"Observer teams report shellings and grenade attacks against villages, temples, bridges, schools and restaurants, and assassinations and kidnappings of rural officials, and abductions of farmers and men of military age. During this period, Captain Charles Laviolette of the 12e Regiment blindé du Canada is killed in a helicopter crash, and Capt Ian Patten and Capt Fletcher Thomson of The Royal Canadian Regiment are abducted by the Viet Cong and held captive for 17 days."
"Canada’s twenty-year involvement on the International Commissions in Vietnam not only forced upon Canada an unwanted role in the unfolding tragedy in Vietnam, but also created conflict for Canadians both domestically and abroad. "
It appears that Canadian involvement, although of a military nature, was primarily a diplomatic one intended on establishing a peaceful non-communist government in Vietnam and that their involvment may have been of the same duration as the US's.
Canada, according to the Canadians, were in Vietnam...
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Date: 4 Feb 2005 21:57 (UTC)Ummm... Canadians were part of the ceasefire...
"Observer teams report shellings and grenade attacks against villages, temples, bridges, schools and restaurants, and assassinations and kidnappings of rural officials, and abductions of farmers and men of military age. During this period, Captain Charles Laviolette of the 12e Regiment blindé du Canada is killed in a helicopter crash, and Capt Ian Patten and Capt Fletcher Thomson of The Royal Canadian Regiment are abducted by the Viet Cong and held captive for 17 days."
http://198.231.69.12/papers/csc29/mds/schreiber.htm
"Canada’s twenty-year involvement on the International Commissions in Vietnam not only forced upon Canada an unwanted role in the unfolding tragedy in Vietnam, but also created conflict for Canadians both domestically and abroad. "
It appears that Canadian involvement, although of a military nature, was primarily a diplomatic one intended on establishing a peaceful non-communist government in Vietnam and that their involvment may have been of the same duration as the US's.
Canada, according to the Canadians, were in Vietnam...
Just not in the way Ann Coulter thought, I guess.