RVN: A FINAL TALE/ PART 1

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Yet another incredibly tense and well-worded story.
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i woke last night to the sound of thunder
how far off i sat and wondered
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Thank you Samb1955. Glad you found them interesting.
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Holy Moly QS!!!
This is one of the most famous "Extraction" battles from Nam. And you led it! Sure is a small world. Thank you for you service, thank God for the Spookies, and HIM for protecting and watching over you and all the men.
Edit: Thank you Jerry for correcting me! It is one of the ones I remember best from my war studies. Top and front of my Fibro Foggy mind because I just watched a movie on air power from WWI, WWII, Korea, Nam, ect. Sorry about that fellers! I hope and ask for forgiveness if I offended any of you. I salute you all and God for your service, which has allowed me to grow up in the freest nation (Nations) the world has ever seen.
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? Willy, PM sent.
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WillyCamaro wrote:Holy Moly QS!!!
This is literally the most famous battle from Nam. And you led it! Sure is a small world. Thank you for you service, thank God for the Spookies, and HIM protecting and watching over you and all the men.
Not to take anything away from Garry's story but you've never heard of the Battle of Ia Drang, Battle for Hue, Battle of Khe Sanh, The Tet Offensive, Operation Rolling Thunder or the Battle of Hamburger Hill? For those with boots on ground, I can only guess that every battle they participated in was important to those involved.
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....great, riveting stories!!!!............ ::tu:: ::tu:: ::tu:: ..............
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Incredible story QS.
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QS,
Thanks for sharing your experiences with total strangers here.
I enjoy reading your stories. Perhaps they will make it into book form some day. I would love to have a copy.

Thanks again for your service.
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Thank you all for your favorable reception of these experiences. Greatly appreciated, more so than you can know.
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Spooky saved our Bacon a few times. Q.S. I know you can relate, I have some ARVN weapons for sale.Never fired and only Droped one time. :roll:
C/2/505PIR 11B4P 68-69 (RVN)
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Airborne 1 wrote:I have some ARVN weapons for sale.Never fired and only Droped one time
Airborne 1, kindly help my misfiring brain. This means....? [In the late afternoon my synapses often fail to snap.]
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Their hearts weren't in it, they would "spook" easy.
C/2/505PIR 11B4P 68-69 (RVN)
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Got it. And generally true. Saw some examples of that. There were some exceptions of course; saw that too.
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