Like many issues regarding the Vietnam Era (1964-1975) misconceptions persist. Some are actually perpetuated to promote an antiwar agenda or ideology. Others represent just plain myths – Hyperbole to support a viewpoint. A case in point, the draftee issue became a major factor in LBJ’s failure to run for reelection in 1968 and contributed to […]
Archives for June 2018
Vietnam Recollections
A good friend who flew close combat missions in A-4’s out of Chu Lai in 1967 and 1968 recently sent me a copy of a fellow Marine’s recollections of Vietnam which I wanted to pass along to you with my recall of that experience. His descriptions offer a capsule summary of an aspect of the […]
Vietnam Amnesia
VIETNAM AMNESIA 2018 marks the 50th anniversary of the Vietnam War’s turning point – A conflict that few recall firsthand. Half of our population was not even born during that fourteen year war starting in 1961 with JFK’s introduction of American military advisors to prevent the spread of monolithic communism in Southeast Asia. The “Domino […]
The Vietnam War- The Drug Myth
Let me try to summarize the facts and separate the myths for you. You think we have “fake news” now? The so called “statistics” from that period range all over the place. Many propagated to fit an agenda – The war on drugs, prop up the anti-war crowd, and convince the naive that our warriors […]