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i just finished reading The Hill Fights for about the 10th time and this quote came to mind. a vicious gun fight that lasted several days and after a bad day of assaulting NVA prepared positions, the troops were just worn out, a bad storm popped up and they were drenched, cold, hungry but ready to go the next day for more fighting. a crater/hole was occupied by several mostly able bodied troops...got struck by lightening, and a couple of guys a short distance away looked at one another ... one said, "i think even God is mad at us"

the original Walking Dead, 1/9, had a company trapped in the kill zone of a massive ambush for 3 days, the fog was thick so visuals were not possible, radio contact had been lost, they hadn't eaten in 3 days, out of water, almost out of ammo - this is the first big use of the M16 and all it's abilities to get you killed began to show up - anyway the company was trying to get out of the kill zone, nobody knew where they were, they didn't know where they were - the fog was that thick. they lurched around for 3 days carrying their dead and wounded. they finally ran out enough semi able bodied troops to carry them all. the company commander decided, these are his after action thoughts...the company had gone into the fight as a unit and would die as a unit, they were beaten but not yet defeated. he regained radio capability and told his battalion commander, "we can't move anymore, we have a small perimeter and will fight them as long as we can."

don't know what in the original post caused the above
 

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