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On 4 July 1970 our nation was divided into two camps. Hawks who supported the…
On 4 July 1970 our nation was divided into two camps. Hawks who supported the…
This day was set aside by Presidential Proclamation to honor the more than 4-million Americans who…
DUTY DONE… Faithful Scribe Departing… Dear Friends and RTR Faithful, Good morning. It’s Sunday, 26…
COMMEMORATING THE 50th ANNIVERSARY OF THE VIETNAM WAR (1961-1973) and honoring the bold, brave Naval Aviators,…
COMMEMORATING THE 50th ANNIVERSARY OF THE VIETNAM WAR (1961-1973) and honoring the bold volunteer Naval Aviators,…
WHEN NAVAL AVIATION ROARED… TALES OF THE BRAVE AND BOLD… COMMEMORATING THE 50th ANNIVERSARY OF THE…
WHEN NAVAL AVIATION ROARED…Tales of the Brave and Bold COMMEMORATING THE 50th ANNIVERSARY OF THE VIETNAM…
WHEN NAVAL AVIATION ROARED…TALES OF THE BRAVE AND BOLD COMMEMORATING THE 50th ANNIVERSARY OF THE VIETNAM…
WHEN NAVAL AVIATION ROARED… TALES OF THE BRAVE AND BOLD… TALE #22 COMMEMORATING THE 50th ANNIVERSARY…
COMMEMORATING THE 50th ANNIVERSARY OF THE VIETNAM WAR (1961-1973) and honoring the courageous Naval Aviators, Naval…
COMMEMORATING THE 50th ANNIVERSARY OF THE VIETNAM WAR (1961-1973)… and honoring the valiant Naval Aviators. Naval…
COMMEMORATING THE 50th ANNIVERSARY OF THE VIETNAM WAR (1961-1973)… and honoring the stouthearted Naval Aviators, Naval…
COMMEMORATING THE 50th ANNIVERSARY OF THE VIETNAM WAR (1961-1973)… and honoring the intrepid Naval Aviators, Naval…
COMMEMORATING THE 50th ANNIVERSARY OF THE VIETNAM WAR… and honoring the indefatigable Naval Aviators, Naval Flight…
COMMEMORATING THE 50th ANNIVERSARY OF THE VIETNAM WAR (1961-1973)… and honoring the courageous Naval Aviators, Naval…
Faithful Scribe was shuffling through the Rolling Thunder archives on Mount Ogden and found an old…
COMMEMORATING the 50th ANNIVERSARY OF THE VIETNAM WAR (1961-1973)… and honoring the indomitable Naval Aviators, Naval…
COMMEMORATING the 50th ANNIVERSARY OF THE VIETNAM WAR (1961-1973)…and honoring the gallant Naval Aviators, Naval Flight…
COMMEMORATING the 50th ANNIVERSARY OF THE VIETNAM WAR (1961-1973)… and honoring the intrepid Naval Aviators, Naval…
THE TORCH HAS BEEN PASSED… Humble Host is changing hats to become a weekly contributer and…
COMMEMORATING THE 50th ANNIVERSARY OF THE VIETNAM WAR and honoring the intrepid Naval Aviators, Naval Flight…
COMMEMORATING THE 50th ANNIVERSARY OF THE VIETNAM WAR (1961-1973)… and honoring the gallant Naval Aviators, Naval…
COMMEMORATING THE 50th ANNIVERSARY OF THE VIETNAM WAR (1961-1973)… and honoring the gallant Naval Aviators, Naval…
COMMEMORATING THE 50th ANNIVERSARY OF THE VIETNAM WAR (1961-1973) and honoring the gutty Naval Aviators, Naval…
REMEMBERING THOSE WHO PAID THE LAST FULL MEASURE… MEMORIAL DAY… Is the day that’s set aside…
COMMEMORATING THE 50th ANNIVERSARY OF THE VIETNAM WAR (1961-1973)… and honoring the intrepid Naval Aviators, Naval…
COMMEMORATING THE 50th ANNIVERSARY OF THE VIETNAM WAR (1961-1973)… and honoring the intrepid Naval Aviators, Naval…
COMMEMORATING THE 50th ANNIVERSARY OF THE VIETNAM WAR (1961-1973) and honoring the gallant Naval Aviators, Naval…
COMMEMORATING THE 50th ANNIVERSARY OF THE VIETNAM WAR (1961-1973)… and honoring the intrepid Naval Aviators, Naval…
COMMEMORATING THE 50th ANNIVERSARY OF THE VIETNAM WAR (1961-1973) and honoring the gallant Naval Aviators, Naval…
COMMEMORATING THE 50th ANNIVERSARY OF THE VIETNAM WAR (1961-1973)… and honoring the intrepid Naval Aviators, Naval…
COMMEMORATING THE 50th ANNIVERSARY OF THE VIETNAM WAR (1961-1973)… and honoring the intrepid Naval Aviators, Naval…
COMMEMORATING THE 50TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE VIETNAM WAR (1961-1973)… and honoring the intrepid Naval Aviators,…
COMMEMORATING THE 50TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE VIETNAM WAR (1961-1973)… OPERATION ROLLING THUNDER and COMMANDO HUNT REMEMBERED……
A NATIONAL DAY OF REMEMBRANCE… to remember a war begun in 1961 that saw more than…
COMMANDO HUNT and ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED… (15-30 Sept 69)… HUMBLE HOST is back in the RTR/CH…
Good Morning. It is Monday, 6 January 2020… HUMBLE HOST wishes all a happy and healthy…
SEASON’s GREETINGS from the Bear’s Den on Mount Ogden… Good Morning… It is Monday, 9 December…
COMMEMORATING THE 50TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE VIETNAM WAR (1961-1973) LEST WE FORGET… The NEW YORK…
COMMEMORATING THE 50th ANNIVERSARY OF THE VIETNAM WAR (1961-1973)…and WISHING ALL a THANKSGIVING WEEK OF GIVING…
COMMEMORATING THE 50th ANNIVERSARY OF THE VIETNAM WAR (1961-1973)… LEST WE FORGET… The NEW YORK TIMES,…
COMMEMORATING THE 50th ANNIVERSARY OF THE VIETNAM WAR (1961-1973)… CONCURRENT WITH OUR ANNUAL REMEMBRANCE OF VETERANS’…
COMMEMORATING THE 50th ANNIVERSARY OF THE VIETNAM WAR (1961-1973)… LEST WE FORGET… The NEW YORK TIMES,…
COMMEMORATING THE 50th ANNIVERSARY OF THE VIETNAM WAR (1961-1973)… LEST WE FORGET… The NEW YORK TIMES,…
COMMEMORATING THE 50th ANNIVERSARY OF THE VIETNAM WAR (1961-1973)… LEST WE FORGET… The New York Times,…
COMMEMORATING THE 50th ANNIVERSARY OF THE VIETNAM WAR (1961-1973)… LEST WE FORGET… The New York Times…
COMMEMORATING THE 50th ANNIVERSARY OF THE VIETNAM WAR (1961-1973)… LEST WE FORGET… The New York Times,…
COMMEMORATING THE 50TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE VIETNAM WAR (1961-1973)… LEST WE FORGET… NYT, Friday, 11 July…”U.S….
COMMEMORATING THE 50TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE VIETNAM WAR (1961-1973)… LEST WE FORGET… NYT, Friday, 4 July…
COMMEMORATING THE 50th ANNIVERSARY OF THE VIETNAM WAR (1961-1973)… LEST WE FORGET… The New York Times…
ONE WEEK AND COUNTING… Good Morning. It is Friday, 13 September 2019… In the United States,…
COMMEMORATING THE 50TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE VIETNAM WAR (1961-1973)… LEST WE FORGET… THE NEW YORK…
COMMEMORATING THE 50th ANNIVERSARY OF THE VIETNAM WAR (1961-1973)… LEST WE FORGET… NYT, Friday, 13 June…
COMMEMORATING THE 50th ANNIVERSARY OF THE VIETNAM WAR: 1961-1973… LEST WE FORGET… The NEW YORK TIMES,…
COMMEMORATING THE 50th ANNIVERSARY OF THE VIETNAM WAR (1961-1973)… LEST WE FORGET… THE BATTLE FOR…
HUMBLE HOST NOTE… This post was inadvertently published out of sequence. OOOPS… Weeks 28 and 29…
COMMEMORATING THE 50TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE VIETNAM WAR (1961-1973)… LEST WE FORGET… “No man is an…
COMMEMORATING THE 50th ANNIVERSARY OF THE VIETNAM WAR (1961-1973)… LEST WE FORGET… FOR THE WEEK ENDING…
COMMEMORATING THE 50th ANNIVERSARY OF THE VIETNAM WAR… 1961-1973… LEST WE FORGET… IT WAS “THE BEST…
COMMEMORATING THE 50th ANNIVERSARY OF THE VIETNAM WAR: 1961-1973… LEST WE FORGET… NYT, 25 April 1969,…
COMMEMORATING THE 50th ANNIVERSARY OF THE VIETNAM WAR… (1961-1973)… LEST WE FORGET… IN THE WEEK…
COMMEMORATING THE 50th ANNIVERSARY OF THE VIETNAM WAR… (1961-1973)… … and CELEBRATING THE 243RD BIRTHDAY…
COMMEMORATING THE 50th ANNIVERSARY OF THE VIETNAM WAR: 1961-1973… LEST WE FORGET… AMERICAN LOSSES, KILLED-IN-ACTION, FOR…
COMMEMORATING THE 50TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE VIETNAM WAR: 1961-1973… LEST WE FORGET… AMERICAN WARRIOR LOSSES IN…
COMMEMORATING THE 50th ANNIVERSARY OF THE VIETNAM WAR (1961-1973)… On Memorial Day 1969 the Editorial Page…
COMMEMORATING THE 50th ANNIVERSARY OF THE VIETNAM WAR (1961-1973)…with an URGENT MESSAGE for the PRESIDENT, National…
COMMEMORATING THE 50th ANNIVERSARY of the VIETNAM WAR: 1961-1973… DURING THE WEEK ENDING 23 FEBRUARY 1969…
COMMEMORATING THE 50TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE VIETNAM WAR…(1961-1973)… DURING THE WEEK ENDING 16 FEBRUARY 1969 AMERICAN…
COMMEMORATING THE 50TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE VIETNAM WAR (1961-1973)… IN THE WEEK ENDING 9 FEBRUARY 1969…
COMMEMORATING THE 50TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE VIETNAM WAR: 1961-1973… DURING THE WEEK ENDING 1 FEBRUARY 1969…
AMERICAN LOSSES–KILLED IN COMBAT–ZIPPED THROUGH 31,000 THIS WEEK WITH THE DEATHS OF 190 BRAVE G.I.s ON…
COMMEMORATING THE 50TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE VIETNAM WAR… IN THE WEEK ENDING 18 JANUARY 1969, 196…
COMMEMORATING THE 50TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE VIETNAM WAR… THROUGH THE WEEK ENDING 17 JANUARY 1969 A…
AMERICAN LOSSES –KILLED-IN-ACTION– LAST WEEK WERE REPORTED AT 101 TO RAISE TOTAL KIA IN THE VIETNAM…
AS 1968 CAME TO A CLOSE THE TOTAL OF AMERICAN FIGHTING MEN KILLED-IN-ACTION IN VIETNAM TOPPED…
COMMEMORATING THE 50TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE VIETNAM WAR… IN THE WEEK ENDING 4 DECEMBER 1968, TWO…
COMMEMORATING THE 50TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE VIETNAM WAR… IN THE WEEK ENDING 27 NOVEMBER 1968, 192…
COMMEMORATING THE 50TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE VIETNAM WAR… IN THE WEEK ENDING 30 NOVEMBER 1968, 228…
AMERICAN WAR-FIGHTERS KILLED IN SOUTHEAST ASIA THROUGH 25 NOVEMBER 1968 TOTALED 29,438 with the addition of…
GOOD MORNING. It’s Monday, 18 February 2019. Humble Host remembers: the VIETNAM WAR of FIFTY YEARS…
GOOD MORNING. It’s Monday, 11 February 2019. Humble Host remembers: COMMANDO HUNT Week ONE of 177……
AN OLD WARRIOR’S REMEMBRANCE OF THE VIETNAM AIR WAR OF 1965-1972 CONTINUES: COMMANDO HUNT I THROUGH…
Humble Host will be coming off n0 and light duty (including care-giver duty and cataract surgery)…
19 NOVEMBER 2018… HUMBLE HOST REGRETS AN UNPLANNED INTERRUPTION IN POSTING OF BLOGS COMMEMORATING THE 50TH…
OPERATION COMMANDO HUNT SUCCEEDED OPERATION ROLLING THUNDER as the plan to “decrease the logistical flow from…
VETERANS DAY 1968… FROM THE NEW YORK TIMES, MONDAY, 11 NOVEMBER 1968, OPED, Page 46… Quoted……
RIPPLE SALVO… #971.. (100+) SAIGON, NOV 1 (AP)– UNITED STATES PLANES CARRIED OUT DAYLIGHT MISSIONS AGAINST…
RIPPLE SALVO… #970… “THE MOST IMPORTANT DECISION” PRESIDENT LYNDON B. JOHNSON “EVER MADE.”… “In a speech…
RIPPLE SALVO… #969… THE DECISION HAD BEEN MADE: THE BOMBING OF NORTH VIETNAM–OPERATION ROLLING THUNDER–WILL END….
RIPPLE SALVO… #968… SECRETARY OF DEFENSE CLARK CLIFFORD SPARED NO CRITICISM OF VICE PRESIDENT RICHARD NIXON’s…
RIPPLE SALVO… #967… HUBBLE HOST on station on a Saturday Night for a short post… While the…
RIPPLE SALVO… #966… HUMBLE HOST WOULD LIKE TO KNOW WHO THE TAIL END YANKEE AIR PIRATES…
RIPPLE SALVO… #965… THE STORM IS MOVING ON. THE GREAT STREAKS AND CRASH OF LIGHTNING HAVE…
HUMBLE HOST SALUTES ONE OF THE BRAVEST OF THE BRAVE… COLONEL RAMON ANTON HORINEK, USAF (Retired)…
RIPPLE SALVO… #963… THE DAYS OF OPERATION ROLLING THUNDER ARE NUMBERED–8 … NOT MUCH STRIKE WARFARE,…
RIPPLE SALVO… #962… THE NEW YORK TIMES WAS UNIMPRESSED WITH GOVERNOR GEORGE WALLACE’S CHOICE FOR HIS VICE PRESIDENTIAL…
RIPPLE SALVO… #961…THE NEW YORK TIMES, 21-OCT-68, Page 13… “VISITOR REPORTS ON LIFE IN HANOI–City Still…
RIPPLE SALVO… #960… HUMBLE HOST COMES BACK TO DEMOCRAT JULES WITCOVER’s THE YEAR THE DREAM DIED:…
RIPPLE SALVO… #959… HUMBLE HOST VISITS THE SPORTS PAGES OF THE NEW YORK TIMES AND THE…
RIPPLE SALVO… #958… HUMBLE HOST BRINGS FORTH FROM OCTOBER 1968 A POINT OF VIEW FOR 2018…
RIPPLE SALVO… #957… HUMBLE HOST BEGS YOUR INDULGENCE… OPPORTUNITY KNOCKED AND I ANSWERED–I DROPPED EVERYTHING…
RIPPLE SALVO… #956… THE “EXCITEMENT IS BUILDING” AND THE PROSPECTS FOR THE START OF “SERIOUS…
RIPPLE SALVO… #955… IN 2003 “THE JOHNSON ADMINISTRATION VOLUMES” were added to the State Department’s Historical…
RIPPLE SALVO… #954… AT THE FOREIGN POLICY GROUP MEETING WHITE HOUSE, 15 OCTOBER 1968…PRESIDENT JOHNSON SAID:…
RIPPLE SALVO… #953… 14 OCTOBER 1968 GENERATED MORE HISTORICAL DOCUMENTATION CONCERNING OPERATION ROLLING THUNDER THAN ANY…
RIPPLE SALVO… #952… THE PACE OF PEACE TALK WAS ACCELERATING–IN PARIS, SAIGON, HANOI, WASHINGTON AND…
RIPPLE SALVO… #951… ON THE ONE HAND, THE PEACE NEGOTIATORS HAVE FOUND A LITTLE COMMON GROUND…
RIPPLE SALVO… #950… IN JULY 1986 GENERAL CURTIS LeMAY WAS ASKED BY A USA TODAY WRITER…
RIPPLE SALVO… #949… ON 8 OCTOBER 1968 THE NYT TURNED A PHRASE OF SECRETARY OF STATE…
RIPPLE SALVO… #948… FIFTY YEARS AGO THE SHOULDERING OF US NAVY WARSHIPS WAS BY SOVIET…
RIPPLE SALVO… #947… STATE DEPARTMENT INSTRUCTIONS FOR OUR NEGOTIATOR and “NORTH KOREA SAYS PUEBLO CREW MADE…
RIPPLE SALVO… #946… TWENTY-FOUR DAYS OF ROLLING THUNDER TO GO… On this historic day in…
RIPPLE SALVO… #945… ON 6 OCTOBER 1967 A GREAT WARRIOR, THE SON OF A GREAT WARRIOR–LT….
