Wow

Wow! Viet Nam was a significant influence throughout my teen and early adult years. There is a really good novel entitled Saigon by Anthony Grey that goes into some of the dynamics about what caused the Viet Nam war and how the US got involved so I won’t go into that in any major way.

Clearly the US was sending ‘advisors’ to Viet Nam during my high school days and by the time I went to Rice the US was involved in the fighting.

There is another book by Stephen Kinzer entitled The Brothers that describe the effects of John Foster Dulles and Alan Dulles on the United States foreign policy. These two guys did tremendous damage to the country and I certainly ‘benefitted’ from their ineptitude.

I had registered with the Beaumont draft board, as required, when I turned 18 and immediately applied for a II-S exemption - college student exemption. My exemption was granted and I went off to Rice.

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