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The foreign vote

Posted on July 26, 2008 | Comments Off on The foreign vote

Baby Barry, apparently, has the German vote. Mac has–believe it or not–at least some of the North Vietnamese vote:

"If I were an American, I’d vote for McCain."

Via PajamasMedia.

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Operation Smile

Posted on June 22, 2008 | Comments Off on Operation Smile

Cindy McCain and daughter Meghan recently traveled to Nha Trang, Viet Nam on behalf of a charity Mrs. McCain supports, Operation Smile, which offers free plastic surgery to children born with cleft lips and palates–routine deformities worldwide commonly found about once in every hundred births. OS surgeons out of Austin do their volunteer work in Central America. I can’t figure out why there’s no permalink to the McCain photo tour, but hunt (if you have to) for the June 19, 2008 post.

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Viet Nam redux

Posted on January 9, 2008 | Comments Off on Viet Nam redux

OCS buddy Jerry Noga has returned from what he jokingly calls his "second tour" in Viet Nam, with the news that "the Vietnamese people are very interested in having tourists" and the tourism is "safe, comfortable and relatively inexpensive." The worst part was "the LONG plane ride." He used The Indochina Tour Company (for which I can’t find a link), which furnished "guides and drivers at each airport and major city," but there are other outfits just as good. He even checked out my old MACV compound in Hoi An. "It is now a school and a hospital," with the only sign of war "the old French bunker out front." That’s good news, indeed.

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Happy New Year, y’all

Posted on December 31, 2007 | Comments Off on Happy New Year, y’all

Been an eclectic day around the rancho. Mr. B. and I enjoyed Oklahoma State’s defeat of Indiana, followed by watching his latest Laurel & Hardy flick, "Flying Deuces." New Year’s eves are restful when you’re too old and your son is too young for parties. He read a new picture book on gladiators while I read the latest Dortmunder burglary escapade, "Watch Your Back." And, while thinking of an OCS classmate’s ongoing return to Viet Nam this week, I found myself contemplating the tours offered by this San Antonio outfit that specializes in old battlefields in northern and southern I Corps. One of these days…

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Returning to Viet Nam

Posted on December 3, 2007 | Comments Off on Returning to Viet Nam

Jerry Noga, a retired Army officer and an old OCS classmate, will spend the week after Christmas traveling in Viet Nam with a buddy. He’s planning to stop in at Hoi An, south of Da Nang, the only readily-visitable place where I spent much time, so I’m hoping for a decent photo of what the old MACV compound there looks like now. These trips are an idea more and more veterans have succumbed to in recent years. I’m still trying to convince my old no. 2 to return with me "to those thrilling days of yesteryear," but so far he’s resisting. Says he didn’t leave anything there, except some blood and he doesn’t miss it.

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The second of the third

Posted on December 2, 2007 | Comments Off on The second of the third

Old friend and OCS classmate Russell Wheat recently donated a large sum to his favorite charity, the Methodist Children’s Home, a Waco orphanage, "in memory of thirty-seven men of 3rd Platoon, B Company, 2nd Battalion, 3rd Infantry, killed in action in Viet Nam 1968-1969." This was an illustrious outfit of the 199th Light Infantry Brigade–which patrolled around Saigon and Bien Hoa–apparently, in fact, Russ’s own platoon. I’m going to call and ask him about it this afternoon. Meanwhile, I will repeat the memorial here. R.I.P.

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Lt.jg. Frank E. Hand, III, R.I.P.

Posted on November 12, 2007 | Comments Off on Lt.jg. Frank E. Hand, III, R.I.P.

The remains of South Carolina native and P-3 Orion co-pilot Frank Hand, lost with eleven other crew members when their plane was downed off the coast of Viet Nam in 1968, finally have been repatriated and will be interred today in the Dallas-Fort Worth National Cemetery. Four F/A-18 Hornets will fly over the service for the Eagle Scout who grew up in Fort Worth.

Via Patterico 

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