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Elation
After the Ghost Patrol of 25Feb1968, no larger units sortied outside Khe Sanh combat base for almost a month. We sent out some listening posts but those were small and they went out after dark and...
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Requiem
Steve Wiese was an American Hero. I think he would dispute that statement and would have said something like, “The real heroes are the dead, the ones who didn’t come home.” But he was a hero. Unlike...
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The Need to See Them Dead
Fifty-two years ago this morning on the battlefield of Khe Sanh, Vietnam, Bravo Company, 1/26 burst out of the confines of siege and siege mentality and went on the attack. The details of what is now...
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Remembering The Dead of World War One
Cobb Hammond, a supporter and good friend of BRAVO!, writes eloquently about World War One. As our nation approaches its annual remembrance of our fallen in battle, we turn to memorialize the men of...
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Remember the Mayaguez
Forty-four years ago this week the SS Mayaguez, a US merchant ship, was captured by the Khmer Rouge on the coast of Cambodia (Kampuchea.) President Gerald Ford decided that an emphatic response was...
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HAMBURGER HILL (MEMORIAL DAY 2019)
Guest blogger Cobb Hammond’s article on the savage battle fought in May, 1969, originally published in the MEMPHIS COMMERCIAL APPEAL on May 24, 2019. As Americans this weekend memorialize the...
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Vieil Ami
Guest Blogger and BRAVO! Marine Michael E. O’Hara muses on the passage of time, war, the film and comrades in this blog for Veterans Day, 2019. Fall 2019 Vieil Ami When I first arrived in a place that...
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The Beginning
Fifty-two years ago this morning, the Siege of Khe Sanh began with a bang when the NVA hit one of the base’s ammo dumps and the world seemed, for that morning at least, to erupt into a volcano of...
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Give Them The Bayonet
52 years ago today I awoke and realized that the end of my life could come at any moment. Before, even though Khe Sanh had been under siege for 20-plus days, I’d been quite optimistic that all would...
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The Power of Story
Most of us have experienced the power of storytelling. We remember, catalogue, and relate our lives through story. In the making, sharing, and viewing of BRAVO! COMMON MEN, UNCOMMON VALOR, we all...
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No Better Friend
The phone jangled—1992 or 1993—and when I answered it, a voice out of my past said, “Is this Kenny Rodgers?” I wondered who it was and then kind of remembered and then he said, “You may not remember...
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Vieil Ami
Guest Blogger and BRAVO! Marine Michael E. O’Hara muses on the passage of time, war, the film and comrades in this blog for Veterans Day, 2019. Fall 2019 Vieil Ami When I first arrived in a place that...
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The Beginning
Fifty-two years ago this morning, the Siege of Khe Sanh began with a bang when the NVA hit one of the base’s ammo dumps and the world seemed, for that morning at least, to erupt into a volcano of...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Give Them The Bayonet
52 years ago today I awoke and realized that the end of my life could come at any moment. Before, even though Khe Sanh had been under siege for 20-plus days, I’d been quite optimistic that all would...
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Grief
52 years ago today, one of the most significant events in my memory of Khe Sanh’s siege occurred in what has now become known as the Ghost Patrol. When Marines and Corpsmen from Third Platoon of Bravo...
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Elation
After the Ghost Patrol of 25Feb1968, no larger units sortied outside Khe Sanh combat base for almost a month. We sent out some listening posts but those were small and they went out after dark and...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Requiem
Steve Wiese was an American Hero. I think he would dispute that statement and would have said something like, “The real heroes are the dead, the ones who didn’t come home.” But he was a hero. Unlike...
View ArticleClik here to view.
The Need to See Them Dead
Fifty-two years ago this morning on the battlefield of Khe Sanh, Vietnam, Bravo Company, 1/26 burst out of the confines of siege and siege mentality and went on the attack. The details of what is now...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Remembering The Dead of World War One
Cobb Hammond, a supporter and good friend of BRAVO!, writes eloquently about World War One. As our nation approaches its annual remembrance of our fallen in battle, we turn to memorialize the men of...
View ArticleClik here to view.
The Power of Story
Most of us have experienced the power of storytelling. We remember, catalogue, and relate our lives through story. In the making, sharing, and viewing of BRAVO! COMMON MEN, UNCOMMON VALOR, we all...
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