Rory Kennedy made one last promise to the hundreds of Vietnamese crowding the US Embassy grounds on the last day of the evacuation, perhaps the last American promise offered to the men and women who cast their lot with rich and well-armed foreigners. “No one will be left behind,” he told them. One of the Vietnamese present recalled his words: “When you are in the American embassy, you are [on] American soil. I promise that I and my soldiers will be the last to leave the embassy." With 420 Vietnamese still waiting but with orders from Washington, Herrington assures them that a large helicopter is coming for them and then excuses himself to go "piss". Fleeing into the shadows, he sneaks into the embassy building and onto a helicopter, abandoning those to whom he had just given his word. Overall, every year since 1975, the Vietnamese have been killed or wounded and are very disappointed. The war causes chaos and is a bad omen for Vietnam. This never-ending horror could be remedied if enough Americans cared about saving Vietnamese lives, as the stars of this documentary claim. After all, what kind of people plant hundreds of thousands of tons of explosives in a foreign land and then allow subsequent generations to lose their eyes, limbs and lives? Just a “violent and ruthless”
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