Just rereading Michael Herr’s Dispatches, after watching Apocalypse Now with my 91 year old dad (his first time, redux version). Herr quotes Westmoreland as saying he could see ‘the light at the end of the tunnel’ in ‘67 just before Tet. A guy who’s job it was to crawl thorough Phred’s complex with a knife and a pistol said ‘What doe that a$$hole know about tunnels?’
Just rereading Michael Herr’s Dispatches, after watching Apocalypse Now with my 91 year old dad (his first time, redux version). Herr quotes Westmoreland as saying he could see ‘the light at the end of the tunnel’ in ‘67 just before Tet. A guy who’s job it was to crawl thorough Phred’s complex with a knife and a pistol said ‘What doe that a$$hole know about tunnels?’