Iraq is no Vietnam.......but
"Iraq is no Vietnam, but there are eerie parallels", so starts the column mentioned below. No one knows the differences....and similarities between the two as well as my good friend, author Joe Galloway. Joe spent the better part of five years covering the Vietnam War for United Press International......from start to finish. And not from the comfort of the International Hotel in Saigon. Today Joe is known as one of the deans of Vietnam War correspondents because of his on the ground, down and dirty, grunt's eye coverage of that war. In 1965, he participated in and survived the largest and one of the most important battles of that war, as recorded in his book We Were Soldiers Once, and Young, later made into the film We Were Soldiers
In 1991 he rode with Gen. Barry McCaffery through Iraq and covered Desert Storm first hand. Very few others did. And now Joe is covering the present Iraqi situation as the head military correspondent and a sydicated columnist for Knight-Ridder Newspapers. As he said to me a year ago, he would be on the ground in Iraq now, if his wife had not said, "if you go to another war and the enemy doesn't shoot you.......I will". Knowing her, she would too. She's a crack shot.
Joe is an ardent supporter of the military, gives his time freely to their causes and holds a Bronze Star for Valor earned in Vietnam. The only such award given to a civilian during the war. So, when Joe speaks words of warning about a military situation, it pays to listen. Read Joe's Column
"Iraq is no Vietnam, but there are eerie parallels", so starts the column mentioned below. No one knows the differences....and similarities between the two as well as my good friend, author Joe Galloway. Joe spent the better part of five years covering the Vietnam War for United Press International......from start to finish. And not from the comfort of the International Hotel in Saigon. Today Joe is known as one of the deans of Vietnam War correspondents because of his on the ground, down and dirty, grunt's eye coverage of that war. In 1965, he participated in and survived the largest and one of the most important battles of that war, as recorded in his book We Were Soldiers Once, and Young, later made into the film We Were Soldiers
In 1991 he rode with Gen. Barry McCaffery through Iraq and covered Desert Storm first hand. Very few others did. And now Joe is covering the present Iraqi situation as the head military correspondent and a sydicated columnist for Knight-Ridder Newspapers. As he said to me a year ago, he would be on the ground in Iraq now, if his wife had not said, "if you go to another war and the enemy doesn't shoot you.......I will". Knowing her, she would too. She's a crack shot.
Joe is an ardent supporter of the military, gives his time freely to their causes and holds a Bronze Star for Valor earned in Vietnam. The only such award given to a civilian during the war. So, when Joe speaks words of warning about a military situation, it pays to listen. Read Joe's Column
