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He Might Be President, But...

During more than six years of continuous combat in Vietnam, the 173rd Airborne Brigade earned 14 Campaign Streamers and four unit citations. Brigade soldiers serving in Vietnam received 13 Medals of Honor, 32 Distinguished Service Crosses, 1,735 Silver Stars and over 6,000 Purple Hearts. There are over 1,790 Brigade soldiers’ names on the Vietnam Memorial Wall in Washington, DC.

Now, a piece of their story has been resurrected as told by one of the bridage’s members, CWO Bobby Miller who served in Vietnam from 1968-69. His new book, Kill Me If You Can, You SOB was published in the summer of 2007.

Writing from a diary he kept between missions, Miller gives us a first-person view of Vietnam from the way the author as a 27-year-old young man experienced it. This isn’t Hemingway or even DW Lawrence. It’s just the written words of an American Veteran who knows how to string a few sentences together. But when he’s done stringing them together, you get the feeling you’re there in the rice paddies, as Miller and his crew run command and control missions, bring in supplies and mail, pick up and deliver wounded and dead soldiers, drop flares to light up the night sky, and ferry around pretty much anything else that needed to be moved.

And if you think Miller did all this because he was inspired by his country’s great leadership, consider this little gem that he sandwiches into his entry from February 1969:

I just want to throw-up at all the talk about our new savior, Richard M. Nixon. This bastard is being pulled apart by his Quaker upbringing and love for booze. Here’s hoping he’ll climb into a bottle of Glenlivet Scotch and drown.

Apparently, Miller wasn’t as impressed as the tiny majority of voters were in Nixon’s 1968 presidential campaign, even though Miller describes himself as a Republican!