"CREATION"..("YESTERDAY'S THOUGHT")..(178)
This is For All Of Those Guys Out There .....................................That Are Still Living With Their Fear.....................You Were Someone Then.............................................................. And You Still Are Up To This Year.......................
"Vietnam Vet..................... How Much You Will Always Endure"
"For What You Must Carry?................No Way Is There A Cure"
"Your Blood.......................................... Is Not Alone In The Mud"
"In That Same Mud?........................................Australian Blood"
"Thank God That Grenade That Was Thrown Was Just A Dud"
"You Are Always Remembered Though You Think That It's Not True"
"Slowly They Are Coming To Know .......What You've Been Through"
"That Noise .........................................Of A Chopper Blades Sound?"
"You Had To Keep Your Damned Head ............................Way Down"
"And Your Night Time And ....................The Silence And That Sound"
"Then A Huey Dropped Us......... Off And Took Off So Damned Fast"
"And It Was Right Just Then .....When Turned To That Horrific Blast"
"There's Our Pilot.......................................... Engulfed In The Flame"
"We All Fired.......................................... To Put An End To His Name"
"And Since That Day? ........................We've Never Been The Same"
"I've Got Twenty Four Days Left".......... He Said As He Walked Away"
"And Within Thirty Seconds.......................... It Became His Last Day"
"I Was An Hour Into .............................Three Hundred And Sixty Five"
"When I Learned ...............................................What It Is To Be Alive"
"In-Coming Comings!! .......................... Everybody Took Their Dive"
"Remember Those Vietnam Vets................ Who Are Still Here"
"Many Still .......................................Cannot Cry Their First Tear"
"Don't Try..................................................... To Make Them Say"
"What They Don't Want To............................... About Yesterday"
"Thank You For Your Sacrifice"..............................Will Be Okay"
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I think you will observe that the Pentagon, the White House & Congress had NO interest in Victory.
Because all sound doctrine of Victory can be reduced to 3 words...*
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*ANACONDA [ Union battle plan, 1861.
This is a clip of poet and educator Bill Ehrhart from one of those interviews - a very articulate Vietnam veteran who joined the military with...
Interviewed by David Hoffman sometime around 1990.
"Lyndon Johnson Was Told There Was A 1 In 3 Chance"
"That He Could Win The Vietnam War"
"And What Did He Do?"
"He Threw In 200,000 More Young Men Into The Fray"
"Just So He Wouldn't Look Weak"
("Nice Guy")................................