Pray in Combat When Your Mind Is Off
Be Prayed Up
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President Kennedy had asked fellow Americans asked not what your country can do for you,but what you can do for your country. I believed that we all want to serve. We would overcome our own prejudices to serve. We would over come culture and ethic To become brothers Fifty years after the battle we are still brothers
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Martin Latigue, drafted in the Army in November 1963, was proud to serve his country in Vietnam. Like so many other young men of his generation, he did so with honor. In this memoir, he looks back at growing up in small-town America only to end up fighting a war thousands of miles away. While in the Army, he overcame his prejudices and learned to love his Army brothers—all of them. He watched many of them die at the Battle of Ia Drang, which was the first major engagement between regular U.S. and North Vietnamese troops. Even though the author had always prayed, he had a hard time doing so while in combat. The words did not come easily to his mind. All he could think about was that he would die in battle. He thanked God for the hard training he received. He asked God to forgive him of his sins. His prayers were short—and he called out the name of Jesus over and over.
About the Author
Martin Latigue hopes that this account will help others he served with in Vietnam share what it was like to fight in the Battle of Ia Drang.