Sam Royalle emailed this photo.
Paradise 1969 although Hell was only a few hundred miles away in Vietnam.
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These photos were taken by a GI on holiday. Amazing. No Big-C. No traffic. No plastic bags in the water. No Russians, lager louts, or bikers. There is no trick photography. That’s how it was. Not that I knew. I was a draft dodger and I’m still trying to get my anti-war pension from the Pentagon. Maybe I’ll have more luck now that Obama is in office.
“Hey Ho We Won’t Go.”
But I would have gone to Pattaya in a heartbeat.
How could I have known?
We were so much younger then.
Pattaya Tai
The future site of Bali Hai
Pattaya Beach.
The old pier.
The beach.
From the admiral’s hill.