Richard May

Traveling hopefully.

[Richard May @rw_may]

"For many young men in the late 1960s, the draft made long-term plans feel almost impossible.

Canada was one path. Waiting for a number was another. I chose Officer Candidate School, thinking six more months of stateside training might buy time and give me more options.

That decision changed my life.

Vietnam Behind Locked Doors begins with that uneasy choice.

Read more on Amazon: https://t.co/QQzZhc6Nwr

#TheDraft #VietnamEra #OfficerCandidateSchool #Memoir"

[Richard May @rw_may]

Carolina Day 🇺🇸👍

[Marc Thiessen @marcthiessen]

Follow this account which is live tweeting the American Revolution

[Richard May @rw_may]

Yep. We need our ads. The water break sounds good, but any serious player sees through it.

[Tancredi Palmeri @tancredipalmeri]

Holy shit.

Maradona in 2018 on the day the World Cup 2026 was awarded to USA, Mexico and Canada, goes on saying:

“They will do 4 quarters of the game instead of two halves so to put commercials, you’ll see”

[Richard May @rw_may]

Every right to celebrate.

[Santi Carneri Tamaryn @SantiCarneri]

Se cae Asunción!!! Qué partidazo!!! Vamos Paraguay!!!

[Richard May @rw_may]

"I was fortunate. My war was fought at a desk, not in a rice paddy.

But a desk does not protect you from the moral weight of what passes across it: casualty reports, raw intelligence, political assumptions, and decisions that reach young men half a world away.

Vietnam Behind Locked Doors is my attempt to remember that war honestly from the place I saw it.

Read more on Amazon: https://t.co/QQzZhc6Nwr

#VietnamWar #ArmyVeteran #MilitaryMemoir #PentagonStories"

[Richard May @rw_may]

I don’t. The moral argument is that you get a FREE burger and fries if you take the “courageous” decision to get a FREE vaccine to save your life. 😳

[Thomas Sowell Quotes @ThomasSowell]

I keep forgetting this happened.

[Richard May @rw_may]

@JamesSurowiecki Regardless of the moral issues, Mr. Surowiecki’s logic is wrong. We don’t live in a binary world. With this serious lapse in critical thinking, it is difficult to envision multiple possible solutions to world problems.

[Richard May @rw_may]

@Billbrowder I think you are correct. No where to hide.

[Richard May @rw_may]

@laurieablair Bravo Paraguay.

[Richard May @rw_may]

"One of the most important people in our office was not a general. He was the editor with the red marker.

He could cut sentences, paragraphs, and young officer pride with equal efficiency. The lesson was simple: if senior leaders needed the truth, they needed it clearly.

Vietnam Behind Locked Doors is partly a story about learning to write under pressure, in a building where every word mattered.

Read more on Amazon: https://t.co/QQzZhc6Nwr

#WritingHistory #Pentagon #ArmyOfficer #VietnamWarBooks"

[Richard May @rw_may]

@holland_tom Celebrating Carolina Day when the British navy were routed trying to take Charleston six days before we declared independence from tax collectors

[Richard May @rw_may]

@holland_tom Looking forward to it.

[Richard May @rw_may]

Celebrating the 250th anniversary of Carolina Day in Charleston. Great turnout

[Richard May @rw_may]

@jaynordlinger @Kasparov63 Sorry. You lost me quoting Rumsfeld. He went to war with the army he built. His quote acknowledges his incompetence.

[Richard May @rw_may]

"A fellow officer joked that I had been at ASIG only a few months and was already getting sent to brief the Big Cheese."

He meant General Westmoreland.

I smiled, but I was uneasy. At that age, you learn quickly that history is not always made by the people who feel ready for it. Sometimes you are simply told to pick up the briefcase and go.

Vietnam Behind Locked Doors captures that strange passage from youth to responsibility.

Read more on Amazon: https://t.co/QQzZhc6Nwr

#ArmyOfficer #PentagonInsider #VietnamHistory #Memoir"

[Richard May @rw_may]

"Our day began at 5:00 a.m.

By 7:00, first drafts had to be ready. By 7:30, the Beige Book was moving up the chain. After that came the wait: Were there questions? Did we miss something? Would a senior officer want more?

That daily rhythm taught me that history often turns on work no one outside the room ever sees.

I tell that inside story in Vietnam Behind Locked Doors.

Read more on Amazon: https://t.co/QQzZhc6Nwr

#ArmyLife #PentagonBriefing #VietnamEra #MilitaryHistory"

[Richard May @rw_may]

Can’t disagree. A presidential library every 48 years encompassing 11 administrations should be sufficient. Get rid of partisan propaganda.

[Bill Maher @billmaher]

Why does anyone need a presidential library? These are monuments to somebody's ego.

[Richard May @rw_may]

I wish we would repair our sidewalks and restore out street canopy rather than build new roads.

[Dr. Matthew M. Wielicki @MatthewWielicki]

@LeoDaVinciWave

[Richard May @rw_may]

Shouldn’t we doing the same in Charleston? ReLeaf

[LeoDaVinciWave @LeoDaVinciWave]

Why we need to plant more trees in our towns.

[Richard May @rw_may]

"When I briefed General Westmoreland on the conflict between El Salvador and Honduras, I had to explain what we knew, what we did not know, and what was coming from unreliable sources.

He called it the fog of war.

That phrase stayed with me. At the Pentagon, uncertainty did not disappear just because the building was powerful. It often became more consequential.

That tension runs through Vietnam Behind Locked Doors.

Read more on Amazon: https://t.co/QQzZhc6Nwr

#FogOfWar #MilitaryHistory #Pentagon #VietnamEra"