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Blue skies, Raz!

Ed Rasimus Not too many years ago, I reviewed a book called When Thunder Rolled. "One of the finest combat memoirs I have ever read," I wrote in the Wall Street Journal, "any nation, any war, any service." I still think so, and I still regard Ed Rasimus as one of the finest chroniclers of the Vietnam War ... though I'm not sure that he ever actually set foot in South Vietnam! His war was based in Thailand and executed over North Vietnam, where he routinely flew his multi-million-dollar F-105 against--trucks! Fuel dumps! Road intersections! The flak was awful and the payoff ridiculously small, but he and his buddies went back again and again. What a tribute to the bravery of young men!

Alas, on January 30, the writer and war hero went off on his last mission. He was seventy. Blue skies, Raz! You will be missed.

Yes, indeed, long time passing! Nearly half a century has passsed since I flew into Saigon in May 1964. Here's a new paperback edition of The Only War We've Got, my Vietnam journal. The retail price is $9.95, but here's a discount code for two dollars off:

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Just go to the Createspace store, click on Add to Cart, and paste the discount code into the space provided. (You can actually use the discount more than once, if you want more than one copy, or if you want to add a copy of my Vietnam novel, Incident at Muc Wa). Enjoy! -- Dan Ford

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