Mr. Ted Anderson (Albany Journal, Nov. 17), a recent country music hit declared, “You should have seen it in color.” We Vietnam veterans did — in cinemascope, wide-screen, bright and bold Technicolor. What you got from that Military Channel program you referenced was only a snapshot of incidences, not the whole story. Your recounting of it insulted the crap out of me and, as far as I am concerned, my fellow Nam vets, both living and dead.
First, as for Lyndon Johnson — and Robert McNamara, too, for that matter — there’s no tears from me if they are fuel for the furnaces of Hades. I offer no defense for them. Okay, Johnson was a politician, but McNamara, ——- **!
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