"Loring William Watson USMC AKA "Lorrie" KIA 3/19/69 at Liberty Bridge Gun 7. Battle started at 2:00am ended around daybreak. This info comes from a letter I (John Watson) received from someone who was on Gun 3 that day. He finished a letter that "Lorrie" was writing me back in '69. I was 6 yrs old when he was killed. He tells me that 12 marines were killed in that battle and so were 125 enemy. “I was on gun 6 that night. I had only been in country for about 45 days. I was wounded in that battle. I only knew Lorrie for a short time and am not sure how he was killed. It was a hard fight and we lost a lot of good people. Our corpsman was killed and got the Medal of Honor. Almost half of my crew was hurt. The sappers overran gun 7 and we were able to stop them at gun 6. The sappers also hit on the opposite side of the gun line and were stopped with a charge up the gun line led by our commanding officer. No one ran that night. We held and fought them to a standstill even though we were out numbered. I heard that we were hit with several companies and we fought them to a standstill. I heard this after I got out of the hospital. There was a good article in "Viet Nam" magazine about the fight. James Webb (U.S. Senator and former Marine) also describes the battle in his book, “Fields of Fire”."