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Mine… Frankly, there are some spoopy things about his tour that I'm not quite sure I want to know. He would have probably have found Q very interesting - although my father did have a bit of a belief that the old CIA pre-Bush was a trustworthy guard dog. It is also true that it is easy for us to look back on times long ago very objectively and project our ideals into them, so there is that.

Anyway - he supposedly did quite a bit of recon for plotting LZs and door gunning on those ops when he wasn't fixing the birds. But he also seems to have gotten an extensive debrief when he got back. He "slept for three days" when he got back, but I suspect this was a debrief process of some sort where he wasn't to have contact with family back home.

If, as I suspect, Q's team had had something of an eye on people like me for several years - my father is the reason I spoke so casually to them, knowing they were watching, through the context of my online discussions.

Hence "spoopy" as part of who Dad was. A guy who always seemed to know a bit more than he should, always seeing a bit deeper and farther than the average person, and who had the ability to speak in such a way that the meaning of words evolved through time.

Anyway - he conveyed to me the story of how POWs managed to smuggle a list of names to Fonda, and she turned it over to the NVA, who punished those prisoners.

I'm not sure how much of that was scuttlebutt, though it wouldn't take much for him to take an extreme dislike of a woman in Vietnam, whoring around on AAA that was shooting at him.

There was a lot of fucked up stuff leading up to Vietnam - I can understand why people opposed it and why people were skeptical of the stated intent. By the time Saigon fell, America was more committed to the war than the Vietnamese were, who didn't really grasp the point or enjoy fighting their cousins.

But there is a code of ethics that was regularly breached at the time… You don't whore for your nation's enemies - if you disagree with the war, do so on the virtues, values, and honor of your nation.

Perhaps Fonda was just retarded and obeying the dog and pony show she was being paraded around with for propaganda purposes…. But the reception she received from American media largely put the message to the troops in bold lettering - if the various reporters looking to capture shots of carnage wasn't enough. Part of it was circumstance - the reporters could follow along behind areas the U.S. cleared out - and so they really only got to cover what our side did… But they certainly fed the anti-war machine with every picture they could find that looked bad.