upon their own experiences, two vietnam veterans get -- talk about efforts to assist agricultural rita veldman. officials felt this would draw local support to u.s.-backed forces command away from the communist north. >> all right, that is a hard act to follow. i'm going to be more academic, maybe. only have the one and slide

upon their own experiences, two vietnam veterans get -- talk about efforts to assist agricultural rita veldman. officials felt this would draw local support to u.s.-backed forces command away from the communist north. >> all right, that is a hard act to follow. i'm going to be more academic, maybe. only have the one and ?lide let's see if i can make this thing work. let's review a little bit of the basic geography. some of us may have forgotten. that is smack them in the delta. the mequon river, the mainstem of the north, the other river on the south. headquarters to the delta south. there.tioned up where the position was was about there. four districts. , around the city. wide base area, which was the security problem. thecenterpiece of much of activity. both military and economic the veldman. -- militarystory of and economic development. the development program that i'm going to talk about. one quarter of one million people. 50,000 of them live in the province capital. ethnicre entirely vietnamese. perhaps 1% each cambodian, and chinese. about half of the population were -- buddhism. most of