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I'm Ken Harbaugh, host of Warriors in Their Own Words.

In partnership with the Honor Project, we've brought this podcast back at a time when our nation needs these stories more than ever.

Warriors in Their Own Words is our attempt to present an unvarnished, unsanitized truth of what we have asked of those who defend this

nation. Thank you for listening, and by doing so honoring those who have served.

Today, we'll hear from Colonel John Anthony Cash, who served in the Army as a rifle company

commander in Vietnam. In this first part of his interview, Cash recalls hearing updates

about the devastating

battle at Thea Dron around a radio, serving an Operation White Wing and several tragic stories

from his tour.

My name is John Anthony Cash, CASH. I'm from Atlantic City, New Jersey.

I'm an ROTC graduate from Rutgers University.

And I just completed 32 years and eight months to seven months in active duty service.

I was a rifle company commander of C Company,

First Battalion, 7th Cavalry, Third Brigade of the First Air Cavalry Division.

I don't know where the word came from, but while we were at Fort Benning, the word came out that no one would take white t-shirts to Vietnam.

And so in the Army and its infinite wisdom said, that means everyone that's to die as t-shirts to Vietnam. And so in the Army and its infinite wisdom set,

that means everyone that's the dye is t-shirts.

I'm sure you've been to a drugstore

and looked and saw how many different color shades of green they have.

And the writ dye, I think is what we were using.

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