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01-31-12, 05:21 AM #1
Hue City
Today marks the beginning of the Battle of Hue City I spent the next 40 + days there in battle. So many brother warriors were lost and wounded. Lord Rest our Brother Warriors.
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01-31-12, 07:53 AM #2
Good morning Doug - 40 days in that hell hole, damn. My battalion was not sent into Hue until around the 14th of Feb. Boo Coo scuttlebutt about how the 2/5 was being chewed up and all the casualties they were taking. I hadn't even been in country for 30 days when we went into Hue.
The 2/5 took the south side of the river and we went in on the north side, tasked with taking the citadel, initially we went up against the east wall. A ball-buster and a half. When it was over we ended up taking 50% casualties, some of our units losing 75%. We had cooks and pog's on the line, not enough people. The rain, overcast skies, freezing at night, the smells and the flies from corps rotting for weeks.
I came out of Hue changed forever, I had become a part of the mean green killing machine. I had become a Marine.
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01-31-12, 08:30 AM #3
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01-31-12, 10:31 AM #4
I was also in Hue with 1/5 2nd. plt. charlie co. and yes Hue changed me forever
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