Maybe you don’t understand the concept of the opry they ask each group of service to stand and be recognized by people , if you read what I said and I doubt you ever do I don’t stand to acknowledge my service group but I do clap. I don’t know what your talking about when you say the pit , but I was fighting in Vietnam in 1954 with the IST Foreign Legion Parachute Battalion ( I’m American ) and later in Algeria. I then spent another 6 years in American Army most of it in Vietnam including one year with the 1St Brigade of the 10I st Airborne Division but mostly with Vietnamese paratroopers . I left the army for another government agency and continued seeing action in Vietnam , Cambodia and Laos and carried on like that for many more years in Africa, Central and South America and waking up at 60 years old in Pakistan with my ears still ringing from a car bomb going off 2 days before and said that’s enough , I could sum up my life with a couple of sentences , I spent my whole life helping to keep bad governments in power or to put bad rebels into power according to the whims of who was in charge of the White House , how I describe myself , well I’m fond of a Graham Greenes description of a man in one of his books, calling him The Quiet American
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