That was Gen. Giap. I, however, do not believe Gen. Giap's insistence that the Chinese were not with the North Vietnamese forces on the ground at LZ X-Ray in the I Drang valley, during the battle portrayed in the book, "We Were Soldiers Once, and Young", and the movie about that book, We Were Soldiers. In the book, soldiers fighting in that battle commented about hearing Mandarin Chinese spoken on the radio chatter in the enemy ranks, and helicopter pilots flying over NV positions noted that there were some men who were larger than the others. Those were the Chinese, who were larger and taller than Vietnamese men.
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Newly installed Chairmen of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. PETER PACE’s Premiere appearance at the Vietnam Wall, Keynote Speaker on Veterans Day 2005, personally paying honor to 40th Anniversary Battle of IA DRANG-1965 Veterans:
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