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2007-02-21 Home Front: WoT

Belated MoH for "We Were Soldiers" Helicopter Pilot

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Posted by Dar 2007-02-21 00:00|| || Front Page|| [5 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 good movie, too.

Posted by Frank G">Frank G 2007-02-21 12:50|| 2007-02-21 12:50|| Front Page Top

#2 Damn good movie.

Posted by John Frum 2007-02-21 13:14|| 2007-02-21 13:14|| Front Page Top

#3 Outstanding song: "in the houses of the lord" at the end of the movie.

Posted by JFM">JFM 2007-02-21 14:15|| 2007-02-21 14:15|| Front Page Top

#4 For me, the best song in the movie was "Sgt. McKenzie", a lament, played during the climatic battle scene, which illustrated the tragedy and glory of war at the same time. A music video of this piece is here.
I read the book "We Were Soldiers" before the movie came out & thus didn't want to see it. Then I learned a cousin of mine was in the 1st Air Cav when he was shot down & KIA in 1970. I saw the movie & visited the Wall shortly after that. I met a lot of chopper crew vets there. Chivalry lives!

Posted by Anguper Hupomosing9418 2007-02-21 14:34|| 2007-02-21 14:34|| Front Page Top

#5 Great movie. The dude flew a full (hard-core!) day, went home and blew chunks.

Yup. Realistic.

Posted by mojo">mojo 2007-02-21 14:34|| 2007-02-21 14:34|| Front Page Top

#6 One thing about the movie: choice of the landing site wasn't haphazard as portrayed; in reality, use of high ground advantage was planned as means to inhibit flanking. VC/NVA had to re-think use of the human-wave envelopment tactic, after their defeat.

Joe Galloway writes on the Medal of Honor award:
http://www.realcities.com/mld/krwashington/news/special_packages/galloway/16715229.htm

Posted by Sneaze 2007-02-21 15:11|| 2007-02-21 15:11|| Front Page Top

#7 I read the book after seeing the movie. What's interesting that after that battle, there was another one the next day about a half mile away that was just as bloody.

Posted by Texhooey 2007-02-21 16:12|| 2007-02-21 16:12|| Front Page Top

#8 The soldier pictured on the Ia Drang battlefield on the cover of the first edition of We Were Soldiers Once....and Young is none other than Lt. (later Colonel) Rick Rescorla, who lost his life while leading evacuation efforts at the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001.

Posted by Atomic Conspiracy 2007-02-21 17:11|| 2007-02-21 17:11|| Front Page Top

#9 Profile of LTC (Ret.) Crandall at Army's MoH gallery here.

Posted by Dar">Dar 2007-02-21 19:24|| 2007-02-21 19:24|| Front Page Top

#10 There's a great slideshow (30+ images) from Crandall's life and career at the profile above as well, from his wedding and days as a lieutenant to Feb. 5 of this year (with fellow MoH recipient Ed Freeman). Hover the mouse pointer over the pictures to get captions.

Posted by Dar">Dar 2007-02-21 19:32|| 2007-02-21 19:32|| Front Page Top

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