I Saw This Horror Movie Before

                The camp that I lived in and worked on in Vietnam for eighteen months was barracks after barracks on dusty roads with an occasional basketball court. On the one side was a village....all the metal houses crammed against one another....and the only way you would know that they had electricity there was if a door might open at night with light emitting....and I saw precious few of those lights. On another side was an open area extending for hundreds of yards. On yet another side was the military airport....and finally was the beginnings of a beach that extended up the coast a few miles where the city sat....very typical of what you may have seen in photos of any city in South Vietnam. The beach was a strip of sand with one small restaurant....screened in as I remember. I would occasionally walk to it and sit and talk to the family that owned it.
                Today I can....and have....viewed the same area....and the same beach....through satellite photography that anyone can access. This resort area would rival any beach on the East Coast of Florida where I have vacationed. You see....the communists butchered their way to victory.....not for any ideological beliefs....but rather that they could make the capitalist money and have the power to insure that they stayed in charge of everything.
                The United Nations estimate is that between 200,000 and 400,000 Vietnamese boat people died trying to escape the conquering communists. I have often in the past wondered what happened to many of the people who I had known over there.....some of whom where friends. I did see one person that I remembered....this just about forty-five years ago....at a restaurant on our coast.....he worked in the kitchen....doing the exact same job he did in Vietnam. We just looked at each other for a few seconds....he maybe somewhat amazed....me both amazed....and thankful that he escaped.
                I had a 'hit' to these posts only an hour or so ago from South Korea. I've wondered how the people there....and in Taiwan....and the NATO countries.....and even in Israel.....view what is happening in Afghanistan? Trump wanted out right now....and only the people around him brought some sanity to the situation. Apparently Biden doesn't have those people around him.