RIPPLE SALVO… #944… ON 5 OCTOBER 1965–53 YEARS AGO THIS DAY– MAJOR DEAN ANDREW POGREBA, USAF,…
RIPPLE SALVO… #943… HUMBLE HOST IS POWER OFF… SHORT POST… Good Morning…Day NINE HUNDRED FORTY THREE…
RIPPLE SALVO… #942… EAVESDROPPING AT THE WHITE HOUSE…Ten Historical Documents (30 September to 3 October) that tell…
GOOD MORNING… Day NINE HUNDRED FORTY-ONE of thoughts about the great events and people of the…
GOOD MORNING… Day NINE HUNDRED FORTY of daily posts to mark the 50th anniversary of Operation…
GOOD MORNING… Day NINE HUNDRED THIRTY-NINE of a return to the years of Operation Rolling Thunder,…
GOOD MORNING…Day NINE HUNDRED THIRTY-EIGHT of a review of the 1000 days of Operation Rolling Thunder,…
GOOD MORNING… Day NINE HUNDRED THIRTY-SEVEN of a daily remembrance of the events and…
RIPPLE SALVO… #936… “DEAR MR. PRESIDENT: FOR THE COMPELLING REASONS THAT I HAVE EXPLAINED TO…
RIPPLE SALVO… #935… ON 26 SEPTEMBER 1966, CAPTAIN ARTHUR T. BALLARD, F-105D DRIVER WITH THE 13TH…
FOREMOST: A SALUTE TO MAJOR CLIFTON E. CUSHMAN, USAF (1938- 25 September 1966) and his gift, a letter: A CHALLENGE…
RIPPLE SALVO… #933… ON THE AFTERNOON OF 24 SEPTEMBER 1968 SENATOR EVERETT DIRKSEN CALLED ON…
RIPPLE SALVO… #932… NEW YORK TIMES correspondent Bernard Weinraub reporting from Saigon. But first… GOOD…
RIPPLE SALVO… #931… LIGHT COPY… AND A BIT OF THE NIXON-AGNEW TICKET NON-POSITION ON VIETNAM… GOOD MORNING…Day…
RIPPLE SALVO… #930… CAPTAIN DUANE WHITNEY MARTIN, USAF (2 JAN 1940–3 JULY 1966) was presented the…
RIPPLE SALVO… #929… HUMBLE HOST IS A DAY EARLY. FRIDAY, 21 SEPTEMBER IS THE OFFICIAL DAY,…
RIPPLE SALVO… #928… ON 19 SEPTEMBER 1968 THE VIETNAM WAR PEACE NEGOTIATORS MET FOR THE 22nd…
Humble Host note … Updated on 19 Sept 2018… RIPPLE SALVO… #927… ON THE WEEKEND OF…
A POST REMEMBERING THE FINAL FLIGHT OF COLONEL JOHN L. ROBERTSON, USAF, WHO PERISHED 52…
RIPPLE SALVO… #924…NYT, 15-SEPT-68, Page 1: “AMERICAN LEGION HAWKISH ON WAR–URGES ‘MAXIMUM’ MILITARY EFFORT IF PARIS…
RIPPLE SALVO… #923… NYT, 14-SEPT-68, BANNER HEADLINE, Page 1: “GEN. WARE KILLED IN VIETNAM–WON MEDAL OF…
RIPPLE SALVO… #923… SPHERES OF INFLUENCE… “IN THE FIELD OF INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS A SPHERE OF INFLUENCE…
RIPPLE SALVO… #922… FROM THE CONGRESSIONAL RECORD, 1985: LIEUTENANT GENERAL EUGENE TIGHE, USAF (Retired), Former Director…
RIPPLE SALVO… #921… ON 11 SEPTEMBER 1968 THE CHAIRMAN OF THE JOINT CHIEFS OF STAFF presented…
RIPPLE SALVO… #920… HUMBLE HOST HAS PULLED THE DOCUMENT THAT PROVIDED SECRETARY CLIFFORD THE JOINT…
RIPPLE SALVO… #919… ON 31 MARCH 1968 PRESIDENT JOHNSON DREW THE LINE ON ROLLING THUNDER…
RIPPLE SALVO… #918… “NOW I WANT YOU TO KNOW ONE THING. IF I DON’T HAVE…
RIPPLE SALVO… #917… A DIALOGUE OF THE DEAF: “…a situation in which people share their views…
RIPPLE SALVO… #916… NYT, 6-SEPT-68, PAGE 1: “408 U.S. SOLDIERS KILLED IN A WEEK–Toll is Highest…
RIPPLE SALVO… #915… AT THE DEMOCRATIC NATIONAL CONVENTION TENS OF THOUSANDS OF ANTI-VIETNAM WAR PROTESTERS WENT…
RIPPLE SALVO… #914…EBB TIDE: “the tide at ebb; a period of decline”… “JOHNSON FEELS THE LIMITS…
RIPPLE SALVO… #913… THE FALL OF 1968 WAS A TIME OF TRANSITION FROM ORDERLY TO CHAOTIC…
RIPPLE SALVO… #912… THE LAST TWO MONTHS OF ROLLING THUNDER TOLD IN TWO PAGES FROM THE HISTORY…
RIPPLE SALVO… #911.. MEDDLE: “TO INTERFERE WITHOUT RIGHT OR PROPRIETY”… TAMPER: “TO…
RIPPLE SALVO… #910… THE AIR FORCE SOUTHEAST ASIA MONOGRAPH SERIES includes an essay entitled “The Air…
RIPPLE SALVO… #909… THE WEEKLY U.S. CASUALTIES ARE IN: 308 KIA AND 1,134 WIA…BUT THAT’S…
RIPPLE SALVO… #908… IN MY THOUGHTS THIS 29 AUGUST… LTJG MIKE ALLARD; CAPTAIN KEN ROBINSON…
RIPPLE SALVO… #907… A POLITICAL PARTY PLATFORM IS A FORMAL SET OF PRINCIPLE GOALS WHICH ARE…
RIPPLE SALVO… #906… AND A NEW YORK TIMES READER WRITES: “TO THE EDITOR: The ruthless…
RIPPLE SALVO… #905… THE ENEMIES OF THE UNITED STATES DELIGHT IN OUR DEMOCRATIC FREE-FOR-ALL GENERAL ELECTION…
RIPPLE SALVO… #904… THE DEMOCRATS WERE MUSTERED IN CHICAGO TO SELECT THEIR CANDIDATE TO RUN AGAINST…
RIPPLE SALVO… #903 … WOODY HAYES (According to Darrell Royal): “THREE THINGS CAN HAPPEN WHEN YOU THROW…
RIPPLE SALVO… #902… “”THE BOMBING OF NORTH VIETNAM” WAS THE ISSUE OF THE MONTH. The…
RIPPLE SALVO… #901… ON 22 AUGUST 1968 AMBASSADOR AVERELL HARRIMAN, THE SENIOR NEGOTIATOR FOR THE UNITED…
RIPPLE SALVO… #900… ON 21 AUGUST 1967, SKIPPER PROFILET LED HIS A-6 INTRUDERS ON A…
RIPPLE SALVO… #899… THE USUAL BUNCH GATHERED FOR LUNCH AT THE WHITE HOUSE ON TUESDAY, 20…
RIPPLE SALVO… #898… ON THE EVENING OF 19 AUGUST 1968 PRESIDENT JOHNSON SPOKE TO THE VETERANS…
RIPPLE SALVO… #897… A READER’S LETTER ON PEACE TALKS, A COLUMNIST GETS AN OPINION FROM A…
RIPPLE SALVO… #896… FIFTY YEARS AGO, ON 17 AUGUST 1968, CAPTAIN RICHARD G. RUTAN, USAF, “MISTY…
RIPPLE SALVO… #895… HUMBLE HOST HAS A FEW WORDS IN SUPPORT OF THE VIETNAM VETERANS MEMORIAL…
RIPPLE SALVO… #894…Humble Host is a half-day late and missed the usual 3AM deadline… the old…
RIPPLE SALVO… #893… AIRCRAFT ACCIDENTS, VEHICLE ACCIDENTS, DISEASE, HOMICIDES, STROKES, DROWNINGS, SUICIDES: the other enemies of…
RIPPLE SALVO… #892… HUMBLE HOST SPENT SUNDAY IN THE HANGAR IN HARD DOWN STATUS … UTAH…
RIPPLE SALVO… #890… IMAGINE A WORLD WHERE EVERY VOICED OR WRITTEN CRITICISM REQUIRED A COMPANION “BETTER IDEA.”…….
RIPPLE SALVO…#889… ON THE NIGHT OF 11-12 AUGUST 1965 LTJG DON BROWN’s VA-23 “BLACK KNIGHT” A-4E…
RIPPLE SALVO… #888… 9 JULY 1968: MEMORANDUM FOR: Director of Central Intelligence; SUBJECT: New Book: THE…
RIPPLE SALVO… #887… AMONG THE MANY BEAUTIES OF TACTICAL AVIATION IS THE FACT THAT THE MORE…
RIPPLE SALVO… #886… TO WHICH THE SECRETARY OF STATE SAID: “YOU NEVER CAN TELL WHEN THEY WILL…
RIPPLE SALVO… #885… Humble Host respectfully requests a mite of forbearance… a 50 year old news…
RIPPLE SALVO… #884… NYT, MIAMI BEACH, 5 AUG– “A SMILING NIXON ARRIVES, CONFIDENT OF NOMINATION”… “With a…
RIPPLE SALVO… #883… A WEEKEND BOOK REPORT… AMERICAN IMPERIALISM: A Speculative Essay by Ernest R….
RIPPLE SALVO… #882… WHEN LAST WE LEFT SECRETARY OF DEFENSE CLIFFORD (7/68) … “After five months of…
RIPPLE SALVO… #881… PROPAGANDA: “IDEAS, FACTS, OR ALLEGATIONS SPREAD DELIBERATELY TO FURTHER ONE’S CAUSE OR TO…
GOOD MORNING… Day EIGHT HUNDRED EIGHTY of a strike-fighter’s contribution to the commemoration of the 50th…
On this day HUMBLE HOST SALUTES: BGEN KENNETH WALTER NORTH, USAF (1930-2010) and the dynamic…
RTR SALUTES: COLONEL WILLIAM DAVID BURROUGHS, USAF (1932-1999) and COMMANDER CHARLES P. ZUHOSKI, USN (retired)… RIPPLE…
HIGHLIGHT: 50 YEARS AGO COMMANDER GUY CANE, VF-53, BAGGED A MiG-17… oohrah… RIPPLE SALVO… #877… JULY 30…
RIPPLE SALVO… #876… ON 29 JULY 1967 DISASTER STRUCK THE USS FORRESTAL … On 29 July 2017…
RIPPLE SALVO… #875… ON 28 JULY 1967, FIRST LIEUTENANT KARL W. RICHTER, USAF, WAS KILLED IN…
RIPPLE SALVO… #874… THIS IS THE 53rd ANNIVERSARY OF ONE OF THE MOST TRAGIC LESSONS OF…
RIPPLE SALVO… #873… A VOICE FROM THE NOT TOO DISTANT PAST–PAUL HARVEY. AND WHAT A VOICE…
RIPPLE SALVO… #872… HUMBLE HOST SPENDS MORE TIME IN THE WEBER COUNTY LIBRARY EVERY WEEK THAN…
RIPPLE SALVO… #871… HUMBLE HOST HAS LOST FOCUS… FROM EVERY CORNER COMES BAD NEWS–GRIZZLIES ARE MISBEHAVING…
RIPPLE SALVO… #870… AN INDELIBLE LESSON FROM THE VIETNAM WAR… SELECTIVE SERVICE!!!…THE DRAFT… We entered…
RIPPLE SALVO… #869… SATURDAY NIGHT SPECIAL (short one)… ABRAHAM LINCOLN: “People are about as happy as…
RIPPLE SALVO… #868… HUMBLE HOST IS IN THE GRIP OF A REMEMBRANCE OF SAN FRANCISCO IN…
RIPPLE SALVO… #867… “…DON’T FORGET THE VIETNAM POW’s AND MIAs”… That was the “header” for the…
RIPPLE SALVO… #866… TREATY: ” AN AGREEMENT MADE BY NEGOTIATION OR DIPLOMACY BETWEEN TWO OR MORE STATES…
RIPPLE SALVO… #865… ANOTHER WAY TO SAY “ON THE SKIDS” WOULD BE: “ON A SLIPPERY SLOPE”……
CELEBRATE INDEPENDENCE DAY… “as the Day of Deliverance by solemn Acts of Devotion to God Almighty…”…
COMMEMORATING THE 50TH ANNIVERSARY of the VIETNAM WAR…1961-1973… AND THE 75TH ANNIVERSARY OF D-DAY… LEST WE…
THE QUESTION OF EARLY RELEASE — the “repatriation proposition”– for American POWs of the North Vietnamese……
RIPPLE SALVO… #863… AS THE LEADERS OF THE UNITED STATES AND RUSSIA MEET EYE-TO-EYE IN HELSINKI…
RIPPLE SALVO… #862… “JUST BEFORE CHRISTMAS (1970) THE FEW MEN STILL BEING HELD IN THE HEARTBREAK…
RIPPLE SALVO…#861… HUMBLE HOST’s applecart remains topsyturvy and under repair… In the interim, I am pleased…
RIPPLE SALVO… #860… PAUSES IN ROLLING THUNDER OPERATIONS– BOMBING HALTS– WERE PART OF A STRATEGY OF…
RIPPLE SALVO… #859… “THE VARMINT CALLER”… HUMBLE HOST IS RECALLING A FOGGY FRIDAY MORNING AT THE…
RIPPLE SALVO… #858… NEW YORK TIMES, 12 JULY 1968, Page 4: “2nd MIG SHOT DOWN OVER…
RIPPLE SALVO… #857… SUN TZU: THE ART OF WAR… “IF YOU KNOW THE ENEMY AND YOU…
RIPPLE SALVO… #856… IN 1969 NOVELIST FLETCHER KNEBEL WROTE A NOVEL TITLED TRESPASS. The story line imagined…
RIPPLE SALVO… #855… PETER BRAESTRUP WAS THE PREMIER JOURNALIST IN-COUNTRY DURING THE VIETNAM WAR. How do…
RIPPLE SALVO… #854… ON 7 JULY 1966 CAPTAIN JACK HARVEY TOMES MADE HIS LAST STRIKE SORTIE…
RIPPLE SURVIVAL… #853… COMMENTATOR MAX LERNER, 1975… “THE PARAMOUNT PURPOSE OF A NATION IS SURVIVAL… ”…
RIPPLE SALVO… #852… ON 5 JULY 1968 A FORMATION OF F-4D PHANTOMS OF THE 433rd TFS and…
WE CELEBRATE INDEPENDENCE DAY… “as the Day of Deliverance by solemn Acts of Devotion to God…
RIPPLE SALVO… #850… ISRAELI DEFENSE FORCES CHIEF OF STAFF, AND THE HERO OF THE SINAI PENINSULA CAMPAIGN…
RIPPLE SALVO… #849… “DOES THE END JUSTIFY THE MEANS?”… “Life and how you live it is…
RIPPLE SALVO… #848… ON HIS FIRST MISSION AS A COMBAT SAR PARARESCUEMAN (Jumper) AIRMAN JOEL TALLEY…
RIPPLE SALVO… #847… “THE BULLPUP WAS THE FIRST MASS-PRODUCED AIR-SURFACE COMMAND GUIDED MISSILE, IT WAS FIRST…
…AND A REMEMBRANCE OF COLONEL JAMES HELMS KASLER, USAF (1926-2014)… RIPPLE SALVO… #846… “A BODY COUNT…
… AND A REMEMBRANCE OF VICE ADMIRAL WILLIAM P. LAWRENCE, USN (1930-2005)… RIPPLE SALVO… #845… “KHESAHN…
RIPPLE SALVO… #844… ON 27 JUNE 1966 LIEUTENANT COMMANDER GENE ALBERT SMITH LAUNCHED FROM USS CONSTELLATION…
RIPPLE SALVO… #843… BOMBING TO WIN: AIR POWER AND COERCION IN WAR, author Robert A. Pape’s…
RIPPLE SALVO… #842… FROM THOMAS POWERS’ VIETNAM: THE WAR AT HOME: “OPPONENTS OF THE WAR FOUND…
RIPPLE SALVO… #841… “PUBLIC OPINION TOOK A JOLT ON JUNE 24 (1968) WHEN A YOUNG CORRESPONDENT IN…
RIPPLE SALVO… #840… “WALKING ON WATER IS AN EXAMPLE OF A SUPERHUMAN TASK. IT MAY REFER…
RIPPLE SALVO… #839… One year ago this day Ripple Salvo #474 posted the tale of the…
RIPPLE SALVO… #838… “THE SILENCE OF THE PRESIDENT’S CRITICS ON THE BOMBING OF SAIGON,”she answered, and…
RIPPLE SALVO… #837… A short letter to the Editor of the New York Times dated 11…
RIPPLE SALVO… #836… THIS WEEK FIFTY YEARS AGO The New York Times’ JAMES RESTON wrote a…
RIPPLE SALVO… #835… GEORGE C. HERRING is the source for this Salvo… “The circumstances of the…
RIPPLE SALVO… #834… AUTHOR JULES WITCOMB’s THE YEAR THE DREAM DIED: Revisiting 1968 in America, makes…
RIPPLE SALVO… #833… NYT, 16 JUNE 1968, PAGE 1: “NEW FIGHT FLARES AT SAIGON’S EDGE; SHELLING…
RIPPLE SALVO… #832… ON 2 JULY 1968 THE CHIEF OF STAFF OF THE UNITED STATES ARMY,…
RIPPLE SALVO… #831… ON THE 53rd ANNIVERSARY OF THE DAY LARRY GUARINO WENT TO JAIL… IN…
RIPPLE SALVO… #831… NO, THAT WAS NOT PRESIDENT TRUMP, WHO, ON 12 JUNE 2018, WAS GETTING THE BALL…
RIPPLE SALVO… #830… PRESIDENT”S DAILY BRIEF for 12 JUNE 1968 (CIA TS-SI declass)…SOUTH VIETNAM: “The persistent…
RIPPLE SALVO… #829… AMONG THE BRAVE: COLONEL HERVEY STUDDIFORD STOCKMAN, USAF (1922-2011)… On 11 June 1967 Lieutenant Colonel Stockman,…
RIPPLE SALVO… #828… “HEADING HOME…HAVING SERVED FIFTY-FOUR MONTHS IN VIETNAM, IN ADDITION TO THIRTY-NINE MONTHS ABROAD…
RIPPLE SALVO… #827… STATE DEPARTMENT. OFFICE OF HISTORIAN. HISTORICAL DOCUMENT. FOREIGN RELATIONS. VIETNAM 1964-68. DOCUMENT 265….
