I should have said, congress HAD stopped funding the south. All those members who had withstood the stop funding amendments, turned on their own stated beliefs and wouldn't support what they created. I remember well the stories about no ammunition, no gas, broken equipment.

We didn't lose a battle but lost the war and left millions to be executed and re-educated. I was on my honeymoon when Saigon fell and watched the desperate evacuation, bawling my eyes out. It was perhaps the first chink in my theretofore assumption that the government was made up of honorable souls.