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		Two men who tried to kill each other 40 years ago in Vietnam meet as friends: "I hope that our friendship sparks other friendships among Vietnamese and American veterans" (minnesota.cbslocal.com)		145
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kbronsito		2012-07-12 01:27:16 PM

Worthy farkin' adversary.

mitchcumstein1		2012-07-12 01:36:11 PM

kbronsito: Worthy farkin' adversary.

fark.

Quasar		2012-07-12 01:39:16 PM

That's not how I remember the plot of Universal Soldier.

TheBeastOfYuccaFlats		2012-07-12 01:54:43 PM

The comments to that article are pretty amusing. Some folks really, really want to make it clear that he's ethnically Chinese.

gopher321		2012-07-12 02:24:57 PM

Now kiss and make up.

MaudlinMutantMollusk		2012-07-12 02:28:09 PM

Next up: a paintball date

stickandmove		2012-07-12 02:33:08 PM

It's over, Johnny

Branch Dravidian		2012-07-12 02:36:14 PM

He finally got over Macho Grande?

MyNameIsMofuga		2012-07-12 02:36:35 PM

Almost looked like the guy was going in for a mouth kiss.

sgnilward		2012-07-12 02:37:48 PM

It's time for the US to come out and say we backed the wrong horse in this struggle. HCM was a freedom fighter in WWII, and after the war we helped France regain its colony, big mistake. A lot of lives could have been saved. We owe them an apology for destroying their country.

othmar		2012-07-12 02:38:49 PM

sho nuff

elgrancerdo		2012-07-12 02:39:21 PM

All of the friends I have from highschool and before have been in fist fights with me. Most times, alcohol was involved, and always for something stupid, so make in up was easy. And i was not the only one saying sorry, we were just as screwed up.

I don't know how making up for the right to mine their precious stones while fighting with gunfire and napalm can be done, but if so I suppose they will be BFFs.

Mr. Potatoass		2012-07-12 02:39:48 PM

Sorry, Charlie?

MCStymie		2012-07-12 02:40:14 PM

It's time to love one another long time.

/Still, quite okay with burying the past whenever possible.

tweek46420		2012-07-12 02:40:40 PM

Branch Dravidian: Macho Grande

you get that ship down... and down safe... and there just might be a few of us who will forget about Macho Grande.

topcon		2012-07-12 02:41:31 PM

That reminds me of my time in the core back in the Wang Chung Delta.

Englebert Slaptyback		2012-07-12 02:42:06 PM

Cherry blew the wing off Hong Me's jet with a missile. Hong Me was able to eject, and the two met in Vietnam four years ago.

I suppose nothing happened between missile and meeting.

Besides, they met in Viet Nam quite a while before that.

And neither refused the meeting.

schattenteufel		2012-07-12 02:42:21 PM

Does not approve.

Al_Ed		2012-07-12 02:43:18 PM

Well, at least this story had a happy ending.

MBooda		2012-07-12 02:44:41 PM

also does not approve
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bdm26		2012-07-12 02:45:35 PM

Shadi		2012-07-12 02:46:52 PM

sgnilward: It's time for the US to come out and say we backed the wrong horse in this struggle. HCM was a freedom fighter in WWII, and after the war we helped France regain its colony, big mistake. A lot of lives could have been saved. We owe them an apology for destroying their country.

France threatened to leave NATO and start talks with the Warsaw Pact if they lost their colonies.

spentmiles		2012-07-12 02:47:01 PM

After what I saw in Nam, I can't even walk into a Chinese Buffet without coldcocking the waitress.

Bit'O'Gristle		2012-07-12 02:47:34 PM

That's actually pretty cool. Just because our governments went full retard doesn't mean that these men can't be met in friendship. Can't really see us hugging any Islamic fundies who have tried to kill us. Nope..probably not going to happen.

filter		2012-07-12 02:48:08 PM

I doubt they would have tried killing each other if they were friends back in the day.

whither_apophis		2012-07-12 02:49:34 PM

Was he Agent Orange?

probesport		2012-07-12 02:50:07 PM

spentmiles: After what I saw in Nam, I can't even walk into a Chinese Buffet without coldcocking the waitress.

That's a standard Chinese Buffet response, Nam experience is just coincidental.

Shafty		2012-07-12 02:51:16 PM

I'm hit, Cookie, I'M HIT! He blew my go***mned wing off!

Torrent of Rubbish		2012-07-12 02:52:21 PM

TheBeastOfYuccaFlats: The comments to that article are pretty amusing. Some folks really, really want to make it clear that he's ethnically Chinese.

"He is a Chinese!"
- ChineseDNAExpert

fappomatic		2012-07-12 02:52:49 PM

Al_Ed: Well, at least this story had a happy ending.

Perhaps, if they'd been in Bangkok.

buckler		2012-07-12 02:54:29 PM

If they'd become friends before all the crap went down, along with their compatriots, a lot could have been avoided.

