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<blockquote data-quote="BillM" data-source="post: 4345423" data-attributes="member: 45785">&quot;Ever been in Southeast Asia? It makes Florida look like a desert. Wherever you step it squishes. Instead of tractors they use water buffaloes. The bushes are filled with insects and natives who shoot at you. It wasn’t a war—not even a “Police Action.” We were “Military Advisers.” But a Military Adviser who has been dead four days in that heat smells the same way a corpse does in a real war.&quot; Glory Road Robert A. Heinlein 1963A few years later, it became a police action, and by the time I enlisted, in 1973, it was referred to as &quot;The war in Vietnam&quot; but never officially declared by Congress as such. I was young and dumb and stupid enough to volunteer, but lucky enough to not get sent there. Or anywhere else, in theater. McNamara realized we couldn&#039;t win it the way we were doing things, but didn&#039;t have the cojones to so advise the President. There&#039;s another grave I&#039;ll irrigate if I ever get the chance.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="BillM, post: 4345423, member: 45785"] [B]"Ever been in Southeast Asia? It makes Florida look like a desert. Wherever you step it squishes. Instead of tractors they use water buffaloes. The bushes are filled with insects and natives who shoot at you. It wasn’t a war—not even a “Police Action.” We were “Military Advisers.” But a Military Adviser who has been dead four days in that heat smells the same way a corpse does in a real war."[/B] Glory Road Robert A. Heinlein 1963 A few years later, it became a police action, and by the time I enlisted, in 1973, it was referred to as "The war in Vietnam" but never officially declared by Congress as such. I was young and dumb and stupid enough to volunteer, but lucky enough to not get sent there. Or anywhere else, in theater. McNamara realized we couldn't win it the way we were doing things, but didn't have the cojones to so advise the President. There's another grave I'll irrigate if I ever get the chance. [/QUOTE]

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