{"id":9746,"date":"2015-11-25T17:38:28","date_gmt":"2015-11-25T23:38:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hcstx.org\/?p=9746"},"modified":"2015-11-25T17:38:28","modified_gmt":"2015-11-25T23:38:28","slug":"lt-colonel-hal-moore-after-3-days-of-fighting-in-the-ia-drang-valley","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/2015\/11\/25\/lt-colonel-hal-moore-after-3-days-of-fighting-in-the-ia-drang-valley\/","title":{"rendered":"Lt. Colonel Hal Moore After 3 Days of Fighting in the Ia Drang Valley"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I found this video clip on You Tube of Lt. Colonel Hal Moore, US Army, made famous by the movie <em><strong>We Were Soldiers.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/em>I find clips like this simply amazing&#8230;this man had been through 3 days of living hell on earth, close-combat with a determined enemy, and yet, his remarks are as calm and postured as any professional. He represents the essence of a True Warrior.<\/p>\n<p>And for those of you that think the reason for this &#8220;calmness&#8221; is because he was an officer, the CO, no less and was most likely in the &#8220;rear with the gear&#8221;, I would remind you, at the Battle of Ia Drang Valley, there was no &#8220;rear area&#8221;.. .no escape from the fighting&#8230;.it was all hands on deck, every man fighting, every man a soldier&#8230;hell, even the press had to grab a rifle.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"jetpack-video-wrapper\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Hal Moore comments @ LZ X-Ray Nov 1965\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/hImQTmRq_Q8?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>Stay Alert, Stay Armed and Stay Dangerous ! (Like Hal)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I found this video clip on You Tube of Lt. Colonel Hal Moore, US Army, made famous by the movie We Were Soldiers. \u00a0I find clips like this simply amazing&#8230;this man had been through 3 days of living hell on earth, close-combat with a determined enemy, and yet, his remarks are as calm and postured&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[1247,1286,1860,1898],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9746"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9746"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9746\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9746"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9746"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9746"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}