Paul Connors:  

CLASS OF 1971
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East setauket, NY
Hofstra UniversityClass of 1976
Hempstead, NY

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Paul is single. Paul's schools include Ward Melville High School. Paul later attended Hofstra University (Political science), Hofstra University (Political science, Military History) and UCLA (graduate work in International Relations). Paul works(ed) at US Army and retired from the USAF in January 2009. Music Paul likes includes Fleetwood Mac, 99.5 The Wolf, Eagles. Books Paul likes include Summer of '42, The NAM, About Face: The Odyssey of an American Warrior. Movies Paul likes include Battle of Long Tan, T...Expand for more
he 300 Spartans, One of Paul's favorite quotes is:""So in the Libyan fable it is told, that once an eagle, stricken with a dart, said when he saw the fashion of the shaft, with our own feathers, not by others' hands are we now smitten." Aeschylus "That government is best that governs least" Thomas Jefferson". More about Paul:"Believer in freedom and smaller government, 2nd Amendt., Retired after almost 30 years of military service.
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Vietnamese Army draftees on a tour of the Military Remnants Museum in Hanoi.   Given that more than 53% of Vietnam's population was born after the Fall of Saigon on 30 April 1975, not one of these soldiers would have any me
Vietnamese Army draftees, April 2019.
Communist propaganda sculpture.   Military Remnants Museum, Hanoi.
Little kids receiving their daily propaganda lesson from their Communist masters.   Military Remnants Museum, Hanoi.

The tank behind them is the North Vietnamese T-55 that crashed through the gates of "Independence Palace"
Military Remnants Museum, Hanoi
Young Pioneers of the Communist Party.  Military Remnants Museum, Hanoi.
Young Pioneers of the Communist Party of Vietnam.  Military Remnants Museum, Hanoi, Vietnam.
Military Remnants Museum, Hanoi Vietnam/
Dong Khe, Vietnam.  In this open area and during the French colonial period there once stood a caserne of the French Foreign Legion.
This is the Catholic parish and bishopric we visited in LANG SON.  The Vietnamese gentleman shaking my hand is the parish priest,  and is having a laugh at my expense.  When I was introduced to him as the only American in t
Lang Son, Vietnam 25 April 2019
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Ky Lua caves.  Lang Son, Vietnam
At the top of the cave in Lang Son.   This is actually outside the cave and one can look all the way back down into the cave or see the surrounding countryside from here.  The Japanese man in the photo with me is Caporal Ch
Stupid is as Stupid does......
The KY LUA caves at Lang Son
Grumman F8F-1 BEARCAT - From Bethpage, Long Island, NY to the French Air Force in Indo-China (ca. 1953) and delivered by the US Navy.
The view back toward the Viet Minh battle monument with Christian Python approaching me.
Floriano Alexandre Conte checking his phone near the Viet Minh battle monument.
The granite quarry just down the road from the Viet Minh battle monument.
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