The Five O’clock Follies, Richard Brundage, David Billingsley

The Five O’clock Follies does for Vietnam what MASH did for Korea…
It’s an irreverent, rollicking mix of comedy, tragedy, duty, and honor in an original concept framed by America’s first televised war.
Follow three Army officers thrown together who try their best to find purpose and hilarity, facing everything from jungle terrors to humor in the war zone. It is a powerful story of enduring friendships, filled with issues of morality, and the tragedy of war that will cause readers to remember, laugh, and cry at the same time.
Come along for a “first” look at Vietnam in a different light, an unforgettable journey.
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• twitter .com/Aaron_Derfel/status/1264011717912248321 (‘ 22-05-2020, On Friday, our neighbor to the west, Ontario, reported a third straight day of increasing #COVID cases amid a relaxation of confinement measures. As my column in the @mtlgazette makes clear, we should all be on guard for a second wave. End of thread. Have a great weekend. Aaron Derfel , Gazette de Montréal ‘)
• twitter .com/DMacpGaz/status/1242173686620270597  (‘ 23-05-2020, COVID-19 Self-care Guide, What you need to know, What you need to do, To protect your own health and the health of others…, Don Macpherson ‘)
• gatewayjr .org/remembering-vietnam-and-the-five-oclock-follies (‘  the official view that things were going well. They weren’t, and indeed we eventually pulled out of an unpopular war… ‘)
• montrealgazette .com/opinion/columnists/macpherson-in-the-war-against-covid-19-quebec-loses-a-battle/wcm/a71ed781-1209-475d-80e3-417833fe00eb  (‘ 23-05-2020, In Vietnam, the daily press briefings at which the American military reported dubious “body counts” of supposed enemies killed in action as evidence that it was winning a war it was actually losing were nicknamed the Five O’Clock Follies. The news conferences at which the Legault government announces its own official numbers of victims of COVID-19 here in Quebec, numbers whose reliability has been questioned by Aaron Derfel of the Montreal Gazette and others, are different. They’re held at one o’clock.. Don Macpherson  ‘)