Tuesday in the White House Rose Garden, almost 40 years later, President Obama is scheduled to pay tribute to Gutierrez and about 80 other Vietnam veterans who fought in the savage, unnamed battle, which resulted in the rescue of a company of trapped fellow soldiers.
Pasqual Gutierrez, who served in the Alpha Troop, First Squadron, 11th Cavalry Regiment in Vietnam, remembers the day his unit was called to rescue U.S. soldiers who were trapped by the North Vietnamese. Gutierrez says he sees the honor as representative of what many soldiers in his generation went through, a picture “bigger than us.”
From the Washington Post.
