Nam was diffrent..we were hog tied by the stupid ROE's and the geneva convention...from teh stories ive been able to find, and accounts from my friends dad...it was a mess. teh VC had all their crap above the parallel...where we could not go...china snuck in shipments of weapons and fighter and we could not fire upon them with out evident to support that account...and how is a phantom or a thunderchief supposed to do that, pull over and ask the skipper if hes running arms??? Case in point, a fighter bomber was flying a sortie over a VC port when he saw them off loading SAM missiles off the cargo ship, he went ahead and strafed it. But on the flight back, got worried about the ROE the he may have just violated, he with some help distroeid the gun camer footage and tried to lay low, the VC complied to geneva that a US fighter just attacked a food supply ship and gave the planes tail ...they asked for the gun footage to back the pilots account of the missiles, he had already distroyed it....everyone involved was busted a few ranks or reassinged..*i Think i got that from a autbio of Chuck Yeager...it was a friend of his was the commander involved...every time we hit one they would call geneva and complain that the US is attack peacefull supply ships full of food and medical supplies...the whole TV coverage wasnt a bright ideal...the VC knew the plans as well as our own troops did...and people in charge that really shouldnt have been...and Numbers wise we cleaned their clocks...but the nation was turning against it, and the locals weren't helping, also with Russia and China pouring in planes and tanks...and the US alone to try and hold it all back, we just could not spend that kind or blood or money...Its ashamed that the nation turned on the GI's in that war...its not their fault, they were following orders...it sickens me that people here could act that way, and why the hell isnt more said about Nam in our school text books? i could find maybe a chapter on the subject...o well im ranting now...next!

what the he3ck..gorramit another double post...Grr... damn computers...

David, did you see that special on the "History Channel" last night? It was very interesting. They were reading roman letters from Gaul, and it sounded like the letters Uncle John wrote back to Grandpa and Grandma.

Jeppers, I have a navy story for you! The U.S.S. Saratoga was being re fuled by a tanker and way out in the distance a Russian Ship was heading staright for the Saratoga. Well the captian saw what was going on and they had to ax off the hoses and make a sharp turn to port. They missed the Russian Ship and some of the Russian sailors were laughing. My father said  that he would of kept on going. And he also saw the Chinese and Russian's giving supplies to the enemy. My father's battle group mission was to patrol around Haiphong. All they could do was drop mines.