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RP Members, Connections, and Friends of our Military Men and Women and Veterans and their Families,

This is the 50th Commemorative Year since America's Longest and Most Controversial War -----The US Helicopter War in Vietnam. I am proud to announce that the Charleston SC Chapter of the US Army (AUSA) is a member of The United States of America Vietnam War Commemoration Commemorative Partner Program.

FOR MORE INFORMATION: Go to HTTPS://WWW.VIETNAMWAR50TH.COM/COMMEMORATIVE_PARTNERS/COMMEMORATIVE_PARTNER_PROGRAM/

With over two thirds of all Vietnam veterans now deceased, now is the time to think about all who gave some and some who gave all in Vietnam. With US casualties including over 58,200 killed, over 390 thousand wounded, 2,646 missing in action (MIA), over 10,00 amputees, and over 5,000 helicopters totally destroyed in Vietnam, this is a good time to remember and thank those who fought, died, and sacrificed so much for us and our great nation.

This striking and provocative definition of US Army (and US Marine Corps) Infantry in Vietnam shown below is also in Chapter 10 of the award winning, military history, and action novel BLADES OF THUNDER (Book One). The book is about the US Helicopter War in Vietnam in 1968 and 1969, which were the two bloodiest years of America's longest and most controversial war ------ with over 30,000 US military men and women killed in those two years alone. Not only were US infantry rates of death and injury high, but our infantryman also suffered great misery in the heat (and cold), rain, mud, stinging insects, leaches, poisonous snakes, treacherous and exhausting jungle and mountain terrain, and hazardous materials like Agent Orange in Vietnam. The trauma of this terrible war remains a serious health threat to veterans and their families.

Definition of US Army and Marine Corps Infantry in Vietnam!

Enlisting, training, and learning. Deploying, landing, and assigning. Training, reconing, and patrolling. Sweating, hoping, wishing, and praying; planning, coordinating, following, and leading. Running and waiting. Flying, fearing, missing, taking, and retaking. Anticipating; shaking, locking, and loading. Jumping, assaulting, shooting, taking, and retaking.

Crawling, sweating, listening, scratching, sneaking, taking and retaking. Searching, attacking, bayoneting, taking, and retaking. Resting, recuperating, firing, throwing, suffocating, slogging, mortaring, cursing, and swimming. Fainting, fumbling, cutting, and sliding. Climbing, observing, carrying, shelling, and loving. Crying, infiltrating, slogging, ambushing, searching, and destroying. Y yearning, coughing, craving, taking, and retaking.
Complaining, begging, blasting, smoking, resupplying, and fighting; falling, swearing, drinking, directing, and blasting. Digging, building, grieving, praying, yelling, taking, and retaking. Inserting, bleeding, reckoning, blessing, toking, and extracting. Thanking, humping, wailing, winning, losing, taking, and retaking.

Vomiting, securing, slapping, pulling, observing, releasing, tapping, and shooting. Dragging, lacking, lobbing, loathing, hating, and Vietnamizing. Foaming, frothing, fortifying, fumbling, taking and retaking. Evacuating, extracting, excruciating, advancing, and retreating. Wading, wobbling, wanting, washing, and never drying. Voiding, vomiting, mourning, exhilarating, and suppressing. Surprising, confusing, drenching, taking, and retaking.
Digging, dogging, remembering, and forgetting. Breathing, blowing, surviving, taking, and retaking. Chilling, falling, peeing, day dreaming, binging, breaking, taking, and retaking. Worrying, wounding, hurting, and dying. Bloating, stinking, bagging, and draping. Wailing, sobbing, saluting, honoring, folding, and presenting; and burying, suffering, mourning, and grieving!

By LTC Wayne Dandridge Rally Point Member, Volunteer VP for Veteran and Retiree Affairs with the Charleston, SC Chapter of AUSA, Volunteer Patient Advisor at the RHJ VA Med Center, and Author of BLADES OF THUNDER (Book One), Tigers, Vikings, and Vipers Publishing LLC, [login to see] , Office [login to see] , Cell [login to see]

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COMMEMORATIVE PARTNER PROGRAM AT HTTPS://WWW.VIETNAMWAR50TH.COM/COMMEMORATIVE_PARTNERS/COMMEMORATIVE_PARTNER_PROGRAM/