They show photos of Marines running away from the cameras. So, we visited Khe Sanh. It is so far from anything that one Marine Officer once remarked that when you are at Khe Sanh, you are not really anywhere at all. We approached it on roads which had turned to sheep trails and drove overland through a collective farm and bounced onto the badly impacted and eroded runway. Nothing grows on this clay airstrip to this day.
Nothing is there except the hills, and the silence.
In the block building containing the photos I mentioned is a visitors' book. When I signed it, I noticed that very few veterans have visited this place. Unexploded Ordnance at Lang Vay Click to Enlarge Heading back to Rt. 9, we turned west again, this time for the site of Lang Vay Special Forces Camp. This fortified village was established way back in 1962 to train and arm the mountain people so as to deny the area to the enemy.