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How a Vietnamese helicopter pilot saved his family

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Re: How a Vietnamese helicopter pilot saved his family

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Post by junto »

p3lim wrote: post #2

It's a nice story and everything, but this is Hacker News, not CNN/FOX/BBC/ .

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

On-Topic: Anything that good hackers would find interesting. That includes more than hacking and startups. If you had to reduce it to a sentence, the answer might be: anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity.

I think this qualifies.

Re: How a Vietnamese helicopter pilot saved his family

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Post by davidw »

junto wrote: post #6
p3lim wrote: post #2

It's a nice story and everything, but this is Hacker News, not CNN/FOX/BBC/ .

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html On-Topic: Anything that good hackers would find interesting. That includes more than hacking and startups. If you had to reduce it to a sentence, the answer might be: anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity. I think this qualifies.

Did you find it 'intellectually gratifying'?

I thought it was a beautiful, powerful and very moving story, but I didn't really learn anything new.

Re: How a Vietnamese helicopter pilot saved his family

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Post by EricSu »

junto wrote: post #6
p3lim wrote: post #2

It's a nice story and everything, but this is Hacker News, not CNN/FOX/BBC/ .

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html On-Topic: Anything that good hackers would find interesting. That includes more than hacking and startups. If you had to reduce it to a sentence, the answer might be: anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity. I think this qualifies.

I would call this a good story, but not so much intellectually gratifying. Maybe if they talked more about the nitty gritty details of piloting a Chinook helicopter..

Re: How a Vietnamese helicopter pilot saved his family

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Post by frozenport »

I asked a Vietnamese friend whose grandparents had been interned in one of the mentioned camps why the South had lost the war. He explained that the soldiers from South Vietnam had shown a suprising level of cowardice and nepotism.

There is perhaps another story, that of a soldier fleeing with expensive military equipment in the moddle of a battle, I bet he is laughing at his collegues who died fighting for their country. In this way it is a microcosm for everything wrong with South Vietnam.

Re: How a Vietnamese helicopter pilot saved his family

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Post by digitalzombie »

There are probably hundreds crazy stories like that.

My mom and father had to run during the fall. Grandfather was part of the South Army and got killed by friendly fire from the American. Family burned all the medal from my grand father to hide his involvement from the war. Then my father family gave my parent golds before they ran away. I think they went to Laos then Thailand. Between Vietnam to Lao, the Vietcong caught my father in some field, a gun to his head. Suddenly they hear other people running so they left him to chase the other people.

We ended up in Laos and then they decided to grab a boat to Thailand. They missed the first boat cause they slept late. Later they found out the boat they missed was pirated and all of the people on the boat died. Anyway second boat got to thailand. Somewhere in there I was born in Cambodia and they decided to tell me when I was a teenager...

Dad decided to spend the money to build a farm there. It didn't work out so they move to Philippine or something before America. It's a bit vague but there other weird stuff in that story too. I don't recall how he became some priest, he's not one now btw.

I had a buddy that was the head of the dorm. We ended up having a crazy story time try to out do each other. Some viet girl basically told us her father was a Viet Cong spy, he spied on the US. >___>

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