Posh Naranek		2012-07-12 02:56:34 PM

Publicity stunt, faux friendship.

Al_Ed		2012-07-12 02:57:49 PM

whither_apophis: Was he Agent Orange?

Agent Apple.

Arkcon		2012-07-12 02:57:58 PM

Wants noodles and some hot coffee

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Probably obscure, Farkers demand quality television

probesport		2012-07-12 02:58:39 PM

fappomatic: Al_Ed: Well, at least this story had a happy ending.

Perhaps, if they'd been in Bangkok.

The queens they use would not excite you.

probesport		2012-07-12 02:59:15 PM

Al_Ed: whither_apophis: Was he Agent Orange?

Agent Apple.

No comparison.

thecpt		2012-07-12 02:59:58 PM

From memory, don't scold me...
"sometimes I thought well I like to fish, he likes to hunt. We could have been friends."

Obscure?

One Bad Apple		2012-07-12 03:00:10 PM

Shadi: sgnilward: It's time for the US to come out and say we backed the wrong horse in this struggle. HCM was a freedom fighter in WWII, and after the war we helped France regain its colony, big mistake. A lot of lives could have been saved. We owe them an apology for destroying their country.

France threatened to leave NATO and start talks with the Warsaw Pact if they lost their colonies.

So we help France and they still bailed on NATO. They spent the entire cold war hedging that bet.

Fark 'em. Once a collaborator always a collaborator and I won't feel one bit sorry for France when this guy chainsaws them all in half.

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Harry Freakstorm		2012-07-12 03:00:59 PM

Then a fight broke out over who was supposed to pay for the dinner.

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ssssmashing		2012-07-12 03:01:45 PM

Sorry Charlie! Here, have an ice cold glass of Coke! Just keep an eye out for broken glass ;-)

Kevin72		2012-07-12 03:02:21 PM

FTFA: "And he became very emotional, and teared up, as we were walking by the wall, in Washington D.C., with all those 58,000 American names on it," Cherry said.

I have to yell at the TV when they say "58000 people died in the war". Because 3,000,000 Vietnamese died in the war. Are they not people? That gets me really yelling at the TV. Or radio. Probably loud enough that they can hear me.

Cyclometh		2012-07-12 03:02:51 PM

True warriors bear no personal ill will to their enemy. They are the enemy; you fight them, you defeat them, you respect them, but you do not hate them. Hatred blinds you to the mssion. As a combat veteran myself I can tell you that very few soldiers hate the enemy except in the most abstract sense. The ones that harbored personal hatred were generally the ones you didn't want to be alone with because they were pretty much crazy.

/has some stories.

TheBeastOfYuccaFlats		2012-07-12 03:03:18 PM

elgrancerdo: I don't know how making up for the right to mine their precious stones while fighting with gunfire and napalm can be done, but if so I suppose they will be BFFs.

Neither of them were giving orders, they were just soldiers fighting for their sides.

Just like some soldiers can never forgive "the Japs", "the Krauts" or whatever, many never were emotionally invested in the conflict beyond doing their jobs and protecting their buddies.

There's a lot of that in the WWII era, as well.

ritalinchild 54		2012-07-12 03:03:40 PM

Kevin72: FTFA: "And he became very emotional, and teared up, as we were walking by the wall, in Washington D.C., with all those 58,000 American names on it," Cherry said.

I have to yell at the TV when they say "58000 people died in the war". Because 3,000,000 Vietnamese died in the war. Are they not people? That gets me really yelling at the TV. Or radio. Probably loud enough that they can hear me.

fark you.

TheBeastOfYuccaFlats		2012-07-12 03:04:41 PM

Barricaded Gunman		2012-07-12 03:05:19 PM

spentmiles: After what I saw in Nam, I can't even walk into a Chinese Buffet without coldcocking the waitress.

If you warm it up a little first, it's more fun for everybody.

Chinchillazilla		2012-07-12 03:06:48 PM

Enemy His.

buckler		2012-07-12 03:06:56 PM

Posh Naranek: Publicity stunt, faux friendship.

Are you kidding me? I can think of no more impersonal, yet weirdly intimate relationship than between two faceless men trying to kill each other. Once the civilians decide it's done, wouldn't you want to meet the man who tried to kill you as you tried to kill him?

Posh Naranek		2012-07-12 03:08:51 PM

American asked around, "They don't eat green peas but pretty close. They like these 'mung bean' things. Same thing." So he offered to cook the beans, the Vietnamese could do the rest. Not too much of a risk for his first try at Vietnamese food, it's just their kind of green peas.

And it worked! Fish and rice came together fine, and he'd slowcooked the beans just right. They ate it together, just the two people. Vietnamese congratulates American, trying with his best English, "He mung bot' people!" and smiled.

/Yes
//Going to hell
///Dat's wasist
////etc