Useless Battles Cost Many Lives-Civil War

[Rsmyth]

Herb, thank you for your service. We just got power today (Thursday) at 4:00 pm. I spent the last few days at the local fire house where they had power. I brought a few books with me. One was " We Were Soldiers Once...and Young." This was the first major battle of Viet Nam. There were no winners and the 7th Calvary was devastated. Some of the soldiers were just 17 years old. if everyone read this book there would be a lot less fighting. I joined at 18 in 1968 for 4 years. I knew people my age that never came back; Little League teammate, high school buddy including the football team star quarterback. My wife's childhood friend's older brother came to visit her class in his dress uniform. He promised to write the class letters from over there. He died in combat. I don't see the purpose any more.