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I picked out a few things that stand out to me, if you don't mind. 1. The ratio of officers who returned versus enlisted POWs is highly suggestive about the situation inside those damned walls. 2. I've known it was a Vietnamese airstrike that hit Phan Thi Kim Phuc, and Nick Ut, seen to the left, quoted that it was an A-37. He seems to know the relevant planes since he talked about people fleeing in F-5 Tigers. Nick Ut on the Left, Phan Thi Kim Phuc on the Right 3. I have heard that more Tet attacks happened, but I've never known the scale of implications. I know, however, that the 196

Perhaps during Linebacker II!? Ahhhh, I remember my time at Burpleson AFB. We were staging attacks on Nacho Grande from there.

In a professional dialog, yes they did. I mentioned it in my initial post, "I also got to see former Johnson and Nixon aids spar over what effects backdoor negotiations had on the war's outcome." Tom Johnson (LBJ) and Alexander Butterfield (Nixon) argued over the effects of backdoor negotiations. Butterfield didn't deny the claim that backdoor negotiating derailed the peace process; instead he said it was important for Saigon to consider that whatever administration took over in 1969 would not be LBJ's, and it was always in their best interest to refuse any peace agreement (choice word here)

I guess I hadn't been clear enough since I was in such a hurry: "He transported her to a field hospital in his car, but the docs took her for dead and refused to treat her. He says he then showed his press pass and told the docs about his picture. The threat of them turning the patient away making the media coerced them to treat her. " I too was surprised about Kissinger being there/alive. He nearly ate dirt on his way to the seat.

Gary, Thank you so very much for sharing this information. You are indeed right about Americans approving of Nixon. He always polled well, despite negative coverage. From reading your post, I get a feeling of a massive, senseless experience with intermittent "progress". Am I off base by making this connection? I would like to know more about why you prefer Westy over Abrams, but I think it would be best if we spoke about this privately. Thanks again, Oscar

edit: Please remember I am trying to share on this experience, not trying to be too opinionated here. I've tried to pear anything political out of it. Please try to be understanding if something snuck through. Lastly, I'm certainly not trying to diminish the actual Vietnam War experience of some of our board members. The end of Wednesday was fascinating. I missed the conference with Dan Rather about new reporting during Vietnam, but I caught Nick Ut's and David Kennerly's talk on war photography. Nick Ut's personal account of taking the picture of the Napalm Girl is a couple of posts above. I

I respect that. Many share your views, thanks for helping this thread to last. I'm merely trying to share my experience. Thank you for understanding.

I've googled it in the past and I recognize the discrepancies. I'm repeating the story the actual photographer gave us today in person.

I have great respect for your point of view. I seem to remember that you were there, but correct me if I'm wrong. I have some input regarding some of the common assumptions about LBJ, but I don't want to rub you the wrong way. If you're interested in what I've learned from studying the guy from a few different sides, then PM me. If not, then I understand. You were there and your reality is much different than anyone in my position.

I'm here. Looks like a live stream is happening right now: http://www.ustream.tv/channel/utaustin Right now it's a session about the photographers: David Hume Kennerly Pulitzer Prize-winning Photographer (and Gerald Ford's White House photographer) Nick Ut Pulitzer Prize-winning Photographer Moderator: Angela Evans Dean, LBJ School of Public Affairs, The University of Texas at Austin David Hume Kennerly gave his opinion during April 1975, advised the president during his decision to let South Vietnam go. Different factions had different ideas, but Kennerly estimated SVN had 3-4 weeks lef

I can't have a hangar full of the world's planes, so I make a personal museum. It also gives me a chance to combine technical skills with artistic interpretation. I don't just build models though, I build rifles (muskets and "assault rifles") and I generally do handy work in my spare time. To me, this is a fulfilling art where I get to transverse difficult situations in a variety of ways. It's mentally stimulating.

Loving them! I especially like your RF-4s. I plan on building one of those. I have the kit with the gold decals, but I really want to do a mid-1980s color scheme.

Congratulations! I love the top picture.... you never know what's going through their minds when they are visually taking in the world for the first time. The modeling can always wait ;)

It's a fantastic opportunity, especially with so many of these key people in old age. I thought about our conversation during all of this :) . I audio recorded the Kissinger lecture, I just need to transfer it to share. I would love to see the Nixon Library. I have visited the LBJ Library several times for different purposes, including some work through the archives. There are some interesting things to be found. Thanks for the interest, I'll share what happens today. That's the event! There's a lot of personal footage coming out lately. I wish there could be a national drive focused

I don't mean to stir controversy, just share about an awesome experience with many key personalities from the Vietnam War. Today I attended a special event in which I got to see several key players in the war, from the grunts to members of the presidents' cabinets. For about an hour, Henry Kissinger talked about his work trying to get peace talks started from the LBJ administration. He described his transition into the Nixon Administration and ended with lessons learned before taking audience questions. I learned he takes issue with calling the B-52 use in Cambodia "carpet bombing", of the fr

Sorry in advance :D

Brrt makes an appearance in this punk song I Was a Pre-Teen Mccarthyist by Propagandhi At Harold Edward's Elementary you pay respect to Our God, Our Flag, Our Military. In grade 3 I had a written composition about the global threat of communism. And I was the luckiest 8-year old McCarthyist of 1979: I spent spring break on the flight line of a base in the Carolinas- the U.S. version of my dad had signed us in. And 12 years later, the Gatling I'd touched that was strapped to the nose of a U.S. A-10, separated flesh from bone and honed its skills on "lesser humans".

Nice! I've seen the real one before on the Yuma flight line. I think the one I saw had blue side lettering.

Yep. Some of ya'll need to add me on steam. Peanut Butter&Pork

Great job. If you need to, I could see about making a stencil for you so you could retouch the PAF logo on the tail. I just need the graphic and the dimensions and I have a cutting machine I could use to cut the stencil on Tamiya yellow tape sheet. You would need to match the colors though.

It's all just mind games. The Russians don't want us to shoot at them any more than we want to pay for another Marshall Plan.

Line the port side and pis$ on them ruskies from the higher decks. Looks like an act of war but it also could have been a very stupid ruskie captain not realizing the wake of the bigger ship would push him out and suck him in. Or maybe they were trying to provoke a response so they could claim we struck first. USN helicopters should have taken loud speakers and hovered 30 feet away from that ruskie junk pile on each side blasting "DEEP IN THE HEART OF TEXAS" for a few days straight. They should have basically just hung around blasting the same things you would hear at a filibuster non stop...

Right. I feel the website uses "used car salesman" language. "In Stock Soon" has no credibility because soon implies within a defined time period in the foreseeable future, but the reality is that this has completely lost its meaning and we no longer see that message to mean a product will ever be restocked.

could you try copy/pasting it into MS paint? then you could upload it to picture hosting.

Ken the difference is that the Marines are forbidden from doing that ever again, whereas the Soviets/Russians have had mishaps during 'buzzing' and they still keep doing it.