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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=420248" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Mayaguez Incident</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Look and find our names upon The Wall, <br>Hargrove, Hall and Marshall were our names.<br>We were three men that were left behind, <br>three Marines still owed honorable graves.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Marines took back the hijacked Mayaguez<br>and recovered all her crewmen safe and well<br>But while our mission accomplished its objective<br>The Ninth Marines were ferried into hell.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The helicopters took us to the island, <br>Koh Tang, in the Southern China sea<br>The Khmer Rouge were dug in on the island<br>prepared for an assault from air or sea.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">They say it was a failure of Intelligence-<br>The crew of The Mayaguez was moved before<br>The 2nd battalion forces first were landed<br>Upon that hostile beach, that deadly shore</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Lieutenant Col. Randall Austin was commanding<br>Our perimeter was shrinking by the hour<br>Our landing force had taken heavy losses<br>Some died upon the beach, more drowned offshore.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">It happened in perimeter reduction<br>we three men were forgotten in our hole.<br>When Helicopters flew the rest to safety<br>We were left behind on the atoll.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Some say we died that day, some say after<br>Reports are we were tortured and then killed.<br>Some claim we were forgotten by our nation.<br>But our names are on The Wall- you never will.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Look and find our names upon The Wall, <br>Hargrove, Hall and Marshall were our names.<br>We were three men that were left behind, <br>three Marines still owed honorable graves.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>On May 15,1975, two weeks after the last Americans fled Saigon, the men of the fourth<br>and Ninth Marines were ordered to retake the U.S.S. Mayaguez and rescue her crew. The<br>ship had been seized by elements of the Khmer Rouge of Cambodia. It was mistakenly<br>believed that the crew were being held hostage on Koh Tang Island, Cambodia. While<br>the 4th Marines Delta Company successfully boarded and retook the Mayaguez, the ninth<br>Marines were landing on the beach at Koh Tang. Officially, the second battalion of the<br>Ninth Marine Regiment lost 18 dead,41 wounded and three MIA. In addition 7 of 8<br>assault helicopters that took part in the original assault were destroyed.<br>This last battle of the Vietnam War era was a tragedy of errors. The Marines were sent to<br>rescue crewmen who were no longer on the Island. The crew was rescued elsewhere. The<br>Khmer Rouge troops on the Island were expecting an attack by the Viet Cong as the<br>island was the subject of a territorial dispute. The marines were sent in, based on faulty<br>intelligence, against a force whose strength and dispositions had been badly<br>underestimated by our leaders. The fire fight on the Island was so fierce that the dead<br>had to be left where they had fallen.<br>Lance Corporal John N. Hargrove, PFC Gary L Hall and Danny G. Marshall’s names<br>appear on panel 1W lines 130-131 of the Vietnam memorial in Washington D.C. They<br>are the last combat fatalities of the Vietnam conflict. Not all heroes are buried in<br>Arlington Cemetery</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=John+F.+McCullagh">John F. McCullagh</a><div class=q>
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