RIPPLE SALVO… #673… An anti-war document that was written in 1967, got legs in the anti-war movement of 1968. Saul Alinsky’s “Rules for Radicals” followed in 1971 and has become the handbook for the legion of anti-government organizations now preparing for the summer and fall of 2018. Change was the cry in 1968 and remains the battlecry of the left today. Alinsky writes: Change is movement. Movement is friction. Friction is conflict. So it was in 1968 and will be in 2018. History is the teacher….but first…
Good Morning: Day SIX HUNDRED-SEVENTY-THREE of a return of fifty years to the days of Rolling Thunder, the air war fought in the skies of North Vietnam…
9 JANUARY 1968…HEAD LINES from The New York Times on a Tuesday of light snow and extreme cold (-3 Tonight)…
Page 2: THE GROUND WAR: VIETCONG MAUL A TOWN 21 MILES WEST OF SAIGON–KILL 26 IN PROVINCIAL CAPITAL AND FLY THEIR FLAG FOR THREE HOURS BEFORE LEAVING”...”…Attacking behind a rocket and mortar barrage, the guerrillas destroyed a battalion headquarters of the South Vietnamese Army., heavily damaged a camp for Vietcong defectors and flew their flag for three hours. At least 26 Vietnamese soldiers were killed and 27 were reported missing. Fourteen American advisors were wounded and 26 of the attackers were killed… 19 miles south of Saigon, in the upper Mekong Delta region of Longan Province, several companies of the United States Ninth Infantry Division fought for eight hours with a Vietcong force estimated to number 300. Two helicopters were shot down and destroyed and a third was heavily damaged. First reports were that 265 of the enemy had been killed. There was not word on American casualties.”... Page 2: “Royal Troops Step Up Battle On North Vietnamese In Laos”… “Royal Laotian forces pounded North Vietnamese forces yesterday with 105mm howitzers as paratroop columns moved deep into guerrilla held territory in an attempt to seize the initiative in the ten-month long fighting against Pathet Lao insurgents here (Nambac). While lumbering C-123’s roared over this command post dropping ammunition and rice, enemy mortars pounded the airstrip. Laotian Air Force T-28s dive-bombers swooped low over the valley pouring napalm bombs, rockets and machine-gun fire on the enemy mortarmen…. Nambac, 65 miles south of Dienbienphu and 50 miles from the Chinese border, blocks the northern access to the royal capital of Luang Prabang…. The 4,500-man Nambac garrison is in an isolated valley, is cut off from resupply except by air. The 2,500 Pathet Lao and North Vietnamese forces also appear to have gone without reinforcements.”…
Page 1: “Bowles Arrives To See Sihanouk On Border Issue–Dispute On Guerrilla’s Use Of Sanctuary in Cambodia to Be Focus of Discussion–Two Meetings Are Set–Head of State Rules Out Any Consideration of Question of Hot Pursuit By U.S.”… Page 1: “Bishops Of South Vietnam, Asking Peace, Score Thieu”… Page 1: “Democrats Vote Integration Idea For Convention–Seek To Encourage Negroes–Resolution Believed To Be Acceptable To South”… Page 1: MERCURY DROPS TO 1-DEGREE JERE–COLD ENGULFS NATION-NO RELIEF IN SIGHT”… Page 1: “Australia Picks Senator John Grey Gorton As Leader”… “Page 1:P “Ousted Skipper’s Key Defender Shifted From Navy Command”... “One of the Navy’s most promising–and controversial–captains has traded the prestigious assignment as commanding officer for the battleship New Jersey for shore duty in Boston. The officer, Captain Richard G. Alexander, listed ‘personal reasons’ in asking for the switch in assignments. He refused to discuss them tonight in a television interview. ‘All I can say is that I regret having to get a transfer. No real Navy man likes to go ashore. No assignment can equal the New Jersey.’… Captain Alexander fought for reinstatement of the relieved officer Lieutenant Commander Aurelius Arnheiter (who had been relieved of command of a radar picket ship). But the struggle, which became bitter at times, has been unsuccessful.”… Page 12: “Israeli Jets Strike In Jordan Ending an Artillery Exchange–Arabs Accused of Shelling Villages–Heavily Fighting Flares Across Jordan River”… Page 14: “Bugging Secrecy Deffended By U.S.–Justice Officials Deny They Must Disclose All Data”... “The Justice Department argued today that it was not required to make available to defendants in criminal cases all evidence in it files detailing conversations overheard through illegal electronic eavesdropping.”... Page 18: “Science’s Knowledge On The Misuse Of Drugs And How They Act Is Found to Lag–More Study Urged On Their Effects–Centuries Old Problem of Addition Poses Questions Thus Far Unanswered”… Page 21: “Navy Pilot Dies In Crash”… “A Navy pilot was killed today when his F-8 Crusader crashed into a railroad tressel near here (Niland, CA). The pilot was identified as LTJG Thomas Carrier. He was flying a plane from Davis Monthan Air Force Base in Tuscon, Arizona.”
