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Originally Posted by Ace Oliveira
That's what made the North win the war. For some reason the Victor Charlie and PAVN didn't give up. They simply won't give up. We would throw everything at them and they would just fight back or hide. I could never figure out why they didn't give up.
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Because poor people make tough soldiers, especially guerrillas. And in the 1960s, almost nobody in the world was as poor as the Vietnamese peasantry. They can endure conditions that most of our soldiers can't.
Of course, the VC was not quite as good as sometimes thought. One thing that's often overlooked is that they were on the retreat by 1972.