I heard this on NPR yesterday. It was sooo sad. Not in any eventfull sort of way, but perhaps more in that wistfull, Daniel Day Lewis/Miramax movie kind of way. Pentagon Postcard In a suburb of Paris, Nick Spicer tracked down a former North Vietnamese army officer who remembers Max Beilke -- one of the victims of the Sept. 11 attack on the Pentagon. Beilke was officially listed as the last American combat soldier to leave Vietnam. The former officer, Bui Tin, now lives in exile. (3:00) Click me to Listen (you need Real Player)
Hey Ottomaton.... Your sig reminds me of a quote from Patton: I want you to remember, that no b*stard ever won a war, by dying for his country. He won it, by making the other poor dumb b*stard die for his country. - General George S Patton