Page 21: “NIXON SEES NATION ‘TORN APART’ AND WARNS OF WAR IN THE STREETS NEXT SUMMER”... “Richard M. Nixon spoke of the United States here (NYC) last night as a nation ‘torn apart by a race conflict that runs very deep’ and added, ‘We expect war in the streets next summer.’The former Vice President addressing 800 executives of the financial community and their wives at the Americana Hotel went on: ‘War requires advance planning and radicals are actually planning now what they’ll do in the way of destruction to bring great cities to their knees.’…After his remarks he explained that by ‘radicals’ he meant ‘black power extremists.’ “…
9 January 1968… OPERATION ROLLING THUNDER… New York Times: No coverage of the air war over North Vietnam… “Vietnam: Air Losses” (Chris Hobson) There were Two fixed wing aircraft lost in Southeast Asia on 9 January 1968…
(1) CAPTAIN D.W. LORENZO, USMC was flying an F-8E of the VMF(AW)-235 Death Angels and MAG-11, Danang on a Steel Tiger mission and was downed by automatic weapons fire while bombing a choke point near Ban Laipo. CAPTAIN LORENZO was able to keep the Crusader airborne for a few miles before having to eject. He was rescued by an Air Force helicopter…
(2) LCOL NORMAN MORGAN GREEN and 1LT WAYNE CHARLES IRSCH were flying an F-4D of the 497th TFS and 8th TFW on a night interdiction mission over the Ho Chi Minh Trail and were downed attacking a truck. Their F-4 crashed near Ban Kapay about 20 miles west of the DMZ. Apparently neither aviator was able to eject from the aircraft, but since the wreckage and both warriors remain lost in the jungles of Laos, the truth may never be known. Today, 50 years after they perished, they remain where they fell in the service of our country…left behind, but remembered…
RIPPLE SALVO… #673… Remembering Rolling Thunder is the primary objective of my blogs. But as I have noted before, the air war and bombing of North Vietnam was just one of the forces that divided the nation and changed the destiny of our country. One might, as one writer did, conclude that this is when the American Dream died. A landmark document that set the course for the anti-war forces of the decade was the work of Marcus Raskin entitled “A Call To Resist Illegitimate Authority.” Humble Host recommends a reading to gain an appreciation for the rationale that supported the radicals answer to their government’s choices in the 1960’s… This is the set of principles that guided the behavior of the anti-war forces as we went to war as ordered by our government… It remains on the all-read board of the modern-day radical groups that stand ready, willing, and able to make history on the streets of American cities this summer ahead of the 2018 elections… Tens of millions of Americans contend that the Trump Administration is illegitimate and they are calling for change… Believe it… Also, if you haven’t read Alinsky’s “Rules for Radicals,” I recommend it… George Soros and his minions have memorized the rules and live by them…
“A Call To Resist Illegitimate Authority”… at…
http://vietnamwar.lib.umb.edu/warHome/docs/1967CallToResistIllegit.html
RTR Quote for 9 January: LENIN: “They have the guns and therefore we are for peace and for reformation through the ballot. When we have the guns then it will be through the bullet.”…
(Webmaster note: Read the chilling quote above by Lenin and recognize the radical, progressive left for what they are, and always have been. Elitist, cold-blooded, murdering totalitarians who strive for the death of human independence and freedom)
Lest we forget… Bear