Army Information Center Intercontinental Hotel Saigon, Vietnam April 14, 1971.Dear Rusty rust·y adj. rust·i·er, rust·i·est 1. Covered with rust; corroded. 2. Consisting of or produced by rust. 3. Of a yellowish-red or brownish-red color. 4. : The body bags keep coming and Charlie shows no sign of giving up. I'm here in "Hot 'Nam" with my buddies-the guys who know what death is. Death is what we eat for breakfast around here, Rusty. Death and dirt and mud and the memory of home. We may be fighting Communism here, Rusty, but I'll tell you something you won't read in the New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of Times. Our country may win the war, but lose its soul. I've seen so much, old friend. Thank God my month is almost up. See you in two weeks! Your pal, Al P.S.: The mail is so slow. If only there were a way to convert the ARPANET (Advanced Research Projects Agency NETwork) The research network funded by the U.S. Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA). The software was developed by Bolt, Beranek and Newman (BBN), and Honeywell 516 minicomputers were the first hardware used as communications network The transmission channels interconnecting all client and server stations as well as all supporting hardware and software. into a world-wide network of computer servers that send mail digitally, as "packets" |
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