NO, Im NOT a veteran. I collect war letters, war diaries, and war photos. I bought an archive of 170 slide photographs from the Vietnam war. The photos were shot by James Walker, a diplomat/ambassador with the Foreign Service program. Walker was a tall lanky black fellow who later became a lawyer in his home state of North Carolina. Anyways, the details of his life are sketchy. Im looking for anybody to share with me their memories of the Foreign Service ambassadors in Vietnam, BUT also, Explain what the hell these guys do? I dont have the foggiest notion what these guys do, except take a vacation on the tax-payers dollar. But Im glad James Walker brought his camera. He shot some great slide photos of the Vietnamese people: Little barefoot kids on farms; A convoy of military going down a dirt road in farm country; damage from a Viet Cong rocket attack on the Vietnamese Government Assembly/congressional building; dead viet cong in a ditch; captured viet cong huddled, and other shots taken during operation "Valiant Hunt;" a lone Viet cong soldier allegedly getting a "reward" for turning in his buddied; Da Nang; Penang; An Hoi; Hoi An; Shots of the Ceremony marking the birthday of the Republic of Vietnam; fishermen; merchants; refugees getting relief payments; a black hooker in Saigon. Some great shots.