Big & Rich - 8th Of November (Video)

SGT Robert Pryor Thanks for listening and tagging the others.

Maj William W. 'Bill' Price - I "silently" tagged far more than your could see. That you are looking at is the last four names on my lists because I try to tag 18 at a time, in keeping with the RP limit of 20. When I get to the end of my contacts there is a short list. I silently tagged everyone on my Vietnam Veterans connect list plus my other connects that have previously expressed interest in the Vietnam War. I am forced to use silent tags to keep the Jell-O sheriff on admin from coming after me the way he did SPC Randy Zimmerman on a previous tribute to our fallen. There is one member of admin that has shown me nothing but contempt for the fallen. Had I tagged him on your important post, he may well have been over here trying to sully your share, just as he has others.

PVT T C - Thank you for your kind words. I just wanted to throw my two cents in the kitty.

PVT T C - Nice Kitty.

Thanks for stopping by SFC Chuck Martinez. God bless you.

Amen sir, the past will never be forgotten until we are laid down to RIP!

SFC Chuck Martinez Nor should we. On Memorial Day, I drink a toast to a former roommate and brother that was KIA in APR 69. This Wednesday is Veterans Day. I will toast to the memory of all my SF brothers who gave all, the 23 who went over with me and never came home.

Amen Felipe, I know that it has been a long time but I just can't forget about my brothers-in-arms who were KIA and severely wounded in those miserable jungles , swamps, and rubber plantations. In March 1966, My platoon was given a mission to go to the battle site north of the white mansion in the Michelin to recover the bodies of 5 US army special forces advisors to the 7th Vietnamese ranger regiment that took place on the 27th of November in 1965. That was almost three months later and we did not have any idea what we were going to find. That area was crawling with VC and NVA units and we were somewhat worried about going there with just a platoon size element. We took off about 0700hrs and by and by 0900hrs it was already about 100 degrees. The recorded death toll in the briefing of the massive ambush was about 500 Vietnamese soldiers and our five special forces brothers. We had several newbies in our platoon that were not climatized to the Nam heat. We warned them about water rationing but they were not used that that type heat. We reached our objective about 1100 hrs. and what we found what was a massive human skeletal remains of the 500 soldiers plus the 5 US SF soldiers. It was impossible to ID anybody as we walked through the massive kill zone. Some had bullet holes in the skull most likely shot by the VC and NVA. We started to get sniper fire, the LT called in the Sidrep to the Bat Cdr. and we started our force march back to the our base camp. The march back was slow due to the lack of water. We asked for support but the choppers were busy in support of other units engaged with VC units. We finally made it back to the field hospital to find six of our soldiers who were KIA lined up outside and some wounded waiting to be medevacked. Some of our patrol members were also treated for heat exhaustion.