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On This Day In History Battle of the Ia Drang Valley

Did 'I Don't Fall Down', 'Christmas in Cambodia' Kerry say he was there too?

[DuncanWaring]

Ping

[Lexington Green]

Garry Owen

[Scales]

Ping

[glock rocks]

Sunday, December 14, 1965.

[Horatio Gates]

I was only 3 months old on 14 Nov 1965. I never tire of reading the accounts of 1/7 Cav at LZ-XRay. Thanks for the post. Garry Owen!

[OKSooner]

Ping for later read.

[shagbark]

As much as I admire Hal Moore and his cav men for the actions at X-RAY and ALBANY, he gives too much credit to those he thinks are "professionally sensitive", and misunderstands the nature of this other enemy on our back.
These people are more America's enemies than the armed foes we meet on the battlefield. Every war since Vietnam has to be fought on two fronts because of the nests of snakes we have allowed to prosper here at home. The security and freedom of this nation will always be in peril as long as treason is tolerated, condoned and encouraged at home.

[ALOHA RONNIE]

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T'was 39 years ago today.


But...


There Wasnt't a Single North Vietnamese Army Soldier in a then Free South Vietnam

http://www.Freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1278933/posts


...or was there..?



Signed:.."ALOHA RONNIE"Guyer

Veteran-"WE WERE SOLDIERS" Battle of IA DRANG-1965, Landing Zone Falcon


(Movie Website)
http://www.WeWereSoldiers.com

(Photos of IA DRANG-1965)
http://www.lzxray.com/guyer_collection.htm

-A Witness to the Heroism of Many-
'MODERN DAY HEROES: In Defense of America' - Contributing Author
http://www.ModernDayHeroes.com/aloha


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[68-69TonkinGulfYachtClub]

12 Feb 55 - President Eisenhower's administration sends 1st 350 U.S. advisers to South Vietnam
to train the South Vietnamese Army
08 Jun 56 - 1st American advisor was killed
5 Sep 56 - President Eisenhower tells a news conference that the French are
"involved in a hopelessly losing war in Indochina"



From a Must Visit Site
Vipers Vietnam Veterans Page, A Vietnam Veteran & Proud Web Site
About Vietnam

The Vietnam war was the longest in our nation's history.
1st American advisor was killed on June 08, 1956,
and the last casualties in connection with the war occurred on May 15, 1975, during the Mayaquez incident. Approximately 2.7 million Americans served in the war zone; 300,000 were wounded and approximately 75,000 permanently disabled. Officially there are still 1,991 Americans unaccounted for from SE Asia.

Vietnam was a savage, in your face war where death could and did strike from anywhere with absolutely no warning. The brave young men and women who fought that war paid an awful price of blood, pain and suffering. As it is said: "ALL GAVE SOME ... SOME GAVE ALL"
The Vietnam war was not lost on the battlefield. No American force in ANY other conflict fought with more determination or sheer courage than the Vietnam Veteran.  For the first time in our history America sent it's young men and women into a war run by inept politicians who had no grasp of military strategies and no moral will to win. They were led by "top brass" who were concerned mainly with furthering their own careers, most neither understood the nature of the war nor had a clue about the impossible mission with which they'd tasked their soldiers.  And the war was reported by a self serving Media who penned stories filled with inaccuracies, deliberate omissions, biased presentations and blatant distorted interpretations because they were more interested in a story than the truth! It can be debated that we should never have fought that war. It can also be argued that the young Americans who fought so courageously, never losing a single major battle, helped in a huge way to WIN THE COLD WAR.

[Balata]

bttt

[mystery-ak]

Never Forget.......HOOAH

[writer33]

I wanna know where's the memos sending us into the Ia Drang Valley. :)

[condi2008]

Mansions of the LORD

To fallen soldiers let us sing
Where no rockets fly nor bullets wing
Our broken brothers let us bring
To the Mansions of the Lord

No more bleeding, no more fight
No prayers pleading through the night
Just divine embrace, eternal light
In the Mansions of the Lord

Where no mothers cry and no children weep
We will stand and guard though the angels sleep
All through the ages safely keep
The Mansions of the Lord

[ppaul]

BTTT

[Protect the Bill of Rights]

I watched the movie last week. I have learned so much from the Swifities and our own Freeper Viet Nam Vets. It made this viewing up close and personal for me, especially knowing Aloha Ronnie was there.

God bless you all.

[PISANO]

Col Moore [Lt Gen Moore Retired] along with his Sgt. Major Plumley and all the valiant men of the 1/7th I salute you! Although I wasn't in country then I was off the coast and the news of your ordeal spread like wild fire.

GOD BLESS YOU ALL!!

[Diver Dave]

On This Day In History Battle of the Ia Drang Valley

Was in Subic on my second of three WESTPAC cruises.

Salute to these brothers!