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Viet Cong attack Special Forces at Nam Dong - Jul 06, 1964 - HISTORY.com
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At Nam Dong in the northern highlands of South Vietnam, an estimated 500-man Viet Cong battalion attacks an American Special Forces outpost. During a bitter battle, Capt. Roger C. Donlon, commander of the Special Forces A-Team, rallied his troops, treated the wounded, and directed defenses although he himself was wounded several times. After five hours of fighting, the Viet Cong withdrew. The battle resulted in an estimated 40 Viet Cong killed; two Americans, 1 Australian military adviser, and 57 South Vietnamese defenders also lost their lives. At a White House ceremony in December 1964, President Lyndon B. Johnson presented Captain Donlon with the first Medal of Honor of the Vietnam War.
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Viet Cong attack Special Forces at Nam Dong - Jul 06, 1964 - HISTORY.com
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I am truly in awe of Vietnam Veterans. I can't imagine the hell those guys endured on such a consistent basis.
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PO3 Bob McCord - Bob, I was afforded the opportunity to go down to Saigon in '66, by the Red Cross, so I could use the 'MARS' phone and speak to my wife after a complicated delivery of my son. It was nice, but I would of almost wished that it didn't happen. It was even more difficult afterwards to go back to base camp, and pick-up where I left off. We only had a few minutes to speak, and I couldn't tell her about the friends I had lost just a few days earlier, or how it was when I heard and felt the first rounds of an AK passing so close to my head that I didn't need a haircut afterwards, or the more unspeakable horrors of combat that we didn't even talk to each other about! It was especially difficult to hear my newborn son in the background, to think what it would be like to hold him, and her again; and still maintain some type of composure in front of all the guys waiting behind me, so they could call home! But.......that was Nam, eh? And I don't think it was that different for other G.I.'s, in different times and different wars; with the thought that we all tried very hard to push out of our heads of dying so far from home, in a foreign country. Afterall, we were soldiers, and those are things that all soldiers think of, or experience, during war. But you are right! This was the first war that was conducted in front the family during the 6:00 news. I think that's when I began to hate the networks for using us, our families, and the war, for political reasons.
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Now that is what you call a rough day at the Office. Horrendous Battle. Bloody Meatgrinder.
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SP5 Mark Kuzinski I was fortunate to meet COL Donlon at a Veteran's Day Parade in Palm Springs, CA in 2003? I am sorry to now understand he now has an affliction!
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SP5 Mark Kuzinski
Good morning CSM Charles Hayden - sorry to hear the bad news about COL Donlon but thanks for the update.
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