[Red Badger]

[G Larry]

How’d he get a salted margarita?

[central_va]

No HIV positive. Any questions?

[rlmorel]

I had to read the whole article and give them the click, but it irritated me. I despise them, they describe Hue as a "phyyric victory". But I suppose any exposure that man gets is fine by me.

Remember this picture?

I worked with a woman for many years, and my wife and I went out to dinner with her and her husband...we got talking military, and he said he was a Corpsman in the USMC in Vietnam, and his wife piped in "He was in a famous picture". When she described it, I knew exactly which one it was! (Her husband is the guy with the BCD (Birth Control Device) glasses!)

[DownInFlames]

That photo is from the Cambodia campaign in 72

[Wuli]

Hue was NOT the battle that turned the tide against the U.S. military in Vietnam.

It was the media’s telling of Hue, and sometimes lying sometimes just getting completely wrong just what Hue meant miliarily. Yes, it was the broadest attack hitherto ever seen by North Vietnam, creating a hue battelfield and loads of killed and wounded. But, at the end of the day, in spite of the damages inflicted on Hue during the battle, it was a large military defeat for the North.

Then, through the American Left and their links in the U.S. media, they manufactured victory for North Vietnam from the jaws of its defeat, convincing the American public “they could not win”. It was a lie.

[4yearlurker]

Since we are on the subject of Vietnam pics....back in 1977 I knew a guy nick named Jacko. He served in Vietnam. He showed me a Polaroid pic of himself holding the head of a NVC soldier. He was holding the head in his mouth by biting the ear of the head. No BS a true story.

[stylin19a]

The story of these Marines at Hue and after is largely about trauma, both physical and psychic

Depends on where you sit...The story of the Hue Marines was already being told as Marine Corps history when I was in boot camp '69.

Sempe Fi