Comments on: Rick Rescorla: Ia Drang Hero http://www.historynet.com/rick-rescorla-ia-drang-hero.htm From the World's Largest History Magazine Publisher Wed, 22 May 2013 17:59:23 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: Thomas F. Miller http://www.historynet.com/rick-rescorla-ia-drang-hero.htm#comment-144377 Thomas F. Miller Tue, 10 Nov 2009 04:30:03 +0000 #comment-144377 Rick Rescoria lived a few miles from me in Morristown, NJ. Not many in this area know about him or the battle in November of 1965. I was with 2/7 (2nd Bn/7th Marines) during operation Harvest Moon a month later. So, I know of it. He was a great person caring more for others than most people do. Peter Arnett wasn't such a person. He cared about himself and was a real jerk! He almost got my CO (Colonel Leon Utter) removed of his post because of his untruthful reporting on how we used gas on the poor civilians. In the end, Utter looked good and Peter Arnett look like a fool over in the SW Aisa area during the 1991 bombing. Rick Rescoria lived a few miles from me in Morristown, NJ. Not many in this area know about him or the battle in November of 1965. I was with 2/7 (2nd Bn/7th Marines) during operation Harvest Moon a month later. So, I know of it. He was a great person caring more for others than most people do.

Peter Arnett wasn't such a person. He cared about himself and was a real jerk! He almost got my CO (Colonel Leon Utter) removed of his post because of his untruthful reporting on how we used gas on the poor civilians. In the end, Utter looked good and Peter Arnett look like a fool over in the SW Aisa area during the 1991 bombing.

]]> By: Rick Rescorla – A True American Hero « http://www.historynet.com/rick-rescorla-ia-drang-hero.htm#comment-115889 Rick Rescorla – A True American Hero « Fri, 11 Sep 2009 05:03:16 +0000 #comment-115889 [...] 1963 and retired as a colonel in 1990. Rick was a bonafide hero of the Vietnam war. In 1965, at the Ia Drang Valley battles, Lt. Gen. Hal Moore described him as “the best platoon leader I ever saw.” [...] [...] 1963 and retired as a colonel in 1990. Rick was a bonafide hero of the Vietnam war. In 1965, at the Ia Drang Valley battles, Lt. Gen. Hal Moore described him as "the best platoon leader I ever saw." [...]

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