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JOHNMATYI.COM: In Honor of our Military: Big & Rich - On the 8th of November.

In Honor of our Military: Big & Rich - On the 8th of November.

[John K. Matyi] This Big & Rich video is in honor of a battle against the NVA in Vietnam on the 8th of November in 1965. You can read more about this here. Please remember that the average age of the veteran of the Vietnam War was 19 years old. They are now about 62. Niles Harris, the man featured in the next paragraph, has been living with this battle almost every day, and night since 1965.

The song tells the story of Purple Heart veteran and member of the 173 rd Airborne Brigade, Niles Harris, who, as a 19-year-old army private, was shot in a jungle fire fight during the Vietnam War on November 8, 1965. In 2002, Big Kenny and Rich befriended Harris when they visited his hometown of Deadwood, South Dakota. The friendship has continued and Big Kenny and Rich wrote “The 8 th of November” to honor his legacy. Last year the duo accompanied Harris on a trip to Vietnam to try to make sense of the battle that took his comrades’ lives on that fall day in 1965. A documentary of the experience began airing in July. Prilosec OTC is distributing over a million copies of the documentary through a special on-pack offer available to consumers at select retailers.

I am sending this out to all of the veterans (and active duty personnel) from all of our wars and their families. The next time you see either active duty or a military veteran anywhere, Reach out your hand and thank them for their service. For many this is long overdue.