[Terry L Smith]

I was not home a year yet, after 3 years at U-Tapao Royal Thai Naval Airfield, home of the B-52 base there.

I could not get over how orgasmic on camera Peter Jennings looked. How full of glee and joy that (expletives) bubbled out of the TV. Over 58, 000 of my brethren-in-uniform gave their lives there, and this (expletives) is so happy that ‘the other guy’ is just walking on in, like walking into a pancake house booth that you just left.

Yeah, I remember the day, and forever cursed the newsmedia.

[abb]

I was at U-Tapao, Khorat, and Tahkli on TDY for six months, in late 1972, early ‘73. KC-135 squadron from Barksdale.