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Vindicating our veterans: After decades of defamation, caricature, and disregard, we were Soldiers pays homage to America's Vietnam warriors for their heroism and sacrifice. (Cover Story: Vietnam).
It was known as the Valley of Death: the Ia Drang Valley, in the Central Highlands of South Vietnam. On November 14, 1965, some 450 men of the 1st Battalion, 7th Air Cavalry Regiment rode into that valley -- and into one of the bloodiest battles of the Vietnam War. While most Americans went about their daily business oblivious to the savage struggle unfolding that Sunday morning 12,000 miles away, the "Sky Soldiers" of the 7th Cavalry were locked in mortal combat with more than 2,000 regulars from the People's Army of Vietnam (PAVN). The ferocious ordeal raged for two days and nights and ranged from hand-to-hand fighting with bayonets and rifle butts to massive artillery, ...
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