Just watched the movie “We Were Soldiers” again. Check out this post: http://www.galago.net/blog/travel/god-bless-ed-freeman Panel 3, East, at the Vietnam War Memorial has the names of the soldiers that died at LZ XRay in Ia Drang Valley.
Imagine you’re a 19-year old kid. You’re critically wounded, and dying in the jungle in the La Drang Valley, Vietnam. Your infantry unit is outnumbered 8–1, and the enemy fire is so intense, from 100 or 200 yards away, that your own Infantry Commander has ordered the MedEvac helicopters to stop coming in. You’re lying [...]