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Xray Day 1, 14 Nov 1965 Lead elements of the under strength 450 man 1st Bn, 7th Cavalry air assault into a small clearing in scrub jungle below the 2300 foot Chu Pong Massif. Within an hour, a fierce battle is underway between the American Air Cav troopers and the aggressive 9th Bn of the 66th Regiment of the Peoples Army of Vietnam - North Vietnamese Regulars. The American Commander, Lt. Col Moore, fighting on the ground with his men, is faced with three on-going tasks to be accomplished simultaneously: * Shuttle in the rest of his men from 14...

NEVER FORGET .."WE WERE SOLDIERS".. ...starring MEL GIBSON as my Vietnam Commanding Officer Lt. Col. HAL G. MOORE... ...will be airing again in the last showing of its Network Television Premiere airings @ 7:30pm Pacific, 10:30pm Eastern Standard Time. Signed:.."ALOHA RONNIE" Guyer / Veteran-"WE WERE SOLDIERS" Battle of IA DRANG=1965 NEVER FORGET

We Were Soldiers (2002) Mel Gibson, Greg Kinnear, Madeleine Stowe, Sam Elliott Rating: TV-14-V , CC Friday, November 5th @ 9pm(ET) In a place soon to be known as The Valley of Death, in a small clearing called landing zone X-Ray, Lt. Colonel Hal Moore (Mel Gibson) and 400 young fathers, husbands, brothers, and sons, all troopers from an elite American combat division, were surrounded by 2,000 North Vietnamese soldiers. The ensuing battle was one of the most savage in U.S. history. We Were Soldiers Once...And Young is a tribute to the nobility of those men under fire, their common...

Monday Sept 20, 2004 WAR AND THE PRESIDENCY | GUEST COLUMN Kerry smeared a hero: my dad   By CAROL CROWLEY Published on: 09/20/04 Many of you believe dirty politics is the motivation of Vietnam veterans speaking out in opposition to John Kerry. Let me tell you the real motivation. In the movie "We Were Soldiers," the story about the battle of the la Drang Valley in Vietnam in 1965, a young sergeant, Jack Gell, cried as he died, "Tell my wife I love her . . ." and my family relived the death of my dad. He told...

From Henry Mark Holzer's email newsletter: Kerry smeared a hero: my dad. > By CAROL CROWLEY >Published on: 09/20/04 > Many of you believe dirty politics is the motivation of Vietnam >veterans speaking out in opposition to John Kerry. Let me tell you the real motivation. > >In the movie "We Were Soldiers," the story about the battle of the la >Drang Valley in Vietnam in 1965, a young sergeant, Jack Gell, cried as >he died, "Tell my wife I love her . . ." and my family relived the >death of my dad. He told my mother in letters...

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The anti-war group that John Kerry was the principal spokesman for debated and voted on a plot to assassinate politicians who supported the Vietnam War. Mr. Kerry denies being present at the November 12-15, 1971, meeting in Kansas City of Vietnam Veterans Against the War, and says he quit the group before the meeting. But according to the current head of Missouri Veterans for Kerry, Randy Barnes, Mr. Kerry,who was then 27,was at the meeting, voted against the plot, and then orally resigned from the organization. Mr. Barnes was present as part of the Kansas City host chapter for the...

A very special group will gather in the nation's capital this weekend before Veterans Day, as we have for the last 15 years or so. We are the Ia Drang Band of Brothers, the survivors of the bloodiest battle of the Vietnam War, and the families of those who didn't make it home. For those of us who were there both a sense of healing and renewal make attendance almost obligatory. These early days of November carry a burden of memory for us. It was another November 38 years ago when the battalions of the 1st Cavalry Division (Airmobile) clashed...

Holmes: Mel Gibson's 'We Were Soldiers' honors warriors on both sides of the Vietnam War I cringe involuntarily whenever a new Vietnam movie opens. Not so much because Hollywood has been a remorseless critic of the Vietnam War -- there's plenty of latitude to disagree about the wisdom of the American war and the manner in which is was prosecuted -- but because even the best films in the genre radiate disdain not only for the war itself, but also for the American fighting man who went to Indochina to battle communism. James Holmes more Holmes columns You know...

Op-Ed Column for Galloway Military Correspondent Is With KRT Joseph L. Galloway, senior military correspondent for Knight Ridder, is moving into opinion writing with a column Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service launched June 4. Galloway -- whose weekly feature will cover military and national-security matters -- is a Bronze Star winner who did four tours of duty in Vietnam as a United Press International reporter, covered the first Gulf War, and co-authored We Were Soldiers Once ... and Young (later made into a Mel Gibson movie).

NEVER FORGET ...and Thank GOD we NEVER did. ...Los Angeles Times Reporter ANITA BUSCH is reporting in today's Los Angeles Times Calendar Section that... .."WE WERE SOLDIERS".. Vietnam Actor DON DUONG (Pronounced "Dong") will be arriving in San Jose, California tomorrow with his family as a Free Man. ...After months of negotiations U.S. Government and Communist Vietnam Officials reached an agreement for DON DUONG to leave his native country and to live in the United States, permanently. ...Last September DON DUONG was proclaimed a Traitor to the Government and Peoples Army of Vietnam... for appearing as the North Vietnamese Army...

