[snippy_about_it]

No, Freedom is not Free

I heard the sound of Taps one night,
When everything was still
I listened to the bugler play
And felt a sudden chill
I wondered just how many times
That Taps had meant "Amen"

When a flag had draped a coffin
Of a brother or a friend
I thought of all the children
Of the mothers and the wives,
Of fathers, sons and husbands
With interrupted lives

I thought about a graveyard
At the bottom of the sea
Of unmarked graves in Arlington
No, Freedom is not Free!!

Lcdr Kelly Strong

[snippy_about_it]

Alpha Company, 3/506th
(Currahees*)
Tet Casualties:
During the first three weeks of the enemy's 1968 Tet offensive, Alpha Company's rifle platoons suffered 13 dead and 33 wounded, out of approximately 120 troopers in the field. In effect, more than one out of three men in the line platoons was hit.