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	A Bright Shining Lie: John Paul Vann and America in Vietnam. (book reviews) - Encyclopedia.com
		John Paul Vann's one-man war against the Viet Cong and the Pentagon symbolizes all that was right and wrong with what we did in Vietnam.
		Vann was among the few Americans to perceive the perverse logic of such engagements: the delay followed Diem's strict rules against the risk of ARVN casualties; the cannonade provided a safe, moraleboosting excercise and some bodies to substitute for the vanished guerrilla platoon.
		Vann's continuing crusades against corruption make it clear that he knew the South Vietnamese government was as bankrupt as ever, but in the heat of his personal success he lost sight of its importance.
	www.encyclopedia.com /doc/1G1-6760778.html (3491 words)

	John Paul Vann - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		John Paul Vann (July 2, 1924 – June 9, 1972) was a Colonel in the United States Army, later retired, who became well-known for his role in the Vietnam War.
		Vann was assigned to South Vietnam in 1962 as an advisor to Col.
		Vann was also awarded (posthumously) the Distinguished Service Cross for service from April 23 and April 24, 1972, ineligible for the Medal of Honor due to his status as a civilian, and he was the only civilian to be awarded a DSC in Vietnam.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/John_Paul_Vann (803 words)

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	Presidential Medal of Freedom Recipient John Paul Vann
		Vann, killed last week in a helicopter crash in Vietnam, was buried at Arlington National Cemetery, with Secretary of State William P. Rogers representing Nixon.
		Vann served as an adviser to the South Vietnamese Army in 1962 and 1963.
		John Paul Vann will be deeply missed, by the people of Vietnam who came to know and love him, and also by his fellow Americans who have taken such pride in his contributions.
	www.medaloffreedom.com /JohnPaulVann.htm (1354 words)

	Encyclopedia: John Paul Vann
		Vann served as an adviser to the South Vietnamese Army in 1962 and 1963.
		John Paul Vann will be deeply missed, by the people of Vietnam who came to know and love him, and also by his fellow Americans who have taken such pride in his contributions.
		Vann, his pilot and a U.S. military passenger died when their light observation helicopter crashed in flames on a night flight from Pleiku to Kontum in the central highlands, the U.S. command said.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/John-Paul-Vann (407 words)

	Booknotes Transcript
		John was a highly educated person, at least in highly educated in the sense of a technical way.
		And so he confronted Vann in his office and he told him that if he didn't arrange to provide for his daughter and for the child to come in the manner in which she was accustomed to living, that he was going to go and complain to the American ambassador.
		And John Vann's a highly filmable guy and that war's a highly filmable war, and the events in Vann's life and the events in the war are highly filmable.
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	JOHN PAUL VANN: U.S. Army and American Hero (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		John Paul Vann was a "mini-model" of America in her two Asian wars, travel with him as a young U.S. Army officer he leads by example and personally drops ammunition from a
		JOHN PAUL VANN AS A METAPHOR FOR U.S. Neil Sheehan in an
		Vanns approach to counterinsurgency was the blending of all civilian agencies in Vietnam under CORDS with a loan of 1800 U.S. military personnel to serve as advisors to local Soldiers to provide security for all aspects of the U.S. effort in Vietnam.
	www.combatreform.com /johnpaulvann.htm (4810 words)

	Booknotes Transcript (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		And John Vann is a young man when he was an Air Corps -- a lieutenant and navigator in the US Army Air Corps in World War II, and that's his bride-to-be about -- that photo was probably taken the day before the wedding.
		And Vann was the senior adviser to the Vietnamese division that was assigned responsibility for the whole of the northern Delta.
		John Vann had gone around and made a study of exactly how many outposts there were in his area and exactly how many weapons were flowing through them.
	www.booknotes.org /Transcript/index_print.asp?ProgramID=1650 (11875 words)

	John Paul Vann, Lieutenant Colonel, United States Army
		Vann was given a state funeral, posthumously awarded the nation's highest civilian medal, and buried at Arlington National Cemetery.
		Vann died a hero as he lived a hero, ''one of the authentic heroes of a grim and unpopular war,'' in Mr.
		John Paul Vann's funeral at Arlington National Cemetery in 1972 was the impetus that plunged Neil Sheehan into a 16-year ordeal of investigation and soul-searching that has finally brought forth his new book, ''A Bright Shining Lie.'' In a telephone interview from his home in Washington, Mr.
	www.arlingtoncemetery.net /jpvann.htm (2637 words)

	Neil Sheehan Papers (Library of Congress)
		Vann's papers document his activities in Vietnam, his military career prior to Vietnam, his family and personal life, his civilian work for the Martin Company in Denver, and his political affiliations, especially his involvement in the 1964 presidential campaign.
		Vann and his colleagues wanted to "harness" a social revolution to the United States war effort, and their proposals (see especially, "Harnessing the Revolution" in container 48), policy statements, reports, training manuals, and correspondence document the instruction given to the Vietnamese in self-defense, fighting insurgents, intelligence gathering, and suggestions for efficient representative government.
		Vann's quick rise through the ranks of the pacification program was based on his grasp of military objectives and his extensive field knowledge of war developments.
	www.loc.gov /rr/mss/text/sheehan.html (8179 words)

