
Barry in his own words; tells his history coming out an era of the cold war, being naive politically was thinking about getting his military obligations out of the way to take advantage of the GI bill for education. He enlisted in the Marine Corp was on one of the first or second boat loads of marines deployed to Viet Nam in June of 1965. Then it wasn’t a war or declared a war at the time and there was no clear objective except to pacify the area from insurgents, little had he had he expected to be embroiled in a war or that he would serve two tours in Viet Nam. Barry reflects on the meaning of pacify and how it isolated the Vietnamese in to what might be called refugee camps. Barry gives us some history of the 1968 Tet Offensive and how it changed his views on the war...
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