@bulbusvestibuli: Trịnh Thị Ngọ, who died in Hanoi on 30 September 2016 aged 87, was known as Hanoi Hannah, and was famous for urging American GIs to leave her country during the Vietnam war. “There is no safety for you Americans anywhere in the country,” she warned the US Army listeners to her half-hour radio show on the Voice of #Vietnam (VOV) station, invariably starting her broadcasts by perkily asking: “How are you, GI Joe?” and “Greetings, dirty imperialists!” In between playing the #American pop songs that ensured her the attention of her intended audience, she would then continue by saying, for instance: “#GI, your government has abandoned you. They have ordered you to die. Don’t trust them. They lied to you, GIs, you know you cannot win this war.” The message she sought to send to the invading soldiers was: “You are fighting for an unjust war and will die in vain,” Ngo recalled in her Memoirs. In effect, during the course of the Vietnam war, some 58,000 US troops lost their lives – in vain, as #Hannah had warned them. Trịnh Thị Ngọ joined VOV in 1955, the year after the #communists, led by Ho Chi Minh, had ousted French imperialism from the country and taken power, after years of guerrilla warfare. When US #imperialism invaded she was from the outset of the war, a fervent Vietnamese patriot anxious to do her bit to make a difference to the war effort. “I thought it was time for me to do something to contribute to the revolution,” she said. #hanoihannah #Trinthingo

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