In Memoriam Colin

What goes around comes around.

McNamara's Folly: The Use of Low-IQ Troops in the Vietnam War

I've recently been working with people who have complex needs so I have a grasp of what it potentially means to send a five year old into a war situation. 

This is an angle of the Vietnam war that I hadn't come across before and it's very moving.

Robert Strange McNamara ordered 100,000 below intelligence recruits to Vietnam every year to make up the shortfall from draft dodgers who were excused from military service because their wealthy parents had excuses like they just had teeth braces fitted.

Bobby

"He had the aura of a prince."

I'm fairly certain that last time I mentioned football was my first post 12 years ago that I wrote in India during the 2006 world cup and published a few months later. 

This is an exceptional story about character, leadership and courage with some extraordinary colour footage of the 66 world cup.

Full documentary available here.