Kent State was about 35-40 miles southeast of Cleveland.
The Vietnam course at school was not anything like your experience, I’m certain. I’ve had a couple of friends confide as to what went on in the real world. It was more of a view of the strategies and the “who done it” kind of thing (thinking Nixon/Kissinger/Ho Chi Minh) with an overview of the situation from the time that the French were there to the US involvement to our departure.
Two friends give me some first-hand knowledge of the battlefield. One was a guy with whom I was drinking and he opened up about it, the other was a Marine on hill 55 that gave me a short book that his CO wrote that described a multitude of situations that occurred during their service in theater.
The first guy spoke only of Tet - he was on a base, basically in charge of keeping the beer cool in their underground makeshift cooler area - until Tet. His description, and I fail to tell it as he did, was that the VC just kept coming and coming and he and the folks on the base just kept shooting and shooting.
The story of Hill 55 was better written out, but it took Mac’s CO some 30 years to finish writing it. I have an autographed copy. It is a synopsis of his diary with situational descriptions written in.
Truly, a more important education that that class at BW, even though I really liked the class. I missed the draft by maybe 3 or 4 years tops.
H.R. McMaster wrote a book critical of the political responses to the war in Vietnam. It was called “Dereliction of Duty”.
He wrote it when he was a Major in the Army, and it nearly derailed his career by sidelining his promotion to BG the first time.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dereliction_of_Duty_(book)
“...Unusual for an active-duty officer, McMaster scolded the U.S. government for its “arrogance, weakness, lying in pursuit of self-interest [and] abdication of responsibility to the American people.”...” (from wiki....)
I wonder when he got derpy?
Yep. And that is the nature of the communists: they keep coming and coming; we (the Republicans, the ??? {me}) just keep retreating and retreating. We lost the media, the colleges, then the high schools, now the grade schools.
We should have made a real stand 50+ years ago. We haven't won a war since WWII, unless you want to count Grenada. Trump beat ISIS... he is paying for it. Now ISIS and al Qaeda will likely come back - Iran also. It is all part of the globalist perverted plans.
War is already on the horizon, one week into Joe's occupancy... so long, Taiwan, we hardly knew ye.