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January 20, 1968 We're going to move out while it's still dark, try to get a jump on them. Everybody's packing as much ammo as they can carry. Most of us even have Laws-light anti-tank assault weapons. The terrain's too rough for tanks, but we can use the Laws to take out bunkers. If we need them. Grenades, bandoliers filled with magazines for our M-16s..., extra belts of M-60 ammo for the machine guns, bayonets, Kabar knives.... But, it doesn't even feel like Boys with Toys this time - it feels like Men with Weapons. Nervous men, but men. If they want to take us on, we'll be ready. I hope. Last night I wrote letters to everyone in my family, just in case.White, Ellen Emerson is the author of 'Journal of Patrick Seamus Flaherty United States Marine Corps Khe Sanh, Vietnam, 1968', published 2002 under ISBN 9780439148900 and ISBN 0439148901.
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