Oral History Interview with Robert E. Kelley, December 3, 2001 Page: 4 of 4

                                
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as there are tyrants and leaders that don't want their people to have freedom,
we're always going to have these conflicts.
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I think the president was looking to the freedom of Southeast Asia compared to
the communists, and I think it was one of the things we had to do to show the
communist countries that they could not just go out and take freedom from a
country that was already free without some resistance.
If you had to do it all over again, would you do it?
I certainly would.
What would you have done different or would you change if you could?
Probably the only thing I would change would be keeping a diary or some type of
ledger of where I was at each point in time when we'd move from one city to
another, or from one river to another is the only thing I would change?
How was the food and the housing?
If you were in a big squad tent, you could probably get some kind of a stove to
heat up the tent. It was like living in the Waldorf Astoria. But if you were in a
two-man pup tent, about the only thing you could heat it up with was body
temperature, and it got kind of cold over there at times. The food, you could
make do with it, but if you had a good mess sergeant he could camouflage what
was known a bully beef and make it taste like a hamburger steak.
Thank you for doing the interview.
Thank you.

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