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🗓️ 13 July 2022
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Col Bill Reeder. Pow in Vietnam. "Extraordinary Valor", the defense of Charlie Hill.
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0:00.0 | This is Jockel Podcast number 342 with Echo Charles and me, Jockel Willink. |
0:06.4 | Good evening, Echo. |
0:07.4 | Good evening. |
0:09.9 | The explosion rocked them, the blasts deafening in the night. |
0:14.0 | For an instant, it let their dirty blood smeared faces, their hollow eyes set in hopeless |
0:20.8 | determination. |
0:22.7 | A few more shells crashed around them, none as close as the first. |
0:27.4 | Each blinding flash shone upon the corpses lying across the battlefield, gruesome evidence |
0:33.2 | of the fight that had raged over the past days. |
0:37.9 | Hundreds lay dead over the hilltop outpost. |
0:41.4 | The bodies of South Vietnamese paratroopers mixed with those of their determined North |
0:45.9 | Vietnamese enemy. |
0:47.7 | The halacious battle had allowed the paratroopers to recover only some of their fallen comrades. |
0:54.2 | They'd wrapped the number in their plastic ponchos and placed them in trenches. |
0:58.6 | That was a while ago, earlier in the fight, when there'd been time to render a modicum |
1:03.3 | of respect. |
1:05.3 | Later, they'd stacked bodies and rows as they were able. |
1:10.0 | Most of the dead, though, were strewn where they'd been cut down in the last hours of |
1:14.0 | combat. |
1:15.0 | Punctured, torn, dismembered, and shredded. |
1:19.2 | Rotesque reflections of their final violent seconds of life. |
1:25.0 | The explosions stopped. |
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