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  • Our story is truly a love story. Howard, my husband was critically wounded in Vietnam in the mid-sixties. He was medevac’d to St. Albans Naval Hospital,…
  • I participated in two invasions of Cambodia. The first was the U.S. invasion in the Spring of 1970. The second was in early 1971 (a couple of weeks before…
  • April 1970 III Corps South Vietnam (Tan An AO) “First week in the field and first time to take fire”During my first mission flying out of Tan An as a…
  • From 1963 to 1965 I was in Bangladesh serving in the Peace Corps. We were all unaware about what was happening to the east of us. Eventually all of us…
  • MY VIETNAM TOUR 66/67Read more…While stationed at my first base (Little Rock AFB) after tech. school I received my orders to go to Vietnam on May 1966. I…
  • I grew up with war. My older uncles slogged through the toughest battles in the South Pacific during WWII. My Dad served Stateside during Korea and lead…
  • I didn’t go to Vietnam. I spent the war eating tear gas on the streets. I was near a lot police brutality but, with one exception, I was never roughed…
  • My story is a long one and it begins in 1961 at Miami University where my husband-to-be (Pete) and I were close college friends with Dam Trung Phap (who…
  • My little high school in Livermore Falls lost its first serviceman in Vietnam in 1964. He was a rugged farm boy who enlisted in the Marines and he was…
  • I graduated from college in 1968 and went into the Army. I was trained in Arabic and Prisoner-Of-War Interrogation.My family heritage was German, and…