I will buy this book and see what the author has to say.
The 16th Regiment of Infantry is no jake leg army outfit. They endured the hell that was the Devil’s Den and Wheatfield of Gettysburg. The stormed the heights of San Juan Hill. Three of her soldiers were the first U.S. soldiers to fall in combat in World War I. On the 6th of June, 1944 they dyed the sea red with their blood on Easy Red at a place called Omaha. And on, and on and on through Vietnam, Desert Storm, An Anbar, and onto this story.
What is significant is not the battles that we all know, at least in name, but the soldiers. They were not from the nation’s elite, no Ivy Leaguers here, they were not the privileged, and they were not the rich. They were the Joe’s, hard scrabble and tough as nails. They fought for each other and do so unto this very day.
I am a son of this Regiment. My father commanded one of her battalions, as did I in my time. As a boy of eight years old, I met Sergeant Schroeder who received the Medal of Honor for his actions on San Juan Hill. I have met many more such men since, including such men as Joe Dawson who led the way up the bluffs at Omaha Beach, Jake Lindsey who served from North Africa to Czechoslovakia with a Medal of Honor along the way, and John Busheyhead who just knew how to lead soldiers.
Men such as these have been let down often by politicians, something that continues to this day. They deserve our thanks and support and we should reminds the spineless politicians of the debt that they owe to these heroes.
“I will buy this book and see what the author has to say.”
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