HANOI (AFP) – Vietnam on Friday marked 40 years since the Tet Offensive with colourful military parades of its veterans and re-enactments of the surprise wave of urban assaults that marked a turning point in the war.
Communist Party leaders and military chiefs watched as former guerrillas and regular soldiers filed past Ho Chi Minh City’s Reunification Palace, formerly the presidential palace of the US-backed Saigon regime ousted in 1975.
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Veterans of the Vietnam war march in rememberance. Vietnam on Friday marked 40 years since the Tet Offensive with colourful military parades of its veterans and re-enactments of the surprise wave of urban assaults that marked a turning point in the war.
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February 2, 2008 at 3:56 pm |
Communist Vietnam is desperate to find any opportunity to re-start patriotic sentiment of the people that can more or less linked to the Party past. Helas! it is a vain attempt. Most young people ( less than 40 year sold) would not care less and the veterans ( 69 +) ? they know how they are being treated. A squeezed- dry-orange in a trash can !!
Truly I can not understand why they celebrate a defeat. The Tet Offense was a military defeat of the Commies. Unless they want to lie to the people again. Which, I think they are doing.