Word: numbah
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...sixties, the professor could say, when Brigid Bardot and I were at our summer place in Antibes, and an urgent call came through from the White House, from Lyndon Johnson's special assistant, Mike Montaigne. Victor Charlie was on the warpath. The Tet offensive had just erupted. Numbah Ten! The President needed the me in Saigon, yesterday!, to cut orders from MAC-V to I-Corps and retake the Imperial City of Hue. The President himself came on the line: "Son, you tell Westy he can't make an omelet without breaking a few eggs." I took the next Huey...
...choppers lifting off the American embassy roof, Marines hammering the fingers of desperate Vietnamese trying to cling to the skids, and then the millions of dollars' worth of helicopters being pushed off the flight decks of carriers into the South China Sea to make way for more incoming helicopters. "Numbah Ten," as they said in Vietnam, the rout of the Dollar People...