RIPPLE SALVO… #825… THE KOSYGIN LETTER OF 6 JUNE 1968. ROSTOW to LBJ: “THE ATTACHED LETTER TO…
RIPPLE SALVO… #824… THE 74th ANNIVERSARY OF D-DAY HAS COME AND GONE. THE SCENES FROM WASHINGTON…
RIPPLE SALVO… #823… FIFTY-FOUR YEARS AGO THIS DAY NAVY LT. CHARLES FREDERICK KLUSMANN, FLYING AN RF-8A…
RIPPLE SALVO… #822… WEDNESDAY MORNING, 5 JUNE 1968 NYT: “KENNEDY SHOT AND GRAVELY WOUNDED”… NYT, OPED,…
RIPPLE SALVO… #821… NYT, 2 JUNE 1968… “JOHNSON GETS THE WORD FROM PARIS AND SAIGON”… In…
RIPPLE SALVO… #820… NYT, 26 MAY 1968: “CONFLICTING PRESSURES…This year the weariness has been compounded by frustration. Congress…
RIPPLE SALVO… #819… ON SUNDAY, 2 JUNE 1968, ABC WITH FRANK REYNOLDS as moderator, TELEVISED A PACKED…
RIPPLE SALVO… #818… AP (27 May 2017): “AFTER 52 YEARS, THE REMAINS OF A NAVY PILOT…
RIPPLE SALVO… #817… TALES OF GREAT COURAGE FROM 31 MAY DAYS-AND-NIGHTS OF OPERATION ROLLING THUNDER…The stories…
RIPPLE SALVO… #816… THE RTR POST FOR 25 MAY, INCLUDING RIPPLE SALVO #811, CITED TWO REFERENCES…
RIPPLE SALVO… #815… BALTIMORE, MAY 17…NINE OPPONENTS OF THE VIETNAM WAR, SIX OF THEM PRESENT OR…
RIPPLE SALVO… #814… “A DAY TO REMEMBER”… “Memorial Day is all the more poignant in time…
RIPPLE SALVO… #813… NO SUGAR COATING FROM THE PRESIDENT’S SCIENCE ADVISORY COMMITTEE (PSAC) IN THEIR 27…
RIPPLE SALVO… #812… AND THE QUESTION WAS:… WHAT ARE OUR VIETNAM WAR PEACE NEGOTIATORS DOING THESE…
RIPPLE SALVO… #811… FROM SECRETARY CLARK CLIFFORD’S MEMOIR COUNSEL TO THE PRESIDENT…and State Department Historical Document #241…
RIPPLE SALVO… #810… GENERAL GEORGE PATTON, JR. WAS AN ADVOCATE FOR THE CLASSIC FLANKING MANEUVER–Hold the…
RIPPLE SALVO… #809… “MILITARIZED”– “THE HEAVY FIGHTING AND TROOP MOVEMENTS AROUND AND IN THE VIETNAM DEMILITARIZED…
RIPPLE SALVO… #808… NYT, 24 MAY 68, Page 1: “JOHNSON SAYS U.S. WON’T LET FOE WIN…
RIPPLE SALVO… #807… WITH HIS 31 MARCH 1968 SPEECH TO THE NATION PRESIDENT JOHNSON TOOK HIMSELF…
RIPPLE SALVO… XUAN THUY for NORTH VIETNAM: “President Johnson has been asked the question: ‘Who has…
RIPPLE SALVO… #805… “TASK FORCE OMEGA, INC. IS IN THE FOREFRONT OF NATIONAL PRISONER OF WAR…
RIPPLE SALVO… #804… HUMBLE HOST IS OLD. I HAVE BEEN AROUND SO LONG I KNOW WHAT’S…
RIPPLE SALVO… #803… COLONEL JAMES HAGERSTROM, Director of Air Control Systems at Udorn in 1968… “If…
RIPPLE SALVO… #802… WITH THE PRESIDENT’S 31 MARCH 1968 DECISION TO LIMIT ROLLING THUNDER TO TARGETS…
RIPPLE SALVO… #801… HUMBLE HOST CALLS IT FORTUITOUS THAT THIS REVIEW OF THE PEACE TALKS WHILE…
RIPPLE SALVO… #800… OOHRAH… A GREAT OCCASION TO VISIT OUR POWs… Where are the POWs on the agenda…
RIPPLE SALVO… #799… AH, THE IRONY OF IT ALL… DRAW A TEN TO TWENTY-FIVE MILE CIVILIAN…
RIPPLE SALVO… #798… AT THE SAME TIME–MAY 1968–SECRETARY OF DEFENSE CLIFFORD WAS PUTTING TOGETHER THE “STRONGEST…
RIPPLE SALVO… #797… SECRETARY OF STATE CLIFFORD: THE PRESIDENT’S DILEMMA WAS WANTING AN HONORABLE EXIT FROM…
RIPPLE SALVO… #796… BEATEN AT KHE SANH THE NORTH VIETNAMESE PULLED BACK IN TO THE LAOTIAN MOUNTAINS TO…
RIPPLE SALV0… #795… IN THE HALCYON DAYS FOLLOWING WORLD WAR II PRESIDENT HARRY TRUMAN ARRANGED A…
RIPPLE SALVO… #794… 8 MAY 1968 MESSAGE FROM VADM HORACE H. EPES, JR. to HELICOPTER COMBAT…
RIPPLE SALVO… #793… ON 4 APRIL 1968 DR. MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR. WAS ASSASSINATED IN MEMPHIS,…
RIPPLE SALVO… #792… NEW YORK TIMES, 5 MAY 1968: “The United States had a reasonable case…
RIPPLE SALVO… #791… THE NEW YORK TIMES WEIGHS IN WITH A “GRAY LADY” OPINION… RTR…
RIPPLE SALVO… #790… LET THE PEACE TALKS BEGIN…. IN PARIS… but first… GOOD MORNING: Day SEVEN…
RIPPLE SALVO… #789… ON 3 MAY 1968 THE NEW YORK TIMES USED FOUR FULL PAGES (31-34)…
RIPPLE SALVO… #788… “DAMAGE ASSESSMENT OF THE COMPROMISE OF OPERATIONAL INTELLIGENCE BROADCAST MESSAGE ON BOARD USS…
RIPPLE SALVO… #787… “MAY: PASSIONS RISING” is the title hung on Chapter Six of Jules Witcover’s THE YEAR…
RIPPLE SALVO… #786… “THE HORRORS OF WAR”… WHEN GENERAL ROBERT E. LEE MADE THE DECISION TO…
RIPPLE SALVO… #785… POLITICAL WRITER AND COLUMNIST HENRY J. TAYLOR PULLED NO PUNCHES IN HIS COMMENTARY on…
RIPPLE SALVO… #784… SYNDICATED COLUMNIST JOSEPH ALSOP WAS PUT TO TEARS ATTENDING AN ARMY AWARDS CEREMONY AT LANDING…
RIPPLE SALVO… #783… REMEMBER PROFESSIONAL BOXER ARCHIE MOORE?… WON 186 OF 219 PRO FIGHTS WITH 141…
RIPPLE SALVO… #782… “NICHOLAS VON HOFFMAN, THE SAUL ALINSKY (RULES FOR RADICALS) DISCIPLE TURNED NEWSPAPER REPORTER…
RIPPLE SALVO… #781 (continued)… “THE COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY PROTESTS OF 1968 WERE ONE AMONG THE VARIOUS DEMONSTRATIONS…
RIPPLE SALVO… #780… WHILE THE FORD MOTOR CO. WAS TURNING OUT 1966, ’67 AND ’68 MUSTANGS…
RIPPLE SALVO… #779… NATIONAL COLUMNIST AND HISTORIAN HOLMES ALEXANDER MAKES THE CASE: “A real state of…
RIPPLE SALVO… #778… FIFTY-TWO YEARS AGO THIS DAY, 22 APRIL 1966, CAPTAIN CHARLES GRAHAM BOYD, USAF,…
RIPPLE SALVO… #777… WILLIAM STRAUSS an NEIL HOWE… wrote in 1997… “AN AMERICAN PROPHECY“ … “Around the…
HUMBLE HOST NOTE: rollingthunderremembered for 19 April 1968 (Ripple Salvo #775) was posted PM 19 April…
RIPPLE SALVO… #775… In 1997 WILLIAM STRAUSS and NEIL HOWE published “THE FOURTH TURNING, An American…
RIPPLE SALVO… #774… THE ROLLING THUNDER OPS ANALYSIS GURUS HAD IT FIGURED OUT. The odds of getting…
RIPPLE SALVO… #773… IN APRIL 1968 THE U.S. STATE DEPARTMENT WAS WORKING HARD TO GET NEGOTIATIONS…
RIPPLE SALVO… #772… IT WAS ONE OF THOSE TIMES, APRIL 1968, WHEN OUR COUNTRY MET THE…
RIPPLE SALVO… #771… ON 15 APRIL 1968 AMERICAN ESSAYIST HENRY J. TAYLOR POSTED A COLUMN TITLED…
RIPPLE SALVO… #770… (1) HUMBLE HOST COMMENTS ON THE ATTACK ON SYRIAN WMD TARGETS….and… (2) COLUMNIST HENRY…
RIPPLE SALVO… #769… PRINCETON-EDUCATED MAYOR OF SHANGHAI K.C. WU QUOTED IN 1945 ON AMERICAN IMPATIENCE WITH THE…
RIPPLE SALVO… #768… CYRUS LEO SULZBERGER, “A PRIZE-WINNING FOREIGN CORRESPONDENT AND FOREIGN AFFAIRS COLUMNIST FOR THE…
RIPPLE SALVO… #767… WALTER LaFEBER’s THE DEADLY BET: LBJ, VIETNAM AND THE 1968 ELECTIONS: Borrowing and…
RIPPLE SALVO… #766… “THE BOOM OF THE FIRST AMERICAN BOMB IN NORTH VIETNAM IN 1964 SIGNALED…
RIPPLE SALVO… #765… A 1966 BOOK BY EDMUND STILLMAN and WILLIAM PFAFF… Humble Host quotes a…
RIPPLE SALVO… #764… A JOSEPH ALSOP REPORT FROM THE MARINE BASTION and an ASSOCIATED PRESS REPORT…
RIPPLE SALVO… #763… “AMERICANS CANNOT SOLVE ALL THE PROBLEMS OF THE WORLD”… A Congressman responds to…
RIPPLE SALVO… #762… A 1972 Cornell University study concluded that “a cessation of U.S. air activity…
RIPPLE SALVO… #761… President Johnson drew the line on Rolling Thunder operations in his 31 March…
RIPPLE SALVO… #760… THE SEVEN DAY BATTLE REPORT … AND… A REQUEST FOR “ARDENT PRAYER” by…
RIPPLE SALVO… #759… THE TET OFFENSIVE and the SIEGE OF KHESANH… where the allies won the battles–tactical successes–but…
RIPPLE SALVO… #758… ALASKA’s JUNIOR SENATOR MIKE GRAVEL was instrumental, a driving force, in publishing “THE…
RIPPLE SALVO… #757… THE SPEECH: LBJ SAYS: DE-ESCALATE, AND IT’S SOMEBODY ELSE’S TURN TO DEAL WITH…
RIPPLE SALVO…#756… THE FINAL MONTHS OF THE STRATEGIC ASPECTS OF OPERATION ROLLING THUNDER…and a historical document…
RIPPLE SALVO… #755… SELECTING THE TARGETS FOR VIETNAM AIR STRIKE OPERATIONS… THE WHITE HOUSE LUNCH BUNCH…
RIPPLE SALVO… #754… THE JCS TARGET LIST AND TUESDAY LUNCH BUNCH PICKING TARGETS GOES OUT THE…
RIPPLE SALVO… #753… PRESIDENT JOHNSON ONCE DESCRIBED HIS TERM AS PRESIDENT TO BE “SPLENDID MISERY.” In his book VANTAGE…
RIPPLE SALVO… #752… A PROCLAMATION: ON THE 50TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE VIETNAM WAR and OPERATION ROLLING…
RIPPLE SALVO… #751… THE LAST DAYS OF MARTIN LUTHER KING. Nobody saw it coming. With the…
RIPPLE SALVO… #750… SEVEN STATE DEPARTMENT HISTORICAL DOCUMENTS constitute Humble Host’s contribution to your Sunday reading……
RIPPLE SALVO… #749… JAMES RESTON in the New York Times, 24 March 1968… “Dean Rusk says…
RIPPLE SALVO… #748… “THE STRATEGY OF THE WEAK IS THE CHOSEN STRATEGY OF IDEALISTS AND IDEOLOGUES….
RIPPLE SALVO… #747… ON THIS DAY FIFTY YEARS AGO LIEUTENANT COLONEL TED GUY BECAME A POW…
RIPPLE SALVO… #746… WISE MEN FRONT AND CENTER… Dean Acheson, George Ball, McGeorge Bundy, General Omar…
RIPPLE SALVO… #745… “AFTER TET”… “The subsequent sweeping but quick re-evaluation of U.S.-Vietnam policy brought to…
RIPPLE SALVO… #744… It was Monday, March 18, and Senator Robert F. Kennedy was scheduled to…
COMMEMORATING THE 50TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE VIETNAM WAR (1961-1973)… WITH EXTENDED COMMENT ON THE SECRET BOMBING…
RIPPLE SALVO… #743… “ENEMY TAUNTS…Speculation over where the enemy will strike next in South Vietnam seems…
RIPPLE SALVO… #742… “ATTACKS PRESSED DAILY… Despite continuously bad weather that has kept the outpost obscured…
RIPPLE SALVO… #741… ALL HANDS ON DECK. TELEGRAMS. MEMORANDUM. STUDIES. REPORTS. LETTERS. TELEPHONE CALLS. BRIEFINGS. MEETINGS….
RIPPLE SALVO… #740… ON 31 MARCH 1968 PRESIDENT JOHNSON GAVE A SPEECH FROM THE OVAL OFFICE…
RIPPLE SALVO… #739… HUMBLE HOST CONCLUDES: THE UNITED STATES IS IN THE GRIP OF A 21st…
RIPPLE SALVO… #738… HUMBLE HOST came upon a news item in the NYT for 13 March…
RIPPLE SALVO… #737… NYT, 11-MAR-1968, PAGE 40: “SUICIDAL ESCALATION”… “If events of the past six weeks…
RIPPLE SALVO… #736… THE HISTORIC SIEGE OF KHESANH BEGAN ON 21 JANUARY 1968 AND ENDED 7…
RIPPLE SALVO … #735… “WESTMORELAND REQUESTS 206,000 MORE TROOPS STIRRING DEBATE IN ADMINISTRATION–FORCE NOW 510,000–SOME IN…
RIPPLE SALVO… #734… In March 1968, about half-time in the Vietnam war, the Johnson Administration was…
RIPPLE SALVO… #733… “POWER TENDS TO CONFUSE ITSELF WITH VIRTUE AND A GREAT NATION IS PARTICULARLY…
RIPPLE SALVO… #732… The “PBD” is a major American historical document that emerges from the Director…
RIPPLE SALVO… #731… PARADOX: A TENET CONTRARY TO RECEIVED OPINION… Reston writes: “We have never had…
RIPPLE SALVO… #730… “IN HIS SEVEN YEARS IN THE PENTAGON, MR. McNAMARA NOT ONLY SERVED LONGER…
RIPPLE SALVO… #729… ON SUNDAY, 3 MARCH 1968 JAMES RESTON WROTE: “…In the ‘briefing room’ at…
RIPPLE SALVO… #728… THE FACE AND PACE OF OPERATION ROLLING THUNDER WAS ABOUT TO CHANGE. Or,…
RIPPLE SALVO… #727… NYT, OPED: “It is evident that something is fundamentally wrong with both the…
RIPPLE SALVO… #726… Humble Host interrupts the remembrance of the air war called Rolling Thunder to…
RIPPLE SALVO… #725… 1968 was a leap year with an extra day… Humble Host will stick…
RIPPLE SALVO… #724… CHAIRMAN, JOINT CHIEFS OF STAFF GENERAL WHEELER VIETNAM TRIP REPORT: “WESTMORELAND NEEDS MORE…
RIPPLE SALVO… #SEVEN HUNDRED TWENTY-THREE… NYT, 25-FEB-68, Page E-1: “MR. JOHNSON KNOWS,TOO, THAT MORE–PERHAPS A GREAT…
RIPPLE SALVO… #722… TODAY– A FEW GROUPS FOR THE MEDIUM ATTACK MUD MOVERS… My admiration and…
RIPPLE SALVO… #721… IT WAS NAVY CROSS NIGHT ON THE HANOI WATERFRONT FOR COMMANDERS GLENN KOLLMANN…
RIPPLE SALVO… #719… NEW YORK TIMES, 23-FEB-68, Page 1: “U.S. KILLED-IN-ACTION IN LAST WEEK 543, A…
PRESIDENT GEORGE WASHINGTON: Born 22 February 1732, died 14 December 1799. “If the freedom of speech…
RIPPLE SALVO… #718… Three weeks into the countrywide Tet Offensive the JCS and all the President’s…
RIPPLE SALVO… #717… USA TODAY IDENTIFIES 1968 as a “VIOLENT VOLCANO THAT NEVER STOPPED ERUPTING IN…
RIPPLE SALVO… #716… USS CONSTELLATION CRUISES OFFSHORE SAN DIEGO FOR A SATURDAY NIGHT PRESIDENTIAL VISIT…LBJ tells…
“…HE APPEARS TENSE AND AWARE OF U.S. FRUSTRATIONS”… RIPPLE SALVO… #715… LBJ (16-Feb-68): “We will have…
RIPPLE SALVO… #714… THE DRAFT: “In the name of greater equity–which is long overdue–the Selective Service…
RIPPLE SALVO… #713… POOR LBJ. POOR UNCLE SAM. Surprised by the Tet Offensive, the seizure of…
RIPPLE SALVO… #712… Last hurrah: “…any final attempt, competition, performance, success or the like.”… The window…
RIPPLE SALVO… #711… “… SEVENTH AIR FORCE used a rare day of clear weather–14 February 1968–to…
RIPPLE SALVO… #710… THANK YOU HUNGARY… As a consequence of the Hungarian diplomats suggestion, as the…
RIPPLE SALVO… #709… One hundred sixty years ago in 1858 a young Abraham Lincoln jumped on…
RIPPLE SALVO… #708… IS A POLITICAL AND MILITARY STALEMATE THE UNAVOIDABLE OUTCOME OF THE VIETNAM WAR?……
RIPPLE SALVO… #707… McNAMARA: “THERE SEEMS TO BE NO ALTERNATIVE EXCEPT TO HOLD IT, AND PUT…
RIPPLE SALVO… #706… “THE UNITED STATES WAS SURPRISED BY THE 1968 TET OFFENSIVE…” Why? … Didn’t…
RIPPLE SALVO… #705… Associated Press, Feb. 6–“Attack and counterattack widened across South Vietnam today…Large sections of…
RIPPLE SALVO… #704… TET WAS OPPORTUNITY!!!. PASSED UP…. It was a SURPRISE SNEAK ATTACK initiated under…
RIPPLE SALVO… #703… LEADING CANDIDATES FOR THE REPUBLICAN PRESIDENTIAL NOMINATION, FORMER VICE PRESIDENT RICHARD NIXON and…
RIPPLE SALVO… #702… XO SAYS: NO LIBERTY until you sign off on REAR ADMIRAL DENNY WISELY’S…
RIPPLE SALVO… #701… A CHOICE: THE PROTRACTED PACE OF THE TURTLE, OR THE BLITZKRIEG SPEED OF…
RIPPLE SALVO… #700… “The Senate Foreign Relations Committee decided today (30-Jan-68) to re-examine the Administration’s account…
RIPPLE SALVO… #699… NYT, 2-FEB-68, PAGE 1: “He conferred the MEDAL OF HONOR on Major MERLYN…
RIPPLE SALVO… #698… HANSON BALDWIN: PUBLIC OPINION IN U.S. AND SOUTH VIETNAM VIEWED AS MAIN TARGET…
RIPPLE SALVO…#697… TO PARAPHRASE A NEW YORK TIMES OPED FROM 50 YEARS AGO… As President Trump…
RIPPLE SALVO… #696… “SPECTERS OF DIEN BIEN PHU HAD DANCED BEFORE THE EYES OF THE AMERICANS….
