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3:20: ("Ceres Motion") Joe tells of someone (unnamed) serving in Vietnam in Army | 3:20: ("Ceres Motion") Joe tells of someone (unnamed) serving in Vietnam in Army | ||
intelligence. | intelligence.<ref>At about 6:30 Joe says:<blockquote> | ||
'The war hardly touched his life. He wore civilian clothes and attended a swim club where gorgeous Vietnamese women lounged around the pool in bikinis. And he played golf at the Saigon Golf Club and spent one afternoon a week at the Phú Tho Racetrack. And he went on cookouts in lush tropical settings where he ate charcoal-broiled hamburgers and he drank beer and had ice cream desserts. And he went in the evenings to exquisite French and Vietnamese restaurants and to bars where there was live entertainment, mostly Vietnamese rock groups imitating the Beach Boys and the Beatles.'</blockquote>Phú Tho racetrack was a stadium in North Vietnam that the American Army captured in early '68, used as a base of operations ([https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tet_Offensive_battle_of_Cholon_and_Phu_Tho_Racetrack Battle of Cholon and Phú Tho racetrack]) It wasn't near this guy's base or a place one would go for fun.</ref> | |||
15:40: A fellow remembers covering the big anti-war [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1971_May_Day_protests May Day demonstration] in DC. | 15:40: A fellow remembers covering the big anti-war [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1971_May_Day_protests May Day demonstration] in DC. | ||