Posted on 11/18/2013 8:43:59 PM PST by neverdem
As the sun rose on Nov. 14, 1965, a clear, hot Sunday, four U.S. Army helicopters flew, as unobtrusively as such machines can, across the rugged Ia Drang Valley in South Vietnam's Central Highlands. Below them was a wild and desolate place that in normal times offered a living only to elephants, tigers and a few Montagnard tribesmen. Lt. Col. Harold G. Moore scanned the terrain intently, scribbling notes and marking his maps. He was about to lead the U.S. 7th Cavalry on its most audacious charge since Lt. Col. George A. Custer led his troopers to the Little Bighorn 89 years earlier.
Like Custer, Hal Moore had no use for timidity or half measures. The lean, blond Kentuckian, a 43-year-old graduate of West Point, Class of '45, demanded the best from his men and gave the same in return. Behind his back, the 457 officers and men of the 1st Battalion of the 7th Cavalry Regiment, 1st Cavalry Division (Airmobile), sometimes called Moore by Custer's nickname, "Yellow Hair." It was a soldier's compliment, and Moore took it as such.
Moore was hunting big game in the tangle of ravines, tall elephant grass and termite hills around the base of Chu Pong Massif, a 2,401-foot mountain whose forests stretched 5 miles into Cambodia. A month earlier, the 2,200-man 33rd People's Army Regiment–part of the first full North Vietnamese Army division to take the field since the fall of Dien Bien Phu in 1954–had attacked the camp at Plei Me, a vital listening post astride the road to Pleiku, the provincial capital. Saigon and Washington feared that if the North Vietnamese overran Pleiku, Route 19 to Qui Nhon on the coast would be wide open, and South Vietnam could be cut in two. But one of the North Vietnamese commanders, Maj...
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“WE WERE SOLDIERS” Battle of IA DRANG-1965 on CBS
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..November 22, 1963 was also the Day that Walter Cronkite became ‘The Most Trusted Man in America’ when his tears came while taking his large black Glasses off to tell us on TV that “President Kennedy died at 1:00 pm Central Standard Time.” He was expressing on TV how he, and thus all the rest of us watching him on TV at home, felt at that horrible moment. His reporting the business at hand thus continued ..and he had us in his grip..
Just a little over 4 years later, ‘The Most Trusted Man in America’ Walter Cronkite went on to incorrectly tell us on TV from Hue, South Vietnam that the Communist TET Offensive in a then Free South Vietnam had been a success .. when it was actually a big defeat for our Communist Enemies. Upon his return home Cronkite then told the American People on TV that it was time for us to leave South Vietnam ..and he had us in his grip.
This put into motion the demise of an American Presidency, doubt into our Freedom Mission for South Vietnam and eventually a most horrid Fall of Freedom there for millions of poor S.E. Asian Souls, and the deaths of many. Showing us that ..Free TV isn’t Free.. =
http://www.JourneyfromtheFall.com/
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..”this piece” first appeared in the U.S. News and World Report Magazine, written by U.S. News and World Report Reporter Joe Galloway. Positive response was so heavy, that Galloway and my Battle of IA DRANG-1965 Battalion Commander Lt. Col. Hal G. Moore went on to finish writing their Best Selling “We Were Soldiers Once...and Young” Book. This became the basis of Randall Wallace’s 2002 Braveheart in Vietnam Motion Picture titled “WE WERE SOLDIERS.”
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Good to see you again.
same-same
Yeah thou I walk in the valley of death ,I fear no evil for I’m the meanest SOB in the valley,,,back in the day. ‘69
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Hiya Ronnie ((((Hugs))))
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Oh, ALOHA fatmima :)
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Saw your letter to the editor,never knew that.Your a good writer Ronnie.Thank you for all you do.((((Hugs))))Never Forget.
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‘The Cronkite Years’ - Letter to the Editor - 11/20/13
Nov. 22, 1963, was also the day that Walter Cronkite became “The most trusted man in America” as tears came while telling us on TV that “President Kennedy died at 1 p.m. Central Standard Time” [“TV discovers its power,” Show, Nov. 19]. He expressed on TV how he, and thus all the rest of us watching him at home, felt at that horrible moment. He continued reporting the business at hand and had us in his grip.
A little more than four years later, “The most trusted man in America,” Walter Cronkite, went on to incorrectly tell us on TV from South Vietnam that the communist Tet Offensive in a then-free South Vietnam was a stalemate, when it was actually a big defeat for our communist enemies. Upon his return home Cronkite then told the American people on TV that it was time for us to leave South Vietnam, and he had us in his grip.
His reporting put into motion the demise of an American presidency, doubt in our mission for South Vietnam’s freedom and, eventually, the deaths of many during the most horrid fall of freedom for millions of poor southeast Asian souls in South Vietnam, which showed us that free TV isn’t free.
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Ronnie Guyer - Veteran, Vietnam War
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Thanks ,couldn’t repost from facebook.Shame on him.I look back and remember what he said about Kennedy.It was so touching.He betrayed our Troops.Never Forget.((((Hugs))))
Thanks for the ping!
Yes indeed...........emotional armor I used every day.
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