Kids watching the news: Kabul has fallen Some old grandpa: heavy breathing intense flashback

Replaying at this moment in Kabul

Maybe the last eleven out of Saigon but I really do think we left some behind.

These men were lucky to make it out alive, like the hundreds of thousands of Americans before them. RIP to the more than fifty thousand that didn’t.

Damm. That’s the old corps , when I went in 1987 we still had a few vets from Vietnam .

That had to be freaking scary thinking only 11 against a whole army

That was so smart to do a head count. Saved that guy!

OMG the commander is hanging off the back of the helicopter and he's literally the last American soldier to leave Vietnam...crazy. Could be an unfortunate metaphor for the entire American experience in Vietnam :(

Wow the last eleven sounds like a movie title....sp4 Republic of Vietnam 1971 Saigon

Not shown in this film are the four additional marine helicopters taking gun fire from every one on and around the embassy grounds during this rescue. One door gunner received the navy cross for exceptional bravery.

Thanks God for the fact that these 11 guys were not forgotten at the last moments. My family had the chance to get out of Vietnam during these last days but we didn’t. We finally resettled in the US 15 years later in 1990.

My cousin Greg was one of the last eleven

Highly recommend anyone liking this to read “Last Men Out! Incredible, Superb book.

Semper fi! I was not on land, but on ship waiting to accept evacuees. It was so volatile they named it Operation Frequent Winds! Glad you guys were safe.

Respect. Withdrawals are always harder than invasions...

