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The bricks story is absolutely true. Many Viet Nam vets around the neighborhood and among my friends have experienced it.

I even sent a brick off to an Aussie who spent their version of the Viet Nam War in Viet nam. He said, as he "broke in" his brick, "This gives me great pleasure to introduce......"

This seems to be a multi-partisan business. There is a uniform opinion held by all the vets regarding that particular Secretary of Defense. I also find considerable agreement that if America ever really wants to apoligize to the Viet Nam vets, the place to start would be a warcrimes trial for McNamara!

MacNamara has actually been invited to speak annually at the Vietnam Memorial on Memorial Day and he has declined EVERY year because he says is out of town or otherwise engaged on "business", despite the three day holiday when everyone else is on vacation (like Kenneth Lay, MacNamara must be in high demand as an "advisor" since he is the astounding life failure that oversaw the Edsel, designed the War Strategy and vastly expanded the horrendous mess called the World Bank that impoverished so many in the Third World). I saw him on TV after he wrote that wretched book (WE were wrong, HE claimed) denying culpability and saving his sympathies for the protestor who committed a fiery suicide outside his office, not one word about the soldiers). For thirty years, MacNamara has kissed every butt in Georgetown and on the Harvard campus in the hope that they'll let him into their cocktail parties; to do it, he has betrayed every soldier killed at his behest in Vietnam and every soldier maimed for life. Robert Novak noted that he's been doing this for years, running around the elite Washington circles, begging for acceptance, saying anything poisonous about the Vietnam war and veterans that the elites want to hear to validate their conduct and in return he gets a few crumbs (MacNamara sat on the Washington Post board of directors for years and was an "honorary" pallbearer at the funeral of that newspaper's Katherine Graham; that's all I need to know about that fishwrap).