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Nope. Not at all. I didn't leave enough good clues to intrigue folks and a good thread was fading from disinterest. Time to give it up. Shamus had flipped me one so I'm flipping it back.
IIRC a union and a confederate regiment suffered the highest single-day casualties both at Gettysburg. Supposedly 7th Cav exceeded that at Ia Drang, to include the LZ Albany ambush.
I met Lt. Col Marm at Benning in February, 1986. He was a training battalion commander. I remember feeling a bit sad for some reason, not knowing how his career had laid out to culminate in that way. Very unfairly, I expected more somehow.
The battle stupifies me with it's intensity. I first learned of it as a youngster in a book called Seven Firefights in Vietnam. This is an excellent website by Harold Moore/Joe Galloway-
L.Z. X-RAY
Nope. Not at all. I didn't leave enough good clues to intrigue folks and a good thread was fading from disinterest. Time to give it up. Shamus had flipped me one so I'm flipping it back.
IIRC a union and a confederate regiment suffered the highest single-day casualties both at Gettysburg. Supposedly 7th Cav exceeded that at Ia Drang, to include the LZ Albany ambush.
I met Lt. Col Marm at Benning in February, 1986. He was a training battalion commander. I remember feeling a bit sad for some reason, not knowing how his career had laid out to culminate in that way. Very unfairly, I expected more somehow.
The battle stupifies me with it's intensity. I first learned of it as a youngster in a book called Seven Firefights in Vietnam. This is an excellent website by Harold Moore/Joe Galloway-
L.Z. X-RAY
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