• Survive '25

    Beautiful Dreamer

    Frankly, I never knew I loved the smell of horse manure in the morning. With apologies to fans of “Apocalypse Now,” let me explain. The 1979 Vietnam War film’s most famous line, “I love the smell of napalm in the morning,” was delivered by Robert Duvall’s character aptly named Lt. Col. Kilgore. He described how the lingering odor of napalm – a jellied fuel that could be ignited as a deadly weapon – reminded him, of all things, victory. Turns out, an air strike by his unit destroyed a Vietcong-controlled coastal village using the horrific firebomb. Chilling stuff indeed. Ironically, and unlike Kilgore’s fog of war, a steaming pile of…