[cav68]

I was setting on a small LZ called Jeannie up North out from Camp Evans and heard that the bombing had been halted and was in shock for days. All the activity in the area began to increase as he he sat in DC saying how the war would see a turn for the better . Wish I could go back in time and grasp him around the seat of his pants and take him where I was and let him see what a curse he put upon the military of this great country. Damn him, God has a way with his kind of person.

[gaspar]

Even to this day I am amazed when I recall Washington's ignorance of Vietnamese history. Lyndon Johnson was scared to death that our bombing of northern Viet Nam would bring the Chinese into the war. That mantra was repeated by numerous stooges who inhabited the Pentagon,the State Department, the CIA and the Viet Nam training centers. American public was led by the nose and did not know any better because they did not understand that the history of Viet Nam was punctuated by wars with China, and the hatred for the Chinese who had most recently caused rampant starvation in the North following World War II, was widespread. There was damned little Communist brotherhood between the parties in Viet Nam and the PRC, and yet the Johnson Government persistently feared a bogeyman that did not exist.