RIPPLE SALVO… #695… TOM WICKER, The New York Times… “Giap has put this force together and…
RIPPLE SALVO… #694… Q. SENATOR MARGARET SMITH: “Mr. CLIFFORD: do you favor cessation of bombing of…
RIPPLE SALVO… #693… THE PRESIDENT GETS ON THE TUBE with USS Pueblo and a bad week…
RIPPLE SALVO… #692… REMEMBERING LCDR NORMAN E. EIDSMOE and LT MICHAEL E. DUNN of the ATTACK…
RIPPLE SALVO… #691… “THE RESCUE OF COMMANDER TOM WOOLCOCK” …The fleet’s search and rescue forces saved…
RIPPLE SALVO… #690… CURRENT STATUS, PROGRESS, AND THE PLAN FOR THE RELENTLESS SEARCH FOR THE MISSING…
RIPPLE SALVO… #689…THE WHITE HOUSE ON THE DAY OF THE PUEBLO SEIZURE… A few minutes before…
RIPPLE SALVO… #686… HOW THIN WERE WE?… “…at the time of the Pueblo Incident (23-Jan-68) no…
RIPPLE SALVO… #685… The Bear defers to Doctor Brown Bear to wrap-up the historic Operation Rolling…
RIPPLE SALVO… #684… and high-lighted in the New York Times… IN THE VAN: “FOREMOST PART OF…
RIPPLE SALVO… #683… “…BECAUSE WHEN A GREAT SHIP CUTS THROUGH THE SEA THE WATERS ARE STIRRED…
RIPPLE SALVO… #682… HUMBLE HOST respectfully requests your assistance in raising awareness of the ongoing “Commemoration…
RIPPLE SALVO… #681… ON JANUARY 17, 1968, PRESIDENT LYNDON JOHNSON DELIVERED HIS ANNUAL MESSAGE ON THE…
RIPPLE SALVO… #680… Fighter-bomber pilot, intrepid Rolling Thunder gladiator, defiant prisoner of war, teacher, mentor, diplomat,…
RIPPLE SALVO… #679… NYT, 15-Jan-68, Page 3: “LAOTIANS SAY FOE SEEKS A NEW TRAIL–NORTH VIETNAMESE REPORTED…
RIPPLE SALVO… #678… KNIGHT NEWSPAPERMAN DON OBERDORFER INTERVIEWED LGEN FREDERICK WEYAND and detected “a whiff of…
RIPPLE SALVO… #677… 12 January 1967, DR. MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR.: “THIS NEXT YEAR, FROM TODAY…
RIPPLE SALVO… #676… GOING DOWNTOWN IS GETTING TOUGHER… HOW TOUGH IS IT?… but first… Good Morning:…
RIPPLE SALVO… #675… A DAY TO REMEMBER AN OLD SHIPMATE… CAPTAIN DENIS R. WEICHMAN, USN…and… PART…
RIPPLE SALVO… #674… COMUSMACV Command History 1967 (TS declassified 1984)…”The enemy did not win a major…
RIPPLE SALVO… #673… An anti-war document that was written in 1967, got legs in the anti-war…
RIPPLE SALVO… #672… A LESSON IN WHAT HAPPENS WHEN YOUR GAME PLAN LEAVES A DOOR OPEN…
RIPPLE SALVO… #671… Could the pattern of military escalation that has accompanied diplomatic failures be the…
RIPPLE SALVO… #670… Humanity lost a great human being, the Navy lost a skilled coxswain, and…
RIPPLE SALVO…#669… Pentagon Papers (pg. 232): “The Corner is Turned–January-March 1968″… “The Johnson Administration began 1968…
RIPPLE SALVO… #668… Ho says: “The Americans are less able, more confused; and we are stronger…
RIPPLE SALVO… #667… A summary of what we were doing and why we were doing it;…
RIPPLE SALVO… #666… THE END OF THE TRUCE, THE RESUMPTION OF AN ENDLESS WAR… but first……
RIPPLE SALVO… Humble Host wishes all a 2018 of health, happiness and success in your individual…
RIPPLE SALVO… #664… James Reston of The New York Times sums up 1967… but first… Good…
RIPPLE SALVO… #663… TO AMERICANS OPPOSING THE WAR: “WE SHALL WIN, AND SO SHALL YOU.”…… but…
RIPPLE SALVO… #662… “The Year the Dream Died”, by Jules Witcover, is a diary of the…
RIPPLE SALVO… #661… Air Force an Marine C-130 Hercules were assigned a wide range of missions…
RIPPLE SALVO… #660… “Let us have the wisdom, the courage and the compassion TO END THE…
RIPPLE SALVO… #659… “This confrontation is disturbing and damaging, but it is inescapable in a society…
RIPPLE SALVO… #658… and ESPECIALLY RIVER RATS AND YANKEE AIR PIRATES… Christmas 1967 in Vietnam, Thailand…
RIPPLE SALVO… #657… Cease fire and keep your guard-up… while the Pope and the President meet…
RIPPLE SALVO… #656… LBJ at Korat: “The spirit of America is not to be read on…
RIPPLE SALVO… #655… …and sends a clue to what’s on his mind: The end to be…
RIPPLE SALVO… #654… “…at Christmas time the tragedy of war must weigh heavily upon the heart…
RIPPLE SALVO… #653… Admiral U.S. Grant Sharp called the Vietnam bombing pauses “temporary military disadvantages.” Colonel…
RIPPLE SALVO… #652… Part X of a review of Rolling Thunder 1967 concludes with the anatomy…
RIPPLE SALVO… #651… Part IX of 1967 Ops…During the year four stand-downs from combat ops were…
RIPPLE SALVO… #650… Part VIII of a CINCPAC/COMUSMACV review of the 1967 Rolling Thunder campaign…but firwst……
RIPPLE SALVO… #649…PART VII of a review of Operation Rolling Thunder for the year 1967… “Denying…
RIPPLE SALVO… #648… CINCPAC and COMUSMACV sum up the effort to “mine North Vietnam waters,” which…
RIPPLE SALVO… #647… Part V: North Vietnam’s Air Defense System–1967… but first… Good Morning: Day SIX…
RIPPLE SALVO… #646… The air war was sustained at high tempo and intensity through September and…
RIPPLE SALVO… #646… There will be a test…Really… Part III: an intense June, July and August…
RIPPLE SALVO… #645… Take notes, there will be a test… Part II of Review: the first…
RIPPLE SALVO… #644… Humble Host’s Ripple Salvo comments coming down the 1967 stretch will focus on…
RIPPLE SALVO… #643… Every generation has a haunting fear–the Chief Executive Officer has the authority to…
RIPPLE SALVO… #642… Edward F. Murray in the Preface to “Vietnam Medal of Honor Heroes”: “America’s…
RIPPLE SALVO… #641…The Right of Dissent is guaranteed by the Constitution, but that right comes with…
RIPPLE SALVO… #640… Major Ed Rasimus finds sunshine on the other side of “where thunder rolled.”……
RIPPLE SALVO… #639… When Major Ed Rasimus, RIP, wrote WHEN THUNDER ROLLS, he wrote for all…
RIPPLE SALVO… #638… The former Secretary of State, and one of LBJ’s Wise Men, with wisdom…
RIPPLE SALVO… #637… The New York Times laments his departure and calls him the most effective…
RIPPLE SALVO… #636… CAPTAIN DAVE LEUE’, USN, who rests in peace, left his countrymen great wisdom…
RIPPLE SALVO #635… HUMBLE HOST NOMINATES THE MVP (“Most Valuable Plane”) OF THE ROLLING THUNDER CAMPAIGN:…
RIPPLE SALVO #634… Humble Host presents the lengthy testimony of Major Sam Armstrong (en route to…
RIPPLE SALVO… #633… James Reston, New York Times: “Hanoi Prefers to say no (to LBJ’s overtures…
RIPPLE SALVO… #632… “Rolling Thunder Remembered” is air war over North Vietnam oriented, of course! But…
RIPPLE SALVO… #631… Dear Mr. President: “Your administration threatens us daily with the prospect of an…
RIPPLE SALVO… #639… “The Resistance, declared the other day ‘Ending the war in Vietnam’ transcends everything…
RIPPLE SALVO… #629… A TRAGIC DAY ON USS CORAL SEA…THE LOSS OF ONE OF THE BRAVEST…
RIPPLE SALVO… #628… James Reston looks for a little optimism in the “bleak” environment of Thanksgiving…
RIPPLE SALVO… #627… President Johnson’s Thanksgiving Day, 1967 Proclamation of 9 November 1967… Good Morning: Day…
RIPPLE SALVO… #626… JAMES RESTON questions the basis of the optimism of the honchos in Saigon……
RIPPLE SALVO… #625… The final days of the USS Intrepid and unique Carrier Air Wing TEN…
RIPPLE SALVO… #624… The long weekend of 18-20 November 1967 in the skies of North Vietnam…
RIPPLE SALVO… #623… One of the worst days of ROLLING THUNDER as nine aircraft and eleven…
RIPPLE SALVO…#622… On 18 November in the middle of “lost weekend,” where more than twenty American…
RIPPLE SALVO… #621… (1) The Rolling Thunder warriors take their lumps in the heartland on the…
RIPPLE SALVO… #620… The President gets some high price advice on how to “develop over a…
RIPPLE SALVO… #619… “… it is obvious to the whole world by now that the country…
RIPPLE SALVO… #618… ST. MARK 3:24/25… “And if a kingdom be divided against itself, that kingdom…
RIPPLE SALVO… #617… AND 55% SAY INCREASE OUR MILITARY INVOLVEMENT… but first… Good Morning: Day SIX…
RIPPLE SALVO… #616… “Now it is the North Vietnamese and Viet Cong who seem to have…
HAPPY 242nd BIRTHDAY, MARINES… and all you old warhorse vets: REAR BACK AND STRUT… RIPPLE SALVO……
RIPPLE SALVO… #613… Out of the President’s 2 November “mini-Delphi” muster of Wise Men… a summary…
RIPPLE SALVO… #613… The New York Times editorial staff questions the Administration’s facts and figures and…
RIPPLE SALVO… #612… Today our President is bolstering our nation’s diplomatic efforts to avoid a war…
RIPPLE SALVO… #611… COLONEL LEE ELLIS had an exciting day 50 years ago that changed his…
RIPPLE SALVO… #610… A day with Rear Admiral Ralph Cousins in USS CONSTELLATION… but first… Good…
RIPPLE SALVO… #609… Humble Host is honored to be able to post this tribute to a…
RIPPLE SALVO… #608… Secrecy surrounded the President’s Thursday, 2 November muster of his Wise Men to…
RIPPLE SALVO… #607… General Maxwell Taylor provides the President a choice of “reset buttons” ( Stick-it-out;…
RIPPLE SALVO… #606… The first meeting of the President’s Foreign Policy Advisors since 1965…The President’s first…
RIPPLE SALVO… #605… In his 1995 memoir “In Retrospect” Secretary of Defense Robert S. McNamara wrote…
RIPPLE SALVO… #604… Assistant Sec of State Bundy questions effectiveness of JCS campaign to isolate Haiphong…
RIPPLE SALVO… #603… First: Admiration and recognition for two great Intruder Warriors: CHARLIE HUNTER and LYLE…
RIPPLE SALVO… #602… Opinion and advice for LBJ from Nixon and Gore, Sr. on the war…
RIPPLE SALVO… #601… AMONG THE BRAVE: LIEUTENANT COLONEL THOMAS HENRY KIRK, JR., USAF, is remembered on…
RIPPLE SALVO… #600… (400 to go) What EXTRAORDINARY HEROISM looks like: COLONEL JOHN FLYNN; CAPTAIN HAL…
RIPPLE SALVO… #599… ORISKANY, CORAL SEA and CONSTELLATION hammer the Hanoi Thermal Power Plant, Phucyen Air…
RIPPLE SALVO… #598… RECOGNIZING AND REMEMBERING ON THIS DAY… LCOL RAMON ANTON HORINEK and MAJOR AQUILLA…
RIPPLE SALVO… #597… “After President Johnson had approved it as a target on 18 October 1967,…
RIPPLE SALVO… #596… President Johnson was frequently asked, “What is it like to be President?” His…
RIPPLE SALVO… #595… “THE VIETNAM DISSENT”… a house divided… Dr. Spock: “Johnson is the enemy.”…NYT: Posts…
RIPPLE SALVO… #594… Coincident with the Stennis Hearings of 11-25 August and the authorization of Rolling…
RIPPLE SALVO… #593… “PARATROOPERS AND PEACE”… A short piece from the Editorial page of the NYT…
RIPPLE SALVO… #592… 1968: “POLITICAL FOG OVER VIETNAM”…The line-up of aspirants for the Presidency a year…
RIPPLE SALVO… #591… WHAT’S GOING ON IN HANOI? WHAT ARE THEY THINKING? PEACE? or WAR?…but first……
RIPPLE SALVO… #590… “They really worked our planes yesterday, didn’t they?”… The scene was the Johnson…
RIPPLE SALVO… #589… Two historical documents: (1) A snapshot status of the ongoing-going no-where peace initiative…
RIPPLE SALVO… #588… ANYTHING TO MAKE A BUCK… In this case–fictional photos and film of our…
RIPPLE SALVO… #587… Not to worry…These journalists are citizens of the Democratic Republic of Germany…We can…
RIPPLE SALVO… #586…GENERAL NGUYEN VO GIAP PROVIDES AN APPRAISAL OF THE WAR AND AMERICAN DISCORD AT…
RIPPLE SALVO… #585… Secretary McNamara testified in closed Senate hearing on 25 August that bombing North…
RIPPLE SALVO… #584… “In every war the inequities between home front and the fighting front are…
RIPPLE SALVO… #583… INCLUDING THE BEST OF “THE SPECIAL DAILY REPORT ON NORTH VIETNAM–FOR THE PRESIDENT’S…
RIPPLE SALVO… #582… ON THIS DAY FIFTY YEARS AGO MAJOR CLEMENTS WAS NAILED BY A MIG-21…
RIPPLE SALVO… #581… On 7 October 1967 the 34th TFS of the 388th TFW removed a…
RIPPLE SALVO… #580… On 4 October 1967 the President had a conversation with Secretary McNamara that…
RIPPLE SALVO… #579… (1) Commander Carrier Air Wing TEN embarked in USS INTREPID and his bridge…
RIPPLE SALVO… #578… AIR FORCE CHIEF OF STAFF: THE “GRADUALIST” APPROACH TO THE AIR WAR COST…
RIPPLE SALVO… #577… Nothing good happens if you hide your good work under a bushel basket……
RIPPLE SALVO… #576… A DAY AT THE DAP CAU RAILROAD AND HIGHWAY BRIDGE AND THE BYPASS…
RIPPLE SALVO… #575… TWO ARTICLES on NVN SAM defenses: (1) North Vietnam “Vietnamese Courier” of 28…
RIPPLE SALVO… #574… Six weeks of a new bridge removal offensive in North Vietnam’s “Heartland”–Hanoi, Haiphong…
RIPPLE SALVO… #573… THE ANGUISH OF A BEFUDDLED PRESIDENT… It was not a question of more…
RIPPLE SALVO… #572… Charged by the Senator of with being “brainwashed” and committed to a “military…
RIPPLE SALVO… #571… “Senator Thruston B. Morton, Republican, Kentucky, Assails Johnson on War–Calls Him ‘Brainwashed’ On…
RIPPLE SALVO… #570… “Ad Urges Johnson to Shun 1968 Race as Vietnam Peace Move”… but first……
RIPPLE SALVO… #569… Downed once and hit seven times, VA-34 Blue Blaster LCDR Sam Hawkins kept…
RIPPLE SALVO… #568… Humble Host suggests, for your consideration, the Central Intelligence Agency Library and Reading…
RIPPLE SALVO… #567… NYT, 23 September 1967, Page 1: “Fighting at the Buffer Zone Resembles Some…
RIPPLE SALVO… #566… NYT, 23 Sept 67, Page 1`: “Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko of the Soviet…
RIPPLE SALVO… #565… What the Commander-in-Chief Pacific had to say: NYT coverage of Admiral Sharp’s classified…
RIPPLE SALVO… #564… and the September 21, 1967 “last stand” of a warrior of brave heart…
RIPPLE SALVO… #563… Humble Host reminds: The Ken Burns production “The Vietnam War” is through December…
RIPPLE SALVO… #562… Humble Host has absorbed the first two episodes of “The Vietnam War” and…
RIPPLE SALVO… #561… This one is for Rear Admiral Tom Brown, a Bear Trainer for more…
RIPPLE SALVO… #560… “NO MAN LEFT BEHIND”… 15 September 2017: National POW/MIA Recognition Day… President Donald…
RIPPLE SALVO… #559… THE ON-THE-GROUND ANTI-INFILTRATION STRATEGY: McNamara was famous at Ford Motors for his EDSEL….
