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The first Americans to die in the Vietnam War, U.S. Army Maj. Dale Buis and Master Sgt. Chester Ovnand, were killed. Another 58,000 followed — plus, as Stars and Stripes notes, 1.5 million Vietnamese. However, a friend of mine points out that Special Forces Captain Harry Cramer was killed by a mortar attack 18 months ...
The first Americans to die in the Vietnam War, U.S. Army Maj. Dale Buis and Master Sgt. Chester Ovnand, were killed. Another 58,000 followed -- plus, as Stars and Stripes notes, 1.5 million Vietnamese.
The first Americans to die in the Vietnam War, U.S. Army Maj. Dale Buis and Master Sgt. Chester Ovnand, were killed. Another 58,000 followed — plus, as Stars and Stripes notes, 1.5 million Vietnamese.
However, a friend of mine points out that Special Forces Captain Harry Cramer was killed by a mortar attack 18 months earlier in Vietnam but his name appears later in the memorial.
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Thomas E. Ricks is a former contributing editor to Foreign Policy. Twitter: @tomricks1
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