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Thank you for asking. Great question.
About 3 weeks before our 1965 Battle of the IA DRANG Valley a junket of Senators/Representatives from Congress, including a young Senator TED KENNEDY, came trotting thru our 1st Cav Headquarters at An Khe, South Vietnam.
They were on a trip to survey how a then Free South Vietnam's new civilian war refugees were being affected by our War Operations at the very begining of the Vietnam War.
Our 1st Cav's Commanding General that Senator KENNEDY was visiting was none other than General HARRY W.O. KINNARD, of World War II's "NUTS" fame during the Battle of the Bulge.
It was a young Intel Operations Officer Capt. KINNARD who suggested that very "NUTS" response to his Commanding General MacAuliffe as being the appropriate response to a German Ultimatum of Surrender issued us at a surrounded Bastogne.
All History in the doing.
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Hey Brother!
Kinnard concocted the incomparably funny "nuts" response for MacAuliffe (to reiterate to the Germans at Bastogne).
That one got by me somehow. I did not know that; you learn something new every day.
Thanks for the info!
Just curious, did the swimmer know about Kinnard when he was there? After Ia Drang/LZ XRay did anyone hear from Kennedy, did he do anything for ya'll?
Terms: junket, trotting, trip, survey.
All history by the Politics!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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I never saw your FR profile page before.
In 1964 (I believe it was that year) I shook Ted Kennedy's hand during a parade in South Boston. My notions about the world were quite different back then in those days. I have no pictures to prove it however, and fortunately.
A few months after that incident I turned 10 years old. Still later, I developed certain opinions concerning the Olympic swimming wannabe.
Thank You for your service.