THE WALL OF FACES

Dear Tio Elias,
It has been so many years since your departure, but I still remember you and your smile.

1st BATTALION

7th CAVALRY

1st CAVALRY DIVISION


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For a detailed account of

IA DRANG

THE BATTLE THAT CHANGED THE WAR IN VIETNAM

please refer to

"WE WERE SOLDIERS ONCE...AND YOUNG"
by
LTG. HAROLD G. MOORE, US Army (Retired)
and
JOSEPH L. GALLOWAY

published by
HarperPerennial in 1993


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In November 1965, some 450 men of the
1st Battalion, 7th Cavalry, under the command of
LTC Harold G. Moore, Jr.,
were dropped by helicopter into a small clearing in the
Ia Drang Valley.
They were immediately surrounded by 2000 North Vietnamese
soldiers. Three days later, only two and a half miles away, a
sister battalion was chopped to pieces. Together, these
actions at landing zones X-RAY and ALBANY constituted one of
the most savage and significant battles of the Vietnam War.
How these men persevered - sacrificed themselves for their
comrades and never gave up - makes a vivid portrait of war at
its most inspiring and devastating.
General Moore and Joseph Galloway, the only journalist on the
ground throughout the fighting, have interviewed hundreds of men
who fought there, including the North Vietnamese commanders.
This devastating account rises above the specific ordeal it
chronicles to present a picture of men facing the ultimate
challenge, dealing with it in ways they would have found
unimaginable only a few hours earlier. It reveals to us as rarely
before, man's most heroic and horrendous endeavor.

"An God said who shall we send.I answered I am here,send me."

Isaiah 6:8

Et Lux Perpetua Luceat Eis
Requiescant In Pace

Elias is buried at Puerto Rico Nat Cem, Bayamon,PR.

Dios este contigo donde quiera que estes.