R.I.P. Sarmajor Plumley

[olevetonahill]

Another of Americas Greatest passes on at 92

http://music.yahoo.com/news/vietnam-vet-plumley-dies-featured-war-movie-224441241.html

[olevetonahill]

Sam Elliot Played him in "We Were Soldiers"

A native of Shady Spring, W.Va., Plumley enlisted in the Army in 1942 and ended up serving 32 years in uniform. In World War II, he fought in the Allied invasion of Italy at Salerno and the D-Day invasion at Normandy. He later fought with the 187th Airborne Infantry Regiment in Korea. In Vietnam, Plumley served as sergeant major — the highest enlisted rank — in the 1st Battalion, 7th Cavalry Regiment.

"That puts him in the rarest of clubs," said journalist Joseph L. Galloway, who met Plumley while covering the Vietnam War for United Press International and remained lifelong friends with him. "To be combat infantry in those three wars, in the battles he participated in, and to have survived — that is miraculous."

[Wishboned]

Rest easy Sgt Major. You earned it.

[olevetonahill]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r94AewIZfUk

[olevetonahill]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WArAyjr8dRA

[Curly Bill]

Read the book and have seen the movie multiple times.

Salute!

[olevetonahill]

Read the book and have seen the movie multiple times.

Salute!

I may get the Book, Just watched bits an pieces of the movie

From what Ive read about the MAN, what he went thru in WW2, Korea an Nam. Made my lil stint seem like a cub scout Over night Camp out in the back yard

[Curly Bill]

I read the book when it first came out, so that was years ago. Colonel Moore was with someone else, it might have been the writer Golloway, on one of the morning talk shows takling about it, and when it came out I ran out and got it.

[olevetonahill]

I read the book when it first came out, so that was years ago. Colonel Moore was with someone else, it might have been the writer Golloway, on one of the morning talk shows takling about it, and when it came out I ran out and got it.

Just about bet that very few Flags besides Mine will be at Half staff today.

[TheHumanAlphabet]

From what I read a fine man, a patriot and a soldier's soldier. R.I.P.