Why was the Vietnam War misunderstood/ misreported/ misremembered?

Question

i need backup information to support this quote:

“No event in American history is more misunderstood than the Vietnam War. It was misreported then, and it is misremembered now.”

Richard M. Nixon, 1985

thanks

Answer 1

Here at home as I remember it,We w***e fighting Communism.That is what we w***e told.It was a civil war.One side of there government wanted to be communist and the other side did not.When the French first got involved they w***e after the rites of oil reserves.When we came on bored we had no alis or a true reason for being there.Except for oil reserves.Neither the North or the south wanted us there.We w***e the invaders.It is hared to go in to a bombed out village bombed out by US troops and tell the survivors we are your friends as we stick them with a bayonet! At the same time one of them is sticking a grenade up your buts!It was primmest to be a short war.Instead it became a unwindable war.We gave back most of the victory's we won the day before just to fight and get it back.The last few years of the war we spent as a waste of time and man power.In WW II We took a place and we kept it.In Vietnam we gave back more than we took. All we had to do is drop one H bomb on them and the country would have been ours.That was not cost effective.It was all big money.The longer we w***e there the more money the Generals made.Johnson never sent in enough troops at one time to anny good.Just enough to keep the war on.Nixon primmest to get us out and that he did before he was impeached.Back then you did not have a choice to stay home.You joined the armed forces or you w***e drafted.

Answer 2

This was along time incoming after the French pulled out America jump in slow at 1st LBJ and JFK sent small amounts of troops the south who were Christan wanted us there the Buddhist in the south did not and many become the V C [south Vietnamese] We were winning every battle but the home front grow tired of the war and cut the funding for it so they had to pull out the troops

The V C were betrayed by the north and pushed aside after the war

Vietnam had a short war with China and invaded Cambodia Thailand told us to get our military bases out of their country but were back begging for help within a few months

What toke place after the US pulled out is unbelievable and the west was not concerned with it

If you go take one of the war tours and during the break pull the guide aside and buy him a beer most are ex south Vietnamese military and talk with them Mine was in a re-ed camp for 4 years during the day he had tp poke around with a stick looking for land mines He told me he hates the communists

Answer 3

I am sure that those who fought in the Veitnam war do not misremember it!