Another Anniversary of the Battle of Bin Son I ...

This Monday, April 21, 2008.

Forty - one years ago on this coming Monday, some 89 men in eight rifle squads of Marines [out of nine total], reinforced with weapons detachments, had their personal rendevouz with destiny, inasmuch as 33 were KIA "killed - in - action," and another 56 WIA "wounded - in - action."

This all happened to them at the hands of first - class fighting bo doi [variously translated as dust, nothingness, infantry] in a dug - in battalion - sized element from the 3rd NVA/PAVN Regiment of the NVA/PAVN 2nd. Divison, 'way down south in the valley of the Song Ly Ly...

Lucky me!

'Cause I was in the proverbial SQUAD THAT WAS LEFT BEHIND...

Semper Fi, gentlemen!!

"The spirit of old Fox Two - One still lives on..."

Yep!

That's me, folks, one of the lucky few, one Private First Class (E-2) Dennis Paul Morony, Fire Team member of Cpl. Forrest Dowdy's Fire Team, of Sergeant Otis Lovejoy's First Squad, First Platoon, Fox 2/1... Fox Company, Second Battalion, First Marine Regiment, First Marine Division, FMF -Wes PAC - a.k.a. "The Big Outfit."