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From: Robert Vokoun
T1: jvokoun@ix.netcom.com
Date: 10/30/97
Time: 8:05:10 PM
Remote Name: 204.32.198.168
Powell seems to be the most straight forward of all people that I have read so far on the Vietnam war. He doesn't hide behind numbers or footnotes and instead tells it how it was. One must remember that their have been monsters on both sides. Sometimes we begin to believe that these monsters are what the people are really like. Most of the soldiers (on both sides) were not baby killing, torturing, son of a bitches, but we only remember these S.O.B.s. It may take another twenty-five to fifty years before we as a people could look at the war objectively. Until then we will have people who believe in fake facts and made up excuses. What Powell gives us is plain unemotional fact, fact that is needed to better understand the truth.