[SAMWolf]

Good Evening PhilDragoo.

Johnson was too busy with his "War on Poverty" and Social programs. He never intended to "win" the war in Vietnam, he just didn't want to "lose" it.

[Iris7]

Personally, SAM, I think you are much too forgiving towards LBJ. To my mind he was an utterly vile creature who should never have been born.

Colonel Moore talking about "layers of discipline" and the need to think, to face the truth of the situation you are in, to be utterly remorseless in dominating the storm of emotion with the thinking part of yourself, is the only way, in my experience, that you have even a ghost of a chance of surviving. Never been to anything like LZ X-ray, never been under that intense a pressure, but nonetheless, I know that I am speaking the truth.