U.S. Vietnam Commander Westmoreland Dies

[EveningStar]

Westmoreland died Monday of natural causes at Bishop Gadsden retirement home, where he had lived with his wife, said his son, James Ripley Westmoreland. He was 91...

"We held the line. We stopped the falling of the dominoes," he said in 1985 at the 20th anniversary of the Army's 173rd Airborne Brigade's assignment to Vietnam. "It's not that we lost the war militarily. The fact is, we as a nation did not make good our commitment to the South Vietnamese."
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[Warlady]

RIP General.

[Nutrider99]

Wouldn't in be interesting to hear what was being said at the table where Westmoreland and Hackworth sit, playing checkers in Heaven?

[Beowulf]

RIP, General.

[Pendragon_6]

RIP, General Westmoreland

[grannygirl]

RIP General