the War , I met him in 2001 in Cozumel Mexico while living there for a few months. He and his wife were easy to spot and I introduced myself and began a conversation. Later that night we met for tea and beers and talked a long long time about his life in the Delta. He was educated in Paris a short time, and started to learn cartography etc. etc. Very interesting conversation.

He told me he worked with many of our MAC V guys and when things looked bad for the South Vietnamese Army , he still didn't believe they would lose. Well, they did lose and he was placed in a " Re-Education camp" but he got his wife out just before that. He told me about the camps and the torture, suicides etc. and then he told me that he couldn't take it any longer and escaped towards Cambodia and made into Thailand where he was in a refugee camp. Luckily, he remembered some of the men he worked with in MAC V , and they helped him make into the States. I'v run into other men who were put into those re-education camps while was in Saigon - 2019 - same story about the camps, but they didn't know anybody to help them - 8 years in one one those camps and some of them still remember their military style english and never held bad feeling towards me - I was most humbled to be around such men.

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Your captain is a traitor and as such needed (re-education). And war crims such as yourself need a bullet to the temple.

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He - was- a Cartographer and like many of us that entered that nasty war in S E Asia, it was just another Jew Banker War . Me - a war Criminal - prove it - I was with the 36th Engineer attached to te 75th Rangers in Moc Hoa , rebuilding the runway. Next Job, was with the 2- man advisors in Cambodia , living with 100 Cambodian soldiers , building a commo shack and small residence and tunnels out . I could go on but I wasn't there to murder or Fuck Up - Anybody. My close friend in Simferopol that I worked with in Yalta was in Nam with the Soviet Army, setting up Sam Sites until his team got waxed. Was he a War Criminal or just a soldier doing his Job?

People like you that had NO SKIN in the " Game" but have judged a whole lot of good men - Wrongly ! I was 20 yrs old and raised in a good christian home - and that made me who I was - even in a war. That was 54 years ago - get over it or go get some Psycho help. Shoepa.

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You may want to check international law, just participating in an illegal war of aggression is a war crime in itself.

Oh but I see you were there for humanitarian reasons LOL

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Well, what we have here is another Jew Troll - get off my frequency , we used to say.

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LOL

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