when the war ended, my unit disappeared. ttp://Dickrosebooks.com Richard Rose, JOCM&lt; USN (Ret.) If a picture is worth a 1,000 words, these are priceless. I was there (Saigon during Tet) as well as the Mekong Delta. I looked, I remembered and (I'm not ashamed to admit) I cried.We will always remember this thing that in the long run was useless. As someone else said, "I was no hero, but I served with heroes -- Marine Advisory Team 43, Navy Helicopter Attack Squadron 3, Det. 3, and the river boat guys at Vinh Long. The irony of Picture 99 cannot be ignored. Don Miller Total waste! A political game with us (US Army 23 yrs, ret.)as the chess pieces. Pls tell me someone (I have yet to hear) what US national interest was at stake in Viet Nam?? And if there was any interest at stake, then why didn't we stay and win it? And now that its long over, and Viet Nam is totally a Communist nation, so friggin what? What has it mattered to the US and the American people? All we got out of all that sacrifice was 50,000 of us killed, untold millions $$$ pissed away, and hordes of Vietnamese "refugees" now in the US! And we keep on doing the same thing...totally meaningless wars, thousands of young guys killed, for garbage-can countries that don't mean squat to the US and the American people: Bosnia, Iraq, Kuwait, Afghanistan, next Iran, North Korea...on and on, yet we refuse