Went with the golden way of ridding oneself of ulcer pain and drinking it into oblivion – unfortuantely it only works whilst you’re drunk. When you wake up the next morning feeling worse than ever. Visit to the GP this week then.
You must read this great article. It’s a article about photgrapher Joe Galloway whose reporting, together with Lt. General Hal Moore, became the film We Were Soldiers. The battle at LZ X-Ray was the turning point of the war when the Americans first understood the extent of the battle they had joined. 400 US Air Cavalry troops where surrounded and nearly overrun by three NVA regiments. The resulting battle cost 305 American lives – one of the heaviest losses ever sustained by a single American regiment in addition to the lives of 3,500 North Vietnamese troops. It’s a great article and well worth a read. It is an incredible story because it is a microcosm of the whole Vietnam experience from a perspective of what went on, why the Americans lost, and the sheer bloody horror of the conflict.
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