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I thought I'd post a link here about Lt. Gen. Hal G. Moore, who died a few days ago, since he was the commander of US forces during the Battle of the Ia Drang Valley (only a Lt. Col. at the time). It's always quite sad, for me, whenever a soldier who participated in a historical battle passes away, because with them goes that bit of history that lived with them. But as long as we remember Ia Drang--the first major battle between US military forces and their North Vietnamese counterparts, fought in dense elephant grass--and the subsequent fighting at landing zones Albany and X-Ray, as US troops fought desperately to evacuate their wounded, then their stories and their legacies will live on.
It's probably really odd to think that 50 years after the Battle of Ia Drang ended, there's a small group of people still reenacting it (in a sense), and keeping that memory alive. RIP Hal G. Moore. We will remember you!
I thought I'd post a link here about Lt. Gen. Hal G. Moore, who died a few days ago, since he was the commander of US forces during the Battle of the Ia Drang Valley (only a Lt. Col. at the time). It's always quite sad, for me, whenever a soldier who participated in a historical battle passes away, because with them goes that bit of history that lived with them. But as long as we remember Ia Drang--the first major battle between US military forces and their North Vietnamese counterparts, fought in dense elephant grass--and the subsequent fighting at landing zones Albany and X-Ray, as US troops fought desperately to evacuate their wounded, then their stories and their legacies will live on.
It's probably really odd to think that 50 years after the Battle of Ia Drang ended, there's a small group of people still reenacting it (in a sense), and keeping that memory alive. RIP Hal G. Moore. We will remember you!
