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NEVER FORGET ..-WE WERE SOLDIERS-.. JOE GALLOWAY guests in the 1st hour of Saturday's -Judicial Watch Report Radio Show- ..with LARRY KLAYMAN -&- TOM FITTON hosting.. during the 9-10am Pacific / 12-1pm Eastern Time Slot. ..-WE WERE SOLDIERS-.. ALOHA RONNIE Guyer guests in the 2nd hour of next Monday's Weekday Edition -Judicial Watch Radio Show- with ..JANE CHASTAIN -&- RUSS VERNEY hosting.. during the 10-11am Pacific / 1-2pm Eastern Time Slot... ...after already sharing his Thumbs-Up Movie Review on a March 1st ..-WE WERE SOLDIERS-.. Opening Day Judicial Watch Program on... .. www.JudicialWatch.org .. for your listening info. NEVER FORGET

Congressional Medal of Honor recipient Ed Freeman of Boise died Wednesday morning, according to a friend of the Freeman family. He was 80 years old. -- SNIP -- As a flight leader and second in command of a 16-helicopter lift unit, he supported a heavily engaged infantry battalion at Landing Zone X-Ray in the la Drang Valley.

MISSION VIEJO — Ronnie Guyer summarized Saddleback College's new veterans' memorial when his speech at the college's campus Wednesday turned into song. "To fallen soldiers let us sing, where no rockets fly nor bullets wing. Our broken brothers let us bring to the mansions of the Lord," he said. The words come from the hymn "The Mansions of the Lord," written for the 2002 film "We Were Soldiers" and sung at the funeral of President Ronald Reagan. Guyer, who served in the Vietnam War, joined three fellow veterans at Saddleback College for a forum discussing the significance of the new...

This is the trailer for the eagerly awaited Mel Gibson epic. Didn't see it posted before. The book is excellent -- but will the film be worthy?

Brothers of Vietnam's first battle meet Mike Peters, (Bio) mpeters@greeleytribune.com July 30, 2007 Every year or so they meet, not as many of them now, because the years take a toll. But the brothers of the battle still meet, sometimes back east, or out west, and this past weekend, in Milliken, at Frank Knowski's house. These are the men of the Seventh Cavalry, the men of Vietnam, the survivors of the battle in the Ia Drang Valley, South Vietnam, 1965. It was early in that war, before some Americans back home began to hate the soldiers, before the protests and...

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Vanity?!?

The Real American Idol Why the New York Times buried Maj. Bruce Crandall's Medal of Honor on page 15. BY DANIEL HENNINGER Thursday, March 1, 2007 12:01 a.m. EST Amid the mad jumble that makes the news in our time, the White House on Monday held a ceremony for a Medal of Honor recipient. His name is Bruce Crandall. Mr. Crandall is 74 now, and earned his medal as a major, flying a Huey helicopter in 1965 in the Vietnam War. The Medal of Honor is conferred only for bravery in combat. It is a military medal, and it is...

. NEVER FORGET "WE WERE SOLDIERS" starring MEL GIBSON as my 1965 Vietnam Commanding Officer Lt. Col. HAL G. MOORE makes its Major TV Network debut this 2006 Memorial Day Sunday night: CBS - 9 pm Eastern/Pacific Time And its timing couldn*t be any better, it seems? Signed:.."ALOHA RONNIE" Guyer Veteran-"WE WERE SOLDIERS" Battle of IA DRANG-1965, Landing Zone Falcon NEVER FORGET .

Rick Rescorla helped save thousands before losing his life at World Trade Center In Susan Rescorla's eyes, the very traits that made her late husband a hero on 9/11 were forged on the battlefields of Vietnam almost 40 years ago. "He was a soldier... and a warrior," she whispered, shortly after an Al Reid portrait of Rick Rescorla, an Officer Candidate School Hall of Famer who led more than 2,700 Morgan Stanley employees to safety after terrorists crashed a plane into the World Trade Center, was unveiled Thursday at the National Infantry Museum. "He made one last sweep, as he'd...

COLUMBUS, Ga. - More than 500 people attended the unveiling of a statue honoring Rick Rescorla, the decorated Vietnam veteran who, as security chief for Morgan Stanley, led hundreds of people to safety from the World Trade Center on Sept. 11, 2001. The statue was put up Saturday at Fort Benning, in west-central Georgia, where Rescorla attended Officer Candidate School, though it was sent back to storage after the ceremony while a permanent pedestal is being built. Fort Benning's National Infantry Museum already has a portrait of the former Army Colonel. "There was never any question as where to put...

