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Posted by Buffalobob (Member # 825) on January 23, 2007, 01:26 PM:

On Mother's Day 1968, all of the men of the Recon platoon of 2/1 gave their lives on a mountian top trying to hold off the NVA from over running the Kham duc Special Forces Camp down in the valley.

We buried one of them today.

This is the story of my platoon before I took them over in 1971. They were just your average middle America kids who were drafted, but they would go wherever you asked them to go and they would fight whenever you asked them to fight and they would die whenever you asked them to die.

Skivington

Posted by Leonard (Member # 2) on January 23, 2007, 03:03 PM:

Thanks, Bob. Hard to express your feelings after reading something like that. LB

edit:Would you mind if I moved this topic to the Member's Forum?

[ January 23, 2007, 03:05 PM: Message edited by: Leonard ]

Posted by Buffalobob (Member # 825) on January 23, 2007, 04:30 PM:

Leonard

That would be fine

Jim

Posted by JD (Member # 768) on January 23, 2007, 05:22 PM:

Wow! Like leonard, I don`t quite have words to express myself.

All of you guys are heroes.

Welcome home Skip.

Posted by Andy L (Member # 642) on January 23, 2007, 08:33 PM:

Dont know what to say.

God Bless.

Posted by 2dogs (Member # 649) on January 24, 2007, 04:58 AM:

Buffalobob,

All hero's IMB. Glad some made it back home. Thank you, & them for your service & sacrifices.

Two of my Bro's went through hell over there. Seen their bud's get killed. Wasn't their time, they both made it home.

Posted by Crow Woman (Member # 157) on January 24, 2007, 06:44 AM:

wow... speechless... lost for words other than "Thank You" for the story and all of You!

Posted by 2dogs (Member # 649) on January 24, 2007, 04:53 PM:

Buffalobob,

Spoke with my Bro 1dog. He told me the following;

173rd Airborne Brigade
D-Delta CO.
3rd Bat
503 Inf.

Served In VietNam 70-71

[Long Range Recon Patrol]
12 man team, 6-man recon squad
Mission length-2wks generally. Longest mission 63 days.

Out of Bro's origional Recon Team of 12. Sargeant Stewart & my Bro. Were the only ones that were not casualities. They had many replacements.

Posted by Buffalobob (Member # 825) on January 25, 2007, 05:45 AM:

quote:
Out of Bro's origional Recon Team of 12. Sargeant Stewart & my Bro. Were the only ones that were not casualities.

Thats the way it was.

Posted by RagnCajn (Member # 879) on January 25, 2007, 06:30 PM:

I bow my head in Honor of your friend and all those that gave the ultimate sacrifice. Thanks for posting this. And thank you sir for your service to our country. RC

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