{"id":12380,"date":"2009-07-09T07:39:55","date_gmt":"2009-07-09T12:39:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=12380"},"modified":"2009-07-09T07:39:55","modified_gmt":"2009-07-09T12:39:55","slug":"first-killed-in-vietnam-remembered-50-years-later","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=12380","title":{"rendered":"First killed in Vietnam remembered 50 years later"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nThe Associated Press and Stars and Stripes<\/a> writes about a ceremony held yesterday at the Vietnam Memorial for the first two casualties of that war;<\/p>\n

Six northern Vietnamese had attacked the Army’s residential compound in the town of Bien Hoa, killing two American men while they watched a movie on a home projector. Karnow wrote three paragraphs about it for Time.<\/p>\n

“It was a minor incident in a faraway place,” said Karnow, who reported from southeast Asia from 1959 to the early 1970s. “Never in my wildest dreams did I imagine that these two guys would be the first in a memorial to 50,000-some others.”<\/p>\n

On Wednesday, those guys \u2014 U.S. Army Maj. Dale Buis and Master Sgt. Chester Ovnand \u2014 were remembered on the 50th anniversary of their deaths during a special ceremony near the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The article recounts the events leading up to the first casualties of the Vietnam War;<\/p>\n

According to Karnow’s 1959 Time article, Ovnand, of Texas, had just mailed a letter to his wife and Buis, who was from California, was showing off pictures of his three sons. They were two of eight men who lived at the compound, and among the six who took a break in the mess hall that July 8 to watch “The Tattered Dress,” starring Jeanne Crain.<\/p>\n

The soldiers were sprayed with bullets by “terrorists” when Ovnand turned on the lights to change the home projector’s first reel, Karnow wrote.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The beginning of a list of over 58,000 and still growing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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