Goodbye To The Blind Slash Dead Kid's Hooch

August, 1971

Goodbye to the Blind Slash Dead Kid's HoochFrom the helicopter at 1500 feet, the nightmare moonscape of Vietnam--a description that springs automatically into the mind of everyone who flies above this blasted, seared country--appears exotically beautiful and cool. Flying north, there are sharp green mountains on the left horizon and on the right bright-blue sea, as if a painter had smeared Caribbean colors upon the harsh coast of Greece. Beneath pass sections of totally desolate ground, first de...