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Reference - Recipients of the Purple Heart. Many of us received injuries while in VietNam, (VietNam was two words when I was there, now it is one word), some of us received numerous injuries. We never reported those injuries for a number of reasons. (1) We were to busy surviving to take time out to run to the local hospital to get patched up. (2) We did not want to report non-debilitating injuries because we knew that other had much worse than we did. We were not going to detract from their injuries. (3) Pride. Simple Pride. If I can still walk, defend myself and not be a danger to others I am not going to cry for help.

Second Issue - After the Tet Offensive we had Hanoi on the ropes. Since working in the War Office (I won't give details for obvious reasons) I saw messages that indicated that the north was willing to give up Ho Chi Min if we would just stop the bombing. We did and they gave us (LBJ) excuses about why they couldn't make it to Paris for months after. Then we would start all over again. They contacted us (that I personally know of) at least 3 different times ready to hand over Ho. Each time LBJ would sit back and wait. Every one in the Military knew that what was need was LBJ to say - Bring Ho to Paris or Saigon however you can and when you sign a peace treaty we will THEN and ONLY THEN stop the bombing. Did we? Hell No! LBJ and the other LIBS always took the NVN (North Vietnamese) at their work. Why would the innocent NVN lie to us?

John Galt was there....

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Recipients of the Purple Heart. Many of us received injuries while in VietNam, some of us received numerous injuries. We never reported those injuries for a number of reasons. (1) We were to busy surviving to take time out to run to the local hospital to get patched up. (2) We did not want to report non-debilitating injuries because we knew that other had much worse than we did. We were not going to detract from their injuries. (3) Pride. Simple Pride. If I can still walk, defend myself and not be a danger to others I am not going to cry for help.

Second Issue - After the Tet Offensive we had Hanoi on the ropes. Since working in the War Office (I won't give details for obvious reasons) I saw messages that indicated that the north was willing to give up Ho Chi Min if we would just stop the bombing. We did and they gave us (LBJ) excuses about why they couldn't make it to Paris for months after. Then we would start all over again. They contacted us (that I personally know of) at least 3 different times ready to hand over Ho. Each time LBJ would sit back and wait. Every one in the Military knew that what was need was LBJ to say - Bring Ho to Paris or Saigon however you can and when you sign a peace treaty we will THEN and ONLY THEN stop the bombing. Did we? Hell No! LBJ and the other LIBS always took the NVN (North Vietnamese) at their word. Why would the innocent NVN lie to us?

John Galt was there....