Major Michael O’Donnell Major Michael O’Donnell was a helicopter pilot killed in action near Dak To, Vietnam in March of 1970. Although I did not know Major O’Donnell we were in Vietnam at the same time, and in some of the same places. This is a poem he penned three months before his […]
Category: War and Military Stories
Wars are lost because the ability to wage them, the resources needed to win them, and the will to fight them abates, is lost, or is destroyed. It is my opinion that the South Vietnamese espoused a personal philosophy of every family for itself and instead of prosecuting their war they used both our […]
SOLDIER It hit me in the deepest way…Kris Kristofferson talking about the pro-Vietnam war song he wrote back in the day….when he was in the Army. He emphasized how his view had dramatically changed. He stated back then he was “totally seeing the world from the perspective of the soldier” What is seeing the […]