Tag: Vietnam

The Things They Carried  – Tim O’Brien (Book 8 of 2015)   For those of us who like me, were lucky enough to have a high draft number, (mine was 306), and escaped the war in Vietnam, Tim O’Brien has shown us slices  of  life in it,  in his novel …

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On July 15th of 1966,  US forces began “Operation Hastings” an operation to drive North Vietnamese forces from the demilitarized zone between North and South Vietnam. From Wikipedia…. Operation Hastings was an American military operation in the Vietnam War. The operation was a qualified success in that it pushed the …

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