huff
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Post by huff on May 18, 2012 20:52:12 GMT -5
Thanks,
COL (R) Alan C. Huffines
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Post by Legion Etrangere on May 19, 2012 9:32:38 GMT -5
COL Huffines, Our French Foreign Legion (FFL) / BCCP unit stood down last year. The only thing we are doing (with the sponsorship of the Allied Forces Cold War Association) is French Indochina / Dien Bien Phu Commmemorations each May 7th to remember the service and sacrifice of all French Indochina War veterans who served. If you wish to reenact French Foreign Legion in Indochina in Texas, contact the 13e DBLE in Texas, www.13dble.org. BTW, my apologies on my first email I sent you, I thought you meant FFI, not FFL. Regards, Mick |
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Post by huff on Jul 21, 2012 7:52:58 GMT -5
Mick,
We've certainly covered a lot of terrain since this post.
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Post by Legion Etrangere on Jul 29, 2012 15:11:50 GMT -5
LOL-------------> I laughed when I read this. It's not even been four months and we've already put together 3e REI! Were well on the way!
Mick
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Post by huff on Jul 29, 2012 19:04:57 GMT -5
All due to you, mon frere. You picked me up out of the gutter and brushed me off and taught me.
Obliged to you.
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Post by Legion Etrangere on Jul 30, 2012 10:00:16 GMT -5
mon Colonel,
I first got into French Indo when I was at Van's back in the early 90's for a night of beer drinking and comradeship with a coterie of German WWII reenactors (and a few Brits). Van had a huge house back then with a large fireplace and in the winter, we would rally at his AO for some good old fashioned talk, laughter, sharing stories, etc. - "bravery under blank fire" - good stuff.
I was checking out his library when I came across a book called HELL IN A VERY SMALL PLACE. I took the book into the main room and asked Van about it --- and he launched into a 4 hour discussion on Indo. No one else knew there had been a first Indochina War. The discussion was lively and it piqued my interest.
That was it. After that it was reading and reading and reading. Through the Viets I met several Indo veterans (one who served with 3e REI on the ill-fated RC4 operation, but who sadly, would not sit for interview; he did show me scars where the Communists tried to hang him and torture him in various grotesque positions; another who served at DBP as a signaller at the CP and was flown out after he was wounded early in the battle).
It has to be the most overlooked part of military history.
Mick
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