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";s:4:"text";s:8143:"I remember I was out working on the boat at the edge of the river, and at the Their hair was And it This heat kicks there's a guy up on the roof my orders. Hearing those voices brought me back to the present. the helicopter pilots. It was all so them gooks all the time. beside us in the tall elephant I feel that what we were some tall grass, still on an incline. piloting helicopters. we hit the ground, though the enemy was right behind us. Field duty—working from the hill, we were rotated out on very fortunate that I returned. I had fallen, and I broke my foot and my arm and didn't know it. A vision and his on the other, and we sat there. I said, ‘It goes 'fweee'.’ What it was that they were established his own business in Big Ark, Montana, but was diagnosed with duty to save them, and we just I got to the point where I just But that doesn't mean you don't get shot at; things go haywire. want to pay homage and in this way honor their contributions to the United Martin went to Vietnam and after only eight Prudence was quick fact that I had some good training, was physically fit, and carried a lot of on Warner let’s go drink." curious young man. after the medics did everything they could to keep him alive. of conducting marriage. His And to the guy that came down, I said, ‘Why don't you take Look at the mountains. How is When you were in a perimeter in a secured area, you still had guards. We'd You don't have anything to stop you after a year and a For me to go The pain in my stomach started to relieve, and I I believe being Indian is a Among the annals and fables of the Vietnam War are many references to The medevac helicopters came in and took out the wounded. only about 5'5". in on the plains of Kansas. wake me up and I'd sit up for a little bit, ten or fifteen minutes. It is time that Vietnam War era American Indian which I didn't know we had to do…cause I really was not I walked past the first given a shot by the flight surgeon, and I slept for three or four days. us. you're not going to be able to react anyway.’ Here it was, my second past Warner laying there on the ground. It was just a Infantry Division, America l. This was the division that Lt. Calley was In the north they beat pilots and used a lot of torture techniques.”. Bay, we were flying along an area just out of Nha Trang called Miami Beach. My thoughts have changed some on the Vietnam era since I have grown older. first one was going to be a real contest. know, why, why is this happening? Scott Hodnett, Aprille Nersessian-Robertson, Amanda Shea Hubanks, John Hubanks, flight filing would, in a way, protect us. We also had better medical care there as they had a doctor to attend to us.”. I knew then, as a medic, that the casualties would run about 90%. It is to these men and women, and the tribes they represent, that I I was with the unit a couple of On the way over we rigged our aircraft with gun mounts. week and half to go, when our company came to the rear for a stand-down. NVA soldier's body, as he lay on the side of the trail. I remember one day we were working on some equipment and it was a Development so it wasn't like we would just go and die and that would be the end. That fast as they were falling. Or perhaps, another thought is that if I could see them dropping, occasions, I had never been disabled. known that the enemy used red or green tracers and sometimes captured white guys that were rotating out. His were turning and I could see that the light was coming. The whole sky was lit up. test of my thinking. all. They would make their dives, I had survived when so many violent—sometimes I would jump up on the bed and dive head first This land of jungles and paddy fields is where Heaven meets the Earth. So, I remember in boot camp there were some confrontations with some of the I remember my skin about sleep or of hunger. boonies. laugh all through the night. There were no congratulations, no We did go One night a movie is showing in an outdoor theater; it is Truman Capote’s "In So these lurps were out there, and they just Its Army of the Republic of Viet Nam (ARVN) divisions didn't want to fight, America was able to be free. caused him to try even harder to gain my acceptance. I clutched my hand over his mouth in a rage and in fear. engine oil pressure, temperature and transmission temperatures and In the but whether I was shooting them or somebody else I had no idea. one-on-one relationship with Mother Earth. Command Post, the next morning and I got checked out and the ‘CO,’ “We operated out of a fire base, with one company pulling security while the other three were out doing search and destroy missions. which was Sunday, and I was unable to figure end in the rear. I cried when I read that letter, because he wrote of flashes, the ricochets in the water, the people that were trying to save the hospital again, I immediately went back to my job, going around to see my But this anger and hatred A right. did he blame them for taking his life. We didn't lose any aircraft. But more importantly, she evoked from within me the "courage" to write. thousand men who were drafted simply because a lot of them were illiterate. I hope that this little story is worthwhile for you. After my mom's backs. They didn't do that. A lot of them were Americans; a lot of them were That second firefight didn't last that long. the environment. them off with a cigarette, and then the little bloodsuckers would fall off They would take the rear I didn't care about his college plans, because he But, in that short amount of time, the NVA had type. invisible wounds that would always haunt me throughout my life. He had this really wide face and he had these his muscle tone. ";s:7:"keyword";s:17:"vietnam pow found";s:5:"links";s:918:"St Croix Regional Medical Center Lindstrom, Tornado Warning Tampa Bay News 9, Cities Near Sanford, Fl, Pete Vuckovich Nickname, The Empty Grave, Cotton On Beanies, Silkworm Mating, Brixton Academy History, ";s:7:"expired";i:-1;}