Posted on 11/11/2017 4:46:08 PM PST by Twotone
My husband and I cry every time we watch that movie. I don’t care WHAT Mel Gibson has done to offend people. His involvement in movies like that and The Passion, cancel out any bad deeds he’s committed.
Rescorla, after the van attack in the basement of the trade towers was talking with a Vietnam vet friend about security at the towers. I can’t recall if it was Rick’s idea or the other - but they ended up agreeing that the next attack would be crashing an airplane into it.
Rescorla trained his people accordingly - and after the first tower was hit, had his people evacuate rather than staying in the second tower as he had been told.
Regarding the Ia Drang battle, Moore said it was about as realistic as could be. Although he said the part where the enemy runs through their command post was dramatic license. Something to the effect of “Our boys didn’t let a single enemy soldier break through the perimeter.”
And when he saw the part about his wife delivering the telegrams to the nice homes on base, something like “Those were the officer’s quarters. The housing had changed, and the enlisted had to fend for themselves on their housing allowances, which I tried to fight to get their families back on base. Most of them lived in substandard apartments. I wanted that part changed - to show them delivering the telegrams to their run-down homes - but shooting was too far gone and the budget and logistics wouldn’t allow it.”
I think Moore helped many of them out personally.
Green, lots of green
Read the book. It is a tribute to the heroism, bravery and sacrifice of the American soldier and airmen who fought in Vietnam and every other war in recent history (including my father-in-law, Iwo Jima; son - Iraq; son-in-law - Kosovo/Iraq).
I once met Galloway and he was a lot bigger than his reporter/combat weight of Nam, but he was a quiet, jovial, humble man, and very perceptive of history and events. I missed seeing him in Nam but I hold him in the greatest respect as both a journalist and as an America. He may have been Vietnam’s Ernie Pyle, and if not, he was damned close to it.
From one Bao Chi to another - Salute!
Sgt MacKenzie - We Were Soldiers Soundtrack with Lyrics [YouTube video 4:39 min]
Check out the parts that were cut out on YouTube.
We never forget!
Thank you!
Ronnie was Moore’s radio man at the battle of Ia Drang Valley. I pinged him to this thread. Last couple of pings to him have gone unanswered.
I do hope he is well. I used to hear him call in to George Putnam’s radio show here in So Cal.
When I was a boy, I read The New Centurions by Jean Larteguy. This started a curiosity about the French Indochina War.
I read Street Without Joy and Hell In A Very Small Place.
The French had the Vietnamese doing what they wanted, but they were fighting the war on a shoestring.
I find it interesting that WWI continues to affect us to this day.
Thanks. I was hoping I remembered correctly.
BFL
So did I. And I wish we still had George.
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