SILENT VICTORY is the award-winning
documentary about F/51st
Long Range
Patrol (Airborne) Infantry, the most
successful unit of its kind during the
Vietnam War. U.S. Army special-
operations units still operate today using
lessons learned from F/51st LRP (Abn)
Inf.
Despite what the anti-war activists back
home in America were saying in protests,
in the schools, in the media, and before
Congress, the Vietnamese people wanted,
and deserved, a chance to be free from
Communist tyranny. A real chance for life,
liberty, and the pursuit of happiness was in
their grasp during the 1968 Tet Offensive,
when F/51st
helped show that the
Vietnam war could be won…
...if only the American
people had the will.
About the Executive
Producers/Authors
Author and Executive Producer Don C. Hall grew up in a Catholic orphanage in Roanoke, VA, and enlisted in the U.S. Army in February 1965, shortly after his 17th birthday. He served in Vietnam in 1967–68 as a team leader in Co. F, 51st LRP (Abn) Inf. After leaving the service in 1970, he served as a police officer and then later worked as a private investigator. He is now retired. Don and his wife Annette co- wrote I SERVED. His extensive collection of documentation from the National Archives was instrumental in making both I SERVED and SILENT VICTORY as accurate as possible. In addition to co-authoring I SERVED, Annette R. Hall designed and produced the book, created this web site and promotional pieces for their projects, and, with the help of talented producer-director Virginia Hashii, produced SILENT VICTORY. In 2019, Annette created the streaming version of SILENT VICTORY using video-editing and production software that wasn’t available when the documentary was originally in production and post- production. She is also a fine artist. *** Media Contact: annette@i-served.com
Welcome to the official web site for the award-winning
documentary, SILENT VICTORY: the Story of Co. F, 51st
Long Range Patrol (Airborne) Infantry, and Don Hall’s
Vietnam War memoir, I SERVED.
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“When the Army is committed, the American people are committed. When the American people lose their
commitment,it is futile to try and keep the Army committed. In the final analysis, the American Army is
not so much an arm of the Executive Branch as it is an arm of the American people. The Army cannot,
therefore, be committed lightly.”
— General Frederick C. Weyand
(From an interview with Colonel Harry G. Summers, Jr.,
in the premier issue of Vietnam magazine in 1988)
I SERVED is Romeo & Juliet, Oliver Twist,
All Quiet on the Western Front, and Catch-
22, all rolled up into one.
I SERVED sets a new standard for
Vietnam memoirs. Backed up by
thousands of pages of military
documentation from the National Archives,
Don Hall, a combat team leader in F/51st ,
tells his personal story of growing up in a
Catholic orphanage and serving with
F/51st LRP (Abn) Inf. in Vietnam.
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Click to download a free copy of the
first four chapters of “I Served.” Go to
this page for links to where you can
purchase the book or ebook.
(Photo of Col.
Maus courtesy
of Bob Edwards)
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