All,
I have a photo for you. Here is the caption for the photo from Reuters:
(quote)
President Clinton accompanied by Dave Evert (L) and Dan Evert (R), sons of
former fighter pilot Captain Lawrence Evert, survey the Joint Task Force-Full
Accounting excavation site in the village of Tien Chau, outside of Hanoi
November 18, 2000.
Clinton visited the site where the team is searching for the remains of Evert,
whose fighter plane crashed while on a bombing mission 17 miles northwest
of Hanoi on November 8, 1967.
(unquote)
Before you go to the photo, steel yourselves.
Please, maintain decorum on TFL.
We do not want to lower ourselves to the level of our President.
We want our children to see this and to understand our fury.
Look at the President's pants suit.
(DC and Rich, thank you for your help in making the photo available for us.)
Once you have seen the picture, if you believe it looks like the "black pajamas" of our former adversary, then I would ask that you spread this photo and its caption far and wide. Use the internet to show what our leadership has become to wear something like that over the muddy hole that serves as a grave for a brave American.
Note what we could expect from someone such as Vice President Gore - who calls President Clinton as a "dear friend" and mentor.
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Here’s the full story:
(quote)
Clinton Arrives in Former South Vietnam Capital
November 18, 2000 1:18 pm EST
By Arshad Mohammed
HO CHI MINH CITY, Vietnam (Reuters) - Bill Clinton arrived in Ho Chi Minh
City late Saturday, the first U.S. president since the Vietnam War to visit the
city that fell to the communists after American troops pulled out in the
1970s.
Clinton will spend a night and day in the former South Vietnamese capital,
then known as Saigon.
The last U.S. president to visit was Richard Nixon in July 1969, at the height
of a war in which more than 58,000 Americans and three million Vietnamese
died.
Clinton arrived from Hanoi, where he was warmly received as a champion of
reconciliation who not only opposed and avoided the war, but ended a
punishing trade embargo in 1994, normalized diplomatic ties a year later and
pushed through a bilateral market-opening agreement this year.
The president, his wife Hillary and daughter Chelsea were met at the city's
Tan Son Nhut airport, which was also a U.S. airbase during the war, by
officials and children with bouquets of flowers.
Thousands of people lined the route of Clinton's motorcade as it drove into
the city shortly after midnight. Thousands more, mostly young people on
motorbikes, converged on streets near his city-center hotel. They were in a
festive mood, with many cheering and waving.
"I love Bill Clinton," said one young woman. "Even though he's getting older,
he still looks great!"
Most of the crowd dispersed when they realized they could not get to the
hotel, which was cordoned off by police.
MEETING CATHOLIC ARCHBISHOP
Clinton is due to address business leaders in the city, Vietnam's main
commercial hub, and also plans to call on Roman Catholic Archbishop Phan
Minh Man to discuss restrictions on religious freedoms.
He ends his three-day trip to Vietnam Sunday evening and leaves for
Washington.
Saigon was renamed Ho Chi Minh City when it fell to the victorious
communists in April 1975 and the last U.S. troops and officials were
evacuated by helicopter from America's longest and most divisive war.
During his trip to Vietnam, Clinton has worked to open a new chapter in
U.S.-Vietnam relations and in a keynote speech on Friday in Hanoi
acknowledged the suffering on all sides.
Saturday, Clinton came face-to-face with the war's painful legacy when he
visited a muddy clay field northwest of Hanoi city where workers are
searching for a U.S. pilot shot down in 1967. The visibly moved president
said the pilot's sons, who joined him at the site, deserved "finally to take
their father home."
Then at a silent floodlit ceremony at Hanoi's Noi Bai airport before departing
for Ho Chi Minh City, Clinton attended a formal repatriation of remains
believed to be of three other U.S. servicemen.
Earlier, Clinton met Vietnamese children maimed by some of the millions of
land mines left over from decades of war with the United States and France.
"This is the tragedy of war for which peace provides no answer," Clinton said.
He spoke after shaking hands with one of the maimed, a young boy who
raised the stump of his left arm and his whole right arm to greet the
president.
STRESSES IMPORTANCE OF YOUTH
He has stressed the importance of the younger generation in Vietnam, where
60 percent of people have been born since the war, in building a prosperous
future.
In Ho Chi Minh city, Clinton is to meet young people active in journalism and
non-governmental service, and to visit a computerized container shipping
terminal -- a location chosen to call attention to the trade agreement and the
need for increased economic openness.
Ho Chi Minh City never quite lost its business flair despite attempts to impose
hard-line central planning after 1975, and has led the country economically
since the communist leadership in Hanoi embarked on market-orientated
reforms in 1986.
Pham Khanh Lynh, a 30-year-old former hotel manager who is typical of a
new breed of entrepreneurs in the city, said Clinton's visit should provide a
boost for business.
"It's a good chance for the world to take another look at Vietnam," he said
"We want to show that we welcome everyone in Vietnam and Mr. Clinton is
an example."
Lynh runs the city's Indexx Cafe, which acted as an unofficial stock market
before Vietnam opened its first fledgling securities exchange in July.
