Fall of Saigon - 40 years ago

[Bob Womack]

A friend sent me an interesting article by an officer on the last ship out of Vietnam at the end of the conflict in which he described the last shots of the "war." As they were pulling away out from shore, two well-spaced artillery rounds landed in the water close behind the ship. The writer said the battery clearly could have hit the ship - they had been accurately pounding the officer's unit for days before they withdrew. He said the shots were an insult, meant to say, "We could have gotten you if we wanted to, losers."

Bob