Patience had finally run out at Task Force. This time the Americans were told, not asked: ‘The Pig Battalion will be going in at dawn tomorrow. If any casualties should occur as a result of US bombardment of the Long Hai mountains area, the US Armed Forces will be obliged to take full responsibility.’ The story goes that a number of very senior US officers rushed to Nui Dat to plead with Task Force, but to no avail. The Pigs were going in, and that was that.
...Smooth runs the water where the brook is deep...
...The first thing we do, let’s kill all the lawyers..
…Away with him, away with him! He speaks Latin….
The chronicle of the War of the Roses—the clash between the houses of York and Lancaster for the throne of England, continues in The Second Part of King Henry VI, which this time circles around the rebel Jack Cade and his siege of London Bridge, much as the first part drifted by Joan of Arc. It is little regarded but only approximate versions exist anyway. Shakespeare probably only worked on revisions of the original play by Greene and Peale, probably still as apprentice to Christopher Marlowe to whom the play should be correctly credited.
Shakespeare Scoreboard:
Original plays: 2. (MacBeth) (Henry IV Part One)
Plays ripped off from contemporaries: 5. (Merchant from Marlowe’s Jew of Malta) (Hamlet from Kyd and Aeschylus)(Antony and Cleopatra--everywhere) (Julius Caesar—same place) (Romeo and Juliet from Brooke’s Romeo and Guilietta)
Contributed part only: 2 (Henry VI Part One) (Henry VI Part Two)




