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"Richard Casady" wrote in message
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On Thu, 23 Jul 2009 13:00:15 -0700, "Calif Bill"
wrote:

Just another case of Harry's superior abilities.

The man is truly amazing.


And if he had been in a combat role in SEA instead of a non combatant
role,
he would have ended the war single handedly. There would not be a VC
alive
today.


Killing all the VC wasn't enough to win the war. We did that, nearly,
during Tet of 68 and still lost. There were these Northerners with
guns, you see. VC, NVA, it made no difference, they all were non
Christian Gomers that didn't speak English, with Communist guns.

Casady


Tet, pretty much ended the VC and NVA. But by then we were quitting due to
politics. If there had only been one NVA after Tet, he would still have
gotten Saigon.