A Politically Radical Veteran

One thing you might not expect from a Vietnam War veteran is for him to be politically radical. But that just means you haven’t been introduced to Chief Warrant Officer Bobby W. Miller, who was awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross and Air Medal during his tour of duty from 1968 to 1969.

Yet political radicalism is nothing new for Miller. Just consider the following statement he made as a speaker at a recent gathering of South Carolina farmers in 2006:

Since I have picked my share of cotton--by hand I might add—and walked behind mules from sun up to sun down trying my best to keep the plow point going in the right direction without hitting a stump or root, and have cut fodder and pulled corn until my hands bled, I do not need someone to explain the drudgery and hardships of farm life to me.

My question is: Why are farmers so worried about the pennies blacks get in social aid; that Mexican workers get paid to gather crops that no one else wants to harvest? Especially, since half of the farmers today are not farming, they're living--and I might add quite well--off big government and Willie Nelson's farm aid programs.

Farmers have been whining about big government for years while fighting to be the first in line for the handouts. They whine about illegal aliens bringing drugs into this country while they grow tobacco, one of the most deadly drugs the world has ever known. These whining hypocrites murder more people worldwide on a daily basis with their crop than illegal drugs and Osama bin Laden and his crew do in a year. And wouldn't you know it, a so-called Christian and Republican stronghold is South Carolina, a tobacco producer from way back.

These Christians had better hope God don't decide to rid the world of murdering hypocrites. If so, His first stop might very well be South Carolina. From there He'd move on to Utah and put a stop to the group sex parties. Sooner or later He'd end up in Rome to find out why His church had been trying to cover up and protect pedophiles.

It’s not exactly your typical talk from your typical veteran, but that’s the kind of shoot-from-the-hip talk you can expect from Bob Miller.

Now, he brings his special, provocative manner of presentation to a diary he kept of his experiences while serving in Vietnam. During his tour of duty, he kept the diary on a fairly frequent basis. That diary has become the focus of his new book, Kill Me If You Can, You SOB. In this book you meet the men he met and flew with in Vietnam, with all the quirks of their personalities. And you’ll see the war from close range rather than the view of a history textbook.