Posted by lindy on 4/30/2007, 6:00 am, in reply to "Re: Episode of Frustration!" --Previous Message--
Horn surely did learn that Matt. Hard way to learn it, though. 
: 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
:
: --Previous Message--
: 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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