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To: river rat
We couldn’t communicate well with the “yards”....but most of them were more reliable in a fight than some of the ARVN assignees to I Corps.

What, you don't speak Bru or Rhade?

39 posted on 02/14/2008 9:01:20 AM PST by archy (Et Thybrim multo spumantem sanguine cerno. [from Virgil's *Aeneid*.])
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To: archy

You have an excellent memory — I envy that!

Yes, Bru was a dominant ethnic group, but not the only one we worked with - but I’m too damned old to remember..
Something like the Van Kew or Dan Ku?

The last I heard of the clans from our old region, is those who weren’t annihilated after we left — fought on and evaded the Communists for DECADES before crossing into THAILAND seeking refuge....

I’ll never forget or forgive our betrayal of those gentle and loyal anti Communists.... I remember my shock at learning a significant minority of folks living in Quang Tri were Catholics. They were subjected to “special” treatment after we abandoned the country..

Those who escaped alive — came with their weapons...
That should be an object lesson to the “gun control” maniacs...


47 posted on 02/14/2008 6:21:53 PM PST by river rat (Semper Fi - You may turn the other cheek, but I prefer to look into my enemy's vacant dead eyes.)
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