PinnedLIVING THE DREAM OF A LOSERThoughts taken from the pages of Vietnam UncensoredApr 11, 20247Apr 11, 20247
PinnedABOUT METhe older I get, the less I seem to know. Or is it that I didn’t know much in the first place?Jul 23, 202258Jul 23, 202258
PinnedVIETNAM 1967 — EINSTEIN’S PROFILEProfile #2 of the men who participated in the Special Operations team I commanded from 1967 to 1968. There were seven of us.Sep 9, 202215Sep 9, 202215
PinnedVIETNAM 1967 — A PORTRAIT OF HERCULESA capsule based on my memoir, Vietnam Uncensored, will be published this fall.Aug 25, 20223Aug 25, 20223
58,000 DEAD AND A LIE LASTING 11 YEARSBeneath the swelter of overhead fluorescents and the faint smell of furniture polish and floor wax, I sat in the seminar hall, a room built…11h ago11h ago
UNTIL WE MEET AGAIN IN HEAVEN’S CAFÉBeneath the white heat of an alien sun, with the jungle rising like a green and smothering wall, and the sky above stretched wide and…1d ago1d ago
VIETNAM WASN’T A MISTAKE — IT WAS AN EPIC TRAGEDYThe war endured. Eleven slow, crawling years — years in which the jungle swallowed men and machines alike, until the toll rose past…2d ago2d ago
WE WERE TOLD WAR WOULD CHANGE US. THEY WERE RIGHTAfter a while, we got used to it. The blood, the heat, the crying out. Men broke and died, but we kept moving. We had our orders, our…3d ago3d ago
VIETNAM: NO GLORY, NO VICTORY — ONLY BROTHERS AND BLOODThe war lasted eleven years. We lost over 58,000 men. Another 150,000 came home wounded. And in the end, we left. No parades. No victory…4d ago24d ago2