I shall remind myself all day today, and for days to come, to stand up a little straighter, and walk a little taller in honor of a departed soldier’s soldier. Well done, General.
Shortly after he got his Bird and command of a Brigade in the First Inf Div I arrived and was assigned to the 1/26th Inf, the Bn he commanded as a LTC......I assure you that he was well-respected by all who served with him.....here’s a bit of history with a bunch about his service while commanding the 1/26th......March 31/Apr31st 1967 was the most notorious engagement that was still talked about when I arrived in July, but if it is in this publication I haven’t read far enough yet to find it....in the midst of another good one his chopper got hit and came down hard.....
http://www.history.army.mil/books/vietnam/90-7/ch13.htm
America is just a little bit less today now without him, even though it is more for having had him.