Jane Fonda 50 years on.

[Ike Bana]

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."

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.