Larry Craig

Lost in Vietnam Larry Craig

Saigon was an incredibly exciting destination in 1967. This book will let you in on some of the secrets that kept the generals coming back for more. More fine French cuisine. More fine French wine at low PX prices(I should know since I bought it regularly and sold it to the owner of the Tan Loc Hotel for a profit of one or two hundred percent). Across the street from the Tan Loc was the Saigon Health where the sign out front advertised MASSAGE NO SEX. There the brass could enjoy the company of two teen girls at a time while eschewing the blatant frolics of Tu Do street where the whores with loose bras sold "Saigon Tea" to the sergeants and privates. Just sitting under the ceiling fans at the Continental Place Hotel where Graham Greene wrote The Quiet American, published in 1956, was not quite enough to justify the flight over to see the girlfriends at taxpayers expense so they did their best to keep the fake body count high for the viewing enjoyment of the folks back home who were lapping up the lies from Walter Cronkike, Chet Huntley and David Brinkley. These news readers reported accurately what the Public Information Office spewed at the 5 O'clock Follies at the Rex Hotel everyday. The reporters at the Rex did not often leave Saigon to view the actual war where the Americans seemed to win every battle while losing the war.