Reborn asks "Why do you think the boat people came to be? If Vietnam was so great after the war why did million of refugee flee it." -- I reply # Firstly, "If Vietnam was so great after the war" is your saying, not mine. # Second, relating to your question "Why do you think the boat people came to be? .... Vietnam .... after the war why did million of refugee flee it", please see below for an answer and explanation. Unfortunately, they're in Vietnamese for now; hopefully, an English version will come later (I'll try); for now perhaps Google could give a very rough translation into English. ================ English later (maybe; I'll try - Google Translation could give some very rough translation) - Vietnamese for now. Mời mọi người coi chơi. ================ Từ mấy năm nay (2019) mỗi năm có chừng 800 ngàn Đồng bào người Việt ta từ khắp nơi trên Thế giới về thăm Quê hương Việt Nam bây giờ yên bình trọn vẹn đang vững bước tiến lên phồn vinh hạnh phúc. # Mọi người có biết vì sao một thời vượt biên chết sống cực khổ mà ngày nay Đồng bào ta lại tung tăng hớn hở về thăm Quê hương không (có người về ở luôn) ? # Muốn biết tại sao, xin mời xem bên dưới; đặc biệt "Đồng bào ta biết rõ những Sự thật nầy" ================ Xem youtube video “Cô gái gốc Việt tìm mẹ bị cướp biển bắt cóc sau 33 năm”: Chuyện quá đau lòng, nghe muốn khóc; một trong hàng triệu chuyện đau lòng từ đất nước Việt Nam: Chết đói Ất Dậu, Thảm sát Mỹ Lai, Bom B52 trãi thảm giết hết tất tần tật con nít bà già Cô Tư Dì Út, Chất độc Dioxin làm bé sanh ra bị dị tật khủng khiếp suốt đời (tới bây giờ vẫn còn xãy ra), Chìm tàu vượt biên, Bị Cướp biển Thái Lan hiếp giết, v.v., và v.v. # Xin cầu chúc chị Amy Nguyễn (Nguyễn Hoàng Linh Thảo) và anh Phương Nguyễn (Nguyễn Hoàng Tuấn Phương) sẽ tìm lại được mẹ. Xin cầu chúc những người có hoàn cảnh tương tự cũng sẽ tìm lại được người thân. # Và đây là một vài Sự thật: # Mỹ, Pháp đã có nền công nghiệp mấy trăm năm; họ giàu mạnh hơn Việt Nam rất, rất nhiều lần; và họ có ảnh hưởng lớn, ngay cả khống chế, lên rất nhiều nước, như Thái Lan, Singapore, … # Nước Việt Nam sau 30 năm chiến tranh chống Pháp đô hộ, chống Mỹ xâm lược, giành lại được Độc lập Thống nhất, nhưng Đất nước tan hoang, cửa nhà sụp đổ, ruộng vườn xơ xác tiêu điều # Hàng triệu người còn bị thương tật chưa lành cần phải ngày ngày thuốc men chạy chửa, hàng triệu Gia đình tan nát con mất cha vợ mất chồng mẹ mất con, còn đang tìm kiếm xương cốt (chỉ mong tìm được xương cốt thôi, chớ không dám mơ thấy người còn sống trở về) # Hàng triệu cha mẹ già không ai chăm sóc, vợ góa neo đơn phải bươn chải nuôi con, ... # Đất nước sau chiến tranh đã rất nghèo, ruộng vườn nhiều nơi còn sót bom mìn chưa nổ, trình độ công nghiệp lại rất thấp (gần bằng 0) mà Chính quyền Mỹ lại thâm độc trả thù bao vây Việt Nam 4 bề cấm vận Việt Nam toàn diện, định dùng GIẶC ĐÓI giết Dân Việt Nam ta như khi trước Nhật - Pháp cấu kết gây nạn đói giết trên 2 triệu Đồng bào ta chỉ trong vòng có mấy tháng hồi 1945 (để Dân ta hết sức hết người mà theo Việt Minh chống lại chúng) # Chính quyền Mỹ lại xúi giục giúp sức cho bọn Bành trướng Trung Quốc Đặng Tiểu Bình - Mao Trạch Đông tiến đánh nước ta ở phía Bắc với 600 ngàn quân tinh nhuệ nhất của chúng, và cùng nhau (có thêm Thái Lan, Singapore, ... hùa vào) chỉ đạo xúi giục giúp sức cho bọn Diệt chủng Pôn Pốt dốc toàn lực với 300 ngàn quân điên cuồng tiến đánh ta ở phía Nam. # Chưa hết, Chính quyền Mỹ cùng với Thái Lan, Singapore, ... còn nuôi dưỡng, xúi giục hết đám "Phục quốc" nầy, tới bọn "Đông tiến", ... kia, hiệp đồng với bọn Diệt chủng Pôn Pốt và Bành trướng Trung Quốc Đặng Tiểu Bình - Mao Trạch Đông, cố sức "Chuyển lửa về Quê hương" (là