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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- A village in west-central Vietnam near the border with Laos. In one of the largest battles of the Vietnam War, US marines and South Vietnamese troops successfully defended the military base there against a siege by North Vietnamese forces (January 21–April 8, 1968).
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Examples
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Our job was to rescue 5,000 marines who had been pinned down for several months by 20,000 North Vietnamese army soldiers at a place called Khe Sanh.
Heart of a Patriot Max Cleland 2009
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Among the wildest campaigns of 1968 was the old-fashioned siege of U.S. Marines in a small mountain valley post called Khe Sanh.
Noble Norfleet Reynolds Price 2002
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Among the wildest campaigns of 1968 was the old-fashioned siege of U.S. Marines in a small mountain valley post called Khe Sanh.
Noble Norfleet Reynolds Price 2002
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Associated Press A Marine cradled the head of a wounded friend in a bomb crater that had been turned into a first-aid station near Khe Sanh, South Vietnam, on May 4, 1967.
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Associated Press Marines also waged hard-fought campaigns in Hue City, Khe Sanh and other parts of Vietnam.
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Every American who serves joins an unbroken line of heroes that stretches from Lexington to Gettysburg; from Iwo Jima to Inchon; from Khe Sanh to Kandahar -- Americans who have fought to see that the lives of our children are better than our own.
Rob Diamond: This Iraq Veteran says "Thank You, Mr. President" 2010
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Every American who serves joins an unbroken line of heroes that stretches from Lexington to Gettysburg; from Iwo Jima to Inchon; from Khe Sanh to Kandahar -- Americans who have fought to see that the lives of our children are better than our own.
Rob Diamond: This Iraq Veteran says "Thank You, Mr. President" 2010
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The first successful account of Vietnam occurred in non-fiction, in 1977, with Michael Herr's Dispatches, a landmark volume of reportage based on Herr's visits to Khe Sanh for Esquire at roughly the same time that Marlantes was attacking his Matterhorn.
Matterhorn by Karl Marlantes By Robert McCrum 2010
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Obama closed the speech with a tribute to "an unbroken line of heroes" stretching "from Khe Sanh to Kandahar -- Americans who have fought to see that the lives of our children are better than our own."
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Every American who serves joins an unbroken line of heroes that stretches from Lexington to Gettysburg; from Iwo Jima to Inchon; from Khe Sanh to Kandahar – Americans who have fought to see that the lives of our children are better than our own.
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