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I was a senior in high school in the Bronx. And I had no intention of going to Vietnam.
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are, and there weren't many, in 1968, Vietnam was at its height. The Tet Offensive was January 68.
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maintaining a high enough average that you can stay out of Vietnam. But even then,
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to be our way of getting out of Vietnam, the end of some of the racial stuff that was going on.
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You know, uh, we're going to give you the thing unless you want to be a chaplain in Vietnam,
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that was a big deal. And that basically kept me out of Vietnam also, right? So this was like an
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those circumstances? He was a psychological warfare operations officer in Vietnam, right?
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Think of it this way. Think of how Aquino used psychological warfare in Vietnam.
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once before in my life. That was during Vietnam era. Uh, when I was 19, 20 years old, I guess I
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You were in Vietnam in my wrong.
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And as soon as I graduated, everybody got sent to Vietnam except me.
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So everybody went off to Vietnam.
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And as we, in Vietnam, because of the heat, a helicopter can't just lift off and land,
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During the Vietnam War, I was brought TDI, temporary duty to the Pentagon because
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I can understand why they didn't want to go to Vietnam.
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around the Vietnam War were at the highest levels in the Pentagon and Oval Office.
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of the Vietnam War at the end.
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All the enlisted captured in Vietnam were all taken to Tiger Cages in Laos and Cambodia.
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NATO was more important than Vietnam.
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And I think that was maybe one of the primary reasons why the CIA then went into South Vietnam
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and tried to consolidate Vietnam into their version of the single country.
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And it gets a misunderstanding of history or belies rather, you know, with Vietnam, Afghanistan,
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you have certain territories that whether it's China, vis-a-vis, you know, Vietnam,
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