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read this excerpt from "not a dove but no longer a havik
i remember distinctly the thrill of climbing aboard a us army helicopter in the cool of the morning and taking of
across the rice fields with a south vietnamese battalion for a day's jousting with the vietcong guerillas. i was proud
of the young american pilots sitting at the controls in the cockpit and i was grateful for the opportunity to witness
this adventure and to report it. we are fighting now, i used to think, and some day we will triumph and this will be a
better country
based on this excerpt, it can be inferred that
the war provides the author with his first flying experience
the author once felt pride and optimism about the war 1
the us soldiers are trained in hand to hand combat
the author has a begrudging respect for the vietcong
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