If you ever think of yourself as a badass, compare yourself to Basil Plumley and cringe in shame.

Basil Plumley, Army veteran of 3 wars, dies at 92

Plumley was the guy played by Sam Elliot in “We Were Soldiers,” the 2002 movie dramatization of the battle if Ia Drang in Viet Nam. This was a region of some importance in my family history… had things gone slightly differently there a week or so earlier, you would not be reading this blog because the author would have never been.