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Bo Zarts

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17. The A Shau Valley (Valley of the Shadow of Death) was the real deal

Reply to Duncanpup (Original post)

Sun Jan 26, 2025, 10:17 AM

Jan 26

Being an 11-Boo in the A Shau (especially at Dong Ap Bai - May 13-20, 1969) was the really real deal. But most of these MAGA "warriors" speak much too fondly of war to have ever been in the shit.

(I was lucky. I flew missions ABOVE the A Shau Valley. I was above the fray, thankfully.)

Wilfred Owen's great WW-1 anti-war poem, "Dulce et Decorum Est (Pro Patria Mori)," instructs those who do not already know from experience: It is not 'sweet and fitting to die for one's country': war is an awful and horrifying thing to experience.

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Does the trick almost all the time BOSSHOG Jan 26 #13

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Exactly my friend you nailed it. Duncanpup Jan 26 #15

hem eggscllent. i was four fed , ut had many in the millitary and have friends who served .all AllaN01Bear Jan 26 #16

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Thanks for that reference, BoZarts. erronis Jan 26 #20

Hey, anyone who purposfully jumps out of a perfectly good aircraft is elite in my book! paleotn Jan 26 #18

Nobody forces you to jump school Duncanpup Jan 26 #19

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