veritas
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Not sure what you guys read...But if there ever comes a time when you wish to get a true understanding of what it was like for the Soldiers who fought and died in Vietnam...I just finished reading the book, "We Were Soldiers Once...And Young" and this book was truly amazing.
This book accounts the very first major battle between NVA and Americans in 1965in the Ir Drang Valley at Landing Zone X-Ray, and later, what some consider the bloodiest day in Vietnam's history 2 days after at Landing Zone Albany.
If you saw the film, which I loved, it only told the first half of the book - X-Ray - the second half was about the second battle - Albany.
Some parts were very difficult to read, and obviously war isn't evident to u unless you've been there or seen it. I haven't, and hope to god, when i have children, that they never see it either. What these boys went through was unnerving at times.
Anyway, I cannot serve the book justice by explaining it here, just go buy it, read it, and you'll understand a little clearer. When someone calls it "The Vietnam Conflict", be quick to correct them...It was a war plain and simple, a cold, bloody, at times mindless war, and these soldiers...these Heros walked into it heads up. Some made it home...some never did...
This book accounts the very first major battle between NVA and Americans in 1965in the Ir Drang Valley at Landing Zone X-Ray, and later, what some consider the bloodiest day in Vietnam's history 2 days after at Landing Zone Albany.
If you saw the film, which I loved, it only told the first half of the book - X-Ray - the second half was about the second battle - Albany.
Some parts were very difficult to read, and obviously war isn't evident to u unless you've been there or seen it. I haven't, and hope to god, when i have children, that they never see it either. What these boys went through was unnerving at times.
Anyway, I cannot serve the book justice by explaining it here, just go buy it, read it, and you'll understand a little clearer. When someone calls it "The Vietnam Conflict", be quick to correct them...It was a war plain and simple, a cold, bloody, at times mindless war, and these soldiers...these Heros walked into it heads up. Some made it home...some never did...
