Autograph letter signed : Saigon, to "Alicia," [1966 Dec. 31].

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Autograph letter signed : Saigon, to "Alicia," [1966 Dec. 31].

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Comparing the quick descent of his plane into Saigon to "Walter Kerr leaving the theater or water making an exit from the bathtub;" relating the activities of his first few days; saying he had fired a round from a 105-mm. howitzer, attended the opening of a new village of 30 brick homes, built with the contributions from the citizens of Gadsden, Alabama; heading to "the range to check out in small arms" to prepare for a visit "north to the mountains and the D.M.Z.;" adding "I don't want to be dead weight. And I've never had much sympathy for the innocent bystander. I want to be a guilty bystander, if necessary. Peaceful though as I am there's a great difference between a dove and a pigeon."

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