Those poor men… going on such an ill-fated mission, though being done for all the right reasons.
Nobody wanted to be the one to die at all, even less to be the last one to die in Vietnam.
You remember them, as shall I.
Just read up on it. Shocking what happened to the 3 men left behind. 1 shot and the other 2 executed “by beating with a RPG tube” basically executed by torture. Order after he went back to Cambodia by the top Khmer leadership.
All the while the Khmer Rouge were murdering hundreds of thousands of civilians in the “Killing Fields”.
We should have launched a mass B-52 incendiary attack on the largest City with the most loyalty to the Khmer as revenge.