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On the reprehensible desecration of Arlington National Cemetery
Today, we leave the hot jungles of the Vietnam of my youth where, in the late 60s and early 70s hundreds of thousands of soldiers from opposing sides tried to kill each other and where more than 50,000 Americans died, making the ultimate sacrifice. We arrive 50 some odd years later in the charming and […]
A Vietnam story, Part Two
On a hot and humid August day in 1970, a MedEvac helicopter landed on a dusty, wind-swept pad on the western edge of Camp Eagle in northern South Vietnam. Camp Eagle was the base camp for the Army’s 101st Airborne Division, of which I was a fully paid up member in good standing. Eagle, about […]
No politics today. Just a story from another time.
Introduction We’re in the beginning of the stretch run for the 2024 presidential election, and, already, I need a break. I’ll bet you do too. With that in mind, regular readers will know I have occasionally posted stories from my long-ago time in Vietnam. A number of you, perhaps having dallied too long with the […]