{"id":27534,"date":"2011-11-17T08:39:22","date_gmt":"2011-11-17T12:39:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=27534"},"modified":"2011-11-17T08:39:22","modified_gmt":"2011-11-17T12:39:22","slug":"lz-albany-the-forgotten-battle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=27534","title":{"rendered":"LZ Albany: The forgotten battle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jeff Schogol, a journalist at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stripes.com\/blogs\/the-ruptured-duck\/the-ruptured-duck-1.160117\/lz-albany-the-forgotten-battle-1.160992\">Stars &#038; Stripes<\/a>, sends us a link to his reportage of the 1965 battle at LZ Albany in the Ia Drang Valley of Vietnam the anniversary of which is today. You&#8217;ve probably seen the movie &#8220;We Were Soldiers&#8221; which portrayed part of that battle, but Jeff goes on to tell us the rest of the story.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8230;the 2nd Battalion, 7th Cavalry was nearly annihilated. Of the roughly 400 soldiers in the battalion, about 70 percent were killed or wounded.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;What happened out there was just a shootout in the grass, and man oh man, the enemy was ready for that fight, we were not,&#8221; said Joe Galloway, a reporter at the time who co-wrote the book &#8220;We Were Soldiers Once \u2026 and Young,&#8221; upon which the film was based. He was also featured in &#8220;Vietnam in HD.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>You should read the rest and get an idea as to why I&#8217;m so proud to have known and been trained by veterans of that battle and the war, in general.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jeff Schogol, a journalist at Stars &#038; Stripes, sends us a link to his reportage of &hellip; <a title=\"LZ Albany: The forgotten battle\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=27534\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">LZ Albany: The forgotten battle<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27534","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-historical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27534","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=27534"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27534\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27534"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27534"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27534"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}