Posted on 11/11/2003 9:08:29 PM PST by ALOHA RONNIE
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...Over Veterans Day Weekend each year we surviving Veterans of the 1st Major Battle of the Vietnam War held in the Valley of Death that was the IA DRANG of 1965...
...greet the dawn's early light of a beautiful Sunday morning standing at the 3rd Panel of the Vietnam Wall. We go there, under the fresh shadow of the Washington Monument, to pay honor to our fallen U.S. 7th Cavalry Brothers who fell forever in that Valley of Death on behalf of the FREEDOM of Others.
...Though no exception, this year's Veterans Day Weekend in Washington, D.C. was truly unforgettable.
...Fellow IA DRANG Veteran and War Correspondent JOSEPH GALLOWAY, the only civilian who has been awarded a Bronze Star for Valor, writes about our IA DRANG Alumni Conference Weekend and of our obligation drawing us there for our fallen Brothers each year in his outstanding Kight-Ridder Article titled:
..'Remembering brothers on Veterans Day'
...A Link to this outstanding Article follows.
...Present and future U.S. 7th Cavalry Congressional Medal of Honor Recipiants stand side by side with the rest of us former U.S. 7th Cavalry SkyTroopers in unabashed gratitude at The Vietnam Wall to those who gave all they had long ago so that others may live in FREEDOM.
...This year's IA DRANG Alumni Conference Dinner Keynote Speaker was fellow IA DRANG Veteran JACK SMITH, now a retired ABC News Correspondent, who was wounded 4 times in the IA DRANG Valley 38 years ago. JACK SMITH's father was ABC News TV Anchorman HOWARD K. SMITH, the most honest of all American TV Anchormen reporting about our Fight for Freedom during the Vietnam War. This as opposed to former CBS News TV Anchorman WALTER CRONKITE ...who was lying to us on TV for the other side, our Communist Terrorist Enemy.
...JACK SMITH now finds himself in another fight for his life ...in a private war with Pancreatic Cancer.
...How profound it is to see today's Communist Vietnam, under threat from Terrorist Attacks and the encroaching Power of Communist China emerging all over East Asia, move closer to America for its own protection in a new Time of War. And to see an America reaching out to Communist Vietnam for exactly the same reasons..!!! It's a new World.
...Who would have thought so long ago in a land that was so very far away that we would live long enough to see this new world come our way back when...
.."WE WERE SOLDIERS ONCE and YOUNG"..?
Signed:.."ALOHA RONNIE" Guyer / Vet-"WE WERE SOLDIERS" Battle of IA DRANG-1965
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Sorry about the belated reply....
So good to see you here!!
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MEMORIES of VIETNAM
http://www.ArmchairGeneral.com/articles.php?p=2785&page=1&cat=59
(Interview & Pictures)
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..BRUCE CRANDALL = Medal of Honor..
http://www.ArmchairGeneral.com/forums/showthread.php?t=24361
..BRUCE CRANDALL did all he could in a then Free South Vietnam's Valley of Death long ago to prevent our having to ever having to see in the End:
Pictures of a vietnamese Re-Education (SLAVE LABOR) Camp
http://www.Freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1308949/posts
Pictures that were brought about when a post-WATERGATE Democrat Congress cut off all our funding for the Free South Vietnamese to fight for their own Freedom with.
This just as the Communist Soviet Union gave $6 Billion in Tanks & mobile artillery to the North Vietnam for its final solution in the South.
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Thank you Ronnie, and thanks to your Brothers in Arms,for all you have done for our country, and are still doing today.
God Bless All You Beautiful Guy and Gal Vets!!!
Good read Ronnie and God Bless!
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For..
...WE ARE SOLDIERS STILL:
Our Aloha Ronnie saves a life!
http://www.ArmchairGeneral.com/forums/showthread.php?t=55092
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CLARITY =
Television’s Vietnam: the Impact of Media 1 of 6
http://www.Freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2041257/posts
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Armchair General Magazine’s Vietnam War Section
http://www.ArmchairGeneral.com/forums/forumdisplay.php?f=133
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What America’s Freedom Fighters were fighting so selflessly to prevent from happening in a then Free South Vietnam long ago =
http://www.JourneyfromtheFall.com
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The traveling wall was here last Spring. Took Mrs. Mad, she wept at the plaque with her cousins name on it.
In any case bless you and the men of LZ X-ray, I think of you often and wish each and everyone of you peace.
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The Battle of Ia Drang: Joe Galloway’s first-hand account
http://www2.oanow.com/news/2010/nov/14/battle-ia-drang-joe-galloways-first-hand-account-ar-1086763/
http://www.lzxray.com/guyer_collection.htm
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Once a soldier and young,
...They are still soldiers
http://www.ArmchairGeneral.com/forums/showthread.php?t=66978
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