[Jimmy Valentine's brother]

S/MAJ BASIL L. PLUMLEY(SAM ELLIOTT) has the classic line in the movie. Was that S/Maj Plumley's true opinion of Custer or is literary license being exercised?

[ALOHA RONNIE]

...S/MAJ's (That's what we lovingly called him amongst ourselves)
"CUSTER" remark in .."WE WERE SOLDIERS".. was a "Proper License" taken by RANDALL WALLACE in telling the Story of Lt. Col. HAL G. MOORE's Leadership in Battle.

...SAM ELLIOTT was the only .."WE WERE SOLDIERS".. Actor at last year's IA DRANG Alumni Dinner and at the 3rd Panel of the Vietnam Wall before dawn the next morning, along with RANDALL WALLACE and a newly Sept. 11th widowed Mrs. SUSAN RESCORLA.

...SAM ELLIOTT really does accurately portray -A Lion in Winter- S/MAJ BASIL PLUMLEY in .."WE WERE SOLDIERS"..! Both have Hearts of Gold.

...I was blessed to give my fond .."ALOHA" to "S/MAJ" once again after 36 years at our IA DRANG-1965 Veterans' Preview Showing of .."WE WERE SOLDIERS"..
at Ft. Benning GA in Mid-February and then at its Los Angeles Premiere in Westwood just before March 1st.

My, what wondrous times ..these...?