cố đốt cháy Quê hương lần nữa) điên cuồng quậy phá Đất nước ta, nhằm gây hổn loạn từ bên trong. # Đó, hoàn cảnh Đất nước ta những năm sau 1975 là như vậy đó. # Hoàn cảnh Đất nước quá khó khăn, đời sống mọi người cực kỳ thiếu đói, quá khổ, quá cực, nên rất nhiều Đồng bào ta đã bỏ nước vượt biên. # Phần lớn Đồng bào ta biết rõ những Sự thật nầy (trừ bọn Tàn dư 3 Que là bọn vẫn còn đang mơ tiếp tục kiếp Chó săn Tay sai cho một Quân Xâm lược nào đó để được nuôi ăn), nên ngày nay Đất nước yên bình, đời sống ổn định phát triển, mỗi năm có chừng 800 ngàn Đồng bào ta về thăm lại Quê hương Việt Nam yên bình đang tiến lên phồn vinh hạnh phúc của mình. ================ Năm nay Đào lại nở / Donald Trump phất cờ: / "Tui theo Việt Cộng nhen. / Nè! Tui cười hết cỡ!" # Ủa? Tàn dư 3 Que sao không thấy mống nào ÍT RA cũng hó hé phản đối, chửi Donald Trump dùm 1 tiếng (khoan tính tới "Sát" (giết) Việt Cộng Donald Trump) ? # Sợ bị cúp Welfare là đói chớ gì ? À thì ra là vậy ! ================ Nếu Bạn lỡ sinh ra là con cháu tên Chó săn Tay sai Nguyễn Văn Thiệu (đầu quân vào Quân đội Liên hiệp Pháp [LÀ CỦA PHÁP] năm 1948, số quân 43/300.661) .... # Nếu Bạn lỡ sinh ra là con cháu tên Chó săn Tay sai Nguyễn Văn Thiệu, dĩ nhiên BẠN KHÔNG CÓ LỖI, vì Bạn đã không có sự chọn lựa. # Đây là điều Đạo lý Việt Nam nhờ Ông Bà đúc kết qua mấy ngàn năm để lại cho con cháu, hoàn toàn trái ngược với “mới sanh ra là đã có tội và phải rữa tội” như bọn đạo Thiên chúa Va-ti-căn ép buộc các con Chiên (là con Cừu, là con thú vật, để cho bọn “Chủ chăn” sai bảo, lấy lông, làm thịt) của chúng phải chấp nhận! # Trời ơi! Mới sanh ra còn đỏ hỏn có làm gì hại ai, có biết gì đâu, mà đã phải mang tội! Mà phải “rữa tội”! # Mà đã mang tội (như chúng vu vạ lên con nít người ta) thì bọn chúng như đám “Chủ chăn” có quyền giết chết không tha! Là chúng tự cho mình quyền giết con nít mới sanh còn đỏ hỏn đấy, vì chúng nói con nít mới sanh cũng có tội! # Và chúng đã làm, rất nhiều lần! Là giết chết con nít mới sanh còn đỏ hỏn đấy! Đúng là bọn Quỷ dữ đội lốt Đạo! # Trở lại chuyện Bạn lỡ sanh ra là con cháu tên Chó săn Tay sai Nguyễn Văn Thiệu. # Chó săn Tay sai Nguyễn Văn Thiệu tội lỗi chất chồng, mà đã lỡ là con cháu nó, Bạn phải làm sao? # Như đã nói, lỡ sanh ra là con cháu tên Chó săn Tay sai Nguyễn Văn Thiệu, BẠN KHÔNG CÓ LỖI, vì Bạn đã không chọn như vậy. # Nhưng Bạn vẫn có thể chuộc phần nào lỗi lầm của ông cha mình, trước hết bằng cách nhận rõ là Nguyễn Văn Thiệu là Chó săn Tay sai đã phục vụ đắc lực cho Quân xâm lược mấy chục năm, tra tấn bắn giết Đồng bào mìmh, đốt nhà tàn phá ruộng vườn Quê hương Đất nước mình! # Xa hơn nữa, Bạn có thể góp tay góp sức bảo vệ, xây dựng Quê hương Việt Nam ngày nay đã sạch bóng Quân thù Xâm lược, đang tận hưởng Thanh bình, đang phát triển tiến lên phồn vinh, hạnh phúc cho tất cả mọi người! Tới nỗi, Tổng thống Mỹ Donald Trump cũng bị vui lây mà tự đi kiếm một lá cờ đỏ lấp lánh sao vàng Việt Nam mà quơ mà phất, mà hồ hở tươi cười (ý nói "Coi nè! Tui theo Việt Cộng rồi nghen!") rồi còn nói cái gì như "Phải vậy thôi!" nữa chứ! # Chú ý: TẤT CẢ MỌI NGƯỜI, là tất cả mọi người sống trên Đất nước Việt Nam, kể cả tất cả những người xưa kia hoặc vì bị bắt buộc (phần lớn), hoặc vì hoàn cảnh, vì lợi ích riêng, hoặc vì bị tuyên truyền một chiều (như do sinh ra lớn lên và chỉ sống trong vùng quân Xâm lược và Tay sai khống trị, kiểm soát, nên chỉ biết và nghe chúng tuyên truyền xuyên tạc, gây áp lực, nói láo nói xạo ngày nầy qua ngày khác) nên đã phục vụ (kể cả đi lính) cho Quân Xâm lược và Chế độ Ngụy Sài Gòn do chúng dựng lên để làm Chó săn Tay sai cho chúng (Thực dân cũ Pháp, Thực dân mới Mỹ [và Quân Phiệt Nhật xen vào mấy năm])

