I recently sent out this message to our main roster email list. A number of them are bouncing back for one reason or the other. A significant number are being blocked by email servers as an auto spam device. If you see this message now for the first time please respond to Dan if you are interested i...

Dan Kelley, former 3rd Platoon leader of Charlie company and later XO of Delta Company in the time period of 69/70, is serious about producing another Battalion reunion in Branson in June of 2020. Jerry White and I will not be in charge this time but will be offering assistance to Dan's efforts. We ...

I stand corrected. Somehow I thought Nixon let him off. Nixon did commute his sentence after Calley only served three days in actual jail....according to the internet. Maybe that's what confused me. House arrest for three and half years at Columbus Georgia under house arrest. True ...to each his own...

Most places in America there are gatherings and celebrations of one sort or the other. Fireworks will be seen all over the US in small towns and large. There will be home town parades and other things. And tonight...Donald will put on his big military show in Washington DC and order over the crowd a...

These are actually three posts that I'm running together..slightly modified from my other site. How do you feel about it? "A decorated Navy SEAL was acquitted Tuesday of murder in the killing of a wounded Islamic State captive under his care in Iraq in 2017." His team members said he stabb...

Bud was in 2nd Platoon in 1970 and later went to the 101st when the 6/31st went home. He's contributed some images that are loaded here:

http://www.6thofthe31st.com/gallery/ind ... ud-Pierson

We all saw on tv the D Day buzz...more special this year because of the 75th anniversary. Old Donald bone spurs made a speech. Another ancient paratrooper does a tandem jump. The queen of England made a speech and told how she was doing war work like a British Rosie the Riveter. The President of Fra...

If you are in the Florida panhandle you better be careful going to the beach for a little sun and sand and a dip into the Gulf of Mexico. That former governor of Arkansas and conservative FOX pundent and father of Donald Trumps mouthpiece will have you arrested if you are on the beach in front of hi...

Welcome to the forums Hank. Looks like Don Hanna and George Schroeder were both victims of the explosive device. Hanna died upon being injured and Schroeder lingered after being dusted off until May 16. Rabuer was a medic who was shot and killed while attempting to tend to Schroeder and or Hanna. I ...

The original this ain't hell presentation of the Urban Miyares story has been moved...apparently after an organizational name change.

https://valorguardians.com/blog/?p=72383

The original this ain't hell page on our subject has been moved to here as there was some kind of organization name change:

https://valorguardians.com/blog/?p=72383

The site problem continues. The fix is beyond my ability to correct. The site may still be fixed in the coming months so that you don't see those annoying error messages and the much missed by me attachment upload features may be added back. The whole problem centers around a catastrophic failure th...

This string has gotten more looks than the original string that was brought back to view of non logged in viewers. Someone reading it , and not noticing the other string that was revived, won't notice the events of the last couple of months. The most important event was the Miyares' "autobigrap...

They are listed online here: https://www.nsf.gov/news/news_summ.jsp?cntn_id=105610 He does list at least a bushel of them in his ebook ....the one that' s a self published ebook. Not even a print copy of his "fiction" autobiography exists as far as we know. How can that be from such an hon...

It was for entertainment only alright. He entertained a lot of people over the years at a lot of events with it. Only trouble is he never said he was making it all up at any of them that I'm aware of. Bet a bunch of his numerous awards depended to at least a large extent on bestowers mistakenly beli...

Jerry White, after going through his records noted three names that I felt should be added to our Wall page. The three had served in the 6th of the 31st but were reassigned to different 9th Division units as well as one man who died in a subsequent Division assignment. The three names are listed at ...

I had to spend the five bucks and see what his Barnes and Noble version was. And I left this review: Having served with Alpha Company 6th of the 31st Infantry, 9th Division in Vietnam, the same company Urban’s DD214 shows a penciled in assignment to, it is good to see that Urban apologizes in the be...

Seems like the black guys all liked the mental ones. I don't see how you got any Newport or Kools or whatever other there were unless you got in line early.

I suspect they came from the same people that provided the C rations. I do know by the time I got to them all that were left were unfiltered Camels and Pall Malls. I remember the Pall Malls were in a red package and the favorite name for them were "red balls". I think that was about what c...

His book is on Barnes & Noble too. Same $4.99. No reviews at the moment. It's listed as fiction the same way as the publisher site. The Barnes & Noble blurb on what it's about doesn't mention anything about Miyares war history or war stories. Looking at the cover it looks like the whole book...

Considering who is "publishing" it as a ebook on a vanity press that also publishes porn it is obvious no real main stream publisher was interested in it. And in the end he even mentions the objections that Jerry and others made to his story. Anybody who thinks about how he ended it will s...

Somebody is still looking at this string. This string has had 477 hits since I posted the other day.

50 years after his death, March 24, 2019, this was published in the Sunday paper of the Marion Star Ohio newspaper. Bill Allman sent me the link.



http://marionstar.oh.newsmemory.com/?publink=17a2201fc

I can understand your frustration. However, I think the only people his story upsets are those of us who served with the battalion and knew people who died while we were there. I remember two FO team guys that did what I did that died there and a couple others that were wounded, one seriously..... a...

Yep all of the Urban BS almost word for word. Urban must have dictated it. I like the author's quote of Urban: "Leadership is all about love", said Urban. "Without it, you can't lead anything or anyone". Considering how he must have loved all his platoon members enough to be prom...