Soldiers called in north Vietnam

Answer 1

Today's historians refer to the enemy in North Vietnam as "Peoples Army", and "Democratic People's Army...", and other such politically proper names, etc. But during the war, the press & magazines, and TV news, and the men in Vietnam, always called them for what they were: The NORTH VIETNAMESE ARMY. And that term was seldom used! GI's kept it simple; NVA! Over the radio, it was "November Victor Alpha!" When we returned home, and some civilians called the NVA some of those complicated long political proper names such "Democratic People Liberation Army..." or some other such long name...we that had fought the war...HAD NO IDEA WHAT THEY WERE TALKING ABOUT! It is understood, that today's HISTORIANS are trying to be accurate; but they might want to consider what the truth was during the time of the war. Now those long correct names might be true; but they were NOT used back then! For example: the name RED CHINA is in the 1969 US Dictionary. President Nixon, Henry Kissinger, President Johnson, LIFE magazine, and the common US Citizen used the name RED CHINA. Today that name is not politically acceptable. So they call RED CHINA by it's current title. But that is the incorrect name when discussing events during the 1960's. That would be like NOT using the name "Nazi Germany" when discussing World War 2. And saying just "Germany", because the reading public would be offended by using the name "Nazi". It is NOT the job of historians to ALTER history; it's their job to record it!