I always think about Ed O'Dowd, U.S. Army attache'... He used to work out of his briefcase in our office, the Asian Division in DIA. He had fought over there during the war and now was waiting to get permission to go back in as the first military attache' at our new embassy in Hanoi. He was a great guy and how things have changed... what a terrible tragedy of our time... Then there was a great lecture by William Colby in the late '70's in Georgetown, DC on his views of the war and how he thought we could have won it and how he'd drive his jeep around the country side at night with no problems.
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