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Originally Posted by eva05
The narration isn't what I would call stellar.
I found his frequent political/religious rants derailed the narrative off course in the oddest places. More often than not, his comments seemed to be in there because he had a forum to grief.
I feel for the families of the men that died. Clearly it was a terrible day and those guys went out there to fight without reservation. The entire "story"(is non-fiction a story?) and events were gripping but the agenda he inserted into the book seemed to have little to do with the events in question. It made me wonder was this stuff really going through his head when he was fighting for his life? Didn't he have other things to worry about?
Perhaps, if you are on board with his thinking it may not be as annoying to you but it seemed like the wrong forum to me.
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I have not read the book, but Nancy (my wife) is after me to write a book re my time in VN...You can bet if I do, that I will lambaste a bunch of political hacks who prevented US from taking the war to the enemy. There were a great many targets begging to be hit, instead our air-crews were required to overfly Migs on the ground, in order to get to other less productive targets! "THUD RIDGE" is a good book on the topic.
Thank you, robert strange mcnamara. There were a great many hurdles we had to jump just to engage the enemy...Thank God I did not have gun cameras on my aircraft!