Tao: The Memoir Vance Poplar

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About This Manuscript

Tao:The Memoir Of Vance Poplar is an unpublished manuscript. A fictional work, "Tao:MVP" is a biographical account of the main character Vance Poplar through three stages of his life. The story background is the United States Marine Corps enlisted ranks of the mid 1960s superimposed against the "tao" or personal biography of a communist Front soldier during the same period.
    The "tao" was a biography each communist Front soldier was required to write as a self criticism. It was also a control device stored away in dociers by political officers until needed.
    Tao: The Memoir Of Vance Poplar is not a historical document although the chronological accuracy of the work is based on key events detailed in published works and declassified documents on Vietnam War of the mid 1960s.
    In establishing my own place in this chronology, I relate the stories of many others who found themselves caught up in what would become America's longest most devisive war.
    This manuscript has not been peer reviewed and is presented as an ongoing developing writing project. Citing or referencing without author's permisson is not recommended.

Mike Malsbary
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February 2004
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* * * Some audio files used here courtesy of AVSUPPORT Online

Quang Ngai Province,Vietnam 1965

Fifty-Fow Joe-The Fall of Dien Bien Phu
The Senator-Episode 1
The Lesson-Episode 2.
The General-Episode 3.
Charlie Tuna: Episode 4
The Party-Episode 5
Vietnam: Day One-Episode 6 -A 4th of July story.
Nightfall at Qui Nhon July 1965: A photograph and audio recollection
The Red Eye To Philadelphia-Episode 7
Indochina,Vietnam and NLF Chronology 1850-1965
VN War Slide Set-This one's more user frendly.
Marine Grunt and War In Vietnam: Final Exam
Operation Starlite Chronology-work in progress
New! Starlite TacMap Frame Set Series-work in progress.
19th Century:Colonial Age Thumbnail.
Hong Kong 1965: A break from war.
Books,Essays and Recollections.
Photo Gallery(New!)
Marine Corps Birthday!

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Rating Notice: There are no violent images in this site, but because of graphic language and recollections about Marines on their way into and out of combat in 1964,65 and 66,I've rated the site PG-R.
Last updated: -December, 2009- There are three Operation Starlite Chronologies plus a few AARs. They are good studies which I used to understand this period. The password box is just for fun, just copy the passsword, paste it in the policemen's box...and your in the chronology chart page. There are sound backgrounds to many manuscripts. Check it out! The slide show, loads at your on pace-There's also a large thumbnail page. The NLF Chronlology uses the same chart style chronology to study the history of Indochina. There are various After Action Report studies. The actual coordinates were plotted onto the Op.Starlite Tactical Map and corresponding AAR comments inserted into a view table. Turn up your sound blaster and check out the Marine Corps Birthday page. The main page music midi file is the theme from "Apollo 13". The U.S.S.Iwo Jima LPH, our ship off SVN late 1965, eventually met the Apollo 13 crew at splash down in the Pacific five years later, April 1970. Hey, nobody's forgetting this thing. Ciao Tu Biet!!
Danang City Today.

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Web Sites Featuring the USMC in Vietnam around 1965

3rd Battalion, 7th Marines

3rd Marines In Vietnam

Richard Duprell's USMC Page

Third Marines Net

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M.T. Malsbary

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