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To: JohnM who wrote (27774)	4/29/2002 10:09:02 PM
From: LindyBill	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

I could argue, Bill, about that way of characterizing Vietnam OK, John, we will let it go. I didn't think I would get an argument on this one. I have never read any western report on present day Vietnam that did not describe the present economic, political, and social conditions as bad.

To: JohnM who wrote (27774)	4/30/2002 10:47:07 PM
From: LindyBill	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

We would just eventually agree to disagree I don't think we would disagree as much as you might think. In 1966, I had two Marine Officers come back and say they would refuse to return there again, that the war was a mess. I will never forget a sharp young Marine Officer, a reserve, who lived near me in El Toro in 1967 before he went over there. He was with a Private security company, and felt so strongly about Viet Nam that he volunteered for active service to go over there. He ran over a mine in his jeep and was killed. Rereading "Hack's" book, "About Face", this week brings back a lot of memories. There was no right way in or out of that war. We lost, Vietnam lost, The communists set up another slave state, and the bitterness in this country still goes on.