RIPPLE SALVO… #558… Gradualism gradually gets there… 50 untouched targets to go… but first… Good Morning:…
RIPPLE SALVO… #557… 61st Annual TAILHOOK Convention… 7-10 September 2017…Four thumbs UP, one thumb DOWN… but…
RIPPLE SALVO… #556… To the Editor of The New York Times: Dated 10 September 1967: Subject:…
RIPPLE SALVO… #555… On 12 September 1967 CIA Director Richard Helms delivered to President Johnson a…
LEST WE FORGET… ALSO REMEMBERING “9/11,” THE 16th ANNIVERSARY OF A BRUTAL ATTACK ON THE UNITED…
RIPPLE SALVO… #553… and the NECESSITY FOR MAKING THE AIR WAR MORE EFFECTIVE… but first… Good…
RIPPLE SALVO… #552… Continuing the Summary Report of the August 1967 Stennis hearings on the air…
RIPPLE SALVO… #551… Continuing the Summary Report of the August 1967 Stennis hearings… but first… Good…
RIPPLE SALVO… #550 (POSTED FROM THE NUGGET IN SPARKS–TAILHOOK ’17)… Continuing the Summary Report of the…
RIPPLE SALVO… #549… More from the Stennis Senate Preparedness Investigating Sub-Committee report on the Vietnam air…
RIPPLE SALVO… Continuing the Summary Report of the August 1967 Stennis Hearings on the air war……
RIPPLE SALVO… #547… CONTINUING THE SUMMARY REPORT OF THE AUGUST 1967 STENNIS HEARINGS ON THE AIR…
RIPPLE SALVO… #546… The Preparedness Investigating Subcommittee of the Senate Armed Services Committee hearings of August…
RIPPLE SALVO… #545… “Your Yankee Air Pirates have unveiled the extremely warlike and cruel face of…
RIPPLE SALVO… #544… General Maxwell Taylor to LBJ: “Sir, you are failing to get the message…
RIPPLE SALVO… #543… C.R. “Dick” ANDREGG… “F-105 and F-4 pilots (and A-4 Skyhawk tailhookers), never short…
RIPPLE SALVO… #542… THOMAS POWERS: “Vietnam: The War at Home”… “…so much suffering and destruction…”… but…
RIPPLE SALVO… #541… On 28 August 1967 the President’s right hand man, Walt Rostow, rallied to…
RIPPLE SALVO… #540… SECRETARY McNAMARA DEFENDS THE ADMINISTRATION DECISION TO RESTRICT ATTACKS ON THE HAIPHONG PORT…
RIPPLE SALVO… #539… Secretary McNamara defends Administration targeting policy… but first… Good Morning: Day FIVE HUNDRED…
RIPPLE SALVO… #538… Read the Chris Hobson account of the incredible adventure of MAJOR BUD DAY…
RIPPLE SALVO… #537… ON 25 AUGUST 1967 SECRETARY OF DEFENSE ROBERT STRANGE McNAMARA TAKES THE OATH……
RIPPLE SALVO… #536… THOMAS POWERS: “It was hard to avoid a certain sick feeling of doubt…
RIPPLE SALVO… #535… THE RETURN OF THE MIG-21s: “On August 23, NVN unveiled their new system…
RIPPLE SALVO… #534… The 20-22 August 1967 ops rate expanded coverage. One day covering the agony…
RIPPLE SALVO… #533… Chris Hobson tells a Rolling Thunder story of a dark day fifty years…
RIPPLE SALVO… #532… USS BON HOMME RICHARD (CVA-31) and ATTACK CARRIER AIR WING TWENTY-ONE…but first… Good…
RIPPLE SALVO… #531… Friday evening Happy Hour and Route Pack 6 targeting in the Oval Office……
RIPPLE SALVO… #530… SUMMER 1967: war there, unrest here… SUMMER 2017: ditto…but first… Good Morning: Day…
RIPPLE SALVO… #529… DISTINGUISHED FLYING FROM START TO FINISH… but first… Good Morning: Day FIVE HUNDRED…
RIPPLE SALVO… #528… AHEAD OF THE SOUTH VIETNAM PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION ON SEPTEMBER 3… LBJ: “Our Strategy,…
RIPPLE SALVO… #527… INEFFECTIVE BOMBING… In response to a query… how many North Vietnamese civilians did…
RIPPLE SALVO… #526… and an OPEN LETTER TO MR. GREG HERRICK on behalf of all OPERATION…
RIPPLE SALVO… #525… Stennis Hearings stir LBJ to expand targeting… in other words, the Rolling Thunder…
RIPPLE SALVO… #524… PAUL DOUMER BRIDGE ON FRIDAY, CANAL des RAPIDES ON SATURDAY… back-to-back trips “downtown”…
…ONE MILE OF VULNERABILITY FINALLY UNDER THUNDERCHIEF BOMBS… RIPPLE SALVO… #523… “THE PAUL DOUMER RAILWAY AND…
RIPPLE SALVO… #523… LBJ CUTS THE CHINA BORDER BUFFER TO 10-MILES AND THE NYT GOES CATATONIC……
RIPPLE SALVO… #522… SECRETARY OF DEFENSE McNAMARA IN REBUTTAL… but first… Good Morning: Day FIVE HUNDRED…
RIPPLE SALVO… #521… LBJ and MAC PREPARE FOR SENATOR JOHN STENNIS… and the Senate hearings of…
RIPPLE SALVO… #520… THE QUIET PASSING OF BRAVE HEARTS JIM HIVNER, HOLLY HOLLANDSWORTH, AND JIM SHAPIRO……
RIPPLE SALVO… #519… RESILIENCE: “An ability to recover from or adjust easily to change or misfortune”…but…
RIPPLE SALVO… # 518… Pardon the brevity; Humble Host has been in the brandy, watched the…
RIPPLE SALVO… #517… NYTs Tom Buckley versus Lieutenant General Lewis Walt… FOOFARAW, HULLABULOO AND BLATHER… but…
RIPPLE SALVO… #516… SUGGESTION FROM IKE. ASK THE SOVIETS: IF WE STOP BOMBING NORTH OF THE…
“…OF SELF-DECEPTION, COMPLACENCY AND TRAGIC UNDERESTIMATION OF THE STRENGTH AND ABILITY OF A DEDICATED FOE.”… RIPPLE…
RIPPLE SALVO… #514… “…a sharp decline in public approval of the President’s handling of the Vietnam…
RIPPLE SALVO… #513… ENTER HENRY A. KISSINGER, HARVARD PROFESSOR and consultant to the State Department… but…
“…the last long phase of increasing acrimony on both sides.” RIPPLE SALVO… #512…OPEN SEASON ON PRESIDENT…
RIPPLE SALVO… #511… LEST WE FORGET… “One of the greatest tragedies of the war in Southeast…
RIPPLE SALVO… #510… THE PRESIDENT’S NATIONAL SECURITY ADVISOR WILL KNOW… but first… Good Morning: Day FIVE…
RIPPLE SALVO… #509… GLORY GAINED, DUTY DONE…RADM PAUL SPEER, COLONEL TOM MADISON and 1LT KARL WENDELL…
RIPPLE SALVO… #508… WHAT’S THE PLAN?… “…just enough pressure be kept on Hanoi to convince them…
RIPPLE SALVO… #507… The USMACV VIETNAM HISTORY: 1967 (TS)… 305 MIG engagements: US vs NVN…1967 Score:…
RIPPLE SALVO… #506… THE USMACV VIETNAM HISTORY: 1967 (TS)… SA-2s GALORE… but first… Good Morning: Day…
RIPPLE SALVO… #505… The USMACV Command History; 1967 dated September 1968 (TS) is the source for…
RIPPLE SALVO… #504… LOOK MAGAZINE, 25 JULY 1967…FELIX GREENE GIVES Greasy, Cat, Rabbit and Pigeye, et….
RIPPLE SALVO… #503… “The postman delivered the Spring-Summer 2017 issue of my copy of the DAEDALUS…
RIPPLE SALVO… #502… “THE GUTSY LITTLE A-4″… and a brilliant bit of airmanship… but first… Good…
RIPPLE SALVO… #501… LCDR MARV REYNOLDS: tenacity defined–unstoppable on 17 July 1967. The Lone Ranger to…
…WHERE THERE ARE SAR HH-3s AND SH-3s AND CREWS WITH UNBOUNDED COURAGE THERE IS HOPE IF…
RIPPLE SALVO… #499… “What’s a Yankee Air Pirate worth?…”U.S. OFFERS GOLD FOR AID TO PILOTS DOWN…
RIPPLE SALVO… #498… Vietnam: “…70,000 of 464,000 American servicemen in South Vietnam are combat troops…”…but first……
RIPPLE SALVO… #497…A short story of jungle survival by Major Ken Mays, USAF, but first… Good…
RIPPLE SALVO… #496… AND FEARLESS LEADER…”Never say die… “…also VADM Duke Hernandez: a day in Yugoslavia,…
RIPPLE SALVO… #495… The Australian bush hat of CAPTAIN DON AUSTIN, 34 TFS, 388 TFW: 111…
RIPPLE SALVO… #494… A CRUSADER ROUND ROBIN LIKE NO OTHER… but first… Good Morning: Day FOUR…
RIPPLE SALVO… #493… “The side that is winning should not take the first step.”… but first……
RIPPLE SALVO… #492… “GANG WAY, FIGHTER PILOT”… but first… Good Morning: Day FOUR HUNDRED NINETY-TWO of…
RIPPLE SALVO… #491… Somebody needs to explain to Humble Host how logging 200 strike missions into…
RIPPLE SALVO… #490… KEN BURNS, STEVEN SPIELBERG and the director of “RIDE THE THUNDER”… but first……
RIPPLE SALVO… #489… “The war leaders were telling the public one thing while knowing the actual…
RIPPLE SALVO… #488… VIETNAM(1967)McNAMARA: “We need a new strategy to turn stalemate into success.”…50 YEARS LATER…AFGHANISTAN(2017)McCAIN:…
RIPPLE SALVO… #487… “I hated Kep and the northeast railroad.”…BGEN Al Lenski… but first… Good Morning:…
RIPPLE SALVO… #486… MEANWHILE, AT YANKEE STATION… a message for the troops and a painful reminder…
RIPPLE SALVO… #485… CO, 469th TFS MAKES PAGE 3 OF THE NYT FOR 3 JULY 1967…
RIPPLE SALVO… #484…Honors to: MAJOR RICHARD MEHR (AFC); CAPTAIN GREGORY ETZEL (AFC); and, PETTY OFFICER SECOND…
RIPPLE SALVO… #483… FROM THE ARCHIVES…Pertinent Memos and Telegrams dated 1 July 1967… Good Morning: Day…
RIPPLE SALVO… #482… “OUT OF CHAOS COMES OPPORTUNITY”… The resolution of the presidential candidate crisis…but first……
RIPPLE SALVO… #481… “TREACHERY IN THE PURSUIT OF DIPLOMATIC GOALS”… but first… Good Morning: Day FOUR…
RIPPLE SALVO… #480… VICE ADMIRAL WILLIAM P. LAWRENCE, USN, RIP …A few thoughts… Good Morning: Day…
RIPPLE SALVO… #479… “GEE, MOM I WANNA GO HOME…” …but first… Good Morning: Day FOUR HUNDRED…
RIPPLE SALVO… #478… A few paragraphs from William F. Andrews: “To Fly and Fight: The Experience…
RIPPLE SALVO… #477… SAD BUT TRUE… and 50 years later? More of the same… Good Morning:…
RIPPLE SALVO… #476… DEFINED: “…gaining worldly experience at significant cost.”… but first… Good Morning: Day FOUR…
RIPPLE SALVO… #475… A FURIOUS FUELING FLAIL FOR THE AGES… but first… Good Morning: Day FOUR…
RIPPLE SALVO… #474… “Get your nose up, get some power on…Get some altitude!..” … but first……
RIPPLE SALVO… #473… NAVAL GUNFIRE SPOTTING — IN BOTH DIRECTIONS… but first… Good Morning: Day FOUR…
RIPPLE SALVO… #472… THE FLIGHT DECK OF A “27 Charlie” AT YANKEE STATION IN LATE JUNE……
RIPPLE SALVO… #471… Translation: “I have flown into the jaws of the cat of death,” or…
RIPPLE SALVO… #470… The inner workings and hidden mechanics of the Rolling Thunder target selection committee……
RIPPLE SALVO… #469… That was the question for Secretary McNamara in April 1967, and that was…
RIPPLE SALVO… #468… Captain John W. Swanson, USAF, 34th TFS and 388th TFW, who went missing…
RIPPLE SALVO… #467… “Quotes”–Words of wisdom that endure the test of time… but first… Good Morning:…
RIPPLE SALVO… #466… SPINERIPPER and CHASING TRUCKS UNDER FLARES…but first… Good Morning: Day FOUR HUNDRED SIXTY-SIX…
RIPPLE SALVO… #465… DRAFT MEMORANDUM 194 of 12 June 1967 FROM SECDEF TO LBJ…but first… Good…
RIPPLE SALVO… #464… The story of Colonel Jerry Curtis from HH-34s, the Air Force Cross and…
RIPPLE SALVO… #463… A CTF-77 END OF TOUR (Nine Months at Yankee Station) SUMMARY… but first……
RIPPLE SALVO… #462… MEET AUDIE MURPHY IN A SKYRAIDER versus “The Guns of Sam Son”… but…
RIPPLE SALVO… #461… THE FOUR DAY WAR… “WHERE IS THE ARAB FIGHTING SPIRIT???”… but first… Good…
RIPPLE SALVO… #460… ON A CLEAR MOONLIT NIGHT, A LITTLE SOUTH OF HAIPHONG…here we come!… but…
RIPPLE SALVO… #459… On 19 May 1967 Commander Paul Speer and two of his five F-8…
RIPPLE SALVO… #458… A COUPLE OF HAIRY HELICOPTER RESCUE TALES… but first… Good Morning: Day FOUR…
RIPPLE SALVO… #457… “ISRAEL-EGYPT BATTLE ERUPTS” and Vietnam war goes to the back burner and the…
RIPPLE SALVO… #456… Humble Host takes a break from 50 years ago to honor what went…
RIPPLE SALVO… #455… AN HONOR ROLL OF ALL-WEATHER WARRIORS… but first… Good Morning: Day FOUR HUNDRED…
RIPPLE SALVO… #454… COLONEL JACK BROUGHTON STANDS UP… but first… Good Morning: Day FOUR HUNDRED FIFTY-FOUR…
RIPPLE SALVO… #453… Conundrum: Something to be solved with reason. A riddle…but first… Good Morning: Day…
RIPPLE SALVO… #452… “I’m hit and heading back…” Arv Chauncey finally “got back” on 4 March…
RIPPLE SALVO… THE STORY OF A NAVAL AVIATOR AT WAR 75 years ago… Jack “Dusty” Kleiss…
RIPPLE SALVO… #450… Humble Host wishes you a peaceful and thoughtful Memorial Day 2017…My thoughts: The…
RIPPLE SALVO… #449… “A profound message to friend and foe alike…”…but first… Good Morning: Day FOUR…
RIPPLE SALVO… #448… ATTABOYS and baubles… but first… Good Morning: Day FOUR HUNDRED FORTY-EIGHT of a…
RIPPLE SALVO… #447 (2)… GOING DOWNTOWN with TOM TAYLOR and a few Walleyes on 21 May…
RIPPLE SALVO… #446… TED SWARTZ LEADS THE WAY… but first… Good Morning: Day FOUR HUNDRED FORTY-SIX…
RIPPLE SALVO… #445… ADVICE FOR LBJ FROM UP THE RIVER — THE CIA AT LANGLEY… but…
RIPPLE SALVO… #444…Presidential Proclamation 3785 of 22 May 1967, Prayer for Peace, Memorial Day… but first……
RIPPLE SALVO… #443… Q#1. Does bombing harden the will of the North Vietnamese people?… Q#2. What…
RIPPLE SALVO… #442… “The CIA on May 26, 1967 produced a highly favorable report on the…
HOMER LEROY SMITH… This one is for you on the 50th Anniversary of your Last Flight…
19 MAY 1967… OPERATION ROLLING THUNDER…Here is how Chris Hobson introduced the tally of aircraft and…
RIPPLE SALVO… #439… ON SOME DAYS THE SUN SUDDENLY STOPS SHINING… but first… Good Morning: Day…
RIPPLE SALVO… #438… THE COST: BLOOD, TREASURE and UNITY … but first… Good Morning: Day FOUR…
RIPPLE SALVO… #437… MEMO: “IMMEDIATE BOMBING DECISION”… Good Morning: Day FOUR HUNDRED THIRTY-SEVEN of a solo…
RIPPLE SALVO… #436… the rest of the Linfield 201 story…by Gary Wayne Foster…but first… Good Morning:…
RIPPLE SALVO… #435… The price of “miscalculation,” a timeless bit of wisdom that was as true…
RIPPLE SALVO… #434… AIR FORCE F-105s NAIL 5; F-4s DOWN 2…. but first… Good Morning: Day…
RIPPLE SALVO… #433… The President’s Special Consultant says: “…it is not worth the lives of our…
RIPPLE SALVO… #432… 1 May 1967…The Senate Republican Policy Committee staff white paper: “The Vietnam War.”……
RIPPLE SALVO… #431… “THE NO COMMITTEE”… “…a small secret group whose existence the President could deny…
RIPPLE SALVO… #430… GETTING IN: EASY… GETTING OUT: APPARENTLY IMPOSSIBLE… but first… Good Morning: Day FOUR…
RIPPLE SALVO… #429… CURIOSITY SATISFIED: LBJ does barbecues while Grizzly 1 does Route Pack IV… Good…
RIPPLE SALVO… #428… POLITICAL STABILITY IN SOUTH VIETNAM A DREAM?… but first… Good Morning: Day FOUR…
RIPPLE SALVO… #427… and the “Memorandum of the Month for May 1967”– a must read for…
RIPPLE SALVO… #426… “THE DECISION TO DELAY TARGETING THE AIRFIELDS IS COSTING LIVES AND LOSSES”…but first……
RIPPLE SALVO… #425… FOR: LEO THORSNESS, “Kingfish 1” and “Boss Weasel,” and JIM GRAHAM, “Battlecry 314″……
RIPPLE SALVO… #424… a WARRIOR named HOBLIT or a FIGHTER named CLAY… but first… Good Morning:…
RIPPLE SALVO… #423… THE NORTH VIETNAMESE POWER GRID… nine thermal power plants tied together… the next…
RIPPLE SALVO… #422… “The International War Crimes Tribunal”… Bertrand Russell’s…kangaroo court in Stockholm…but first… Good Morning:…
RIPPLE SALVO… #421… WESTY for the HAWKS and MLK for the DOVES… but first… Good Morning:…
RIPPLE SALVO… #420… “WESTMORELAND tells Congress U.S. will prevail”….but first… Good Morning: Day FOUR HUNDRED TWENTY…
