Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2003/11/16
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]> That isn't how it happened. Listen to the reporters who were covering > the war for the Washington Post and New York Times and you see a > different picture. David Halberstam and his colleagues went over there > fully supporting the war as a way to contain communism. They were > convinced by the grunts that the war was un-winnable and that the > leadership were not telling the truth about body counts and other > aspects of the war (see Gulf of Tonkin). "Once Upon a Distant War" by Prochnau - EXCELLENT book - a quite amazing description of the fall from idealism into disillusionment by those young correspondents (should be read side by side with "A Bright Shining Lie: John Paul Vann and America in Vietnam") tim - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html