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Originally Posted by finnbow
Even one of most heroic and influential officers (LTC John Paul Vann) in Vietnam realized it was all a lie. If you haven't read it already, read "A Bright Shining Lie" as well as the first several chapters of "Our Man: Richard Holbrooke and the End of the American Century."
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Reckon if Vann's helicopter hadn't crashed on June 9, 1972, if something might have been different in the last three years of the war. He was only a light colonel, so...smart, courageous and honest probably wouldn't have been enough in the US military of that time...or any time.