RIPPLE SALVO… #419…APRIL 22-28: SIXTEEN AIRCRAFT LOST IN A WEEK… but first… Good Morning: Day FOUR…
RIPPLE SALVO… #418… Peace keeping, peace making or war mongering???… but first… Good Morning: Day FOUR…
RIPPLE SALVO… #417… MISSING IN ACTION and not knowing, or, KILLED IN ACTION and knowing… but…
RIPPLE SALVO… #416… and WILSON and WISELY do SAIGON…follows a great STEPHEN R. GRAY 25 April…
RIPPLE SALVO… #415… NO SKIES FOR OLD OR TIMID MEN… and don’t miss the MIGHTY THUNDER…
RIPPLE SALVO… #414… When Snoopy takes a break… but first… Good Morning: Day FOUR HUNDRED FOURTEEN…
RIPPLE SALVO… #413… THE COMPLETE STORY: as it was reported in the summer of 1967 in…
RIPPLE SALVO… #412… CASSIUS CLAY WON’T STEP FORWARD ON 28 APRIL… but first… Good Morning: Day…
RIPPLE SALVO… #411… AMONG THE BRAVEST OF THE BRAVE… but first… Good Morning: Day FOUR HUNDRED…
RIPPLE SALVO… #410… title: “THE VIETNAM AIR WAR: FIRST PERSON” and “The Cool Bear”… but first……
RIPPLE SALVO… #409… “Peace demonstrations adversely affect our country’s interests.”… but first… Good Morning: Day FOUR…
RIPPLE SALVO… #408… GOOD QUESTION!!!…THEN and NOW… but first… Good Morning: Day FOUR HUNDRED EIGHT of…
RIPPLE SALVO… #407… A COMMENTARY ON ROBERT McNAMARA’s “IN RETROSPECT”…but first.. Good Morning: HAPPY EASTER… Day…
RIPPLE SALVO… #406… “HEY, HEY, L.B.J.: HOW MANY KIDS DID YOU KILL TODAY?”… but first… Good…
RIPPLE SALVO… #405… Spring is sprung. Sunny and bright. In the Homeland let the anti-war demos…
RIPPLE SALVO… #404… “The Incredible Stupid One,” by Dick “Beak” Stratton… but first… Good Morning: Day…
RIPPLE SALVO… #403… with her 50th post on the RTR site that she keeps on track……
RIPPLE SALVO… #402… not LADY LUCK, FATE…but the HAND OF GOD… but first… Good Morning: Day…
RIPPLE SALVO… #401… of the “TRIPLE MOON GODDESS” of Greek mythology… but first… Good Morning: Day…
RIPPLE SALVO… #400… oohrah… THE ANTI-WAR MOVEMENT… but first… Good Morning: Day FOUR HUNDRED of a…
RIPPLE SALVO… #399… TICONDEROGA– the GREAT WHITE CARRIER… but first… Good Morning: Day THREE HUNDRED NINETY-NINE…
RIPPLE SALVO… #398… NYT, 7 April 1967…”…he has linked his personal opposition to the war with…
RIPPLE SALVO… #397… One down, thousands to go… A turning point in protestation… but first… Good…
RIPPLE SALVO… #396… IN THE NEWS…”The F-105 Thunderchief can take out any target at any time…”…but…
RIPPLE SALVO… #395… IN THE NEWS–LIFE and THE NEW YORK TIMES, and around the world fifty…
RIPPLE SALVO… #394… ESCALATE THE WAR=CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE… but first… Good Morning: Day THREE HUNDRED NINETY-FOUR of…
RIPPLE SALVO… #393… “One of the toughest guys I know.”…John McCain… but first… Good Morning: Day…
RIPPLE SALVO… #392… MAJOR H.R. McMASTER’S “DERELICTION OF DUTY”… but first… Good Morning: Day THREE HUNDRED…
RIPPLE SALVO… #391… “It is the historical destiny of the United States to expend itself….”…but first……
RIPPLE SALVO… #390… MARCH 29…COME AND GONE… anybody notice??? … but first… Good Morning: Day THREE…
RIPPLE SALVO… #389… PLATO EXPLAINS WHY WE QUARREL… but first… Good Morning: Day THREE HUNDRED EIGHTY-NINE…
RIPPLE SALVO… #388… “AND KICK ‘EM IN THE ARSE.”…apologies to Gen GS Patton… but first… Good…
RIPPLE SALVO… #387… INTRUDER CREWS: “The bravery of their souls was equal to the dangers they…
RIPPLE SALVO… #386… THANT HAS A PLAN, AND MLK IS ON THE MARCH WITH DR. SPOCK……
RIPPLE SALVO… #385… DECATUR: “OUR COUNTRY! IN HER INTERCOURSE WITH FOREIGN NATIONS, MAY SHE ALWAYS BE…
RIPPLE SALVO… #384… BACK TO BAC GIANG and a mystery… but first… Good Morning: Day THREE…
RIPPLE SALVO… #383… “Downtown…in darkness and marginal attack weather…” but first… Good Morning: Day: THREE HUNDRED…
RIPPLE SALVO… #382… THE PIECEMEAL ADDITIONS TO THE ROLLING THUNDER 54 TARGET LIST”’ and a note…
RIPPLE SALVO… #381… GUAM II and HO CHI MINH’s DISCLOSURES STIFLE PEACE TALK… but first… Good…
RIPPLE SALVO… #380… “The bombing program (ROLLING THUNDER)…did not occupy much time.”… but first… Good Morning:…
RIPPLE SALVO… #379… THE HISTORY PROFESSOR WITH SOME ADVICE… but first… Good Morning: Day THREE HUNDRED…
RIPPLE SALVO… #378… THE READY ROOM ALL-READ BOARD: read and initial before leaving the ship…”There will…
RIPPLE SALVO… #377… “CLAY PREFERS JAIL TO ARMY”… but first… Good Morning: Day THREE HUNDRED SEVENTY-SEVEN…
RIPPLE SALVO… #376… …”what we are working for and what we are fighting for.”…but first… Good…
RIPPLE SALVO… #375… AIR RESCUE SERVICE: “These things we do so others might live.”… but first……
RIPPLE SALVO… #374… FORTUNE ALSO FAVORS THOSE WHO STUDY HISTORY… but first… Good Morning: Day THREE…
RIPPLE SALVO… #373… THE 355th Tactical Fighter Wing MORALE REPORT… but first… Good Morning: Day THREE…
RIPPLE SALVO… #372… THE WEATHER ALTERNATIVE… best described by LT STEVE GRAY, RAMPANT RAIDER… but first……
RIPPLE SALVO… #371… SHOWTIME, SHOWTIME !!!!!!!! …but first… Good Morning: Day THREE HUNDRED SEVENTY-ONE of an…
RIPPLE SALVO…#370… RFK STIRS THE POT AND KICKS SOME CAGES… but first… SPECIAL POST: MIGHTY THUNDER’S…
RIPPLE SALVO… #369… “In a war like this one, a man’s life is of small account.”……
RIPPLE SALVO… #368… “A WALTER MITTY IN THE WHITE HOUSE”…RESTON… but first… Good Morning: Day THREE…
RIPPLE SALVO… #367… LET THE ENEMY HIDE IN PLAIN SIGHT… but first… Good Morning: Day THREE…
RIPPLE SALVO… #366… THE PARDO PUSH… AND THE MEDAL OF HONOR for CAPTAIN MERLYN DETHLEFSEN… but…
RIPPLE SALVO… #365… WHAT WAS THE SECRET CODE NAME FOR THE AIR WAR?…but first… Good Morning:…
RIPPLE SALVO… #364.. A few words on “THE VORACIOUS DEMAND FOR BLOOD AND TREASURE OF THE…
RIPPLE SALVO… #363… and LBJ CALLS FOR HELP… but first… Good Morning: Day THREE HUNDRED SIXTY-THREE…
RIPPLE SALVO…#362… and A LONG HOT SUMMER… but first… Good Morning: Day THREE HUNDRED SIXTY-TWO of…
RIPPLE SALVO… #361… (1) The RTR Mission Continues… (2) Open Letter to “Medals of America”… Good…
RIPPLE SALVO… #360… “We talked about it, we never achieved it.”… but first… Good Morning: Day…
RIPPLE SALVO… #359… HOW?… “SEARCH AND DESTROY”… but first… Good Morning: Day THREE HUNDRED FIFTY-NINE of…
RIPPLE SALVO… WITHOUT RESOLVE–THE WILL TO WIN– you won’t … but first… Good Morning: Day THREE…
RIPPLE SALVO… #357… THE CHARTER SCHOOL–JROTC COMBINATION… but first… Good Morning: Day THREE HUNDRED FIFTY-SEVEN of…
RIPPLE SALVO… #356… SHIFTING FROM PARK TO DRIVE… but first… Good Morning: Day THREE HUNDRED FIFTY-FIVE…
RIPPLE SALVO… #355… sidebars and little boxes on page 5… but first… Good Morning: Day THREE…
RIPPLE SALVO…#354… “TELL MY FATHER…” …but first… Good Morning: Day THREE HUNDRED FIFTY-FOUR of remembering all…
RIPPLE SALVO… #353… A NATION MUST KNOW IT’S LIMITATIONS…the United States has over-extended it’s world role……
RIPPLE SALVO… #352… THIS ONE IS FOR YOU JAY GREENE… but first… Good Morning: Day THREE…
RIPPLE SALVO… #351… THE POST-TET DEBATE AND THREE JCS PACKAGES… but first… Good Morning: Day THREE…
RIPPLE SALVO… #350… ANGRY VOICES OR VOICES OF REASON?… but first… Good Morning: Day THREE HUNDRED…
RIPPLE SALVO… #349… AND A PEP TALK FROM THE PRESIDENT… really good stuff… Good Morning: Day…
RIPPLE SALVO… #348… “STRIKES IN NORTH ACCOMPLISH AIMS”… but first… Good Morning: Day THREE HUNDRED FORTY-EIGHT…
RIPPLE SALVO… #347… NYT’S R.W. APPLE REPORTS FROM USS ENTERPRISE… but first… Good Morning: Day THREE…
RIPPLE SALVO… HUMBLE HOST POSTS THIS SPECIAL RTR AS TOO IMPORTANT TO BE TAKEN IN STRIDE……
RIPPLE SALVO… #346… THE VOICES OF DISSENT–SENATOR J. WILLIAM FULBRIGHT… but first… Happy Valentine’s Day: Day…
RIPPLE SALVO… #345… LET THE AIR WAR BEGIN AGAIN… but first… Good Morning: Day THREE HUNDRED…
RIPPLE SALVO…#344… A matter of more WAR or a chance for PEACE… but first… Good Morning:…
RIPPLE SALVO… #343… A 50-YARD LINE SEAT FOR A FOGGY BOTTOM FUMBLE…but first… Good Morning: Day…
RIPPLE SALVO… #342… DEFINED and IDENTIFIED… but first… Good Morning: Day THREE HUNDRED FORTY-TWO of remembering…
RIPPLE SALVO… #341… “WHATEVER THE OUTCOME…PRESERVE MUTUAL TRUST…” but first… Good Morning: Day THREE HUNDRED FORTY-ONE…
RIPPLE SALVO… #340… A DFC the hard way: BULLPUP … but first… Good Morning: Day THREE…
RIPPLE SALVO… #339… “IT HAS HURT THE ENEMY and IS AN ESSENTIAL PART OF THE NATION’S…
RIPPLE SALVO… #338… of FIVE YEARS OF TOE-TO-TOE… but first… Good Morning: Day THREE HUNDRED THIRTY-EIGHT…
RIPPLE SALVO… #337… THE BLACK FALCONS OF VA-85 versus THE INDESTRUCTIBLE THANH HOA BRIDGE… but first……
RIPPLE SALVO…#336… LIEUTENANT COMMANDER BOB MAIER and LIEUTENANT LEW DUNTON, VA-144 Roadrunners, on the attack fifty…
RIPPLE SALVO… #335… WILD WEASELS front and center… but first… Good Morning: Day THREE HUNDRED THIRTY-FIVE…
RIPPLE SALVO… #334… GARBLED WORD X WISHFUL THINKING=BODY BAGS… but first… Good Morning: Day THREE HUNDRED…
RIPPLE SALVO… #333… Lieutenant Robert L. Cooper: 26 rescue missions and EIGHT AVIATORS rescued in two…
RIPPLE SALVO… #332… THE LULL BEFORE THE ROLLING THUNDER STORM OF 1967… THE YEAR OF ESCALATION… but…
RIPPLE SALVO… #331… HOME FROM A 20-25 JAN 1967 VISIT TO VIETNAM… but first… Good Morning:…
RIPPLE SALVO… #330… BACK TO THE DRAWING BOARDS… but first… Good Morning: Day THREE HUNDRED THIRTY…
RIPPLE SALVO…#29… GRISSOM, WHITE and CHAFFEE… but first… Good Morning: Day THREE HUNDRED TWENTY-NINE of a…
RIPPLE SALVO… #328… A SPEECH FOR ALL GENERATIONS FOR ALL TIME by LGEN JOHN KELLY on…
RIPPLE SALVO… #327… “WE HAVE THE INITIATIVE, WE HAVE THE FORCES…”… but first… Good Morning: Day…
RIPPLE SALVO… #326… THEN AND NOW: LBJ and DONALD TRUMP–same dilemma… but first… Good Morning: Day…
RIPPLE SALVO… #325… THE PEACE INITATIVES: “A GARDEN OF FLOWERS…”…but first… Good Morning: Day THREE HUNDRED…
RIPPLE SALVO… #324… A MUST READ MEMO… NITTY-GRITTY DETAILS on how the President and his men…
RIPPLE SALVO… #323… SALISBURY and BAGGS ON THE GROUND and CTF-77 FROM THE AIR… but first… Good Morning:…
RIPPLE SALVO… #322… “The Rock and The Hard Place”: A situation involving two dangers in which…
RIPPLE SALVO… #321… WHERE THE FIGHT WAS FOUGHT… but first… Good Morning: Day THREE HUNDRED TWENTY-ONE…
RIPPLE SALVO… #320… A tribute to LCDR DON “Smash” ASHBY : “Sad Day at Black Rock”…
RIPPLE SALVO… #319… “…Senator Dirksen sat on the President’s bed. The President was standing, in stocking…
RIPPLE SALVO… #318… WALT ROSTOW TO LBJ, 17 JANUARY 1967… but first.. Good Morning: Day THREE…
RIPPLE SALVO… #317… “…there is opportunity.”…Sun Tzu… but first… Good Morning: Day THREE HUNDRED SEVENTEEN of…
RIPPLE SALVO… #316… NATURAL VITALITY and INTENSE PATRIOTISM…but first… Good Morning: Day THREE HUNDRED FIFTEEN of…
RIPPLE SALVO… #315… IN MEMORY OF LCDR ARTHUR TYSZKIEWICZ, UNITED STATES NAVY, who perished alone in a…
RIPPLE SALVO #314… THE CASE FOR A HEAVIER BOMBING PROGRAM…but first… Good Morning: Day THREE HUNDRED…
RIPPLE SALVO… #313… “THE ATTEMPT to DE-ESCALATE — JANUARY-JULY 1967… but first… Good Morning: Day THREE…
RIPPLE SALVO… #312… AND SOME END NOTES… but first… Good Morning: Day THREE HUNDRED TWELVE of…
RIPPLE SALVO… #311… THE AIR OFFENSIVE IS HURTING HANOI! … SO?… but first… Good Morning: Day…
RIPPLE SALVO… #310… “SULLY: A GENERAL’S DECISION” …. but first… Good Morning: Day THREE HUNDRED TEN of…
RIPPLE SALVO… #309… “THE FOUR POINTS”… but first… Good Morning: Day THREE HUNDRED NINE of the…
RIPPLE SALVO… #308… TWO BRAVE and BLOODY YEARS — 728 DAYS — ON YANKEE STATION… but first… Good Morning:…
RIPPLE SALVO… #307… for BOLO MIG KILLERS…DFCs???… but first… Good Morning: Day THREE HUNDRED SEVEN of…
RIPPLE SALVO… #306… “…SENSELESS STRATEGY”… but first… Good Morning: Day THREE HUNDRED SIX of a history…
RIPPLE SALVO… #305… Air Intelligence (Photographic) Officer LCDR JOHN J. DOTHARD… but first… Good Morning: Day…
RIPPLE SALVO… #304… BOMBING OF CIVILIANS: REPORTS, REACTIONS AND RESPONSES… but first… Good Morning: Day THREE…
RIPPLE SALVO… #303… NEW YORK TIMES: “THE GREAT SOCIETY”… but first… Good Morning: Day THREE HUNDRED…
RIPPLE SALVO… #302… THE REALITY: WAR AND VIOLENCE…”Only the dead have seen the end of war.”…
RIPPLE SALVO… #301… The UNSTOPPABLE vs. The UNMOVABLE… but first… Good Morning: Day THREE HUNDRED ONE…
RIPPLE SALVO… #300… THE REGULARS: BOB HOPE AND HIS USO SHOW and FRANCIS CARDINAL SPELLMAN on…
RIPPLE SALVO… #299… PEACE ON EARTH AND GOODWILL TOWARD MEN… Merry Christmas: Christmas Day and the…
RIPPLE SALVO… #298… with LIGHT ATTACK SQUADRON 113–“A BAND OF BROTHERS”… but first… Good Morning: Day…
RIPPLE SALVO…#297… THE PONTIFF “LOOKS TO A MIRACLE OF GOODWILL”… but first… Good Morning: Day TWO…
RIPPLE SALVO… #295… CORRECTIONS AND ADDITIONS to RTR but first…. Good Morning: Day TWO HUNDRED NINETY-FIVE…
RIPPLE SALVO… #294… ALONE AND UPSIDE DOWN… but first… Good Morning: Day TWO HUNDRED NINETY-FOUR of…
RIPPLE SALVO… #293… THE ATTACK PILOT’S DREAM: DROP A BRIDGE… but first… Good Morning: Day TWO…
RIPPLE SALVO… #292… THE GOOD THEN THE BAD AND UGLY… but first… Good Morning: Day TWO…
RIPPLE SALVO… #291…BDA FOR ROLLING THUNDER 1966… but first… Good Morning: Day TWO HUNDRED NINETY-ONE of…
RIPPLE SALVO… #290… and CHANGING ROLE and IMAGE…but first… Good Morning: Day TWO HUNDRED NINETY of remembering…
RIPPLE SALVO… #289… NO WARRIOR LEFT BEHIND… but first… Good Morning: Day TWO HUNDRED EIGHTY-NINE of…
RIPPLE SALVO… #288… EXPLAINED BY ATTILA THE HUN… but first… Good Morning: Day TWO HUNDRED EIGHTY-EIGHT…
RIPPLE SALVO… #287… THE LINES ARE DRAWN FOR 1967+…but first… Good Morning: Day TWO HUNDRED EIGHTY-SEVEN…
RIPPLE SALVO… #286… THE TRUTH HURTS… but first… 13 DECEMBER 1966… HOME TOWN HEAD LINES from…
RIPPLE SALVO… #285… of the RED RIVER VALLEY FIGHTER PILOTS ASSOCIATION… but first… Good Morning: Day…
RIPPLE SALVO… #284… A BAD DAY AT YANKEE STATION… but first… Good Morning: Day TWO HUNDRED…
RIPPLE SALVO… #283… CHRISTMAS 1965 AT THE ZOO by Rochester and Kiley in “HONOR BOUND”… but…
RIPPLE SALVO… #282… VIETNAM WAR AIRCRAFT CARRIERS: the Mayport Decks… but first… Good morning: Day TWO…
RIPPLE SALVO…#281… NYT response to LBJs assertion: MOH awardee’s courage “far outweighs the reluctance of men…
RIPPLE SALVO… #280… “THE SOLEMN PRIDE THAT MUST BE YOURS”…but first… Good Morning: Day TWO HUNDRED…
