The Longest War: Guide To A War That Lost Its Way, by David S. Wilson, The New York Times

The Longest War: Guide To A War That Lost Its Way, by David S. Wilson,
The New York Times

EXCERPT: "REDONDO BEACH, CA - ....Phillip Roger Coleman enlisted in
the Army with enthusiasm and went to Vietnam. There, one of his duties
was burying closet-size communications stations in the jungle for
soldiers who were stranded. He now spends much of his day in a room
much-like those emergency hideaways. The cramped room in the back of
his clothing store here has a personal computer into which he is
typing a record of what he calls a noble war that lost its way.
Since July, Mr. Coleman has transcribed more than 300 documents into
his Vietnam Data Resource and Electronic Library [now over 1500].
Leaders of vets groups and historians at the State Department say his
effort is the first serious attempt to chronicle the Vietnam War by
computer. Schools use other, larger Vietnam research collections, like
those at the Indochina Archive at the University of California,
Berkeley and the State Department, but Mr. Coleman's library is free
to anyone with a computer that can communicate over a telephone
line...."

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Mr. Coleman's Vietnam autobiography, including a letter/review
from General William C.Westmoreland, is accessible at URL:

http://members.aol.com/warlib/cf.htm

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Otis Willie
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