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47-Love Letters from Vietnam: Tim and Kate's Wedding, December 23, 1969

For an index to the Tim and Kate beginning episodes, click here.   Before the Wedding ...and she all these things she kept in her heart, and pondered them I struggle for the words to write about Tim's and...

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46-Love Letters from Vietnam: Five Days Before the Wedding and Counting

Five Days Before the Wedding December 18, 1969 was a Thursday. That’s the day Tim came home on Christmas leave. There’s a 4 x 6 little brown spiral notebook in a box somewhere with notes of that day and...

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Afghanistanization of the War Equals Defeat as with Vietnamization

The future course of the war in Afghanistan seems formulated.  Failure (AKA lack of any victory) is guaranteed concerning all politically correct (PC) wars, as was true, e. g., of both the Korean War and the...

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Simply Drifting Away

Sadness of the years spent, Sorrow of the time that had passed, Realization that it can be lost, By simply drifting away.   A sleep that can escape all, A need to leave all, Not realizing...

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42-Love Letters from Vietnam: "I'll Be Home for Christmas..."

Read Tim's Letters to Kate from the beginning of Basic Training at Fort Campbell, Ky in May 1969 to get a sense of the evolution of their relationship! Click here for Index to all "Episodes" 1 December,...

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Obama's Afghanistan Policy

Let' see here: If we send in another 30-40,000 troops next year, that is another 30-40 million dollars on top of the 1.2 billion already being supplied to provide incentives for the low level Taliban...

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40-Love Letters from Vietnam: In the Gentle Serenity of Your Arms

Dear Readers, If you remember from the past letters, Tim and Kate are at a critical point in their relationship. Tim will be home on leave at Christmas time and the intensity of the passion that felt during...

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Vietnam War Timeline

We usually think of the Vietnam War as eleven years of war between the Gulf of Tonkin incident in 1964, and the fall of Saigon in 1975. But the conflict itself started much earlier. (This is a significantly...

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Elected Officials Should Serve a Mandatory 4 Year Term in the United States Military

Written and adopted in 1787, the United States Constitution states that the Commander In Chief of the (Article II, Section 2, Clause 1) United States Army, the United States Navy and the "militia" of the...

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"Reflections" by Lee Teeter76

The Vietnam War's Impact On My Life.

"Reflections" by Lee Teeter I can write nothing about Vietnam or what it was like to be there during the war from first hand experience. Everything I know, I have learned from historical sources, veterans who...

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