RIPPLE SALVO… #279… “…THERE WAS A LONG SILENCE…” but first… Good Morning: Day TWO HUNDRED SEVENTY-NINE…
RIPPLE SALVO… #278… “PEARL HARBOR RITES VIEWED BY PILOT WHO LED RAID”… The following feature article by…
RIPPLE SALVO… #277… ROLLING THUNDER 1-15 DECEMBER 1966 and THE MARIGOLD FIASCO… but first… Good Morning:…
RIPPLE SALVO… #276… SPENT!!!…but first… Good Morning: Day TWO HUNDRED SEVENTY-SIX of a return to OPERATION…
RIPPLE SALVO… #275… “MARIGOLD” page 254…”Why did the United States bomb Hanoi on December 2, for…
RIPPLE SALVO… #274… THE THREE VIETNAM COMBAT CRUISES OF USS MIDWAY… 426 Days on the Line……
RIPPLE SALVO… #273… NATIONAL AIRCRAFT CARRIER MONTH: USS KITTY HAWK Vietnam combat cruises 3-6!!! but first……
RIPPLE SALVO… #272… THE FIRST TWO OF K-HAWK’s SET OF SIX ARDUOUS COMBAT CRUISES… but first… Good Morning:…
RIPPLE SALVO… #271… A HISTORY LESSON FOR THE AGES… but first… Good Morning: Day TWO HUNDRED…
RIPPLE SALVO… #270… THE THREE VIETNAM COMBAT CRUISES OF “THE FIGHTING ‘I’…” but first… Good Morning:…
RIPPLE SALVO… #269… NATIONAL AIRCRAFT CARRIER MONTH continues… but first… Good Morning: Day TWO HUNDRED SIXTY-NINE…
RIPPLE SALVO… #268… COMBAT CRUISES 4 THRU 7 AND ANOTHER 20 COMBAT LOSSES…none but the brave……
RIPPLE SALVO… #267… 835 DAYS AT YANKEE STATION — 7 CRUISES OF COMBAT… but first… Good Morning:…
RIPPLE SALVO… #266… SEVEN COMBAT CRUISES and SEVEN HUNDRED FOURTEEN DAYS ON THE LINE… but first……
RIPPLE SALVO… #265… SIX COMBAT CRUISEs and SIX HUNDRED DAYS AT YANKEE STATION…but first… Good Morning:…
RIPPLE SALVO… #264… ON THE LINE THREE HUNDRED AND SEVENTY DAYS… but first… Good Morning: Day…
RIPPLE SALVO… #263… “…the historical images and perceptions that men carry in their heads.”… but first……
RIPPLE SALVO… #262… TS MEMO CJCS TO SECDEF…”Military Actions Against North Vietnam” of 8 Nov 1966……
RIPPLE SALVO… #261… NON-VIOLENCE BECOMES THE WEAPON OF CHOICE… but first… Good Morning: Day TWO HUNDRED…
RIPPLE SALVO… #260… so far: “DEPRESSINGLY BARREN OF TANGIBLE RESULTS”….. but first… Good Morning: Day TWO…
RIPPLE SALVO… #259… AGGRESSION IN SOUTH VIETNAM… but first… Good Morning: Day TWO HUNDRED FIFTY-NINE of…
RIPPLE SALVO… #258… “…IN THE HISTORY OF NAVAL AVIATION.”…said a fighter pilot of the Intruder crews……
RIPPLE SALVO… #257… BODY NOT RECOVERED…but first… Good Morning: Day TWO HUNDRED FIFTY-SEVEN of a three…
RIPPLE SALVO… #256… WITH WORDS FOR ALL VIETNAM VETERANS… but first… Good Morning: Day TWO HUNDRED…
RIPPLE SALVO… #255… MARIGOLD: SECOND ACT ON STAGE… But first… 12 NOVEMBER 1966… HOME TOWN HEADLINES…
RIPPLE SALVO… #254… NOT MEMORIAL DAY… but first… 11 NOVEMBER 1966… HOMETOWN HEADLINES from the New…
RIPPLE SALVO… #253… ON ROLLING THUNDER 52… but first… Good Morning: Day TWO HUNDRED FIFTY-THREE of…
RIPPLE SALVO…#252… THE FORTHRIGHT TESTIMONY OF LCOL BILLY SPARKS, USAF, RETIRED… but first… Good Morning: Day…
RIPPLE SALVO… #251… THEN AND NOW… but first… Good Morning: Day TWO HUNDRED FIFTY-ONE of a…
RIPPLE SALVO…#250… ONE QUARTER OF THE RTR JOURNEY IS IN THE WAKE… Good Morning: Day TWO…
RIPPLE SALVO… #249… KRUSHCHEV ON STALIN… but first… Good Morning: Day TWO HUNDRED FORTY-NINE (of 1,000)…
RIPPLE SALVO… #248… OR WAS IT CIVIL WAR?…. but first… Good Morning: Day TWO HUNDRED FORTY-EIGHT…
RIPPLE SALVO… #247… GALLOP ASKS THE QUESTIONS… but first… 4 NOVEMBER 1966… THE HEADLINES ON THE…
RIPPLE SALVO… #246… A CASE STUDY: VIETNAM… but first… Good Morning: Day TWO HUNDRED FORTY-SIX of…
RIPPLE SALVO… #245… “THE AMERICAN CRISIS IN VIETNAM”… but first… Good Morning: Day TWO HUNDRED FORTY-FIVE…
RIPPLE SALVO… #244… AIR WAR: ADD 10 USAF TFS AND ONE CARRIER…Not so fast!… but first……
RIPPLE SALVO… #243… EXPANDED COVERAGE by RTR of American helicopter ops in Vietnam… but first… Good Morning:…
RIPPLE SALVO… #242… THE AMERICAN PRISONERS OF WAR IN SOUTHEAST ASIA… but first… Good Morning: Day…
RIPPLE SALVO… #241… JAMES RESTON on the “The Elections and Vietnam”… but first… Good Morning: Day…
RIPPLE SALVO… #240… “MY TRIP TO VIETNAM”… but first… Good Morning: Day TWO HUNDRED FORTY of…
RIPPLE SALVO… #239… OF SYMPATHY TO THE CAPTAIN AND CREW OF CVA-34…. but first… Good Morning:…
RIPPLE SALVO… #238… THE ORISKANY’s FIRE 50-YEARS AGO, and HER FALLEN WARRIORS… Good Morning: Day TWO HUNDRED THIRTY-EIGHT…
RIPPLE SALVO… #237… WHAT SHOULD WE BOMB NEXT?… but first… Good Morning: Day TWO HUNDRED THIRTY-SEVEN of…
RIPPLE SALVO… #236… A DOZEN YEARS OF CASHING OUT… but first… Good Morning: Day TWO HUNDRED…
RIPPLE SALVO… #235… SENATOR EV DIRKSEN…”…a bewildered United States…”… but first… Good Morning: Day TWO HUNDRED…
RIPPLE SALVO… #234… what this fight is all about…. but first… Good Morning: DAY TWO HUNDRED…
RIPPLE SALVO… #233… Poet Edward Young…”One to destroy is murder by the law, And gibbets keep…
RIPPLE SALVO… #232… 3rd SEGMENT OF “GOING TO DODGE” by Sam Butz of NYT… but first……
RIPPLE SALVO… #231… ROLLING THUNDER= “A TEST OF ADVANCED SYSTEMS”…. but first… Good Morning: Day TWO…
RIPPLE SALVO… #231… “OUR PILOTS CALL HANOI DODGE CITY”… Part ONE… Sam Butz, Sunday Times Magazine,…
RIPPLE SALVO… #230… and “LONG TIME PASSING”… but first… Good Morning: Day TWO HUNDRED THIRTY of…
RIPPLE SALVO… #229… OCTOBER TO MARCH… but first… Good Morning: Day TWO HUNDRED TWNTY-NINE of a…
RIPPLE SALVO… #228… CAPTAIN JERRY COFFEE’s “ONE MORE ROLL”… but first… Good Morning: Day TWO HUNDRED…
RIPPLE SALVO… #227… A WAR STORY EXTRACTED UNDER DURESS… but first… Good Morning: Day TWO HUNDRED…
RIPPLE SALVO… #226… RESCAP…LEAVE NO MAN BEHIND… … but first… Good Morning: Day TWO HUNDRED TWENTY-SIX…
RIPPLE SALVO… #225… “A GAMBLE WORTH TAKING.”…NYT… but first… Good Morning: Day TWO HUNDRED TWENTY-FIVE of…
RIPPLE SALVO… #224… “and SEEK OTHER MEANS of achieving our objectives.” …… but first… Good Morning…
RIPPLE SALVO… #223… SECRETARY OF DEFENSE VISITED SAIGON FIFTY YEARS AGO… but first… Good Morning: Day…
RIPPLE SALVO… #222… SWITCH TO MIGHTY THUNDER…where the good stuff is… BELLINGER gets a MIG and…
RIPPLE SALVO… #221… LET CICERO BE YOUR GUIDE… but first… Good Morning: Day TWO HUNDRED TWENTY-ONE…
RIPPLE SALVO… #220… (1) Retraction and apology for RS #211…(2) HANSON BALDWIN ON PLANES AND PILOTS…but…
RIPPLE SALVO… #219… “HALT THE BOMBING”… but first… Good Morning: Day TWO HUNDRED NINETEEN remembering the…
RIPPLE SALVO… #218… and his JOLLY GREEN crew of 1LT DON HARRIS, SSGT DON HALL, and A2C ROBERT…
RIPPLE SALVO… #217… CHARLES MOHR… “THE WINNER GETS NOTHING”… but first… Good Morning: Day TWO HUNDRED…
RIPPLE SALVO… #216… BUCKET LIST DESTINATION???… but first… Good Morning: Day TWO HUNDRED SIXTEEN of honoring…
RIPPLE SALVO… #215… AN LBJ STAFFER SHARES SOME SECOND THOUGHTS…but first… Good Morning: Day TWO HUNDRED…
RIPPLE SALVO… #214… AUSTRALIAN WILFRED BURCHETT… but first… Good Morning: Day TWO HUNDRED FOURTEEN of savoring…
RIPPLE SALVO… #213… “HANOI BOLSTERING DEFENSE”… but first…. Good Morning: Day TWO HUNDRED THIRTEEN of a…
RIPPLE SALVO… #212… LATE EDITION–SHORT FORM–COMPUTER HICCUP… Good Morning: Day TWO HUNDRED TWELVE recapping Rolling Thunder…
RIPPLE SALVO… #211 Good Morning: Day TWO HUNDRED ELEVEN of recollections from fifty years ago and…
RIPPLE SALVO… #210… TIMIDITY HAS A PRICE… but first… Good Morning: Day TWO HUNDRED TEN of…
RIPPLE SALVO… #209… “INTERDICTION IN DEPTH”… but first… Good Morning: Day TWO HUNDRED NINE looking back…
RIPPLE SALVO… #208… “…WHOSE NAME IS ON THAT DAMN WALL.”… but first… Good Morning: Day TWO…
RIPPLE SALVO… #207… AFTER VIETNAM… but first… Good Morning: Day TWO HUNDRED SEVEN of a daily…
RIPPLE SALVO… #206… AN 11-YEAR WAR + 58,000 KIA = QUAGMIRE… but first… Good Morning: Day…
RIPPLE SALVO…#205… 3rd WEEK IN SEPTEMBER… but first… Good Morning: Day TWO HUNDRED FIVE of a…
RIPPLE SALVO… #204… GROWLING AT THE WATERHOLE… but first,,, Good Morning: Day TWO HUNDRED FOUR of…
RIPPLE SALVO… #203… ROLLING THUNDER GETS A…. D+… Good Morning: Day TWO HUNDRED THREE of a…
RIPPLE SALVO… #202… BACK TO THE DRAWING BOARDS WITH 67 SCIENTISTS… but first… Good Morning: Day…
RIPPLE SALVO…#201… FIND, FIX, FIGHT, FOLLOW, FINISH… but first… Good Morning: Day TWO HUNDRED ONE of…
RIPPLE SALVO… #200… CONSTITUTION DAY 2016… OOHRAH… Good Morning: Day TWO HUNDRED of a thousand reflections…
RIPPLE SALVO… #199… PHASE III– next year… but first… Good Morning: Day ONE HUNDRED NINETY-NINE of…
RIPPLE SALVO… #198… PREPARE FOR THE WORST… but first… Good Morning: Day ONE HUNDRED NINETY-EIGHT of…
My computer just ate my first 1000 words… so here is the short version and the…
RIPPLE SALVO… #196… A CASE OF EVOLUTION—- … but first… Good Morning: Day ONE HUNDRED NINETY SIX…
RIPPLE SALVO… #195… “VIETNAM: AIR WAR” — A CLASSIC… but first… Good Morning: Day ONE HUNDRED…
RIPPLE SALVO… #194… CAUSE FOR WAR… but first… Good Morning… Day ONE HUNDRED NINETY-FOUR of a…
RIPPLE SALVO… #193… AND ALL ‘OLD GLORY’ STANDS FOR… but first… Good Morning: Day ONE HUNDRED NINETY-THREE of remembering…
RIPPLE SALVO… #192… WHEN THE WINGMAN TAKES THE LEAD… but first… Good Morning: Day ONE HUNDRED…
RIPPLE SALVO… #191… MORE OR LESS???… but first… Good Morning: Day ONE HUNDRED NINETY-ONE living in…
RIPPLE SALVO… #190… INDECISION, DISCORD AND ESCALATION…PART ONE… but first… Good Morning: Day ONE HUNDRED NINETY…
RIPPLE SALVO… #189… “…YOU LEFT BEHIND.” …. but first… Good Morning: Day ONE HUNDRED EIGHTY-NINE of…
RIPPLE SALVO… #188… and the MIG-17S FROM PHUC YEN… and the rest of the story at…
RIPPLE SALVO… #187… OF THE WARRIOR” –NAPOLEON… but first… Good Morning: Day ONE HUNDRED EIGHTY-SEVEN in…
RIPPLE SALVO… #186… TUCKER, TEAGUE AND VERMILIA in the news… great story!… Good Morning: Day ONE HUNDRED…
RIPPLE SALVO… #185… “…THE MORE THEY ACTUALLY DON’T”… but first… Good Morning: Day ONE HUNDRED EIGHTY…
RIPPLE SALVO… #184… UNDERSTANDING McNAMARA… but first.. Good Morning: Day ONE HUNDRED EIGHTY-FOUR of remembering the…
RIPPLE SALVO… #183… VERMILIA TO THE RESCUE… Check out MIGHTY THUNDER’s post for today… Good Morning:…
RIPPLE SALVO… #182… FULL SPEED AHEAD… LEUE’ and COAKLEY …but first… Good Morning: Day ONE HUNDRED…
RIPPLE SALVO… #181… DAVE LEUE’ and the BLUE TAIL FLIES… but first… Good Morning: Day ONE…
RIPPLE SALVO… #180… TOUGH DUTY–DRIVING TRUCK IN NVN… but first… Good Morning: Day ONE HUNDRED EIGHTY…
RIPPLE SALVO… #179… with ED RASIMUS in his F105D…. but first… Good Morning: Day ONE HUNDRED…
RIPPLE SALVO… #178… “… ONE MISHAP–IS ONE TOO MANY…” but first… Good Morning: Day ONE HUNDRED…
RIPPLE SALVO… #177… NOT GOOD ENOUGH… but first… Good Morning: Day ONE HUNDRED SEVENTY-SEVEN of a review…
RIPPLE SALVO… #176… STAY THE COURSE…. but first… Good morning: Day ONE HUNDRED SEVENTY-SIX of a…
RIPPLE SALVO… #175,,, LBJ GETS ADVICE… but first Good Morning: Day ONE HUNDRED SEVENTY-FIVE of remembering…
RIPPLE SALVO… #174… THE RIGHT OF SELF-DEFENSE… but first… Good Morning: Day ONE HUNDRED SEVENTY FOUR…
RIPPLE SALVO… #173… CHECKING STARS… but first a little reflection… Good Morning: Day ONE HUNDRED SEVENTY…
RIPPLE SALVO… #172… “WHY CAN’T WE ALL JUST GET ALONG?”…. but first… Good Morning: Day ONE…
RIPPLE SALVO… #171… THE LAST CHANCE FOR PEACE IN VIETNAM…but first… Good Morning: Day ONE HUNDRED…
RIPPLE SALVO… #170… “BUILD A WALL”… but first… Good Morning: Day ONE HUNDRED SEVENTY remembering an…
RIPPLE SALVO… #169… A GUTSY STORY… but first… Good Morning: Day ONE HUNDRED SIXTY-NINE of a…
RIPPLE SALVO… #168… (1) MAO (2) UN-AMERICAN ACTIVITIES…but first… Good Morning: Day ONE HUNDRED SIXY EIGHT…
Good Morning: Day ONE HUNDRED SIXTY SEVEN of a revisit to the air war with North…
RIPPLE SALVO…#166 … SUGARCOATED…but first… Good Morning: Day ONE HUNDRED SIXTY SIX of 1,000 blogs remembering the…
RIPPLE SALVO… #165… THE WEBER COUNTY LIBRARY… Good Morning: Day ONE HUNDRED SIXTY FIVE of a…
RIPPLE SALVO… #164… TRY #2 FOR AUG 12….. ABBREVIATED…. Good Morning: Day ONE HUNDRED SIXTY FOUR…
RIPPLE SALVO… #163… “MAKE HASTE TO REASSURE ME.”…. but first… Good Morning: Day ONE HUNDRED SIXTY-THREE…
RIPPLE SALVO… #162… KASLER DOWN… but first… Good Morning: Day ONE HUNDRED SIXTY-TWO of a long–fifty…
RIPPLE SALVO… #161… IN SO MANY WORDS…but first… Good Morning: Day ONE HUNDRED SIXTY-ONE of a…
RIPPLE SALVO…#160… REMEMBERING COL JIM KASLER… but first… Good Morning: Day ONE HUNDRED SIXTY of a…
RIPPLE SALVO… #159… FIVE THUNDERBIRDS DOWNED IN ONE DAY… but first… Good Morning: Day ONE HUNDRED…
RIPPLE SALVO… #158… UNITY LOST… but first… Good Morning: Day ONE HUNDRED FIFTY-NINE of the days…
RIPPLE SALVO… #157… CARRIER AVIATION–PAST, PRESENT & FUTURE… Good Morning: Day ONE HUNDRED FIFTY-SEVEN of a…
RIPPLE SALVO… #156… READINESS… but first… Good Morning: Day ONE HUNDRED FIFTY-SIX of looking back at…
RIPPLE SALVO… #155… “THE READ”… but first… Good Morning: Day ONE HUNDRED FIFTY-FIVE a return to…
RIPPLE SALVO… #154…. “AMONG THE BRAVEST OF THE BRAVE”…. but first… Good Morning: Day ONE HUNDRED…
RIPPLE SALVO… #153… …”a privileged document”…THE PDB… but first… Good Morning: Day ONE HUNDRED FIFTY-THREE of…
RIPPLE SALVO… #152… A LITTLE POETRY TO SOOTHE THE HEART… Good Morning: Day ONE HUNDRED FIFTY-TWO…
RIPPLE SALVO… #151… HAIPHONG THERMAL POWER PLANT (WEST)… but first… Good Morning: Day ONE HUNDRED FIFTY-ONE…
RIPPLE SALVO… #150… PATTERN DOESN’T… but first… Good Morning: Day ONE HUNDRED FIFTY of a long…
RIPPLE SALVO… #149… “HONOR AND DIGNITY”… but first… Good Morning: Day ONE HUNDRED FORTY-NINE of a…
RIPPLE SALVO… #148… THE POWER OF RABBLE ROUSING WORDS… but first… Good Morning: Day ONE HUNDRED…
RIPPLE SALVO… #147… PUBLIC SUPPORT AT 54%… but first… Good Morning: Day ONE HUNDRED FORTY-SEVEN of…
RIPPLE SALVO… #146…. “He was ready.”…. but first… Good Morning: Day ONE HUNDRED FORTY-SIX of remembering…
RIPPLE SALVO… #145… “YET ANOTHER VOICE”… but first Good Morning: Day ONE HUNDRED FORTY-FIVE of the…
RIPPLE SALVO… #144… WYNN FOSTER AND DIETER DENGLER… but first… Good Morning: Day ONE HUNDRED FORTY-FOUR…
RIPPLE SALVO… #143…. HAPPY DAY…. but first… Good Morning: Day ONE HUNDRED FORTY-THREE of a day-to-day…
RIPPLE SALVO… #142… and the war goes on, and on…. but first… Good Morning: Day ONE…
