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12-05-13, 10:02 AM
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Chief of the Boat
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Vietnam 50 years on
How photographs told the story of the Vietnam War
WARNING: THIS GALLERY CONTAINS PICTURES THAT SOME MIGHT FIND DISTURBING http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-24992606
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12-05-13, 12:35 PM
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Lucky Jack
 
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Quite a pictorial. Only one word was coming to mind as I viewed. Insanity.
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12-05-13, 01:43 PM
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Blame the French.
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12-05-13, 02:52 PM
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The best pictures I've seen from that insanity were taken by a Navy sailor... My sister-in-law's brother Dennis ran swift boats on the Mekong. He had three boats shot out from under him, two of them, he was the sole survivor because he was driving. Crazy bastard volunteered for three tours in that hell hole. I'm happy to this day that my lottery number never stood a chance of coming up. By the time I turned 18 and graduated high school in '72, they had already started pulling the troops out.
I went to a party at Dennis' house the summer of '72 and some fool asked him where he bought his medals. He was kicked out of the party when he came to.   One of his slides showed a gunboat moored at a makeshift dock on the river. The boat had a big red circle painted on the exterior of the cabin. He snapped another shot of the same boat a week later and the big red circle had a big black hole in the middle of it from a rocket. There were two bunks hanging on the inside of that wall with a sailor sleeping in the top rack. The rocket exploded right in the middle of the void between those racks. The sleeping sailor was deaf for awhile but otherwise unscathed.
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When I was a lot younger, I had the honour of meeting Keith Payne. I can't begin to imagine what it must've been like to serve in Vietnam.
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