Rick Sawyer (aka Ari Levitt)'s Blog (1)

You're an 19 year old kid. You're critically wounded, and dying in the jungle in the Ia Drang Valley, 14 November, 1965, Landing Zone X-ray, Vietnam. Your infantry unit is outnumbered 8 to 1, and the enemy fire is so intense from 100 or 200 yards away that your own Infantry Commander has ordered the MedEvac helicopters to stop coming in. You're lying there, listening to the enemy machine guns, and you know you're not getting out. Your family is half-way around the world, 12,000 miles away, and… Continue