WASHINGTON, (Army News Service, Nov. 14, 2005) – More than 200 veterans of Vietnam’s battle of Pleiku-Ia Drang reunited at the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Nov. 11. This week marks the 40th anniversary of the battle of Pleiku-Ia Drang. On Nov. 6, 1965, 450 men of the 1st Battalion, 7th Cavalry, under the command of Lt. Col. Hal Moore, were dropped by helicopters in the Ia Drang Valley and were immediately surrounded by 2,000 North Vietnamese soldiers. Three days later, only two and a half miles away, a sister battalion was destroyed. Together, these two events were among the most savage...

Yes, we have their play book. Over 6 million Veterans served in Vietnam 58,000 of the names are on the black wall in D.C. Now is the time to restore the honor of the 6 million by correcting the wrongful depictions of our Vietnam Veterans. This will happen as we rally in defense of this generation of troops. Then we will go after the educrats who have perpetuated the 1971 Kerry lie. We will find all the text books that wrongfully depict our Vietnam hero's and replace them with the correct accounting of what happened. And then we will go...

TNT is showing We Were Soldiers tonight. It is the story of Hal Moore and the men he led into battle in Vietnam. I thought if appropriate to pay tribute to Julia Moore, Lt. Col. Moore's wife. There was not much national news of it, but she passed on to heaven last year. As a proud member a group of individuals known as Military Brats, I know how important the Military Wife/Mom is to the foundation of the Military Family Unit. Mrs. Moore was an outstanding example to all military wives. Below are two links- One is a post by...

This is on in the UK tomorrow night. Is it a good film to watch? I am fed up of weasting my time on inferior films.

NEVER FORGET JOHN KERRY called American Soldiers fighting for Freedom during the Vietnam War ..Terrorists. .......vs...... MEL GIBSON decided he had to do his "PASSION of the Christ" while filming "WE WERE SOLDIERS" ..our true story about we American Soldiers fighting for Freedom during the Vietnam War. * (* This per STEVE McVEETY, Producer of "The PASSION of the Christ" -&- "WE WERE SOLDIERS" ..on the PAX TV Network, February 22/24, 2004) Signed:.."ALOHA RONNIE" Guyer / Vet-"WE WERE SOLDIERS" Battle of IA DRANG-1965 NEVER FORGET

September 10, 2004 911 Remembered: Rick Rescorla was a soldier Have you seen the movie We were Soldiers? A good one, in my opinion. Given just a couple hours to tell a tale I think all in all the folks involved did a commendable job. Perhaps it's hard to go wrong, given the source material. We Were Soldiers Once, And Young is an account of the battle at Ia Drang Valley, fought in the still early phases of the war in Viet Nam. The book was written by Hal Moore, who was then a Lt Col and commander of the...

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...

CSPAN will cover the march live at 2:00 EST

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...

NEVER FORGET ...Lt. Gen. HAL G. MOORE, portrayed by MEL GIBSON in the ..'Braveheart' in 'Nam.. Motion Picture... .."WE WERE SOLDIERS".....will be a guest on Thursday's Weekday Edition of.. The Judicial Watch Radio Show .. hosted by JANE CHASTAIN -&- RUSS VERNEY. ...Lt. Gen. MOORE's interview will air in the last 1/2 hour of its 9am-11am Pacific / 12pm-2pm Eastern Time Radio Show on the USA Radio Network and online thru... .. www.JudicialWatch.org .. .."WE WERE SOLDIERS".. Message = ..."HATE WAR, LOVE THE AMERICAN WARRIOR".. Lt. Gen. HAL G. MOORE to DAN RATHER on '60 Minutes II' NEVER FORGET

Heads-up! Rick Resorla is to be profiled on NBC's DateLine. His role in Vietnam (featured as a chapter in "We Were Soldiers Once...And Young) and his life-saving role (while losing his own) in 9-11 at the WTC will be covered. Please note the URL above can be used to get to NBC's Dateline, but they seem to be behind on their own schedule, as I see no listing of Rescorla on tonight's show...but I saw Ms. Jane Pauley announce it at the end of last night's DateLine and it's listed in my local (Major) newspaper. Note Well: This episode will...

NEVER FORGET ...I sat in the row just behind DAN ALTILIO and his wife at a Special San Diego Pre-Screening of RANDALL WALLACE-MEL GIBSON's new ..'BRAVEHEART'.. in 'Nam Motion Picture Masterpiece titled : .."WE WERE SOLDIERS".. ...which is about the Heroism of my 7th Cavalry's Hero Soldiers taking care of each other to a Victory on the Battlefield in the -Valley of Death- known as the IA DRANG of November 1965... ...and of their Hero Loved Ones equally taking care of each other at Home while waiting for those young soldiers to come home to them ...or NOT. A splendid...