Hey, AR, in the movie "We Were Soldiers," shortly after the first wave landed, there was an officer who took off after the NVA yelling about capturing him, the sergeant was trying to call him off, eventually they were ambushed and the survivors cutoff ... I'm sure you know the part. Question: did that really happen?
I ask because that seems to be an example of the typical young college-kid officer too stupid to listen to his sergeant, does a stupid thing in combat, and he and his men pay the heavy price ... you know the type, the kind that would run a swift boat up on the bank chasing after some young, scared enemy soldier ...
Anyway, that just came to mind, I don't know why :)
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A Red-haired, red-freckled Lt. HENRY HERRICK did precisely what "WE WERE SOLDIERS" showed that he did right after landing in the Valley of Death that was the IA DRANG of November 1965.
After the Battle Lt. Col. HAL G. MOORE hand wrote out his Letters of Condolences to all the families of our U.S. 7th Cavalry's killed and wounded, numbering nearly 500. He wrote them up, I typed them up for mailing back home ..some going through Mrs. JULIA MOORE first.
This took weeks.
I will NEVER FORGET Lt. HERRICK training his Platoon on the Deck of our Troopship USNS ROSE as we sailed thru the Panama Canal on our way to Vietnam.
A Panama Canal that is now being operated by the very Communists we were then on our way to fight.
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