'We Were Soldiers'

Watched it yesterday. Interesting to see a film with Mel Gibson amid his personal meltdown. I always admired Gibson in this one. I think it's when he tried to become American. Wikipedia's got a good page on the history, "Battle of la Drang." I also love Madeleine Stowe in this film, and I miss her in more recent movies. A truly classy woman:

July 2, 1969 - The Flight to Nha Trang

Check this post from Pat Houseworth, "July 2, 1969 .... The Flight to Nha Trang:

I spent the night of July 2, 1969, in the Transit Barrack at Tan Son Nhut on the outskirts of Saigon...as I mentioned, the sounds and the anticipation left me with little sleep, and the events of early the next day are pretty cloudy 40 years hence. What I do rememberr is that I walked on to that concrete runway at TSN, and got on board a Military Plane for the first time...I had been a member of the Air Force for a year by this time, but had never flown in a Air Force aircraft...all my flights had been civilian to this point ...

Head on over to Pat's to read the whole thing!