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AND THINGS
richard lightner
Oct 19, 20232 min read
Dien Bien Phu
Arthur W. Radford. From Pearl Harbor to Vietnam: the memoirs of Admiral W. Radford. Stephen Jukrika, ed. 1980. Radford was Chairman of...
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richard lightner
Oct 19, 20231 min read
Dien Bien Phu
Bill Hayton. A Brief History of Vietnam: colonialism, war and renewal: the story of a nation transformed. 2022 In 1953 the French...
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richard lightner
Oct 17, 20232 min read
JAPAN
From - Samuel Eliot Morison. “Why Japan Surrendered.” The Atlantic. Oct. 1960. “When General McArthur after the war asked Hirohito why he...
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richard lightner
Oct 11, 20231 min read
Battle Hymn of the Republic
Deborah, Pickman, Clifford. Mine Eyes Have Seen The Glory: a biography of Julia Ward Howe. 1978. Howe’s husband was not impressed with...
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richard lightner
Oct 11, 20231 min read
Ethnics
While we associate Boston with the Irish the city's first Irish mayor wasn't elected until the 1880's. (Deborah, Pickman, Clifford. Mine...
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richard lightner
Oct 5, 20231 min read
Until Death
After reading two books about Japan and watching a world War II video it is clear that the so-called Japanese obsession with serving the...
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richard lightner
Oct 2, 20232 min read
Hell in a Handbasket
Kevin Phillips. The Politics of Rich and Poor: wealth and the American Electorate in the Reagan Aftermath. 1990. “The enormous...
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richard lightner
Oct 1, 20231 min read
Memories of Dien Bien Phu
Bui Tin. Following Ho Chi Minh: the memoirs of a North Vietnamese Colonel. 1995. The Viet Minh originally “attacked French positions for...
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richard lightner
Sep 22, 202314 min read
Dien Bien Phu
Jules Roy. The Battle of DienBienPhu. Roy served as an officer in the French Air Force. Neil Sheehan’s introduction. American generals...
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richard lightner
Sep 3, 20232 min read
Dien Bien Phu
Short bios of significant people involved in the battle. Men of Dien Bien Phu. General Christian Marie Ferdinand de la Croix De. Prisoner...
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richard lightner
Sep 2, 20232 min read
Dien Bien Phu
The Last from Simpson The French High Command could not see further than their pencils. The Vietminh rushed to cut escape routes from...
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richard lightner
Aug 28, 20236 min read
Cows
Labeled Climate Culprits, European Farmers Rebel Over New Standards Asked to cut herds, move or even shut down to help meet E.U....
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richard lightner
Aug 24, 20231 min read
Banned Books
Storm Center is a film available on YouTube. Stars Bette Davis as a librarian fired for not removing a book about how wonderful communism...
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richard lightner
Aug 23, 20232 min read
We're All Dead
We Are Witnessing the First Stages of Civilization’s Collapse Will our own elites perform any better than the rulers of Chaco Canyon, the...
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richard lightner
Aug 21, 20233 min read
Dien Bien Phu
More from Simpson. The Battle of Dien Bien Phu “ranks with Agincourt, Waterloo, and Gettysburg as one to the great military engagements...
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richard lightner
Aug 18, 20237 min read
CORNEL WEST
AUGUST 18, 2023The Uselessness of Bernie Sanders BY PETER BOLTON Peter Bolton is a Washington, DC-based journalist, activist and scholar....
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richard lightner
Aug 15, 20231 min read
Dien Bien Phu
Howard R. Simpson. Dien Bien Phu: the epic battle America forgot. Simpson served as a U.S. official in Indochina at the time of Dien Bien...
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richard lightner
Aug 13, 202312 min read
Dien Bien Phu
Ted Morgan. Valley of Death: the Tragedy at Dien Bien Phu That Led America into the Vietnam War. “The French no longer knew why the war...
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richard lightner
Aug 6, 20231 min read
Dien Bien Phu
Lucien Bodard. French journalist. The Quicksand War: Prelude to Vietnam. While drinking at a bar in Hanoi Bodard noticed “a famous...
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richard lightner
Aug 6, 20231 min read
Dien Bien Phu
The Viet-Nam Reader: articles and documents on American foreign policy and the Viet-Nam Crisis. Edited by Marcus G. Raskin, former U.S....
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