Beverly Hills, Calif. -- The Christian Film & Television Commission named SPIDER-MAN the Best Family Film of 2002 for its positive moral viewpoint and its positive use of the Lord's Prayer and the American flag at the 11th Annual MOVIEGUIDE(R) Faith & Values Awards Gala, held Tuesday at the Regent Beverly Wilshire Hotel. WE WERE SOLDIERS was named the Best Film for Mature Audiences, followed closely by THE LORD OF THE RINGS: THE TWO TOWERS and MINORITY REPORT. EVELYN, starring Pierce Brosnan as a Christian father trying to get back his children from the government, was named the Most Inspiring...

HEART OF A SOLDIER

NEVER FORGET ...December 27, 2002 = ...A Day like all Days except... ...Film Critic and National Talk Radio Show Host MICHAEL MEDVED stated that MEL GIBSON's... .."WE WERE SOLDIERS".. -&- .."SIGNS".. ...along with... .."THE LORD OF THE RINGS: The 2 Towers".. ...deserve to be nominated for Best Picture Oscars for next year's Academy Award World TV Event to again be hosted by Comedian Extraordinaire STEVE MARTIN in the Hollywood KODAK Theater. ...MICHAEL MEDVED went on to say that both .."WE WERE SOLDIERS".. -&- .."SIGNS".. were extraordinary films about the Realities of LOVE and HATE in this World. AMEN. For more...

<p>LOS ANGELES, California (Reuters) -- A Vietnamese actor branded a traitor by the Hanoi government and placed under virtual house arrest for appearing in an American-made Vietnam War film has broken his silence to call the charges against him "ridiculous" and "cruel."</p>

<p>This story hasn't gotten much attention outside the film industry, but it is illuminating about our new would-be friends in the government of Vietnam who still can't quite grasp the concept of freedom of expression.</p> <p>Don Duong was Vietnam's leading actor and, like any actor, he aspired to the big time, Hollywood, and he made it, appearing in the Mel Gibson Vietnam War epic "We Were Soldiers" and "Green Dragon," a drama with Patrick Swayze about Vietnamese refugees in this country.</p>

HANOI, Vietnam (AP) -- Vietnamese officials were meeting Friday to consider whether to punish an actor branded a "national traitor" for starring with Mel Gibson in the Hollywood movie "We Were Soldiers." Authorities in Ho Chi Minh City, where actor Don Duong lives, proposed earlier that he be fined and banned from acting or leaving the country for five years for appearing in the movie, which they said distorted the history and image of Vietnamese soldiers. Officials from the Ministry of Culture and Information were meeting Friday to consider the proposal, and will submit a recommendation to the ministry...

NEVER FORGET .."WE WERE SOLDIERS".. ...the new RANDALL WALLACE ..'Braveheart in 'Nam.. Motion Picture starring MEL GIBSON, SAM ELLIOTT, MADELEINE STOWE, GREG KINNEAR, CHRIS KLEIN, KERI RUSSELL, BARRY PEPPER about the 1st Major Battle of the Vietnam War in the -Valley of Death- that was the IA DRANG of November 1965... ...is out today on ..DVD/Video in Super-Surround Sound that highlights the unforgettably lush Soundtrack Musical Score of NICK GLENNIE-SMITH. ...A major new plus here is the new addition of -10- previously deleted scenes on both the DVD and Video with Commentary by "WE WERE SOLDIERS" Director/Screenwriter RANDALL WALLACE, who...

NEVER FORGET ...In Honoring of SOME MOTHER's SON or DAUGHTER of Comabat in -Time of War-... ...Mrs. JULIE MOORE, wife of MEL GIBSON's then ..Lt. Col. HAL G. MOORE.. at .."WE WERE SOLDIERS" - The Movie's Battle of IA DRANG-1965 ( www.LzXray.com ).. ...will be a guest on a Special Memorial Day-2002 ..-JUDICIAL WATCH Radio Show-.. hosted by Vietnam Veteran ..RUSS VERNEY -&- JANE CHASTAIN.. on Thurday, May 30, 2002. ...This Nationally Syndicated Talk Radio Show also airs Live online from... .. 12pm - 2pm ..Eastern Time .. 9am - 11am ..Pacific Time .. on.. www.JudicialWatch.org .. ...On a Day...

If you have fed from a steady diet of Hollywood movies about Vietnam you probably believe that everyone who wore a uniform in America's long, sad involvement in war in Vietnam is some sort of a clone of Lt. William Calley---that all three million of them were drug-crazed killers and rapists who rampaged across the pastoral landscape. Those movies got it wrong, until now. There is one more Hollywood film now playing called "We Were Soldiers" and it gets it right. Ask any Vietnam veteran who has gone to see the movie. In fact, ask any American who has gone...