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Book Recommendation (for those who still read them): The Greatest Beer Run Ever
Your local book store | May 2, 2017 | John "Chickie" Donohue

Posted on 01/23/2021 2:09:44 PM PST by Renkluaf

In 1967, John (Chick) Donohue was a 26-year-old U.S. Marine Corps veteran working as a merchant seaman when he was challenged one night in a New York City bar. The men gathered at this hearth had lost family and friends in the ongoing war in Vietnam. Now, they were seeing protesters turn on the troops. One neighborhood patriot proposed an idea many might deem preposterous: One of them should sneak into Vietnam, track down their buddies in combat, and give each of them messages of support from back home, maybe some laughs - and beer.

Chick volunteered for the mission. He sailed to Vietnam on a cargo ship carrying a backpack full of American beer, landing in Qui Nho'n in 1968. Things went awry when Chick got caught in the Tet Offensive, starting in the early hours as an eyewitness to the battle to retake the U.S. Embassy in Saigon, where he became stuck for months.

Chick Donohue later became legendary as "the sandhog who went to Harvard." He worked for decades on behalf of New York's tunnel builders as the legislative and political director of Sandhogs Local 147.

This is the story of his epic beer run to Vietnam, in his own words and in those of the men he found in the war zone.


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Great read. Epitome of the crazies of the 60s.
1 posted on 01/23/2021 2:09:44 PM PST by Renkluaf
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To: Renkluaf

Song recommendation: Beer Run

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m1vRvW3QUys&pbjreload=101


2 posted on 01/23/2021 2:12:00 PM PST by cdcdawg (Tailgunner Joe did nothing wrong. Until conservatives accept why he was demonized, we will not win. )
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To: cdcdawg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=56tjlZ-8j_Y&list=RD56tjlZ-8j_Y&start_radio=1&t=15


3 posted on 01/23/2021 2:19:54 PM PST by mylife (The Roar Of The Masses Could Be Farts)
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To: mylife

Bttt


4 posted on 01/23/2021 2:22:51 PM PST by ConservativeMan55 (In America, we don't do pin pricks. But sometimes we elect them.)
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To: cdcdawg

B-double-E-double-R-U-N, beer run
B-double-E-double-R-U-N, beer run
All we need is a ten and five-er,
A car and key and a sober driver,
B-double-E-double-R-U-N, beer run


5 posted on 01/23/2021 2:43:57 PM PST by Yo-Yo (is the /sarc tag really necessary?)
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To: cdcdawg

B double E double R U N Beer Run
B double E double R U N Beer Run
All we need is a ten and fiver
A car and key and a sober driver
B double, E double R U N beer run!!!!


6 posted on 01/23/2021 3:04:23 PM PST by buffyt (Amo il caos. Ho un sacco di maledizioni e incantesimi che non ho usato.)
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To: cdcdawg

Too bad Snider is such a wretched leftist


7 posted on 01/23/2021 3:15:58 PM PST by ifinnegan (Democrats kill babies and harvest their organs to sell)
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To: Renkluaf

I’m in vol 2 of a three-volume set on the War in the Pacific, called “The Conquering Tide” by Ian Toll. His first volume, up to June 1942/Midway, was excellent. Thorough, he pays attention to all aspects of war-—developments in the US/Washington, the personalities of Nimitz, Yamamoto, King, and has obviously traversed the geography of the Solomons at length.

Strongly recommended.


8 posted on 01/23/2021 3:20:00 PM PST by LS ("Castles made of sand, fall in the sea . . . eventually" (Hendrix) )
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To: LS

Thanks


9 posted on 01/23/2021 3:29:59 PM PST by Renkluaf
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To: ifinnegan

Yep, most performers are. That’s actually his only song that I really like (that I have heard). I always thought that should have been a Tim Wilson song.


10 posted on 01/23/2021 4:21:49 PM PST by cdcdawg (Tailgunner Joe did nothing wrong. Until conservatives accept why he was demonized, we will not win. )
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