..A Freeper Vet goes to the Vietnam Wall..

"ALOHA RONNIE" Guyer

[Patangeles]

...May GOD Bless our FREEDOM Fighters, always...

You got that right!

[windchime]

Bump!

[muawiyah]

General Sanchez said: "We are taking the fight into the safe havens of the enemy in the heartland of the country."

This is so different from the McNamara doctrine that gave the enemy safe havens.

[muawiyah]

General Sanchez said: "We are taking the fight into the safe havens of the enemy in the heartland of the country."

This is so different from the McNamara doctrine that gave the enemy safe havens.

[onedoug]

I believe every returning American veteran (and tourists) make Vietnam that much freer.

Best, always.

[archy]

...An Apology I promply made in person after our IA DRANG Dinner with the above explanation to the General. The General explained to me that it was his Army Sgt/Majors that told him that if Beret wearing was going Army wide then they wanted them to be Black so that they wouldn't have to be constantly having to tell troopers to clean their Berets during Army Inspections..!

AR, I am really glad to hear that. I too thought the army-wide issue of the black beret was a slap at the Rangers and the tank crews who had worn the black berets in Vietnam. For that very reason those knowledgable SMAJs noted, the tankers found black berets most suitable, and are the traditional choice of the British, Israelis, Russians, and others. The beret can be rolled and tucked into a coveralls pocket when the tank crewman's commo helmet isn't worn, and is more practical stuffed inside those helmets than any other headgear save possibly the Navy knit watch cap. The Army-wide adoption of the new MICH helmet suitable for use with commo headsets and microphone to replace the Kevlar *K-Pot* suggests that other troopers besides tankers will find that true of their berets as well.

I always though the REAL headgear of the Rangers was the patrol cap, worn back in the days of the detested general-issue baseball cap when a floppy bush hat or helmet wasn't the better choice, but the commonality of the tan Ranger beret with the *sandhats* of the British and Australian S.A.S. regiment has been generally noted as appropriate by those in both the British and American services, and offers swell opportunities for a little off-duty trading between brother services.

I still have my doubts about the Stryker wheeled combat vehicle that General Shinseki similarly pushed on the service during his tenure, and I hope that decision proves to be as eventually suitable as the one about headgear was. But in the meantime I retain the strongest doubts and suspicions of a former infantryman and tank crewman as to the vehicle's ability to perform as described; we shall see, and we can hope.

But at least your Shinseki story gives us some good reason to keep that hope going till the first Stryker war stories, good or bad, come back. -archy-/-

[.cnI redruM]

Today, at OTC HQ, Fort Hood, Tx. Hunter McGuire Woodall, Jr. was inducted into the Army Operational Testers Hall of Fame. His greatest achievement was the mathematical design for the test that verified the combat effectiveness of Army Air Cavalry units. (Nice Ia Drang tie in there.)

[ALOHA RONNIE]

...That's just Outstanding..!!!

[ALOHA RONNIE]

Freeper BKO =

Barbara K. Olson/DOA-Pentagon-911

[timydnuc]

You paved the way, in the Nam, for me in '67-'68. I heard a lot about the "Valley of Death" and I so admired y'all. I was 101st Airbourne Ranger and we had to stand and deliver during Tete in Hue. We kicked their butts but we lost many good friends.

I have been to "The Wall" only once. It's something I can't relate in this forum. Moving doesn't even touch what it is for a Vet. I survived and I don't know that it was fair. Sometimes I wish I would have died with them, but I didn't and I went on to college and medical school. Everyday, everyday, I think of my fallen brethern and everyday I work harder for their memory. I MUST be the best for those that saved me to come back and make a difference. Dear God, let me do the very best for their memory.

My Lady protested when I got the portrait "The Wall" but when I explained to her that I must never forget, she understood and let me hang it, nice frame and all, in in my computer room. She has excepted that it is not depressing, but uplifting, especially after 911.

Rule number one, in war; brave young men die in defense of their country. Rule number two; nothing can be done to change rule number 1, and there are no other rules. My life has been enriched by those men that are gone, those brave men that fought with me. They are saving lives today, but they know that. They are looking down from Heaven and helping me EVERYDAY. Thank you, my brothers. You are not now, nor will you ever be just a name on a wall, you are in my heart, and you are in my soul, and you are in my hands, and you are the better part of a healer of mankind. Every one of you make up the man that I am now.

Got something in my eye, gotta go!

Timy

[timydnuc]

You paved the way, in the Nam, for me in '67-'68. I heard a lot about the "Valley of Death" and I so admired y'all. I was 101st Airbourne Ranger and we had to stand and deliver during Tete in Hue. We kicked their butts but we lost many good friends.

