. >> from the day i heard that the khe sahn combat base was abandoned, theewar was over for me. seemed like all that death and all that destruction and all that pain and all that turmoil for nothing..o cf1 o >> the troops were told to destroy the base, to leave nothing behind for the enemy. >> slowly took everything attack, everything plowed flat by the bulldozers there. >> bunkers too big to take apart were blown up. in the bunker and we put our hand on top and blew the bunker. >> helicopters removed the damaged aircraft. runway was torn up. and a few short weeks, the base was entirely gutted. >> finaaly, there was no place for us to stay. there was no bunkers. we started living under the o o duster. we dug each of us a personal bunker. we call them the graves. >> the marines returned to khe sahn later in the war. i was there in 1969. but it was never again manned as it had been in 1968. one marine's emotional trek back to the hililililil horseheadswivellychair.com it could be the next big thing i should totally get that domain name... get your great idea online too... get your