Vietnam vets recall a war they couldn’t win

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Larry Slessler was a young Air Force intelligence officer in August 1964 when the Tonkin Gulf Crisis escalated a regional civil war on the far side of the planet into front-page news for the next decade.The following March he was on the ground in Vietnam, playing his role in “winning the hearts and minds” of the Vietnamese people.But in doing so, Slessler found himself in another conflict — the intra-service rivalry for appropriation funds, one that took […]

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