Friendship forged in war endures between American and Vietnamese vet l ABCNL

ABC News’ Martha Raddatz spoke with two veterans, one American and one South Vietnamese, who fought together in the Vietnam war, and have remained friends for a half century.

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[manhnguyen]

Wow, by accident I saw this video clip, hats off to two veterans . Such emotions, my father was in the military of VNCH sout vietnam. He passed away two years ago. Such heroism and bravery from the two men, can't say

[phill]

Jocko podcast 342 goes into details on how extreme this conflict was and how these two warriors stood there ground agents 2 battalion of VC insane.

[th-music]

Brother in arms forever! That is the way!

[Dinerokid-rhtu]

All my grandfather's and my uncles served in the Vietnam War. And the Vietnam War was one of the most horrific wars imaginable. You still have Vietnam veterans that still have PTSD and nightmares still to this day.

[TheOgrande]

Battle Buddies for life. Such amazing story. I served too in US Army.

[dl]

Amazing story. To major John Duffy: Thank you for fighting freedom for my fatherland. As a younger generation, your heroism has touched my heart. May God bless you and uncle Mễ.

[ranjanbiswas]

This is just so beautiful. I see not a single bit of animosity between them. Both looks like they were born friends.

[deadmanx]

The South Vietnamese remember the dead commander/Airborne enlisted in the song “Người Ở Lại Charlie” (Those who stayed behind at Charlie)

[brentondudley]

Col Reeder and Jocko podcast brought me here.

[jamalbaguan]

Thats is Buddy. We fight together we live together we die we survive together buddies!!!

[kevincai]

Clarification:

Lt. Col Lê Văn Mế is a brave soldier and an outstanding Vietnamese military officer.

But I disagree with the statement that he twice received the Republic of Vietnam equivalent of the US Medal of Honor!
Please check with Wikipedia: the US Medal of Honor is the “single” highest award, and the highest Republic of Vietnam medal is the National Order (Bảo Quốc Huân Chương) but it has 5 levels. The highest award is 1st Level, and the only one ever received that is the General of the Army Lê Văn Ty (the only 5 star general in South Vietnam Arm Force)
Lt. Col Lê Văn Mễ received the National Order award twice means he received 5th and 4th Level of that award.
While I have high respect of Lt. Col Mễ, I think the aforementioned statement is wrong.
- one should not proclaim his award is highest, while it is actually it is 4th highest
- honor should not touted, honor should be worn and be recognized by others
While I respect him, and recognize his dedication, the truth must be spoken.
Respectfully

[tedmccarron]

I absolutely love the story and I am so glad that is friend was able to escape Vietnam before the Communist takeover.

[noreallycaresabout]

Nice to see more mainstream media acknowledgement of South Vietnamese veterans.
Often popular Vietnam War history depicts the war as us against "the Vietnamese" ignoring our antiCommunist South Vietnamese allies.

Did Hanoi Jane and her ilk opposing aid to South Vietnam say anything when our South Vietnamese allies were put into "re-education camps"?

[angelofjustice]

read the book, Slices of Life behind Bars of Pham Thanh Nghien. To understand the brutal treatment of Vietnamese communist against the freedom activists

[swastikausa]

gee and he only had to wait 50 years for his sacrifice to be recognized. at least now he can ride buses and trains for free plus im pretty sure the cmh can get you out of speeding tickets.

[an.american]

Let's not forget that the Democrats were leading this war from Washington.

[ejacob]

A failure of a war that caused the life of innocent souls. I have zero respect for those who fight for the wrong reasons.

[naburtdanndo]

It would be wise to appologize for killing so many innocent lives for the simple pleasure of a few persons ! So many children, women and men ! You were doing your Job ? I don’t think you can say that to the man in the mirror !