Posted by Matt on 4/30/2007, 12:50 am, in reply to "Episode of Frustration!" --Previous Message--
this episode made me sad...cause it was Horn's (josh's) last episode..at least he finially found the point that sgt anderson was tryin to get across to him thru the entire first season...and that is the war might be a unjust cause..but its mostly about the man next to you
: The Hill is the episode of the week. It is
: the episode of frustration and futility.
:
: The mentality of the high level military
: community was to take ground. To conquer a
: parcel of land was the objective of war for
: a long time. So if it worked at Normandy,
: then it is the thing in Vietnam. According
: to Lee Russell, this was the strategy of
: Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara. And
: he ordered the military to conquer the hill.
: But what did they have when they did?
:
: So they left it and went back to firebase.
: But the enemy would again occupy that hill
: complete with bunkers and tunnels. The US
: intelligence community would see the enemy
: activities and send the men to fight the way
: to the top of that same hill and for what.
: It was very confusing to us and it caused a
: morale problem.
:
: To top all of it off, we got a glimpse of
: the chemical warfare. The Vietnam Veterans
: of America has a high level committee
: devoted to Agent Orange. When I was
: enrolling into the VA medical program, I
: found out that if I have certain illnesses
: such as prostate cancer or diabetes, I could
: be entitled to a check. I said that could
: not be as I was not exposed to any
: chemicals. It did not matter. I had been
: to Vietnam and that with these diseases made
: me eligible. Some 25 years after the war, a
: group of VVA members went back to Vietnam
: and found that even then all that would grow
: in the Agent Orange areas was a sickly
: orange grass. The scars of war remain for
: so long and we lost that war.
:
: Horn's rebellion was hard to watch. He
: defied the LT and Sarge and faced a
: vigilante E-6 only to end up going up and
: taking the hill and gets seriously injured.
: Josh did a great job and I was impressed
: with LT and Sarge's frustration. I enjoyed
: Horn looking down that hawk's beak nose to
: the LT and giving him a very snappy salute
: back at the Chu Lai base!
:
: Between us chickens, one glimpse of the
: snake and that hill would forever belong to
: the NVA. I saw a snake on Monkey mountain
: once and I swore to the TOP that it was a
: cobra! Top sagely took his pipe out of his
: mouth and said, "That couldn't have
: been a cobra, Specialist Johnson. They
: don't have cobras in Vietnam." They do
: now!
:
: And you gotta love Danny for telling the
: brass off! You tell 'em! Ernie...
:
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