Who was the retired general interviewed on Morning Joe 4/30/25 discussing Vietnam War? [View all]

I hadn't had my first full cup of coffee when I saw this guy talking about the Vietnam War history on MJ yesterday. He went on and on about how brave the Vietnamese who fought with the Americans during that conflict were.

As an old non-hippie Vietnam War resister, I was surprised to hear this revisionism which nobody seemed to push back on, and tell the other side of the Vietnam War conflagration and why we were there in the first place, supporting the French colonialists who wanted to hang on to what was left of their empire.

In, 1964 was a young mom who didn't want to see my 3 year old son drafted into a war that should never have been fought in the first place and was not in America's best interests to pursue any further. We were on the losing side of history. I was in my early 20s and not at all used to the idea that our country could be WRONG about our foreign policy situation. However, I had recently heard a different story from a new neighbor of mine: an Australian family with a strongly different view of the Vietnam situation.Through them, I became involved in an organization called Clergy and Laity Concerned about Vietnam. The head of it was a young firebrand named William Sloane Coffin, chaplain of Yale University.

This was the beginning of my advocacy as I somberly thought of our country's situation with our challenge, once again, to our democracy.