Posted on 05/29/2017 8:58:21 AM PDT by zot
The Vietnam War Memorial in Washington, DC, is inscribed with 58,307 names, including 8 women. 41 were men from my base who died in 1970, 2 in rocket attacks and 39 in air crashes. When I remember them, I remember what else we did in Vietnam, besides fighting, that never got a lot of publicity.
(Excerpt) Read more at bswett.com ...
You, Sir, are just the man to do it.
Semper Fi,
TS
Thank you for your comments. I searched Amazon.com and found very few books about Civic Action in Vietnam — a couple about the Marine Corps, and two about Air Force Civic Action that stop in 1968. I would like to see it done, but to find enough of these stories for a book would take more research than I can do.
Here is one Civic Action Report I preserved on my website:
http://bswett.com/RVN/7AF30%20Apr70.html
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