marines gave me all:
press pass, travel* orders;
a rifle and more
do seven stories a month
photos welcome as lagniappe
*(When I got to Viet-Nam, Republic of South; the First Marine Division (-) (Reinf) issued me a press pass and something called Repeat Travel Orders, which said, in essence, so long as I stayed clear of Saigon and DaLat (where suspicions said not just Wigs of Big in South Vietnam ensconced their ones of – by and for – love in nice villa retreats, but also some hints of secret nuclear energy(?) program might be found. As per usual, we were not allowed to know – and more importantly, to write – about anything I remain convinced our enemies already knew. We were censoring not just our troops, but our press and America as well. Nothing new there, and I suspect remains the same still.)
richwrapper 
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