The fact is that the Vietnamese held Americans after 1973.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
The Vietnamese people deeply love independence, freedom and peace. But in the face of United States aggression they have risen up, united as one man.
In 1975, the Americans suffered a spectacular military defeat at the hands of North Vietnam and the Vietcong, with U.S. helicopters seeking to rescue leading U.S. personnel from the tops of buildings as Vietnamese guerrillas closed in on the centre of Saigon.
The Vietnamese see their history as an unending series of struggles of resistance to aggression, by the Chinese, the Mongols, the Japanese, the French, and now the Americans.
By the end of the summer of 1973 I thought it was virtually impossible for South Vietnam to survive. How in the heck could they?
We moved in to help the Vietnamese defend their country and confront the Viet Cong.
We didn't lose Vietnam. We quit Vietnam.
I do not believe that the men who served in uniform in Vietnam have been given the credit they deserve. It was a difficult war against an unorthodox enemy.
Vietnamese must be made to feel that they are racial inferiors with no right to national identity.
The biggest lesson I learned from Vietnam is not to trust our own government statements. I had no idea until then that you could not rely on them.
In the winter of 1973, the American POWs held captive in Vietnam were released according to the terms of the Paris Peace Accords.