Sherlock Breaux in the Creaux's Nest
SUNDAY WE HONOR OUR FATHERS Even though my own father has long departed, crossed over to a place that awaits us all, I still hold some fond memories
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SUNDAY WE HONOR OUR FATHERS Even though my own father has long departed, crossed over to a place that awaits us all, I still hold some fond memories
Book excerpt: ‘You Don’t Belong Here’ Elizabeth Becker March 8 “You Don’t Belong Here: How Three Women Rewrote the Story of War” by Elizabeth Becker. (PublicAffairs) Kate Webb, an Australian iconoclast, Catherine Leroy, a French daredevil photographer, and Frances FitzGerald, a blue-blood American intellectual, arrived in Vietnam with starkly different life experiences but one shared purpose: to report on the most consequential story of the decade. At a time when women were considered unfit to be foreign reporters, Frankie, Catherine, and Kate challenged the rules imposed ...
His feet were tied, and he was -- his head was down in the bathtub. >> inconceivable. tough, resilient, armed to the keith kay, murdered with his own kitchen knife? what a story. eric knudsen, then a sergeant with the county sheriff's office, was assigned with one of the lead detectives. he was sitting at the office when from up at the house the first officer to talk to pam and roger called him. >> he said you know, something isn't right here. it seems from his perception that maybe some things were staged or some things were just not what he would think would be normal for a crime as heinous ...
with their artillery, the communists would in longer be vulnerable from marine counterattack on the ground. >> the marine riflemen on con thien or grunts as they calls themselves would rather be anywhere, out on an operation marching or back at the rear sleeping, anywhere but con thien. in their simple teenaged philosophy, they don't understand the significance of holding on to what you've got, or as it's said in the orient, saving face. the pentagon gives orders to the generals and the generals give orders to the colonels and so on and all the orders are obeyed. but the grunts don't...
5,000 and 10,000 casualties. they've only decided to do that once before. 1954. when they felted it be the final victory. and it was. but the united states could survive the loss of con thien, get more troop backs and retake it, so it would not seem to be in the best interests of the north vietnamese to attack con thien in the near future. they'll probably continue to shell it and the marines will continue to take it. two years ago when the first of 5,000 americans began settling in here with the fresh pentagon promises of a quick vehicle toerks the generals were promoting the new st...