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		Vann, and Brent Scowcroft succeeded in convincing Jesse that the purpose of the day was to honor his father, not to embarrass the President of the United States.
		Vann is only a stepping stone to a higher message, the celebration of the rise of a new class whose calling is to report on the misuses of power by America's traditional elites--the politicians and the brass hats.
		Vann was crushed by history while they survived--not only in the obvious sense of mere existence, but in terms of their invaluable collective role as guardians of American society.
	www.vvi.org /Content/rollins2.htm (9506 words)

	TheHistoryNet \| Vietnam \| John Paul Vann: Man and Legend (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Vann’s key military talent was his ability to see the big picture and establish the priorities necessary to accomplish the objective.
		Vann was also strident in his criticisms of the Strategic Hamlet Program, which he thought was a waste of time and energy, and he was critical of the way MACV ran counterintelligence operations.
		Vann also was highly critical of South Vietnamese tactics, noting a tendency to make excessive use of airstrikes and artillery, rather than putting ground units into VC territory.
	www.historynet.com /magazines/vietnam/5950941.html?page=2&c=y (1175 words)

	TheHistoryNet \| Historical Conflicts \| John Paul Vann: Man and Legend
		John Paul Vann was born on July 2, 1924, in Norfolk, Va., the illegitimate son of Johnny Spry and Myrtle Lee Tripp, a reputed part-time prostitute.
		Vann received his wings and was commissioned as a lieutenant, fulfilling his boyhood ambition to become a flier.
		Vann submitted a 17-page rebuttal to the charges filed against him, but he also studied ways to beat a polygraph test, and he coached his wife on how to beat the machine when she testified on his behalf.
	www.historynet.com /historical_conflicts/5950941.html?featured=y&c=y (1299 words)

	Amazon.ca: A Bright Shining Lie: John Paul Vann and America in Vietnam: Books (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		John Paul Vann was perhaps the most outspoken army field adviser to criticize the way the war was being waged.
		Vann was later forced to leave the Army due to a private vice that would haunt him throughout his life.
		Vann was quite a soldier in his own right, but I found it less odd than the author that Vann would embellish his war stories.
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	Conversation with Neil Sheehan, p. 2 of 7
		John Paul Vann as a Metaphor for U.S. Involvement in Vietnam
		John Vann was my friend, I had known him in those three years I'd been in Vietnam and I'd see him periodically afterwards.
		Vann had the keen sense of honor as a soldier and he was enraged at the bombing and shelling of peasant hamlets, which was routinely done by the Vietnamese and American generals.
	globetrotter.berkeley.edu /conversations/Sheehan/sheehan-con2.html (1077 words)

	Major General John Paul Vann: ‘The Cat’ (Vietnam - Part 3)By R. A. Hawkins (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Vann wanted the tale told to boost the requirement for more US advisors and equipment (and to prove his assessment of the situation was right and the MACV staff appreciation wasn't.
		John Paul Vann is buried in Arlinton National Cemetery with our other heroes as a Lieutenant Colonel.
		I knew Vann and he was a truthful man when dealing with me. He would be appalled that some tinhorn is trying to make a name and reputation by elevating his rank to one he despised.
	www.freerepublic.com /focus/f-news/1146252/posts (3072 words)

	Vann, John Paul
		1963), Vann advised a South Vietnamese infantry division in the Mekong Delta.
		Vann returned to Vietnam in March 1965 as pacification representative of the
		Vann seemed to embody the American dilemma in Vietnam.
	www.angelfire.com /mn/nathanlee/john_vann.html (288 words)

	Who Was John Paul Vann?
		For Week Four, Richmond students ONLY are expected to read "Ap Bac," an excerpt from Neil Sheehan's A Bright Shining Lie: John Paul Vann and America In Vietnam, on library reserve.
		and be prepared to discuss in class the importance of Vann as a key adviser in Vietnam.
		Discuss Vann's conversation with Cao, Dam and Tho.
	www.richmond.edu /~ebolt/history398/WhoIsJohnPaulVann.html (652 words)

	Epitaph for Vann: He Saw the Truth and Spoke It
		And now John Paul Vann is dead at 47, one of the most important voices stilled at a crucial juncture in America's most painful war.
		Ever candid, Vann spelled out the ugly truths of the Vietnamese army early in the war and was accused of being a dove, before the term even was current.
		Vann had backed nonpolitical Vietnamese generals, urging their promotion on their merits as military leaders rather than their family or political ties to the presidential palace in Saigon.
	www.thebattleofkontum.com /stars/46.html (838 words)