GOD Bless to you guys and to your family, what an experience, a scary road were no one want to go back, well it's already 40 years been left behind, all you have to do is to share this unforgettable moments. 👍👍

God Bless our Precious Marines! All our servicemen but especially Marines!! ❤🇺🇸

Thank God for all of you.

Waiting for the same story from Kabul 2021.

Thanks for telling this story

My great uncle StgMaj Bob Schlager was one of the 11 men last out.

Bobby Frain, may he RIP. Semper Fi my brother! You are all heros!

It would be interesting to interview the first 11 American combat troops into Vietnam back in 1965.

I was in the Army and in West Germany when Saigon fell. I blame this fiasco to all the politicians that didn't lift a finger to support the South Vietnamese!

I want to see their faces, reactions and comments after see the Fall of Kabul and Evacuation of US Embassy in Kabul...

Being the last one must feel scary, weird, and symbolic all at the same time?

It could have been better if the OSS (precedence of CIA) had stood by the side of Viet Minh and Ho Chi Minh in 1946, there would have been no war. We were once allies in the past, now we are friends thank to the effort of both sides.

My ex-husband always said he was on this last helicopter: Larry Copeland. He has PTSD so bad, I don't know whether to believe him or not. Anyone remember him? He looks like the last guy in this shot - on the far right.

Come on Hollywood when are we going to do the movie....🇲🇽🇺🇸🇬🇧🇨🇦🇨🇵

Ay am argentino live in Argentina ay am teacher haig school this history ameizing congratulations herous may respect

Thanks for going and welcome home.

It was very very sad day April 30 1975 can't never forget

I bet troop extraction went smooth in Kabul. Probably the only lesson learned from Nam.

Amazing

All great men.

Who is here after Kabul

fall of Kabul> fall of Saigon

OMG Amazing!

Now,who will be the lucky last marines to leave kabul airport...

....7:58am....

I love how this was recommended to me on 8/31/21. The YT algorithm is something else.

That must be the last to leave the embassy. I knew the last airman to leave the airfield. A buck sergeant by the name of Louis o. Brabham. A combat controller that held the airfield as the last of the troops Departed. He then did his job and got out. He got a silver star for that. God bless him. He passed away in the '04.

Real HEROES

The country was run better then. Now we have 'the last 10-15,000' American civilians in a 20 year war, and they're stuck.

I. Was Air Force Security Police aboard the C-130 that got hit and blocked the taxiway at Thon Sun Nut AB when McMan and Judge were killed!

Viva Vietnam!

you are the real hero sir!!!!

They should make a movie the last 11

True Southern Vietnamese people never forget American heroes fighting for freedom of South Vietnam.

They weren't the last eleven... Many were left behind.... Waiting dor Rambo to free them.

Juan Valdez, the coffee guy!!!!

So basically: If the French need help fighting a war just ignore them

Real heroes!

11 the number of judgement .

Thanks to Gen. Giap fulfilling Ho chi Minh's dream.

thank god they were rescued

The last days of kabul

Juan Valdez, the very, very last marine to leave Vietnam. It has to be Mexican, of course. Mexican-American served in disproportionate rates in Vietnam.

I thought that said American Express ...We're the last Seven Eleven

almost 50 years later they still look like hard ass soldiers ...............

does the cameraman count?

This sounds like a movie.

From 500K troops to only 11. From a retreat during the day to a retreat during the night in Kabul.

Mike Billodeaux

Praise God 🙏😇, God gave Vietname the Victory... Hallelujah Jesus!!!!

