Dave LaCourse wrote:
On Sun, 17 Feb 2008 17:02:59 -0700, salmo bytes wrote:

The guy I met in 1968 (Doug Peacock, the inspiration for Hay Duke in
the Monkey Wrench Gang) was a green beret medic, at Lang Vei
I believe. Now that I think about it, he told stories about
Khe Sahn, but never said he was there. At Lang Vei he was
....unless I (like Andy Petitte the other day) "miss-heard."

You do know that Khe Sahn was a seige, don't you? The three
battalions of III Marines were under seige for about two months or so.
Six thousand against 20,000 NVA. There was no hand to hand combat, no
atrocities of civilians because the only ones inside the wire were
wives of the SVN Army troops that fought with the Marines. No
atrocities occured at Khe Sahn. If he wasn't there, how the hell
does he know what happened? Your story is poor bull****.

Dave


I'm still waiting for that blood vessel video Bob. I think it's great
idea. We're talking about what happened 40 years ago. What what's his
name (Hay Duke) said about Khe Sahn wasn't what happened reports,
it had to do with his constiracy theory about why we risked those
marine lives in the first place...recreating Dien Ben Fu in an
unwinnable way. He thought the military wanted to have 6000 lives
threatened, so they'd have an excuse to ask permission for the use
of tactical nuclear weapons. The first hand stories he told we about
the places he'd actually been. Take a deep breath and get a life.