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Veterans

HAB911

(9,389 posts) Fri Aug 18, 2017, 08:14 AM Aug 2017

Today in 1965

US troops go into combat for the first time in Vietnam. Operation Starlight leaves 51 Marines dead.

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Today in 1965 (Original Post) HAB911 Aug 2017 OP

Rest in peace, brothers... ADX Aug 2017 #1

And we planted the flag on Mt. Wai-Tu-Hai, Aristus Aug 2017 #2

The Red Menace, The Domino Effect, Containment. Nitram Aug 2017 #4

Fancy names for "We haven't had a war in a while, Aristus Aug 2017 #5

Rest In Peace Marines. DashOneBravo Aug 2017 #3

ADX

(1,622 posts)

1. Rest in peace, brothers...

Reply to HAB911 (Original post)

Fri Aug 18, 2017, 08:16 AM

Aug 2017

...Semper Fidelis.

Aristus

(68,721 posts)

2. And we planted the flag on Mt. Wai-Tu-Hai,

Reply to HAB911 (Original post)

Fri Aug 18, 2017, 09:30 AM

Aug 2017

and got revenge on the Vietnamese for bombing Pearl Harbor.

Wait...why were we there again?...

Nitram

(24,780 posts)

4. The Red Menace, The Domino Effect, Containment.

Reply to Aristus (Reply #2)

Fri Aug 18, 2017, 12:56 PM

Aug 2017

Aristus

(68,721 posts)

5. Fancy names for "We haven't had a war in a while,

Reply to Nitram (Reply #4)

Fri Aug 18, 2017, 01:21 PM

Aug 2017

and the defense industry shareholders are getting nervous..."

I'm still waiting in terror for the Vietnamese to swim 13,000 miles across the Pacific and make us all Communists...

DashOneBravo

(2,679 posts)

3. Rest In Peace Marines.

Reply to HAB911 (Original post)

Fri Aug 18, 2017, 10:23 AM

Aug 2017

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