Posted on 04/04/2006 7:36:13 AM PDT by T-Bird45
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..NEVER ever FORGET.. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1UcJo7dxOOU
..RICK RESCORLA.. http://rickrescorla.com
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Just finished re-reading “We Were Soldiers Once ... and Young” yesterday.
Advise everyone to read it carefully at least once. The first time for the accounts of the steadfast courage displayed by the regular army officers and by the young draftees, many of whom were mere weeks away from their release dates.
The second time paying attention to the political policies of LBJ and McNamara prior and subsequent to this Ia Drang valley action. The policies that were from the outset designed for failure. Micro management of the war for parochial political gain by the man whose ‘Great Society’ legacy costs are still being paid today. May those men burn in hell forever.
Bless you for keeping the light of remembrance alive through your site. I salute you and your comrades in arms.
Just finished re-reading “We Were Soldiers Once ... and Young” yesterday
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Excellent read and the movie is pretty decent also.
Another from that era you would probably enjoy is “A Bright Shining Lie”, Neil Sheehan about John Paul Vann, LTCOL who quit the Army and came back as USAID ‘fighter’.
Several works inre the USS Liberty fiasco show what buttheads Johnson/McNamara really were when it came to micro managing.
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