I have been to "The Wall" only once. It's something I can't relate in this forum. Moving doesn't even touch what it is for a Vet. I survived and I don't know that it was fair. Sometimes I wish I would have died with them, but I didn't and I went on to college and medical school. Everyday, everyday, I think of my fallen brethern and everyday I work harder for their memory. I MUST be the best for those that saved me to come back and make a difference. Dear God, let me do the very best for their memory.

My Lady protested when I got the portrait "The Wall" but when I explained to her that I must never forget, she understood and let me hang it, nice frame and all, in in my computer room. She has excepted that it is not depressing, but uplifting, especially after 911.

Rule number one, in war; brave young men die in defense of their country. Rule number two; nothing can be done to change rule number 1, and there are no other rules. My life has been enriched by those men that are gone, those brave men that fought with me. They are saving lives today, but they know that. They are looking down from Heaven and helping me EVERYDAY. Thank you, my brothers. You are not now, nor will you ever be just a name on a wall, you are in my heart, and you are in my soul, and you are in my hands, and you are the better part of a healer of mankind. Every one of you make up the man that I am now.

Got something in my eye, gotta go!

Timy

[ALOHA RONNIE]

"Thank you, RICK, for protecting us and making us the Home of the Brave...always" =

...Signature No. 365 - Petition for President BUSH to award the Presidential Medal of Freedom posthumously to Sept. 11th Lifesaving Hero RICK RESCORLA.

RICK RESCORLA:

Lifesaving Hero/Battle of IA DRANG-1965

Lifesaving Hero/Bombing of the World Trade Center-1993

Lifesaving Hero/Airstrikes on the World Trade Center-2001

See: http://www.lxray.com

---

NEVER FORGET


RICK RESCORLA would be alive today if the CLINTONS had not refused 3 Free Offers from the Sudan during the 1990's to hand over our No. 1 Terrorist Enemy OSAMA bin LADEN to us before he could order the September 11, 2001 Attack on RICK RESCORLA.


NEVER FORGET

[onyx]

WE will NEVER FORGET BKO. I really believe she spends some of her Heavenly time here with us, and I'm certain she was with yall on Veteran's Day.

[ALOHA RONNIE]

...There ..was... so much Joy this year at our Annual IA DRANG Alumni Conference, even at the Vietnam Wall. We all felt so ...close. It was almost Spiritual the feeling we were all feeling this year.

...Two months after the Attacks of Sept. 11th I was blessed to go to our 2001 IA DRANG Alumni Conference to honor RICK RESCORLA, who deserved accountability for his sudden and unnecessary Sept. 11th Death. And of all people RICK's newly widowed wife SUSAN RESCORLA was sitting there at the table next to us at our IA DRANG Alumni Conference Dinner.

...After our 7th Cavalry's Dawn Service at the Vietnam Wall that year I headed for the Pentagon to honor America's No. 1 HILLARY-Fighter BARBARA "BKO" OLSON whose Jetliner had entered the Pentagon's 1st Floor going over 500 mph just 2 months earlier.

...Freeper "BKO" is indeed looking down on us all smiling ever so broadly as we fight for the FREEDOM of Others like it was our very own ...which it is.

[Alamo-Girl]

Hugs and gratitude to you! Bump!

[ALOHA RONNIE]

NEVER FORGET



.."WE WERE SOLDIERS".. Forum =


http://www.TheAlamoFILM.com/forum/viewforum.php?f=8


(Posters include Battle of IA DRANG Veterans and their families)


NEVER FORGET

[risk]

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/873619/posts
Thread posted by wepollock on the "Haiphong Effect."

[ALOHA RONNIE]

Lifetime LifeSaving Hero RICK RESCORLA =

Oh, WHY did such a Fella have to die so suddenly and unnecessarily on September 11, 2001..?



It couldn't be more plainer than this:


'CLINTON PLANNED TO USE TERRORISM TO REGAIN WHITE HOUSE'

http://www.jrnyquist.com/roberts_2003_1113.htm

[onyx]

Oh, WHY did such a Fella have to die so suddenly and unnecessarily on September 11, 2001..?

And WHY BKO also?

ILY, Ronnie, as I do all of the guys who did our generation proud.

[R. Scott]

"WE WERE SOLDIERS ONCE and YOUNG"

A truly awesome movie, possibly the best to portray the Viet Nam Experience.
I have been to The Wall only three times. On my first visit I could only close to within about fifty yards. On my second I had my late wife with me and actually made it up to the grass in front of it. On my third try we touched it and looked up some names.
A powerful place.