Not Forgotten
February 25th is, for the men who served with Bravo Company, 1st Battalion, 26th Marines at Khe Sanh, a day that owns a particular and personal infamy. We left a lot of good Marines on the field that...
View ArticleClik here to view.
On Fix Bayonets and Payback
I spend most of my time working on the film, Bravo! Common Men, Uncommon Valor. As I do, my memory of experiences during the Siege of Khe Sanh keep simmering and bubbling. One of the salient parts of...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Meet the Men of Bravo!–Cal Bright
Bravo! Marine Cal Bright introduces himself. I was born and raised on a farm in Parma, Michigan, until I joined the Marines at the age of 17 and went to boot camp at San Diego. From there, went through...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Guest Blogger Ken Frier Muses on BRAVO!
I find it odd at times when I think back on the Vietnam War and compare it to the wars we have now: The Iraq and Afghanistan Wars. The times were bad, the country divided and somehow as opposed to now,...
View ArticleNews About Screenings in Moscow, Idaho and Sonora, California
MOSCOW, Idaho Here’s the info on the screening of BRAVO!, COMMON MEN, UNCOMMON VALOR in Moscow, Idaho, on April 19, 2013 at 6:30 PM. Screening is at The Kenworthy Performing Arts Centre at 508 South...
View ArticleClik here to view.
On the Ghost Patrol and a School at Khe Sanh
For years I wasn’t sure what date it was but I sure as hell could remember what I now know are the events of February 25, 1968. Now we call it the Ghost Patrol, but back then it was only heeled into my...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Composing for Khe Sanh
It began about two years ago, when I sat down with Ken and Betty Rodgers over coffee to talk music. The Rodgers had completed a documentary film, a legacy project, honoring the heroic men of Bravo...
View ArticleClik here to view.
On February 25th
Forty-eight years ago on February 25, 1968, Bravo Company, 1st Battalion, 26th Marine Regiment’s Third and First Platoons were trapped in a nasty ambush that has since become something of a legend in...
View ArticleClik here to view.
The Basic School at Quantico
In the last BRAVO! blog we wrote briefly about a visit we made to The Basic School (TBS) at Camp Barrett on Marine Corps Base Quantico, Virginia. While at the National Museum of the Marine Corps,...
View ArticleClik here to view.
On Payback and Recapture
One of the things that I’ve discovered during the process of making BRAVO! is how the memories of various men who went through the same events are different. What I remember, someone else doesn’t...
View ArticleClik here to view.
A Bridge In Pocahontas
On September 15 of this year the folks who live in Pocahontas, Virginia, are going to rename and dedicate the Center Street Bridge, Route 1103, as the “Donald R. Rash Bridge.” Donald Rash was a Marine...
View ArticleClik here to view.
February 21, 1968—Fifty Years Gone
A lot of the great followers of BRAVO! have become personal friends, too. Back when we first dreamed of making a film, Lance and Pam Thompson became some of our initial mentors and have been supporters...
View ArticleClik here to view.
The Ghost Patrol—Fifty Years Gone
3rd and 1st Platoons of Bravo Company, 1/26 walked into two ambushes that decimated 3rd Platoon and a little later, part of 1st Platoon while it moved to reinforce 3rd Platoon. The event remains one of...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Guest Blogger Ken Frier Muses on BRAVO!
I find it odd at times when I think back on the Vietnam War and compare it to the wars we have now: The Iraq and Afghanistan Wars. The times were bad, the country divided and somehow as opposed to now,...
View ArticleClik here to view.
News About Screenings in Moscow, Idaho and Sonora, California
MOSCOW, Idaho Here’s the info on the screening of BRAVO!, COMMON MEN, UNCOMMON VALOR in Moscow, Idaho, on April 19, 2013 at 6:30 PM. Screening is at The Kenworthy Performing Arts Centre at 508 South...
View ArticleClik here to view.
On the Ghost Patrol and a School at Khe Sanh
For years I wasn’t sure what date it was but I sure as hell could remember what I now know are the events of February 25, 1968. Now we call it the Ghost Patrol, but back then it was only heeled into my...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Composing for Khe Sanh
It began about two years ago, when I sat down with Ken and Betty Rodgers over coffee to talk music. The Rodgers had completed a documentary film, a legacy project, honoring the heroic men of Bravo...
View ArticleClik here to view.
On February 25th
Forty-eight years ago on February 25, 1968, Bravo Company, 1st Battalion, 26th Marine Regiment’s Third and First Platoons were trapped in a nasty ambush that has since become something of a legend in...
View ArticleClik here to view.
The Basic School at Quantico
In the last BRAVO! blog we wrote briefly about a visit we made to The Basic School (TBS) at Camp Barrett on Marine Corps Base Quantico, Virginia. While at the National Museum of the Marine Corps,...
View ArticleClik here to view.
On Payback and Recapture
One of the things that I’ve discovered during the process of making BRAVO! is how the memories of various men who went through the same events are different. What I remember, someone else doesn’t...
View Article
