Gen Vo Nguyen Giap Dies

[Laurence Strong]

ABC News is reporting that Legendary Vietnam Gen. Vo Nguyen Giap Dies. The story says that Gen Giap, aged 102, "died Friday evening in a military hospital in the capital of Hanoi where he had spent close to four years growing weaker and suffering from long illnesses." The story add, that, "the so-called "red Napoleon" stood out as the leader of a ragtag army of guerrillas who wore sandals made of car tires and lugged their artillery piece by piece over mountains to encircle and crush the French army at Dien Bien Phu in 1954. The unlikely victory, which is still studied at military schools, led not only to Vietnam's independence but hastened the collapse of colonialism across Indochina and beyond ... and that Giap went on to defeat the U.S.-backed South Vietnam government in April 1975, reuniting a country that had been split into communist and noncommunist states. He regularly accepted heavy combat losses to achieve his goals."

Larry

Edited October 4, 2013 by Laurence Strong

[Hugh]

I think most of us who were there had a grudging respect for him.

[Rogi]

Wow, a legendary General, R.I.P.