A Bright Shining Lie
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1:51:04
He's dead?
1:51:09
How? I was just--
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Oh, man.
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John Paul Vann
was America's warrior.

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He personified our good intentions,
our arrogance...

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our courage,
and ultimately our folly.

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He had fought to redeem
the unredeemable--

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to salvage the doomed enterprise
called South Vietnam.

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In death, he had triumphed
over defeat...

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while the rest of us
are left to ask...

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"Why?"

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