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In Vietnam the men of Special Forces were the first to go. They frequently fought, not in great battles with front-page attention, but in places with foreign sounding, unknown names; and often times no names at all.

— William Westmoreland Westmoreland's foreword to Beyond Nam Dong (1998)

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