FROM SAIGON, BY SHYT YM STYLLEN

“YOU CANNOT RELY ON AMERICA”.

An hour before he took his own life as the North Vietnamese entered Saigon in 1975, a South Vietnamese Colonel had Y.C.R.O.A tattooed on his right hand. When it was done he walked down to the Presidential Palace just ahead of the conquerors, stood in front of the gate, drew his pistol with the tattooed hand and shot himself in the head.

“He believed in America,” his wife told reporters. “He was wrong.”

Ironically, the North Vietnamese buried him with full military honors and gave his wife a pension.

As Henry Kissinger pointed out, it may be dangerous to be America’s enemy; it is fatal to be her friend.