Looking at the articles MY handsome friend @joeyarnoldvn lived in Vietnam, I had a question.
Why did @joeyarnoldvn go to Vietnam?😳
Vietnam is very hot and humid, and there are many mosquitoes, pests and vipers.
@joeyarnoldvn got a lot of theft especially in Vietnam.
In particular, he was often stolen by Vietnamese whom he believed were friends.😲
I felt he suffered a lot in Vietnam.
He said that he first work dishwasher in Vietnam.
In Vietnam, many people get dysentery by drinking contaminated water.
He, too, would have had dysentery.
I remember the health care and infrastructure in Vietnam is very poor.
Koreans like me remember Vietnam through the Vietnam War.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vietnam_War
The Vietnam War (Vietnamese: Chiến tranh Việt Nam), also known as the Second Indochina War,[59] was a conflict in Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia from 1 November 1955[A 1] to the fall of Saigon on 30 April 1975.[11] It was the second of the Indochina Wars and was officially fought between North Vietnam and South Vietnam. North Vietnam was supported by the Soviet Union, China,[15] and other communist allies; South Vietnam was supported by the United States, South Korea, the Philippines, Australia, Thailand, and other anti-communist allies.[60][61] The war, considered a Cold War-era proxy war by some,[62] lasted 19 years, with direct U.S. involvement ending in 1973, and included the Laotian Civil War and the Cambodian Civil War, which ended with all three countries becoming communist in 1975.
The conflict emerged from the First Indochina War between the French and the communist-led Viet Minh.[63][A 5] After the French quit attempted recolonization of Indochina in 1954, the US assumed financial and military support for the South Vietnamese state. The Việt Cộng, also known as Front national de libération du Sud-Viêt Nam or NLF (the National Liberation Front), a South Vietnamese common front under the direction of North Vietnam, initiated a guerrilla war in the south. North Vietnam had also invaded Laos in the mid-1950s in support of insurgents, establishing the Ho Chi Minh Trail to supply and reinforce the Việt Cộng.[64]:16 U.S. involvement escalated under President John F. Kennedy through the MAAG program, from just under a thousand military advisors in 1959 to 23,000 in 1964.[65][33]:131 By 1963, the North Vietnamese had sent 40,000 soldiers to fight in South Vietnam.[64]:16
In the Gulf of Tonkin incident in early August 1964, a U.S. destroyer was alleged to have clashed with North Vietnamese fast attack craft. In response, the U.S. Congress passed the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution and gave President Lyndon B. Johnson broad authority to increase American military presence in Vietnam. Johnson ordered the deployment of combat units for the first time and increased troop levels to 184,000.[65] The People's Army of Vietnam (PAVN) (also known as the North Vietnamese Army or NVA) engaged in more conventional warfare with U.S. and South Vietnamese forces. Despite little progress, the United States continued a significant build-up of forces. U.S. Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara, one of the principal architects of the war, began expressing doubts of victory by the end of 1966.[33]:287 U.S. and South Vietnam forces relied on air superiority and overwhelming firepower to conduct search and destroy operations, involving ground forces, artillery, and airstrikes. The U.S. also conducted a large-scale strategic bombing campaign against North Vietnam and Laos. North Vietnam was backed by the USSR and the People's Republic of China.[33]:371–4[66]
For Koreans, the Vietnam War is a tragic historical event that they do not want to remember.😔
This is because many people were killed in the Vietnam War from 1954 to 1975.
Millions of Vietnamese, hundreds of thousands of Americans, and tens of thousands of Koreans were killed in the Vietnam War.
I believe the United States should not have entered the Vietnam War!
If the United States had not waged war with Vietnam and had used peaceful diplomatic means, the Vietnam War would have ended sooner.😞
I wonder why @joeyarnoldvn went to Vietnam!
I wonder what kind of charm and emotion @joeyarnoldvn felt in Vietnam.😲