Today, March 29th, 2025 is National Vietnam Veterans Day.

The date was established by the U.S. Congress with passage of the Vietnam War Veterans Recognition Act of 2017 to mark the recognition of the 2.7 million American women and men who served during the Vietnam War from February 1961 to May 1975.

I served in Vietnam with Alpha and Delta Companies of the 2nd Battalion, 501st Infantry (Airborne), 101st Airborne Division as an U.S. Army Lieutenant and field artillery forward observer from December 1967 to December 1968.

For those of us who fought and served honorably during the Vietnam War there is still a struggle going on for the hearts and minds of the American people.

There is a rebranded form of Communism being fed to the American public by our government, the media, on social media, in our public schools, colleges, universities.

From the school house to the White House we are seeing power shifting from we the people to those holding political offices.

Our children are being indoctrinated by “collectivist mentality” teachers in our public schools nationwide.

Since the Vietnam War we are now fighting what I call the Red/Green/Rainbow alliance.

Red being the Communist sympathizers (e.g. BLM and Antifa, Take Down Tesla), Green being the Islamist sympathizers (e.g. CAIR and pro-Hamas entities) and Climate Change fanatics and finally, the Rainbow being the LGBTQE+ sympathizers (e.g. Planned Parenthood and the entire former Biden administration).

They all have the same goal—total control of and keep total control over we the people.

All of our federal agencies have now been weaponized and their primary targets are those who resist them and their mandates, policies and demands.

The Vietnam War continues against those in American politics, on university campuses, in business and serving in think tanks who are self-identified Communist sympathizers. The media has given them many names such as Statists, Socialists and Progressives.

Ayn Rand wrote a short nineteen page paper asking: What is the basic issue facing the world today? Rand, in her paper makes the case that, “The basic issue in the world today is between two principles: Individualism and Collectivism.” Rand defines these two principles as follows:

• Individualism – Each man exists by his own right and for his own sake, not for the sake of the group.
• Collectivism – Each man exists only by the permission of the group and for the sake of the group.

Ayn Rand wrote:

“The uncontested absurdities of today are the accepted slogans of tomorrow. They come to be accepted by degrees, by dint of constant pressure on one side and constant retreat on the other – until one day when they are suddenly declared to be the country’s official ideology.”

Today we are seeing this Red/Green/Rainbow alliance invigorated by the Biden absurdism of Equity, Inclusion and Diversity or DIE.

DIE was Communism writ large.

This video “A Tribute To Vietnam Veterans” narrated by Sam Elliott, released by the Department of Defense, honors and thanks all those who served during the Vietnam War, a most turbulent time in history.

The video is a tribute to the 6.2 million living veterans and the 9 million families of all who served from Nov. 1, 1955 to May 15, 1975.

To my fellow brothers and sisters-in-arms I wish you and your familes a very blessed day. Your sacrifices will never be forgotten.

Airborne All the Way!

©2025 Dr. Richard M. Swier, LTC U.S. Army (Ret.). All rights reserved.