Carbon copy of an autograph letter signed : [Viet Nam], to "Alicia," [1967 Jan. 7].

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Carbon copy of an autograph letter signed : [Viet Nam], to "Alicia," [1967 Jan. 7].

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Relating the details of his flight in a Huey helicopter and his admiration for the pilots; saying that they "make me sick with envy. They ride their vehicles the way a man controls a fine, well-trained quarter horse. They weave along stream beds, rise like swallows to clear trees, they turn and twist and dip like swifts in the evening. I watch their hands and their feet on the controls, the delicacy of the coordination reminds me of the sure and seeming slow hands of Casals on the cello;" describing their landing deep in the jungle to meet the soldiers who were "sacking unhulled rice to be air-lifted to the refugee centers;" criticizing the student anti-war protesters.

1 item (4 p.) ; 31.1 cm

Pierpont Morgan Library.

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