If you cannot ... Các bạn không đọc được tiếng Anh chịu khó chờ bản tiếng Việt nhé. # I must say the Vietnamese were extremely humane. # During the last hours before the end of the war at 11:30 30-4-1975 (in fact, always, well before that time), the Vietnamese commandos and militia (Viet Cong) were everywhere in Saigon, for sure even on the US Embassy ground. # What would have happened if a grenade or two were thrown at the crowds at the US Embassy or the American Marines still there? Yet, nothing had happened. # For sure, all around and very close to Saigon, and inside Saigon itself, there were enough of Vietnamese (Viet Cong) guns and missiles that could down a helicopter or two that were evacuating the escapees. # Yet, not a single shot was fired at the low-flying helicopters. # Furthermore, during the many years of the bloody war, WHILE THE AMERICAN MILITARY (and their followers, the South Korean troops, the Australian troops, ...) committed heinous barbarities on the Vietnamese people every hour of the day, every day of the many years that they waged their invading, unjust, immoral, barbaric war on Vietnam (barbarities like the kill-all-burn-all-rape-all massacre in Son My - My Lai in 1968, or the napalm bombing of the "Napalm Girl" Phan Thi Kim Phuc in Trang Bang in 1972, or the indiscriminate B52 carpet bombings killing all, including infants and old women, or the spraying of toxin Dioxin - Agent Orange that is still, right now in March 2019, causing catastrophic destruction of the bodies of many Vietnamese young, and numerous monstrous birth defects to Vietnamese women), THE VIETNAMESE on the other hand had NOT, not once, kidnapped or committed any atrocity on American children or women, or American civilians, many of whom were living in Vietnam at the time (and quite vulnerable). NOT ONCE. # If that does not show Vietnamese's humanity, I don't know what else does. ====================== # In Video on a similar topic, "The Fall Of Saigon (Part 7)" (kzfaq.info/get/bejne/o796rM-d3K6RoGw.html ), at 10:41 the journalist Mr Peter Arnett says "What was this war all about?" # Mr Peter Arnett asked the question, but I think he had also implied the answer; and the answer was similar to that by Australian Prime Minister Mr Gough Whitlam. # Prime Minister of Australia Mr Gough Whitlam was among the few westerners who voiced the OBVIOUS TRUTH (in contrast to many other who knew this truth but chose not to say it, or worse even colluded with the rich and powerful US Government to wage an extremely barbaric invading conquering immoral unjust war on the Vietnamese people in an attempt to impose a new colonialism [after the failure of the French's old colonialism] on Vietnam) # Mr Gough Whitlam said (I saw it on the internet some years ago, but sorry I did not write down any info; it was in one of the interviews he gave; I just remember him saying so) "THE VIETNAMESE SIMPLY WANTED THEIR INDEPENDENCE." # That's why they kept on fighting the almighty US war machine against all odds, with tremendous sacrifice and suffering, and unbelievable hardship and difficulties; that's why they resolutely fought off the expansionist Deng XiaoPing - Mao ZeDong's Chinese invasion combined with the genocidal Khmer Rouge's Pol Pot attacks (supported by the vengeful US Administration) ====================== In video "RR7522A VIETNAM SAIGON THE COMMUNISTS TAKEOVER" on the same topic (kzfaq.info/get/bejne/o9Geh6eanJavdnk.html), at 04:17 the Saigon Regime's soldier says "Everybody is happy!" with another face smiling broadly next to him. # How true, at least for (I'd estimate) 99.9% of the Vietnamese people! ====================== If you don't read Vietnamese, maybe the English interpretation below helps. # Vietnamese saying: Giặc đến nhà, đàn bà cũng đánh! English: Enemy arriving to your home; women too fight! # To better understand Vietnamese women, look up for "Trưng sisters", "Lady Triệu (Triệu Thị Trinh)", “Võ Thị Sáu”, “Nguyễn Thị Minh Khai”, “Lê Thị Hồng Gấm”, “Đặng Thùy Trâm”, “Nguyễn Thị Út (Út Tịch)”, "Tạ Thị Kiều", "Nguyễn Thị Định", "Bùi Thị Xuân", ... # Poem by Tố Hữu: O du kích nhỏ giương cao súng Thằng Mỹ lênh khênh bước cúi đầu Ra thế! To gan hơn béo bụng Anh hùng đâu cứ phải mày râu! # My attempt at English translation: Petite militia girl raising high her gun Towering American guy stoopingly walking, his head bent So! Big liver (courage) better than fatty stomach (big body) Heroes not having to be reserved just for men. # There was a happy ending to the "Petite militia girl and the towering American guy" photo: They (Nguyễn Thị Kim Lai, 17 years old at the time the photo was taken on 20-09-1965, and American ex-pilot William Andrew Robinson, aged 22 then) met up again 30 years later, but this time as FRIENDS when Robinson came to visit Kim Lai at her home in Hà Tĩnh province in Central Vietnam (kzfaq.info/get/bejne/g6p2ltOH1sWsinU.html)

Proud of your rout and of having left behind you the chaos you generated, congratulations, what lesson did you draw from it: Afghanistan, Libya, Syria, Iraq, Somalia, now Ukraine? What lesson did you draw from it vis-à-vis your government?

What are there names

We need Michael Bay iMovie!!!

I'm surprise the helicopter can lift thier balls of steel

Now again! In Afghanistan, history always repeats itself! Until we learn!

Wondering who the lucky bastards will be this time for the Vietnam sequel?

