Selasa, 11 April 2017

Voices | Jim Roberts

The lack of assistance for the South Vietnamese is a terrible black mark on our reputation. By the time Jim Roberts left the Navy in 1971, after two cruises to Vietnam aboard a destroyer, most Americans had turned against the war, but he still considered it a noble cause. Roberts became political director of the …

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