Originally Posted By: DougT
I dont' agree Todd.
I'm happy to have read this story here. I"ve never seen the email version (though I also don't get offers for $10.5M from Tongan expeditors!).

If we have any kind of oral history left to us, those stories now live as electrons, and deserve to be trotted out.



+ 1 million!

He earned the medal in the battle of Ia Drang in November 1965. He deserves any and all attention for his selfless act. The estimated NVA and Vet Cong losses were a staggering 1519 killed with US and South Vietnamese sustaining 234 killed/242 wounded. The book We Were Soldiers Once… And Young by Harold G. Moore is a very good book. The movie We Were Soldiers with Mel Gibson is also worth watching.