	03/28/03 - A Bright Shining Lie: John Paul Vann and America in Vietnam
		The harrowing experiences in captivity of one of Vann's aides are recounted in detail for a while but then trail off without resolution; it seems that they are included only because Sheehan obtained a copy of the man's unpublished account of his ordeal.
		Similarly, in the later stages of the war, as the attack increasingly became a conventional invasion by North Vietnamese troops, Vann opposed Westmoreland's search-and-destroy operations in the deserted interior mountains and proposed that U.S. forces instead concentrate on controlling and "pacifying" the populated areas, mostly on the coastal plain.
		He even notes that American bombing, which Vann originally criticized as too indiscriminate for the detailed war he wanted to fight, did indeed ultimately have the effect of driving the population into government-controlled areas where the Communist influence could not be sustained.
	www.vdare.com /pb/bright_shining_lie.htm (1817 words)

	Bookins: Bright-Shining-Lie-John-Paul-Vann-America-Vietnam - Neil-Sheehan - 0679724141 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		The story of Vann itself is very interesting for any student of the Vietnam War, but I'd also highly recommended this book for anyone who wants to read a good history of the Vietnam War from a non-military/non-politician point of view.
		Chapter IV is a summary of John Paul's fight against the early war military policies instituted by Maj. Gen.
		Additionally, the Will that Vann manages to scratch on some paper prior to his helicopter crash is described thoroughly on pages 771-72, 775, and 786; yet Sheehan fails to tell the reader how it was discovered, and why it was disregarded when it was discovered.
	www.bookins.com /bookdetails/Bright-Shining-Lie-John-Paul-Vann-America-Vietnam/Neil-Sheehan/0679724141/10180398/TP/desc (3054 words)

	Amazon.com: A Bright Shining Lie: John Paul Vann and America in Vietnam: Books: Neil Sheehan (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		John Paul Vann was perhaps the most outspoken army field adviser to criticize the way the war was being waged.
		John Paul Vann's career in Vietnam spanned a decade, from its beginning in 1962 with Vann as U.S. Army Lieutenant Colonel and advisor to the South Vietnamese, to its end in 1972 with his death in a helicopter crash, Vann having become the civilian equivalent of a two-star general.
		Also seen is Vann's darker side: his ability to manipulate others to his ends; his dark sexual compulsions (which ultimately led him to ruin his marraige and endanger his career); his callousness toward his friends and family; and his all-consuming self-centeredness.
	www.amazon.com /Bright-Shining-Lie-America-Vietnam/dp/0679724141 (3160 words)

	WHSmith: Welcome: Bright, Shining Lie John Paul Vann and America in Vietnam New edition: Sheehan, Neil
		He was soon appalled by the South Vietnamese troops' unwillingness to fight, by their random slaughter of civilians, and by the arrogance and corruption of the US military.
		Blunt, idealistic, patronizing to the Vietnamese, Vann was haunted by a shameful secret - the fact that he was the illegitimate son of a "white trash" prostitute.
		Neil Sheenan's account of John Vann's life and the war in Vietnam is extremely well written.
	www.whsmith.co.uk /whs/go.asp?isbn=0712666567&DB=220 (274 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: Bright, Shining Lie: John Paul Vann and America in Vietnam: Books: Neil Sheehan (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		The history of the middle part of the Vietnam war using the life and experiences of John Vann, a senior military adviser, as a vehicle for the narrative.
		Vann's slow but inexorable corruption by power and influence is a familiar tale, and indeed sadly documents one specific example of a widespread phenomena which continues to this day within our military; that of careerism.
		This, then, is the true tragedy of both John Paul Vann in particular and the American Army in Vietnam in general.
	www.amazon.co.uk /Bright-Shining-Lie-America-Vietnam/dp/0712666567 (2086 words)

	John Paul Vann KIA Vietnam
		What he previously considered to be Vann's moral heroism in risking his career to tell the truth, now seems to have been a cost-free gesture when he learns that Vann's road to military promotion was probably blocked by one of his sexual indiscretions.
		Sheehan has graphically shown us the duality of Vann, he has not fully come to terms with it.
		But the discovery of Vann's other life provides the perfect counterpoint to the book's theme of political deception.
	www.paratrooper.net /commo/Topic169294-9-1.aspx (2621 words)

	A Bright Shining Lie: John Paul Vann and America in Vietnam Study Guide by Neil Sheehan: Characters
		John Paul Vann was born John Paul LeGay in Norfolk, Virginia during the Great Depression.
		Vann was a career Army man who fought in Korea and then in Vietnam.
		Vann worked in a civilian job for a while, but it lacked the excitement and frantic pace he required for a fulfilling life.
	www.bookrags.com /studyguide-a-bright-shining-lie/characters.html (285 words)

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	A Lesson from John Paul Vann
		Of all the combat bums, few left us a more worthwhile legacy than John Paul Vann, who fought in Vietnam first in uniform and then later returned to Vietnam as a civilian advisor.
		History seems to suggest that he may emerge from the military or civilian life or, in the case of John Paul Vann, both.
		In Vietnam, John Paul Vann endured such a great struggle within his soul as he tried to balance the need to protect the Vietnamese while supporting a U.S. policy that was already leading to military withdrawal and disengagement from Vietnam.
	www.military.com /NewContent/0,13190,Defensewatch_082603,00.html (1307 words)

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