[Old school Dawg]

Dien Bien Phu was a battle in the 50,s that the Vietnamese really put a whipping on the french.We supported the french.The French were dug in and surrounded by mountains they d thought the vietnamese couldnt get their weapons up onto to.They vietnamese took their big artillery guns apart piece by piece and carried them on their backs sometimes to the tops of these mountains, put them back together and very quickly almost wiped them out until the French surrendered.Khe Sahn "sp" almost became our Dien Bien Phu.Of course after many Americans were killed the Americans drove them back and shortly after bulldozed the camp and moved on.Vietnam war is what I was always the most interested in.My dad used to make me watch the news with him just so I could see how many boys from West Virginia got killed in Vietnam every day.He used this to try to motivate me to keep my grades up so I could go to college instead of war.It made me want to go to Vietnam but I was lucky it ended when I was 13.Over 58,000 young men died in that war.A war where alot of its men were drafted.Could you imagine not wanting to go and winding up like the Charlie daniels songs ,,,,where your senior trip was Saigon?