Vietnam veteran says Mel Gibson got it right
“We lived in a two-bedroom house, so my dad told us three boys, ‘When you graduate from high school, you’re out of here.’ I joined the Navy and was a Vietnam veteran, working on an aircraft carrier. I helped guide the planes aboard ship and so forth. We flew 10,000 sorties.
“In the movie ‘We Were Soldiers’ with Mel Gibson, we were the ones who actually saved them. All our planes were fighting the Vietnamese to let them get out (at the Battle of Ia Drang in 1965). They portrayed everything pretty accurately.”
— Larry Moravits
