The Freeper Foxhole Remembers Con Thien/Operation Buffalo - Dec. 27th, 2002

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[MistyCA]

[MistyCA]

My husband mentions Puff alot. thanks for that post. :)

[MistyCA]

Oh....what those guys went through! I just finished watching "We were Soldiers" last night. Some of this just stuns you silent. Or, me, rather.

[MistyCA]

That is beautiful, Valerie. So perfect. I saved it. :)

[SAMWolf]

I got that for Christmas too.

Watched it with my daughter on Christmas day.

[SAMWolf]

Hi Misty. Don't worry about it. Real life comes first.

[MistyCA]

Wow. Please tell your friend thank you for his service and thank God he made it out. I just can't imagine what it must have been like for those guys under such horrific conditions. Thanks for sharing his experience with us.

[MistyCA]

Yes! I had read some of that poetry the other day. Thanks for sharing that site. :)

[MistyCA]

Thanks for sharing that with us. I am so sorry to hear of your friend's death. He was certainly one of the heros. May God rest his soul.

[Jen]

Hi everyone! I'm sorry I haven't been here all day. My sister-in-law called this morning and asked if I could pick up my nephew (my favorite...), because she has stomach flu. Of course I said yes. I adore Bryce. He's almost 2 and is such a cutie pie. So... I've been playing "Auntie Jen" all day. Baby is sleeping now, and I'm headed to bed too because the little rascal wakes up at the crack of dawn!

[MistyCA]

You said it better then I could. "Damn Just damn." Yes, that's about all you can say with some of this stuff.

[MistyCA]

My husband is watching it again now. We had actually got it when we first got here, but forgot the electrical cord for the DVD in California! Shesh! He brought it back the last time he went there. I just got it all hooked up last night. You see! I do have to do all the grunt work around here! :)

[MistyCA]

Thanks. I need a reprieve from real life. :)

[MistyCA]

Nighty night, Jen! Have fun with the little guy in the morning. :)

[SAMWolf]

Hi AntiJen. Bye AntiJen

[SAMWolf]

I've got the last two episodes of "Band of Brothers" to watch. It's excellent.

[PhilDragoo]

I saw "We Were Soldiers" with Hank and Erika Holzer, coauthors of AID AND COMFORT: Jane Fonda in North Vietnam.

Hank was Army intelligence in Korea, and their book is a treason indictment; the thesis being, that a treason charge could have been lodged, prosecuted to conviction and upheld on appeal.

Joe Galloway, coauthor of the book We Were Soldiers Once and Young with General Hal Moore, did an excellent interview with Proceedings (February 2002, pp 50-52), and his photo with a Swedish K submachine gun, and the clarification that he carried a personal M-16 belies the Hollywoodization of the film showing a disgust on his part for the movie prop.

Saturday January 18 0900 will see a Washington, DC, rally of vets defending memorials from leftist chancres, details at today's Canteen.

The mention of NVA using the DMZ as "haven" harks back to LBJ spurning the advice of the Joint Chiefs November 1965 (the time of the battle for the Ia Drang valley) to bomb Hanoi and mine Haiphong.

On behalf of Army veteran Ted Maher and his friends at Free Republic, God Bless our troops and veterans and their families.

God Speed swift victory in Operation Rock Saddam's World.

[dcwusmc]

Beetle had one other distinction: He was wounded in a position that was overrun by NVA who then proceeded to go around shooting the wounded. An NVA soldier had his weapon at the back of Beetle's head, ready to pull the trigger. Just at that moment, one of our corpsmen popped the guy with a .45. The rifle went off, but the round skinned around the outside of Beetle's skull and exited his cheek. I met Doc Chico at Beetle's funeral. He gave him another 30 years of life. HOORAH for our Corpsmen!

[E.G.C.]

Bump for the canteen and for Ted Maher and his family.

[E.G.C.]

That should read Bump for the Foxhole and for Ted maher and his family. Not enough coffee.