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Pete Hall from WI's avatar

It's an excellent opus, TC. I'm learning a lot of much appreciated minutiae and loving it. You must have spent many years putting all of that togeather! Do you think that knowledge transference from Korea to Nam didn't occur because the time interval was too short to get the (mis)deleuders out of the way? Maybe that's what's happening with TFG today, or is Newt, and Ruby Ridge, and Tim McV not a valid parallel?

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TCinLA's avatar

Everything the North Koreans and Chinese learned about dealing with out bombing of North Korea during that war - how to make cheap repairs that stood up and could be repaired over and over, etc. - all hat was taught to the North Vietnamese during the war. The experts came and taught everyone what they had learned the hard way.

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Ellen's avatar

LOL! Welcome back. A (former) "friend" asked me to edit her attempt at a book, so I am well acquainted with that well from hell. Aside from having a vocabulary of - maybe - 100 words or so, many of which were misspelled, she taught me an important lesson: when you cannot get through a single page without a mark on every line, it's time to abort the project. I did. Best of luck to you! (And the better lesson learned was to stop being a sucker!)

BTW, she self published it on Amazon. As far as I know, no one has read it.

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TCinLA's avatar

As Harlan Ellison once put it to a group of us, "Those who can be discouraged, should be."

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Ellen's avatar

LOL! This is a day of laughs, between you and Greg Olear. Thanks!

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Lynell(VA by way of MD&DC)'s avatar

Glad you're otherwise ok, TC.

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kim  CR🌈🌴😎's avatar

Welcome back from hell’s well‼️

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Christine (FL)'s avatar

Oooo. Look forward to checking in on Fine Mess this week. How are new release book sales going?

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