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From: Moustafa Hazin
T1: Deaf48@aol.com
Date: 12/4/99
Time: 5:35:21 PM
Remote Name: 152.163.195.208
Prior to hearing this speech most students held many disoriented perceptions about the war; most of which were created by mainstream movies that had hidden intentions during their creation on the proverbial drawing board. Chitty’s speech brought a different view of the war to his audience’s attention by not talking about the war on the land but the war at sea. He explained that the boat to which he was assigned was known as a ‘trip wire’ in that if China should ever decided to enter the war they would do so by firing rockets and dropping bombs on that ship. If such a situation ever transpired he and his crewmates were given a window of 30 seconds in which to tell their superiors that they were about to die and China has entered the way. The fact that America deemed it necessary to risk the lives of hundreds of men to find out if China entered the war is an extremely distressing fact. Another fact about his boat which deserves consideration all it’s own is that on his second tour his mission was to propel rockets on to the mainland. If one was to consider the fact that the NLF did not really have any organized bases and were usually scattered about the jungle causing the US to know nothing about the position of any of the platoons at any one time and then recall the mission of the boat on the second tour. One could only discern that the mission served only as a means for inflicting massacres on innocent civilian villages.
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