Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20120528:18:05:00
Point, he returned from his second tour of duty having been killed in action as an adviser to the vietnamese army. i attended that ceremony on a very cold day in the winter of 1971. his son is now on the faculty at west point. warrant officer roy thomas was a gun ship pilot with the 25th infantry division. he died in battle when his son was 4 months old. his son is an air force colonel on my staff today. john and roy with just two examples representative of thousands more who share a marshal bond with their fore bearers. whether they served in vietnam, or iraq, or afghanistan, whether they ret...