RIPPLE SALVO… #141… “AMERICANS UNACCOUNTED FOR IN SOUTHEAST ASIA=1,618″…but first… Good Morning: Day ONE HUNDRED FORTY-ONE…
RIPPLE SALVO… #140… WAR OF WORDS… Good Morning: Day ONE HUNDRED FORTY of a remembrance of an…
RIPPLE SALVO… #139… AND TAKING IT EASY… but first… Good Morning: Day ONE HUNDRED THIRTY-NINE of…
RIPPLE SALVO…#138… POWER, VIOLENCE AND PURPOSE… but first… Good Morning: Day ONE HUNDRED THIRTY EIGHT of…
RIPPLE SALVO… #137… THE LETTER… but first… Good Morning: Day ONE HUNDRED THIRTY-SEVEN of a long…
RIPPLE SALVO… #137… versus THE AUDACIOUS ATTACK… but first… Good Morning: Day ONE HUNDRED THIRTY-SEVEN of…
RIPPLE SALVO… #136…. by Colonel Gerit L. Fenenga, USMC, Retired…. but first… Good Morning: Day ONE…
RIPPLE SALVO… #135… “…THE BOMBS FELL SQUARELY ON TARGET”… but first… Good Morning: Day ONE HUNDRED…
RIPPLE SALVO… #134… “TAKHLI TALES”*****…. Good Morning: Day ONE HUNDRED THIRTY-FOUR of a grand reflection of the pounding…
RIPPLE SALVO… #133… AND KINGS…. but first…. Good Morning: Day ONE HUNDRED THIRTY-THREE of another look…
RIPPLE SALVO… #132… MORE TARGETS, MORE SORTIES… but first… Good Morning: Day ONE HUNDRED THIRTY-TWO of…
RIPPLE SALVO…#131… HONOLULU, JULY 1966… Good Morning: Day ONE HUNDRED THIRTY-ONE of a long look back…
RIPPLE SALVO… #130… & POWs SPEAK…. but first… Good Morning: Day ONE HUNDRED THIRTY of a 28-month…
RIPPLE SALVO… #129… GOOD NEWS, BAD NEWS…but first… Good Morning: Day ONE HUNDRED TWENTY-NINE of a…
RIPPLE SALVO…#128…STIFLE YOURSELF…but first… Good Morning: Day ONE HUNDRED TWENTY-EIGHT of an old warrior’s review of…
RIPPLE SALVO… #127… TOO LITTLE, TOO LATE… but first…. Good Morning: Day ONE HUNDRED TWENTY-SEVEN of…
RIPPLE SALVO… #126… WE ARE STILL HERE, WE ARE STILL FREE, AND WE ARE STILL BRAVE…RIGHT?…
RIPPLE SALVO…#125… “The Red and White and Starry Blue”… but first… 3 JULY 1966…ON THE HOME…
RIPPLE SALVO… #124…”Sweet Land of Liberty…”… but first… Good Morning: Day ONE HUNDRED AND TWENTY-FOUR of…
RIPPLE SALVO… #123… A GOOD START…but first… Good Morning: Day ONE HUNDRED TWENTY-THREE of a review…
RIPPLE SALVO…#122… THE LOGIC OF ESCALATION… but first… Good Morning: Day ONE HUNDRED TWENTY-TWO of remembering…
RIPPLE SALVO… #121… A LEAKY WHITE HOUSE… but first a bit of “old” news… 50 Years…
RIPPLE SALVO… #120… GET ON YOUR MARK, GET SET, WHOA… but first… Good Morning: Day ONE…
RIPPLE SALVO… #119… MORE AND MORE… but first… Good Morning: Day ONE HUNDRED NINETEEN of my…
RIPPLE SALVO…#118… PART TWO… but first… Good Morning: Day ONE HUNDRED EIGHTEEN of a review of…
RIPPLE SALVO… #117… LESSONS IGNORED… PART ONE…but first… Good Morning: Day ONE HUNDRED SEVENTEEN of a…
RIPPLE SALVO… #116…CHEAP SHOT?…but first… Good Morning: Day ONE HUNDRED SIXTEEN of the long look back to…
RIPPLE SALVO… #115… WAR vs GREAT SOCIETY… but first… Good Morning: Day ONE HUNDRED FIFTEEN of…
RIPPLE SALVO…#114… MORE THAN FREEDOM… but first… Good Morning: Day ONE HUNDRED FOURTEEN of a look…
RIPPLE SALVO…#113… THE BLUE TAILS… but first…. Good Morning: Day ONE HUNDRED THIRTEEN of a revisit…
RIPPLE SALVO…#112… BE CAREFUL OUT THERE… but first… Good Morning: Day ONE HUNDRED TWELVE of a…
RIPPLE SALVO… #111… “THEY WERE OUR FATHERS”… but first… Good Morning–HAPPY FATHER’S DAY and day ONE…
RIPPLE SALVO… #110… GUILT DAY… but first… Good Morning: Day ONE HUNDRED TEN of an odyssey…
RIPPLE SALVO… #109… ADVERSARIES…but first…. Good Morning : Day ONE HUNDRED NINE of the long look…
RIPPLE SALVO… #108… NAVY COMMENDATION MEDAL with COMBAT “V”… but first… Good Morning: Day ONE HUNDRED…
RIPPLE SALVO…#107… BONNIE DICK ON TARGET…but first… Good Morning: Day ONE HUNDRED EIGHT of a day…
RIPPLE SALVO… #106… HERE WE COME… but first…. Good Morning: Day ONE HUNDRED SIX of a…
RIPPLE SALVO…#105… AN AIR MEDAL THE HARD WAY…but first… Good Morning: Day ONE HUNDRED FIVE of an…
RIPPLE SALVO… #104… ROMNEY OR NIXON…. but first…. Good Morning: Day ONE HUNDRED FOUR of a…
RIPPLE SALVO… #104… SELF-DECEPTION… Good Morning: Day ONE HUNDRED FOUR of a 900 day review (God…
RIPPLE SALVO… #103… CIA TS STUFF… but first… Good Morning: Day ONE HUNDRED THREE of a…
RIPPLE SALVO… #102… RS#99 EXPANDED COMMENT… but first… Good Morning: Day ONE HUNDRED TWO of a…
RIPPLE SALVO… #101… TO PROCEED WITH GREAT EFFORT… but first… Good Morning: Day ONE HUNDRED ONE…
RIPPLE SALVO…#100… FARM GATE… but first… Good Morning: Day ONE HUNDRED of a review of an…
RIPPLE SALVO… #99… AMERICA: an INCUBATOR….but first Good Morning: Day NINETY-NINE of a review of the Vietnam…
RIPPLE SALVO… #98… AN OPEN LETTER…. but first…….. Good Morning: Day NINETY-EIGHT of a recalling of…
RIPPLE SALVO… #97… JOE LOUIS…. but first… Good Morning: Day NINETY-SEVEN of a day-by-day review of…
RIPPLE SALVO…#96… ON THE EDGE… but first… Good Morning: Day NINETY-SIX of a revisit to the…
RIPPLE SALVO… #95… LET THERE BE LIGHT!… but first… Good Morning: Day NINETY-SIX of a review…
RIPPLE SALVO… #94… BLUE SKIES… but first… Good Morning: Day NINETY-FOUR of a playback of Operation…
RIPPLE SALVO…#93… C-130s FOREVER… but first… Good Morning: Day NINETY-THREE of a day-by-day review of Operation…
RIPPLE SALVO… #92… IN MEMORIAM V…. but first… Good Morning: Day NINETY-TWO of a look back…
RIPPLE SALVO… #91… IN MEMORIAM IV… but first… Good Morning: Day NINETY-ONE of the long look…
RIPPLE SALVO…#90… IN MEMORIAM III…but first… Good Morning: Day NINETY of a review of the “air…
RIPPLE SALVO… #89… IN MEMORIAM II…but first… Good Morning: Day EIGHTY-NINE of remembering that “all gave some, some…
RIPPLE SALVO… #88… IN MEMORIAM… but first… Good Morning: Day EIGHTY-EIGHT of a review of the…
RIPPLE SALVO… #87… BLOGGER DUTY… but first… Good Morning: Day EIGHTY-SEVEN of my fantastic walkabout in the…
RIPPLE SALVO…#86… Secretary McNamara’s Report Card… but first…. Good Morning: Day EIGHTY-SIX of a review of…
RIPPLE SALVO… #85…The Air Plan for the Summer of ’66… Good Morning: Day EIGHTY-FIVE of a review…
RIPPLE SALVO…#84… INTERDICTION… Good Morning: Day EIGHTY-FOUR in a 26-month review of Operation Rolling Thunder…one day…
RIPPLE SALVO… #82…MAY 1966 DPM #2…. 21 MAY 1966…(NYT)… ON THE HOME FRONT… A fair and…
RIPPLE SALVO… #82… The May 1966 DPM… but first… 20 MAY 1966…(NYT)…ON THE HOME FRONT… A…
RIPPLE SALVO…#81…”‘STRAIGHT DOWN”… but first… Good Morning: Day EIGHTY-ONE of a long look back to the…
RIPPLE SALVO…#80… DEFENSE POW/MIA ACCOUNTING AGENCY… but first… Good Morning: Day EIGHTY of a planned 1000…
RIPPLE SALVO… #79… FRENCH & SWARTZ…. but first… Good Morning: Day SEVENTY-NINE of a long look back…
RIPPLE SALVO… #78… A FOUR STAR REFLECTION… Good Morning: Day SEVENTY-EIGHT of a long look back…
RIPPLE SALVO…#76… 35MM PIX… but first… Good Morning: Day SEVENTY-SIX in a marathon review of Operation…
RIPPLE SALVO… #76 … A PAUSE, SORT OF…. but first… Good Morning: Day SEVENTY-SIX of a remembrance…
RIPPLE SALVO… #75… A PLACE OF REFUGE… Good Morning: Day SEVENTY-FIVE of a look back of…
RIPPLE SALVO… #74… THE CHOIR… Good Morning: Day SEVENTY-FOUR of a review of the North Vietnam…
RIPPLE SALVO…#73… 1 DOWN, 3 TO GO… but first… Good Morning: Day SEVENTY-THREE of a look…
RIPPLE SALVO… #71… LT CHUCK KLUSMANN …. but first… Good Morning: Day SEVENTY-ONE of the long…
RIPPLE SALVO… SNEAK ATTACK… but first… Good Morning: Day SEVENTY-ONE of a long look back to…
RIPPLE SALVO… #70… FM CIA TO LBJ… but first… Good Morning: Day SEVENTY of review of…
RIPPLE SALVO… INDECISION… but first… Good Morning: Day SIXTY-NINE of a long look back at Operation…
RIPPLE SALVO… CAPTAIN CHARLES SHELTON, USAF…but first… Good Morning: Day SIXTY-EIGHT of a review of Operation…
RIPPLE SALVO… #68… MENTOR… Good Morning: Day SIXTY-SEVEN of a retro-visit to Operation Rolling Thunder… 5 MAY…
RIPPLE SALVO #67… POW PREP… but first… Good Morning: Day SIXTY-SIX of a marathon review of…
RIPPLE SALVO… blog #66… MAY MEETINGS… Good Morning: Day SIXTY-FIVE of my look back at Operation…
RIPPLE SALVO… blog #65 …NATURE… but first… Good Evening (or later): Day SIXTY-FOUR of a review…
RIPPLE SALVO… SOFT MIRY LAND… but first… Good Morning: Day SIXTY-THREE of a two year project…a…
RIPPLE SALVO… The night of “Flight of the Intruder”…. but first… Good Morning: Day SIXTY-TWO of…
RIPPLE SALVO… PRESUMED DEAD … but first… Good Morning: Day SIXTY-ONE of the long look back…
RIPPLE SALVO… SCYLLA & CHARYBDIS… but first…. Good Morning: Day SIXTY of a Bear’s marathon review…
RIPPLE SALVO… MEMORIES AS A RESPONSIBILITY… but first…. 27 April 1966 (NYT)…ON THE HOMEFRONT… A rainy, windy…
RIPPLE SALVO… THEN AND NOW…but first… Good Morning: Day FIFTY-SIX of a review of Operation Rolling…
RIPPLE SALVO… APRIL INTERDICTION…but first… Good Morning: Day FIFTY-FOUR of an ongoing review of Operation Rolling…
RIPPLE SALVO… “POLICY IN A PARAGRAPH” … but first… Good Morning: Day FIFTY-THREE of the long…
RIPPLE SALVO… WINCHESTER… but first… Good Morning: Day FIFTY-TWO of the long look back to Operation…
RIPPLE SALVO… GET HAPPY… but first… Good Morning: Day FIFTY-ONE of reflecting back to Operation Rolling Thunder…the…
RIPPLE SALVO #50… PLAY IT AGAIN… but first… Good Morning: Day FIFTY of a look back…
RIPPLE SALVO… #49… 20 APRIL 1966 (NYT)… ON THE HOMEFRONT… Front page headline: “U.S. Navy Jets…
RIPPLE SALVO…#48… MY COUNTRY …but first… Good Morning: Day FORTY-EIGHT of a look back at Operation…
RIPPLE SALVO… #47… COERCION… but first… Good Morning: Day FORTY-SEVEN in a look back of 50…
RIPPLE SALVO- 46 … UNCOUPLED … but first… Good Morning: Day FORTY-SIX of a long look back…
RIPPLE SALVO… EXTENDED BATTLEFIELD… but first… Good Morning: Day FORTY-SIX of a look back to Operation Rolling Thunder……
RIPPLE SALVO… INVINCIBLE …but first … Good Morning: Day FORTY-FIVE of a review of the “air…
RIPPLE SALVO… “WHEN THUNDER ROLLED…” … but first… Good Morning: Day FORTY-FOUR of a look back at the “air…
RIPPLE SALVO… IN THE ARENA….but first… Good Morning: Day FORTY-FOUR of a return to 1966 and Operation…
RIPPLE SALVO… B-52s FOREVER (?)… but first…. Good Morning: day FORTY-THREE of a return to 1966…
RIPPLE SALVO… SPEED IS LIFE… but first… Good Morning: Day FORTY-TWO of a return to 1966 and Operation…
RIPPLE SALVO… KARNOW…. but first… Good Morning: Day FORTY-ONE of a return to 1966 and Operation Rolling…
RIPPLE SALVO… WBLCs…..but first… Good Morning: Day FORTY of a return to 1966 and Operation Rolling Thunder……
RIPPLE SALVO…”MIGHTY THUNDER”… but first… Good Morning: Day THIRTY-NINE of a look back of 50 years…
RIPPLE SALVO… ON THE RECORD… but first…. Good Morning: Day THIRTY-EIGHT of a look back of…
RIPPLE SALVO… “BLUE CHIPS”… Good Morning: Day THIRTY-SEVEN of a look back of fifty years to…
RIPPLE SALVO… HARD TO BELIEVE, OR NOT….but first… Good Morning: Day THIRTY-SIX of a look back…
RIPPLE SALVO… Rolling Thunder 50 Good Morning: Day THIRTY-FIVE of a long look back to Operation…
RIPPLE SALVO… MOTHER NATURE RULES… Good Morning: Day THIRTY FOUR of a look back to Operation…
RIPPLE SALVO… A CASE FOR FACs — BRAVEST OF THE BRAVE…by Steve Dascal…but first… Good Morning: Day THIRTY-THREE…
RIPPLE SALVO….. DIS-UNITY OF COMMAND… but first…. Good Morning: Day THIRTY-TWO of a look back to Operation…
RIPPLE SALVO… TO BE, OR NOT TO BE–DRAFTED… but first…. 31 MARCH 1966 (NYT)… ON THE…
RIPPLE SALVO… NAVCAD CLASS 34-55….DREAMS INTO MEMORIES … but first….. Good Morning: Day THIRTY of a…
RIPPLE SALVO… “…CONSCIOUS, CONTINUING TRAVESTY,”…but first… Good Morning… Day TWENTY-NINE of a look back at Operation…
Good Morning…Day TWENTY-EIGHT of a look back to Operation Rolling Thunder…. 28 MARCH 1966 (NYT)… ON…
Good Morning… Day TWENTY-SEVEN of a look back at Operation Rolling Thunder…. 50 Years Ago… 27…
Good Morning…Day TWENTY- SIX in a 50-Year Flashback to Operation Rolling Thunder…. 26 MARCH 1966 (NYT)……
Good Morning… Day TWENTY-FIVE of a long look back at Operation Rolling Thunder…Fifty Years Ago… 25…
Good Morning: Day TWENTY-FOUR of our look back to Operation Rolling Thunder…. Fifty Years Ago… 24…
Good Morning: Day TWENTY-THREE of our look back at Operation Rolling Thunder…Fifty Years Ago… 23 MARCH…
Good Morning: Day TWENTY-TWO of a look back to Operation Rolling Thunder…Fifty Years Ago… 22 March 1966…
Good Morning: Day TWENTY-ONE of a long look back to Operation Rolling Thunder…Fifty Years Ago… 21 MARCH…
Good Morning: Day TWENTY of recalling Operation Rolling Thunder…Fifty Years Ago… 20 MARCH 1966 (NYT) …ON…
Good Morning: Day NINETEEN of a long look back to Operation Rolling Thunder…Fifty Years Ago… 19 MARCH…
Good Morning… Day EIGHTEEN of our look back to Operation Rolling Thunder… FIFTY years ago… 18 MARCH…
Good Morning, Happy St. Patrick’s Day…Day SEVENTEEN of a look back at Operation Rolling Thunder…50-Years Ago…
16 MARCH 1966 (NYT)…Wednesday…Fair and colder in New York…Lead item was R.W. Apple’s report that: “United…
Good Morning… Day FIFTEEN of our look back to Operation Rolling Thunder …Fifty Years ago… 15 MARCH…
Good Morning…Day FOURTEEN of our look back to Operation Rolling Thunder…FIFTY YEARS AGO… 14 MARCH 1966…
Good Morning… Day THIRTEEN of our long look back to Operation Rolling Thunder…Fifty Years Ago… 13…
Good Morning: Day TWELVE of our long look back to Operation Rolling Thunder…Fifty Years Ago… 12…
Good Morning: Day ELEVEN of our long look back to Operation Rolling Thunder… Fifty years ago……
Good Morning: Day TEN of our long look back to Operation Thunder… Fifty Years Ago… 10…
Good Morning: Day NINE of our long look back to Operation Thunder…Fifty Years Ago… 9 MARCH…
Good Morning … Day EIGHT of our long look back to Operation Rolling Thunder… Fifty Years…
Good Morning… Day SEVEN of our long look back to Operation Rolling Thunder. 7 MARCH1966 (NYT)…
Good Morning…Day SIX of our long look back to Operation Rolling Thunder. 6 MARCH 1966 (NYT)…
Good Morning…Day FIVE of our long look back to Operation Rolling Thunder. 5 MARCH 1966 (NYT)……
Good Morning…Day FOUR of our long look back to Operation Rolling Thunder. This is an odyssey…
Good Morning…Day THREE of our long look back to Operation Rolling Thunder. Fifty years ago when…
Good Morning…Day TWO of my look back at Operation Rolling Thunder from the perspective of 50…
Good Evening…. In a few hours it will be 1 March 2016 here in Utah. This…