Obama Needs Fish-or-Cut-Bait Meeting On Iraq, Afghanistan
Sunday Gazette-Mail › July 20, 2009
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It was half a century ago, on the night of July 8, 1959, that the first two American soldiers to die in the Vietnam War were slain when guerrillas surrounded and shot up a small mess hall where half a dozen advisers were watching a movie after dinner.
Master Sgt. Chester Ovnand of Copperas Cove, Texas, and Maj. Dale Buis of Imperial Beach, Calif., would become the first two names chiseled on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial -the first of 58,261 Americans who died in Vietnam during the next 16 years.See the full content of this document
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Obama Needs Fish-or-Cut-Bait Meeting On Iraq, Afghanistan
The deaths of Ovnand and Buis went largely unnoticed at the time, simply a small beginning of what would become a huge national tragedy.
Presidents from Harry Truman to Dwight Eisenhower to John F. Kennedy to Lyndon B. Johnson to Richard M. Nixon to Gerald R. Ford made decisions - some ...See the full content of this document
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