Vietnam vet Plumley dies; featured in war movie
COLUMBUS, Ga. (AP) — Basil L. Plumley, a renowned career soldier whose exploits as an Army infantryman were portrayed in a book and the movie "We Were Soldiers," has died at 92 — an age his friends are amazed that he lived to see.
HT: Paul Davis
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I have this theory that the bravest soldiers have the oddest names, with "Basil L. Plumley" (a Wodehousian name if there ever were one) as a prime exhibit.
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