Bong Explains.... by kjer_99
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...to the group of Vietnamese and American officals; "This is where we ambused the American patrol."
Bong should know. She spent the last three years of the war working against the American military in Saigon. Bong was employed first as a member of the large indigenous typing pool of the U.S. Army Headquarters. Later, after she let a colonel "seduce" her, she was assigned as an interpreter. She shacked up with several other high-ranking officers, over the next six months. They got what they wanted from her; and she got what she wanted from them--and promptly passed it on to her North Vietnamese superiors via her contact.
Then her handler got nervous and pulled her out. The next six months, she found herself working as a washerwoman for the American GIs of several smaller up country bases. She scrubbed clothes during the day and spent the nights with various G.I.s, although, her clientele consisted of the lower ranking officers and various well-placed enlisted men. What she learned, her superiors learned. And Americans died.
This continued until her contact got greedy and sold her out. The day she was to be arrested, she got such a bad feeling that she slipped away into the jungle instead of going to work. Her last year and a half of the war was spent being a field advisor to several badly chewed up Viet Cong units; and still more Americans fell, due to her efforts.
Then, Saigon fell, the Americans abruptly left, and the guns fell silent. Bong eventually attended university in Hanoi. One of her professors had contacts in the government and, because of his efforts, the ministry dealing with the American MIAs offered her a job, helping guide the Americans to their missing.
It always bemused her that even during the war, she had like most of the Americans that she met--not all, but most. Still, they were her enemy and she had no regrets that she had worked so hard for their deaths. It was, after all, war.
Credits:
Codename: Bong for V3 by visio; denim jacket and jeans, shirt, and dunk shoes by Billy T; ReikaHair; Longrass by Eric Smit; Nepalenweed, Phyllostachys-B, and Maribelles by varian; Bamboo from XFrog Free Plants; Palm trees by Vue4.
Thanks for looking and any comments,
Regards,
Jeremy
Comments (6)
kjer_99
NOTE: Please do not construe this story as a slur against our military. I do support our troops, but sometimes to do so, one must take issue with our leaders who seem all too willing to send others to do their dirty work. Regardless of how valiant or how many sacrifices our troops made in Vietnam in the line of duty, it was a war that should not have been. When over 45,000 Americans were sacrificed for questionable political agendas, support of our troops means condemning those politicians responsible and to continue saying No! whenever they come up with some new dispicable scheme that will lead to similar abuse of our troops. They are a valuable asset that should be used up only when no other means than war is possible; and they should not be engaged other than in the legitimate defense of our country.
RETIRED
This is a MUST VOTE! I am a 'Nam Era vet ... and support your story philosophy and viewpoint on factual issues without needing to mention specific bureaucratic stupidity in all American wars; including the present oil investment scenarios. I am very proud of our American military - sacrificing lives while being denied effective equipment and free hand to do the job and go home - and do so without public complaint (censorship). If I have offended anyone - too damned bad. Yessir - I understand that your narrative is a story, similarities to reality being pure coincidence. LOL. Dwayne
Django
Now a very captivating story , i would take it for real. The plantlife detail is amazing as are the textures in general , except , for the mountains which could use a more "rocky feel" . Still , one of your best renders.Well done
kjer_99
I originally was for the Vietnam War but switched position about three years into it. What I never could understand was how the American people treated our service men and women on their return. That was unconscionable and dispicable. They did their best under deplorable political and combat conditions with their own leadership both military and civilian lying to them. Iraq is neither Vietnam nor WWII, although there are some aspects of both and plenty that is unique, uncharted ground, but I still see our civilian leadership lying as to the true reasons for being there. I have no one in the Congress from this State that I can even complain to. (They wouldn't even listen, let alone CONSIDER the merits of any argument from such as me.) And still American servicemen and women are sacrificed daily for a big lie!!!!! Sorry to keep ranting about this. Maybe someday I'll do a picture to explain why I changed positions. It had nothing to do with the political arguments of the day, pro or con. It had everything to do with a picture of an elderly Vietnamese peasant woman.
kevinogles
Legitimate defense of our country includes insuring economic well-being...or would you prefer to end up like Mexico, Haiti, or Cuba? War for resources is the most common and most understandable type of warfare. War for high ideals is less defensable in my book. We don't need to be selling our style of government and "freedom" through force of arms. Vietnam was wrong, there was nothing there we needed and over half the country didn't want us there. Iraq is wrong, but we continue to need oil. Why we don't buy from the Russians and Venezualans only and cut out the Middle East I don't know. I suppose there is some reason, but I've never heard it.
kjer_99
My observation of history is that wars that are created solely for the improvement of a country's economic situation are spurious and disengenuous at best. That was precisely Hitler's rationale for envading Poland, Chechosvalkia, and Russia in WWII. It usually is an argument that does not wash over the long haul. Certainly, an economic argument that we need to invade a country for its oil reserves where the reality is that a few rich individuals and corporations get richer and our individual citizen get more poor because the rich of our country gouge them at the gas pumps, cause staggering inflation (it's already on its way!) is an immoral use of our service people.