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Offline GreenCloud

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France honors CIA pilots
« Reply #15 on: February 16, 2005, 07:40:01 AM »
For Pope, the now 76-year-old pilot whose memory of Dien Bien Phu is seared by gruesome images of wounded French troops, the motivation for joining France's fight is easily explained. "I'm a communist fighter. I was born and raised to be against the communists," he says.

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« Reply #16 on: February 16, 2005, 07:54:57 AM »
We lost?  the place was in pretty good shape when we left.   90% of the hamlets and villages were safe and secure.   We never lost a battle and killed the enemy like 10 to one.

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