Dylan Matthews

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When a staffer informed Pham Ngoc Mau, an artillery commander, that the 105mm cannon could be moved at a speed of approximately 150 meters per hour, he received a blistering reply. “Speed my ass! You can’t simply say like everyone else that we can’t do a fucking two hundred meters per hour!”
Embers of War: The Fall of an Empire and the Making of America's Vietnam
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