Gooks and Tootsie Rolls
We haven’t had hot chow for the last week and tonight we are going to, I can’t wait I’m about to starve eating the C-rations 3 times a day. I thought of another thing you could send me is
We haven’t had hot chow for the last week and tonight we are going to, I can’t wait I’m about to starve eating the C-rations 3 times a day. I thought of another thing you could send me is
I found a photocopied letter with my dad’s Vietnam stuff and I thought I would share excerpts of it. Handwritten at the top is the following: Letter from Lt Simm from hospital after he was wounded. I don’t who the recipient was. 25 March 1968 Hi Pig, I got your letter and the picture & … More How you gonna act? 3rd Platoon, Bravo Company
For the last 2 or 3 days we have been by the South China Sea. Swimming in the afternoons; had it really easy. This morning they airlifted us by copters to LZ English (I don’t know where that is). Tonight or tomorrow morning we are going to make a CA (combat attack by copters). I … More In-country
A favorite article of mine: VC Upset When Sp4 Drops in For Lunch Landing Zone Betty (1st CAV-10) An American soldier recently dropped in on a Viet Cong platoon for lunch and no one observed proper table manners. The man who came to dinner was Sp4 Dennis Cole of the 1st Cavalry Division’s 2nd Battalion, … More A Walk on Part in a War