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See my response from yesterday. Glad to see Johnson go- armchair quarterback from a room a million miles away and trying to run a war by not offending anyone is an oxymoron anyway. Great read again today Mark.
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LTC Stephen F. SP5 Mark Kuzinski COL Mikel J. Burroughs SMSgt Lawrence McCarter Maj William W. "Bill" PriceCPL Dave Hoover SSG William Jones Sgt Vance Bonds SGT (Join to see) Cpl (Join to see) SGT Rick Colburn PO1 H Gene Lawrence Maj Robert Thornton PO3 Bob McCord SPC Douglas Bolton CWO3 Dennis M. Lt Col Charlie Brown TSgt Joe C. PO3 Craig Phillips CW5 Jack Cardwell
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MSG Stan Hutchison
LBJ was caught in the middle. He did not want to be consider soft on communism, but he also did not want to be responsible for starting WWIII.
(I am not defending his actions, only trying to put them in perspective.)
(I am not defending his actions, only trying to put them in perspective.)
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It was a disaster for the Viet Cong but somehow not nearly enough of a public relations disaster.
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SP5 Mark Kuzinski
And the media today is much the same as they were back then. Somethings never change.
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SGT Kevin Berman
My father always described it as at that point, it stopped being a civil war (VC dominated), to an invasion by the North.
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SGT Kevin Berman
PO3 Bob McCord - I'd add Mcnamara (sp?) as SecDef as being huge part of the problem.
Dad and Mom are together at Arlington National.
Dad and Mom are together at Arlington National.
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