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To: patton
I sat down with a bunch of GI's at WSMR recently, and we argued over every detail in "we were soldiers." I lost, BTW - I thought that they had done it badly. So the consensus was, I would go watch it again, and report back. They did it exactly right, and I had to eat crow - nothing new, there. BGN Moore lives about a mile from my house, and I am a paratrooper - so, I wanted it done right. LOL/

My girlfriend's dad (soon to be my father in law) flew supplies in and wounded out of that valley even after he had been wounded himself. He passed out from loss of blood while being resupplied at the controls of his Huey. No one except he knew he had even been hit. The movie "We Were Soldiers" did great credit to men like him who laid it all on the line for their fellow troops those days.

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51 posted on 08/22/2005 7:56:58 PM PDT by speed_addiction ( Somethings gnaw on a man worse'n dyin'!)
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To: speed_addiction

Whoah - are you robbin' the cradle, or what?

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52 posted on 08/22/2005 8:01:14 PM PDT by patton ("Hard Drive Cemetary" - forthcoming best seller)
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To: speed_addiction

Yep, I forgot "We Were Soldiers" is another one on my list.


55 posted on 08/22/2005 8:07:09 PM PDT by hattend (Alaska....in a time warp all it's own!)
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To: speed_addiction; RedBloodedAmerican; campfollower; Lexington Green


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Sacrifice begets Sacrifice:


MEL's -PASSION- sparked by -WE WERE SOLDIERS-

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...just for the LOVE of it..!!!

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66 posted on 08/22/2005 10:27:36 PM PDT by ALOHA RONNIE ("ALOHA RONNIE" Guyer/Veteran-"WE WERE SOLDIERS" Battle of IA DRANG-1965 http://www.lzxray.com)
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