The REAL Vietnam History Lesson
General VoNguyen Giap: General Giap was a brilliant, highly respected leader of the North Vietnam military. The following quote is from his memoirs currently found in the Vietnam war memorial in Hanoi :
‘What we still don’t understand is why you Americans stopped the bombing of Hanoi . You had us on the ropes. If you had pressed us a little harder, just for another day or two, we were ready to surrender! It was the same at the battle of TET. You defeated us! We knew it, and we thought you knew it. But we were elated to notice your media was helping us. They were causing more disruption in America than we could in the battlefields. We were ready to surrender. You had won!’
, first off, is an extremely well written book that grabbed me and forced me to read it in about a day. One may want to give credit to the co-author, Kevin Maurer, but I have to remember that to be a SEAL doesn’t just mean that you are good at killing people. These young men are the best of the best and then the best of those are chosen to be special operations forces. Mark Owen (a psuedonym – he has since been outed, but I won’t do that) shares some of his other missions leading to UBL’s untimely death (it should have been many years before).
is no different as it really spills a lot of the proverbial beans.
takes us for a brief peek into their lives and gives us a glimpse of what they face. I get the sense that even though this is a novel, Thor presents an accurate depiction of the troubled country and the battles our military endure.
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