As we celebrate National Vietnam Veterans Day again today, I’m thinking of my late, older brother Eddie Davis (seen in the below photo). He served as a soldier in Chu Lai, South Vietnam in 1968-1969.
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I had a modest role in the
conflict, having served as a teenage sailor on the aircraft carrier USS Kitty
Hawk (see the below photos) on “Yankee Station” off the coast of North Vietnam
in 1970-1971.
The Vietnam War was and is
misunderstood and has been politized deeply. And returning veterans were often
blamed and defamed for the policy errors made by the leaders of both political
parties.
Like most of the combat
pilots I spoke to on the aircraft carrier, as well as many veterans, I believe
we should have gone all out and won the war instead of fighting a protracted
war of attrition featured nightly on the TV news.
You can read my Counterterrorism magazine
piece on the Vietnam War via the link below:
You can also read my post on the aircraft carrier at war (with good photos) via the link below:
And lastly, you can also read On Yankee Station, a chapter of a novel I hope to soon publish.
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