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AMERICA’S VIETNAM WAR SAGA: FROM KING KONG TO SKULKING DOG
The Vietnam battlefield contained both the best and the worst America had to offer. It was where courage and death met in a grim embrace. To the soldier, to the Marine, every kill was a casualty. There were no victims, not really — not when you were out there. Fairness meant nothing. The only unfair fight was the one you lost. Death wasn’t for your brothers, your unit.
The daily task was simple: bring as much death to the enemy as you could. But it didn’t always go according to plan. Sometimes, we were the prey. We’d walk into an ambush, or a larger enemy force would find us.
In Vietnam, everything tried to kill you — even doing nothing. The land itself seemed to thirst for our blood. The artillery meant to help us often felt more like an enemy. The air support? Erratic and rarely on time.
Every unit fought alone. We depended on our commanders to find a way to win, but the enemy didn’t care about our plans. They fought for their land, their freedom. We were just another aggressor in their long history of war.
The war went on for eleven years. When it ended, 58,000 of my brothers were dead. Another 150,000 wounded. The tragedy of Vietnam, as the world called it, simply fizzled to a close.
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