#khe sahn

[frekless]

Me: I’m really not a fan of Jimmy Barnes/Cold Chisel.

Music Reviwer listening to Khe Sahn: *doesn’t understand*

Me absolutely offended: you DISRESPECT Jimmy Barnes? You not understand meaning of song?! oh! oh! jail for reviewer! Jail for reviewer for One Thousand Years!!!!!

[ebscospring]

Who Do You See?

Who Do You See?

You finally get past the car that had been holding up traffic, driving 30 mph in a 40 mph zone.  As you race past what do you see?  Do you see the old man, hunched forward, straining to see with arthritic fingers gripping the wheel with a death grip or do you see the former First Sergeant from the 1st Marine Division that landed on Red Beach at Inchon Korea on September 15, 1950, that spent 2…

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Cavalrymen of Company C, 2nd Battalion, 5th Cavalry Regiment pose for a photo mocking their Marine counterparts during the operation to relieve the besieged garrison at Khe Sahn.

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Pfc. Juan Fordona of Puerto Rico, a First Cavalry Division trooper, shakes hands with U.S. Marine Cpl. James Hellebuick over barbed wire at the perimeter of the Marine base at Khe Sanh, South Vietnam, early April 1968. The meeting marked the first overland link-up between troops of the 1st Cavalry and the encircled Marine garrison at Khe Sahn.

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An American C-123 cargo plane burns after being hit by NVA mortars while taxiing on the Marine post at Khe Sanh, South Vietnam on March 1, 1968.

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A veteran I worked with claims this sign actually existed in varying forms throughout Khe Sahn’s life.

[sylethom]

That moment when Khe Sahn comes on and I drop everything just to sing a long with it!

[juzzypotter]

You know the last plane out of Sydney's almost gone?

-Khe Sahn, Cold Chisel