Chased out of Vietnam by a peasant army,the US military went on to defeat the island of Grenada wow

a boss of mine, was on a navy ship three days before last evacuation he was on a detail on the deck. he was adjusting his shirt so he raised his arm to adjust his collar. he didnt hear the navy guy asking for marine volunteers to go to the embassy. he found himself holding a rifle, web gear and barely enough ammo to get you through three round of targets at the range. he had two and a half clips?????oh shyt!!! he was pushed in a sea stallion off they went to the coast. he found himself the only senior NCO on the helo. It got worse, he was the highest ranking NCO on the Embassy grounds he could find. He couldnt find the RTO or the commander. CIA was still burning shit, people were climbing the walls and dropping babies over, bags, suit cases. papers were being rotor washed away. A Huey landed in the court yard at the Embassy. It was full of people....So mike asked him who he was ...the guy replyed...'you dont want to know"! "There is more ammo at the safe house", I need a detail to get it"! The radio sqwack was NVA was 60 klicks north and west of Saigon. That is where he was sent to get the ammo. that is some afternoon....he told me that story in 1978, at his second job! He got promoted to Gunny Sgt the next month. the second day was gun fire at the city limits, later in the after noon shells in the background. the CIA flew until 10 pm no lights all the way across the city.

What a waste it all was

Maybe we should be talking about the Gulf of Tonkin incident...

A shemeful war and there is nothing to be proud of. Same as USSR in Afganistan.

my grandpa was the last one

God bless the algorithm

Didn't Juan Valdez go on to start a coffee company? Just kidding WELCOME HOME TO ALL! Thanks to all now serving, those who have, and those who will in the future. FLY NAVY!!!

I was one of the last eleven to leave my english classroom last month. nothing special but it felt similar

I am the Vietnamese watching this video and not believing in my ears

They are telling how they save their ass being fu***ed up🤣🤣🤣

We left alot of people behind . Pows mainly. They were never released by the north. We should not have left without them. Disgrace.

The Afghanistan is Coming

A war where America really did get its ass kicked !

VC did not shoot them ,because they win.

u guys betrayed south Vietnamese govt n Vietnamese. U guys forced them to sign Paris treaty by telling a lie that in case north Vietnam invaded u would stop them. Then what happened?

Bullshit...There were only five left and the army aircor took them out with two tanks at the fence..lie'ers

So what the hell ? You guys had to pay your heavy price for your sins, that's all ?

What a history would it be if Clinton and Bush were part of the last eleven.

@PBS/American Experience You guys at PBS couldn't place more than 3 minutes of video on here? What gives? Need more donations? Lame... 👎

shame on you usa! its a shame to let the people in the south alone and do NOTHING against the fall of saigon. maybe it was a fail to go to vietnam (maybe, iam not sure) but give a shit of the south after so many years shows how us gouvernments are thinking. still thinking. THATS the bigger shame. iam a friend of vietnam, iam from europe, i traveld eight times through southeastasia and vietnam. because of that sometimes i follow my algorhythm from youtube and look a few videos from the war of vietnam. mostly there are comments like "you are all heros, we are so proud of our veterans"..... and shit like that. the normal us blabla. the truth is that in this war, in the worldwars no one is a hero...... the reality is that the gouvernments are totally wrong and big assholes. the soldiers are silly puppets and not heros. heros are doctors and nurses. soldiers NOT! they go after school to there (and very often they wasnt good a school) and say "i want to fight"....... or like in nazideutschland "i have to fight"! you have to do more use your brain when you say "hero" my dear americans! bullshit. please stop that heroshit. its boring! thank u! people who are fighting at a war are poor victims of a system or stupid because they choose by themselves to serve. they are not heroes. WE WANT YOU! ok uncle sam. BORING! all the time you are so fast PROUD. PROUD to be a soldier. PROUD to serve in vietnam. PROUD to be an american. why? what do you do by YOURSELF for THAT?????? its random to be born in europe or in the united states!!!!! i can be proud of things that i had influenced. not of random. iam proud that my son becomes good at school and will be a good person with a good heart!

im living happy with communism :D

You are not the last. 2,000 young people are still buried somewhere in the jungle of Vietnam, they have not been able to reach. and return to their motherland.Pity.