War Museum VII.

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Exhibits/artifacts/displays.

All reproductions here thanks to Ed - - the psy warrior, from his excellent web site - - http://www.psywarrior.com/VCLeafletsProp.html

* Vietnamese communist propaganda leaflets.

Leaflets, found on the battlefield, directed against American troops. Encouraging American soldiers to surrender, protest, desert, shirk their duty.

"The Vietnamese people are not your enemy!

Refuse to obey all combat orders! Sit on the fence! Refuse to interfere in the internal affairs of your Vietnamese brothers! Refuse to perpetuate crimes against them! When under attack, lay down your weapons, let yourselves be captured: you will be taken alive and will eventually be allowed to return home."

Intended to create a mental state where American soldiers question the war in general, lose faith in the cause, etc.

Communist doggerel for the most part, poorly done!!??

"dog·ger·el –adjective 1. (of verse) a. comic or burlesque, and usually loose or irregular in measure.

b. rude; crude; poor."

In particular, several leaflets are directed specifically at black American troops.



Tell the lie that black troops during the Vietnam War died and suffered in a disproportionate manner. In actuality, white soldiers died and suffered in numbers slightly disproportionate.



THIS CANARD [BLACKS DIED AND SUFFERED MORE THAN WHITES] IS REPEATED TO THIS DAY! BY PERSONS THAT KNOW BETTER, AND YET DO NOT SAY BETTER!

"ca·nard n. An unfounded or false, deliberately misleading story."

“Do not lead your life by lies” - - A. Solzhenitsyn.

In my opinion, those leaflets directed specifically at black American troops WERE WRITTEN BY AN AMERICAN!! My intuitive appreciation only!



"In combat in Vietnam you are forced to:
- Go first
- Withdraw last
- Stay in the outer ring
- Do the hardest and the most dangerous jobs!

In Vietnam casualty rates for blacks are much higher than whites!

. . . . "

With regard to the TRUE casualty figures from the Vietnam War:

"the popular contention which has become part of modern 'conventional wisdom' that black soldiers fought and died in disproportionately high numbers in Southeast Asia during the war years."

"Before 1966 Black soldiers accounted for over 20 percent of U.S. combat casualties in Vietnam--far above the percentage of Black people in the military. The official figure dropped to between 11 and 13 percent after that."

"whites comprised . . . 86.8 percent of those killed in actual battle . . . Blacks . . . comprised . . . 12.1 percent of those killed in actual battle"

[then as now, black Americans comprised about 13 % of the U.S. population.]


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