This is Jocco podcast number 105 with echo Charles and me Jocco Willink. Good evening echo. Good evening

Specialist Vieira was witness to scenes of horror

The enemy was all over at least a couple hundred of them walking around for three or four minutes. It seemed like three or four hours

They were shooting and machine gunning our wounded and laughing and giggling. I

knew they'd kill me if they saw I was alive

When they got near I played dead I

kept my eyes open and stared at a small tree. I

knew that dead man had their eyes open

Vieira continues then one of the North Vietnamese came up looked at me then kicked me and I flopped over I

Guess he thought I was dead

It was blood running out of my mouth my arm my legs

He took my watch and my 45 caliber pistol and walked on I

Watch them strip off all our weapons

They left then they left back where they came from I

Remember the artillery the bombs the napalm everywhere real close around me

It shook the ground underneath me

But it was coming in on the North Vietnamese soldiers too

All this and more

much more took place

Between 6.50 a.m. and 7.40 a.m. on November 15th, 1965

The agonies of Charlie Company occurred over 140 yards of the line

But men were fighting and dying on three sides of our thinly held American perimeter

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