October, 2016 One of the things I had to do when I took Army Basic Training at Fort Dix New Jersey in the late winter of 1965 (just before the big call-up for Vietnam) was learn how to throw a grenade. Like most men my age I had played a lot of “war” when…
Category: Conflict/Military
Presidential lies cost American lives. Vietnam is one example
Written in October, 2017, after first broadcast of Ken Burns’ Vietnam on PBS. Regrettably, I was one of the millions of Americans who believed the “domino” argument from our leaders in the early 60s: If Vietnam went Communist, they told us, then all of southeast Asia would be lost. I supported the war, even…