There is no better way to understand the Vietnam War than by looking at its seamy underbelly as experienced by someone who lived through the mess.
Kill Me If You Can, You SOB is a book by one such underbelly witness. Author Bob Miller tells of his
personal experiences while supporting the Currahees, 3-506th Airborne Infantry..
Drawn exclusively from his personal diary, this is a retelling of that fateful war that turned America upside down. But this version doesn’t focus on the self-righteous bravado of Nixon or the self-righteous anger of the campus demonstrators. Instead, it focuses on the day-to-day fight for survival and sanity during wartime.
Perhaps the best way to gauge the author’s viewpoint is to read a poem by the author that wasn’t included in the book, but which fully reflects his hardcore view of more recent realities, in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina.
Battle of New Orleans - New verse for an old song.
© 2005 by Bob Miller (used here with permission of the author)
Oh how the lazy and apathetic cry when they get mud in their eye.
It was the crack on the street that came to mind heavy, not the crack in the levee.
I lived on St. Charles not far from Canal. Didn’t enjoy the sleepless nights listening to you howl.
Have you wondered at all, how it would now be, if you’d made those levees as tall as a tree?
I know that right now you guys and gals are pissed, but tell me this, are you still laughing at the jokes you used to tell with delight about your crooked cops and politicians stealing all day and half the night?
Sure some good people died, but that's what happens when you condone a political lie.
In Southeast Asia, I watched three young men suffer and die who were burnt from head to toe while Johnson and Nixon played GI Joe. So for those of you who voted for George or didn’t vote at all, I don’t give a damn how many of you fall.
Oh well, what the hell, I’m sure the Red Cross will ring the dinner bell. And without a doubt the Bush-Cheney Construction Companies will be out and about. Don’t worry, they'll not send the bill to you, but to the Internal Revenue.