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Posted on 05/20/2017 4:22:46 PM PDT by Chainmail
This is great writing on so many levels. I truly appreciate you posting it here. It’s disappointing hearing that the nurses weren’t the angels I’d been led to believe they were. Ha! And the part at the end where the three guys got to take the Christmas, New Years and week after duty. And you got promoted. Great stuff.
Thank you.
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Thanks for remembering me in the link, GreyFriar. And thanks for your service too.
Chainmail, this kind’a makes me feel my service in Vietnam was sort of small. Yet I know it was important - and even critical - to people greater than myself.
Dennis Prager says that writing biographically is a great exercise for the soul. Maybe I’ll try it someday.
Thanks again for writing, and posting this.
I hope you’re well today.
And Forever Thanks For Your Service.
Semper Fi.
btt
Thank you.. a side of war few non-combatants ever see....
We were only 16 clicks southwest of Danang.
There were medevac birds in the air all day because the fighting was heavy in our area.
The medevac pilot had balls the size of grapefruit: he went into a very hot zone, guns on both sides firing, and stayed there until he had all of us aboard.
I was a lucky young man.
Me-109e?
Jeeesh Chain...reading it was like watching a movie....
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Glad to hear that.
May 68 Tet-II firefight 3 miles from Saigon stopping NVA attempt at taking Saigon from the south and it took from just after noon to dark, about 8 hours to get to a dustoff. Had a leg shot out from under also along with sucking air with only one lung. Fire was too intense and close for dust off and had to wait for armor to sneak in after dark to take kia/wia to dustoffs a mile away. 93rd evac north of Saigon was just minutes away, just no way to get there. Really good read on your recall, great writing Marine.
No shit. About as plain as can be.
Must have been a scary 8 hours.
Amen ....
I’m sure chainmail can attest that waiting for extraction under fire is one of those ‘minutes feel like hours’ moments.
Yessir: 1/72 scale and in early 1940 livery. The paint job was thanks to my dad's gift of his Paashe airbrush. I still have it - and use it!
Sure happy you made it! 8 hours would’ve been Hell.
It's got to be awful.
Kinda looks like a 1:48 scale.
We NEED to hear your story...and all the stories from our heroes!
Who photoshopped the swastika off of the tail? :)
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