(unquote)
[Edited by Dennis on 11-18-2000 at 08:43 PM]
I have a photo for you. Here is the caption for the photo from Reuters:
(quote)
President Clinton accompanied by Dave Evert (L) and Dan Evert (R), sons of
former fighter pilot Captain Lawrence Evert, survey the Joint Task Force-Full
Accounting excavation site in the village of Tien Chau, outside of Hanoi
November 18, 2000.
Clinton visited the site where the team is searching for the remains of Evert,
whose fighter plane crashed while on a bombing mission 17 miles northwest
of Hanoi on November 8, 1967.
(unquote)
Before you go to the photo, steel yourselves.
Please, maintain decorum on TFL.
We do not want to lower ourselves to the level of our President.
We want our children to see this and to understand our fury.
Look at the President's pants suit.
(DC and Rich, thank you for your help in making the photo available for us.)
Once you have seen the picture, if you believe it looks like the "black pajamas" of our former adversary, then I would ask that you spread this photo and its caption far and wide. Use the internet to show what our leadership has become to wear something like that over the muddy hole that serves as a grave for a brave American.
Note what we could expect from someone such as Vice President Gore - who calls President Clinton as a "dear friend" and mentor.
-------
Here’s the full story:
(quote)
Clinton Arrives in Former South Vietnam Capital
November 18, 2000 1:18 pm EST
By Arshad Mohammed
HO CHI MINH CITY, Vietnam (Reuters) - Bill Clinton arrived in Ho Chi Minh
City late Saturday, the first U.S. president since the Vietnam War to visit the
city that fell to the communists after American troops pulled out in the
1970s.
Clinton will spend a night and day in the former South Vietnamese capital,
then known as Saigon.
The last U.S. president to visit was Richard Nixon in July 1969, at the height
of a war in which more than 58,000 Americans and three million Vietnamese
died.
Clinton arrived from Hanoi, where he was warmly received as a champion of
reconciliation who not only opposed and avoided the war, but ended a
punishing trade embargo in 1994, normalized diplomatic ties a year later and
pushed through a bilateral market-opening agreement this year.
The president, his wife Hillary and daughter Chelsea were met at the city's
Tan Son Nhut airport, which was also a U.S. airbase during the war, by
officials and children with bouquets of flowers.
Thousands of people lined the route of Clinton's motorcade as it drove into
the city shortly after midnight. Thousands more, mostly young people on
motorbikes, converged on streets near his city-center hotel. They were in a
festive mood, with many cheering and waving.
"I love Bill Clinton," said one young woman. "Even though he's getting older,
he still looks great!"
Most of the crowd dispersed when they realized they could not get to the
hotel, which was cordoned off by police.
MEETING CATHOLIC ARCHBISHOP
Clinton is due to address business leaders in the city, Vietnam's main
commercial hub, and also plans to call on Roman Catholic Archbishop Phan
Minh Man to discuss restrictions on religious freedoms.
He ends his three-day trip to Vietnam Sunday evening and leaves for
Washington.
Saigon was renamed Ho Chi Minh City when it fell to the victorious
communists in April 1975 and the last U.S. troops and officials were
evacuated by helicopter from America's longest and most divisive war.
During his trip to Vietnam, Clinton has worked to open a new chapter in
U.S.-Vietnam relations and in a keynote speech on Friday in Hanoi
acknowledged the suffering on all sides.
Saturday, Clinton came face-to-face with the war's painful legacy when he
visited a muddy clay field northwest of Hanoi city where workers are
searching for a U.S. pilot shot down in 1967. The visibly moved president
said the pilot's sons, who joined him at the site, deserved "finally to take
their father home."
Then at a silent floodlit ceremony at Hanoi's Noi Bai airport before departing
for Ho Chi Minh City, Clinton attended a formal repatriation of remains
believed to be of three other U.S. servicemen.
Earlier, Clinton met Vietnamese children maimed by some of the millions of
land mines left over from decades of war with the United States and France.
"This is the tragedy of war for which peace provides no answer," Clinton said.
He spoke after shaking hands with one of the maimed, a young boy who
raised the stump of his left arm and his whole right arm to greet the
president.
STRESSES IMPORTANCE OF YOUTH
He has stressed the importance of the younger generation in Vietnam, where
60 percent of people have been born since the war, in building a prosperous
future.
In Ho Chi Minh city, Clinton is to meet young people active in journalism and
non-governmental service, and to visit a computerized container shipping
terminal -- a location chosen to call attention to the trade agreement and the
need for increased economic openness.
Ho Chi Minh City never quite lost its business flair despite attempts to impose
hard-line central planning after 1975, and has led the country economically
since the communist leadership in Hanoi embarked on market-orientated
reforms in 1986.
Pham Khanh Lynh, a 30-year-old former hotel manager who is typical of a
new breed of entrepreneurs in the city, said Clinton's visit should provide a
boost for business.
"It's a good chance for the world to take another look at Vietnam," he said
"We want to show that we welcome everyone in Vietnam and Mr. Clinton is
an example."
Lynh runs the city's Indexx Cafe, which acted as an unofficial stock market
before Vietnam opened its first fledgling securities exchange in July.
(unquote)
[Edited by Dennis on 11-18-2000 at 08:43 PM]
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