Today in History - January 31

  A special thanks to Wikipedia.com for following historical information. The sermons I have chosen from Sermonaudio.com

1208 - The Battle of Lena takes place between King Sverker II of Sweden and his rival, Prince Eric, whose victory puts him on the throne as King Eric X of Sweden (Source)

Recommended sermons and podcasts: 

1. Shining the Gospel Light in Sweden, Part 1, by Ken Keltner
2.  Shining the Gospel Light in Sweden, Part 2, by Ken Keltner

Recommended video: I Enjoy Being a Swede, by Stan Boreson

1968 - Vietnam War: Veit Cong guerrillas attack the United States embassy in Saigon, and other attacks, in the early morning, hours, later grouped together as the Tet Offensive (Source)

Recommended reading: An Intense Look Into the Evacuation of South Vietnam - americanthinker.com

Excerpt from this article:

"Honorable Exit by Thurston Clarke delves into the facts behind the evacuation of the South Vietnamese people. Many Democrats have shown their disgust with President Trump over his stance on illegal aliens and refugees. Yet these same Democrats blocked Vietnamese refugees, including orphans, when millions were trying to escape South Vietnam as it fell to the communists."
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Recommended videos:

1. The Truth About the Vietnam War - PragarU
2. What Are We Fightin For? by Country Joe McDonald, Sung at Woodstock, 1969
3. Billy Don't Be a Hero
4. Goodnight Saigon, by Billy Joel

Note: Listener and viewer discretion is advised. These 2 videos do contain some rough language. But it seems appropriate in the light of the 58,000 senseless deaths during the Vietnam war.

John F. Kennedy wanted to pull our troops out of Vietnam. The Deep State said No! The Deep State won, and John F. Kennedy and 58,000 American men lost their lives!

The Vietnam War (conflict, police action, whatever!) can only be understood by examining it in the light of Gary Allen's book None Dare Call it Conspiracy (1971).

Recommended reading: 
Exit Strategy: In 1963, JFK Ordered a Complete Withdrawal from Vietnam - bostonreview.net

Recommended video: The Speech That Got JFK Killed - JFK's Secret Society Speech

Recommended sermons and podcasts: Woodstock and the Hippies: A Biblical Analysis, by Rev. Brian Schwertley [Text: 1 Corinthians 10:7]

Here is what Ann Coulter has to say about the Vietnam War:

• "Vietnam is the Left's favorite war because America lost."
• "Historical accounts of the Vietnam War are incomprehensible because liberals refuse to admit the failure of their national security strategy. The only important lesson from the Vietnam War is this: Democrats lose wars."
• "In the great Democratic tradition of taking the nation to war without a plan to win, only the Democrats could have produced Vietnam."
• "President Lyndon Johnson, who inherited the war when Kennedy was assassinated, viewed the Vietnam War as a method of proving the Democrats could be trusted with foreign policy, which they cannot."
• "Nixon had been elected in part based on his promise to end the war honorably. He would have done so, too, but for Democrats in Congress,"
• "A Republican President either wouldn't have started that war, or would have won it pretty fast."