and he was not in the battle of Khe SanhI consider this to be false, factually incorrect and unambiguously so. You may disagree, in that the Khe Sanh Combat Base that had been under siege was relieved at 0800 on the day Cleland was injured. However, that was not the battle of/for Khe Sanh. The battle for Khe Sahn began at Hilltops 881N/S on 20 January and ended there on 14 April. If Ann can be excused for getting this wrong because Jill Zuckman wrote in the Boston Globe Sunday magazine 30 years later, "Finally, the battle at Khe Sanh was over.", then I guess I'll have to shed my cynicism of "journalists" in accurately reporting current events much less historical ones.
and he was not in the battle of Khe Sanh
I took this to mean that he was "not in the battle of Khe Sanh" when the grenade went off. A bit of sloppy writing.
>> I consider this to be false, factually incorrect and unambiguously so. You may disagree, in that the Khe Sanh Combat Base that had been under siege was relieved at 0800 on the day Cleland was injured.
That is where we differ. In context what she said, with the italic portion understood from context, was: "...he was not in the battle of Khe Sanh" when he received his injury. Her wording was very much akin to that in the Baltimore Sun. She was not denying he took part in the battle. To do so would have required a very different statement.