And we most remember ALL those 58,200 who died in that essentially useless, NEVER TO BE REPEATED travesty called Vietnam.
The story of some of the FIRST men to be sacrificed on the LBJ, McNamara, Rusk, Rostow alter to their egos in November of 1965 in the Ia Drang valley is graphically told in "We Were Soldiers." If you haven't seen it, please do so.