US citizens alive during Vietnam: please help

I'm willing to help. Graduated college in 1966. Was not drafted.

canonloader wrote in post #5284586
They did? What other country in that area, or any other at that time, for that matter, became a pinko commie state?

Cambodia became communist in April 1975 when the Khmer Rouge (Red Khmer) took over the country..Remember Pol Pot and the Killing Fields?? Vietnam was actually responsible for the overthrow of the Khmer Rouge because the Khmer Rouge was ethnically cleansing ethnic Vietnamese in Southern Cambodia..Oddly enough the US of A armed and gave assistance to the Khmer Rouge during their fight with the Vietnamese..Cambodia reverted back to a Constitutional Monarchy I think in 1993..

Laos became communist when the Pathet Lao took over in December 1975,,today Laos is still a one party communist country..

Both countries border on Vietnam..

Jurgen
Laos

From what I am reading, Laos is hardly what you could call a traditional communist state. Your there, what does it look like to you?

canonloader wrote in post #5332636
From what I am reading, Laos is hardly what you could call a traditional communist state. Your there, what does it look like to you?

Mitch,,,Laos is a one party communist state..Like all communist countries today there is a free market within a regime..Laos was closed off to the West before 1994..

One has to remember Laos is one of the 10 poorest countries on this planet , the poorest country in Asia for many reasons which I won't go into in a non-political forum..Luckily through foreign investment and an emerging tourism market it is very slowly pulling out of the quagmire of poverty..

Here in Vientiane I have seen wealth that will blow your mind but step into the provinces you are in another world..85% of the population are subsistant farmers with an annual income of less than 400USD..Laos' culture is very similar to the Thai but politically Vietnam..

As a Falang it is a great country to live and work..Wonderfully interesting culture and the friendliest, laidback people I have met in Asia..Just don't discuss politics with them,,they will clam up..

Adam,
I saw your link on Mitch's footer and figured I'd pass this along.
Al Fasoldt: The Lost Photos of Vietnam
Exhibition + Artist Talk
Light Work will feature an exhibition titled The Lost Photos of Vietnam, featuring the photographs of Al Fasoldt. During the Vietnam War, Fasoldt was a photographer for Stars & Stripes. When he left Vietnam to come home, he brought a few 8x10" prints and contact sheets of his work back to the US. Since then, the Pentagon has ordered all negatives of Stars & Stripes be destroyed. Over the past few years, Fasoldt has been working to salvage the prints and contact sheets he brought home years ago, using them to make prints of his Vietnam War images for exhibition. The exhibition is on view at the Community Darkrooms Gallery of the Robert B. Menschel Media Center through October 23, 2007. Al Fasoldt will give an artist talk on TH3 night on Thursday, October 18, at 6:30pm.
Al is currently a tech writer for the Syracuse newspaper.
http://www.technofileo​nline.com/about.html

Thanks everyone for your help. Those of you that said you would fill out questionnaires can I please get them back asap (within the next few days at the latest) as I have to have a cut off point or I won't be able to move on.

Thanks again