Up right now is another one - "I am Going to Die Well."
Four decades ago the 1st Cavalry Division departed Ft Benning, Georgia for Vietnam. There, on 14 - 16 November 1965 in the Ia Drang valley they fought the first major battle between the American Army and the People's Army of Vietnam. The battle was immortalized in the book "We were Soldiers Once.. and Young", by Lt Gen Hal Moore, the commander of US forces in the engagement, and Joe Galloway, a journalist present during the fighting. (The book was later made into the movie "We Were Soldiers".) You can read a great overview of the battle here.As Veterans' Day approaches, our thoughts focus more pointedly on all that our Heroes, past and present, do to protect our freedoms. This post is required reading - we should never forget that our ability to live in the greatest country on Earth is a gift paid for by the blood of heroes.
This weekend the veterans of that campaign will gather to observe the 40th anniversary of those days. Editor and writer Jules Crittenden (an occasional and welcome visitor here) recently profiled two of those men in the Boston Herald. But due to space constraints much of their story was left out - and as you'll see shortly the story was too powerful to remain untold. My thanks to Jules for choosing to tell that tale here. I'll offer a brief thought at the end - the rest of this is Jules' work, and the story of heroes.
And over at BigDog's Weblog is another call for John Kerry to sign his SF180 - to release his military records. It's something he promised to do after all the Swift-Boat-Vet-induced heat (including the raising of the possibility that his discharge may have been less than honorable) during his failed election campaign - and of course, he never did:
Mr. Kerry told the President that it was time to come clean. Mr. Kerry also said that our acts in Iraq have made us less safe. I might remind Mr. Kerry that we have not been attacked since 9/11 and that a great number of attacks have been thwarted. We are safer now despite the acts of a war criminal. You see, John Kerry came home from Vietnam and, while still in the Naval Reserves, protested against the war. He lied about American Atrocities and he lied about the treatment of the POWs held by our enemy. Mr. Kerry’s actions directly resulted in the torture of those very men who refused to tell the Vietnamese the lies that Kerry was spreading as truth...Kerry's accusations against our military - both during the Vietnam War and now - are a betrayal of our heroes, and in some cases, of our country. His mercurial political stands - self-serving and vitriolic - are revolting. Kerry's gone from a vehement supporter of action against Saddam Hussein's regime, to actively working to deny any progress in Iraq. And amid all of his calls that the current Administration "come clean," he should never be allowed to forget that he hasn't done so. BigDog shows you a way to help ensure that -
Strange how we still have a number of moonbats in DC telling us that Bush lied and needs to come clean with the American people yet they are ignoring the fact that JOHN KERRY LIED ON NATIONAL TV by promising to sign the 180. It is time for this anti American cretin to come clean...
And John, we do not want a deleted report of separation. We want to be able to read every word of it. If it is expurgated then it is not considered released.
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