uncut: we were soliders
Added 2024-06-24 04:08:27 +0000 UTC
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Great Movie! I love your hair like that for something different; your hair always looks great. Mel Gibson is always great. The Patriot (2000), Ransom (1996), Signs (2002), and Conspiracy Theory (1997) are all Mel Gibson movies that I don't think you have seen but are worth watching.
Eddie Perkins
2024-06-26 16:11:56 +0000 UTCHere's some things people didn't know. 1. Lieutenant General Hal Moore went back to Vietnam several times after the war had ended and eventually met his Ia Drang counterpart, then Lieutenant Colonel Nguyễn Hữu An. They met in 1991 and became friends until Nguyễn's death in 1995. Neither one held any ill will towards the other because of the war. 2. Hal Moore's wife actually accompanied the cab drivers to deliver the unfortunate news of the soldiers deaths to their spouses. She would be there for the funerals of all the fallen soldiers and would be the one to make the Pentagon change how families would be notified of a loved one's passing. Now it's a chaplain with a uniformed servicemember. 3. Though the draft for Vietnam did begin in 1964, it didn't kick into high gear until 1966-1969. Most of the soldiers under Hal Moore's command, including Jimmy Nakayama, were men who enlisted of their own accord. I only know of this because I had the honor of meeting LTG. Moore in 2015, 2 years before he died. The one thing he talked about his men and how he was proud of every one of them. He was a true leader that I wished many others in the US Military would follow by example. To those who fell on both sides, may you be at peace. Great reaction Mary.
Blaze118
2024-06-26 00:46:19 +0000 UTC
