By Average John
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Posted on 07/19/2008 10:29:49 AM PDT by XR7
> As an Infantry guy, the ANZAC, Limey, and GI’s now are much better than we were,
It may be so, but what I do know is that, as a young kid in school, I used to watch the newsreels awestruck and amazed, every Wednesday afternoon after lunch hour, of what you guys were doing in Vietnam.
I think that, perhaps, the newsreels had the opposite effect on me than what our teachers wanted them to have: they were hippies and commies thru-and-thru. Anyrate, I left those brainwashing sessions with the firm conviction that soldiers were Good Guys and Heroes.
> I think that Galloway and The Hack, David Hackworth, for that matter, were and are stuck in a 40 year old mind set,
I used to enjoy reading The Hack, it is a shame that he’s dead now. He was always onto the “perfumed Princes” and styled himself as a champion of the average soldier. That said, he didn’t seem to have too much nice to say for the modern army. I recall a couple of his articles that were fairly blistering over modern entrance requirements and training standards.
> It isn’t that Gi’s, Diggers, and Squadies haven’t done the job they are paid for it is the Bagless Pols.
Politicians these days are all ball-less wonders and they seem Hell-bent on snatching Defeat from the jaws of Victory. It makes no sense to me: why would anyone want to see their country lose a war??
Watched the movie again last night on cable.
It is a fantastic effort to recreate the feel of really being in a firefight.
Sam Elliot owns any scene he is in.
They say that smart people learn from their experiences but the really smart people learn from the expeiences of others. I'm afraid we have too many of the former and not enough of the later because we are seeing some of the same erroneous assumptions at high levels that cost us so much in 'nam.
Semper Fi brothers And God bless all vets and active military
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MEL’s -PASSION- sparked by -WE WERE SOLDIERS-
http://www.Freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1085111/posts
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See Actor SAM ELLIOTT Photo:
RONNIE GUYER PHOTO COLLECTION
http://www.lzxray.com/guyer_collection.htm
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See “ALOHA RONNIE” Guyer photos personally taken in the Valley of Death known as the IA DRANG Valley of Novermber 1965 - Landing Zone Falcon, 3 air minutes out from Landing Zone X-Ray:
http://www.lzxray.com/guyer_set1.htm
http://www.lzxray.com/guyer_set2.htm
http://www.lzxray.com/guyer_set3.htm
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Ping
Bump for later reading.
Love that pic of you and Teddy before Chippaquiddick.
He was a lot slimmer then...and young.
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Sen. TED KENNEDY toured a then Free South Vietnam in the Fall of 1965 to personally see for himself precisely what the fight for Freedom was really all about there. The proof is in the photo of the two of us taken in the Vientam Central Highlands’ 1st Cavalry Divsion (Airmobile) Headquarters.
http://www.lzxray.com/guyer_set1.htm
In other words, Sen. TED KENNEDY just knew better than to lead a post-Watergate Democrat Congress into cutting off all our funding for the then Free South Vietnamese to fight for their own Freedom with against a Communist invasion from the North.
Bringing down on so very many poor S.E. Asian souls a most horrid:
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..”JOURNEY from the FALL”..
http://www.JourneyFromTheFall.com
http://www.Freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1806248/posts
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NEVER ever AGAIN!!!
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A full chapter of this new MOORE/GALLOWAY collaboration is entirely devoted to 9/11 Lifesaver RICK RESCORLA, R.I.P.
http://www.RickRescorla.com/The%20Statue.htm
http://www.ArmchairGeneral.com/forums/showthread.php?t=24361
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CLARITY =
First hand Stories (Truly unforgettable combat soldier drawings)
http://www.ArmchairGeneral.com/forums/showthread.php?t=65452
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NEVER FORGET
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For...
..’WE ARE SOLDIERS STILL’.. The Website
http://www.WeAreSoldiersStill.com
(Book Release Date - August 19th, 2008)
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For...
...more on the Battle of IA DRANG-1965
(See ..’Ia Drang - Interest’.. Section)
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NEVER FORGET
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NEVER FORGET
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Saddleback College Plans Memorial Day completion of new monument
(F/R’s Aloha Ronnie sings ‘Mansions of the Lord’)
http://www.Freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1982490/posts
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NEVER FORGET
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CLARITY =
The Best Vietnam War Movie Poll
http://www.ArmchairGeneral.com/forums/showthread.php?t=52281
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NEVER FORGET
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Thanks for the ping.
Look forward to reading the book.
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