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Larry,
Under the members section, I can’t get into the KIA’s. All the others come up fine. I saw on the Americal website that C2/1 had 4 KIA’s in Jan 11. Just wanted to check these guys out but couldn’t get into that page.
I can tell you than 1/11/1970, Roy Lewis (Arky) and Grover Bowers (Jake) were KIA. I didn’t think there were any others on that day in 1970.
Alan Gray and Leo Rose were KIA on Jan. 11, 1971.
I made my reservations today for the reunion in Branson. There are a lot of shows there, so there should be plenty to do for us that arrive early.
BRHHH!
just found the site. served C/2/1 from Oct. 1,67 to Sept30, 68 .
Welcome Tom! I am the web site administrator and I will contact you by email.
this is sgt scott bryson . I served c 2 1 inf nov 1 66 to nov 2 67
Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to the Charlie Company family.
MERRY CHRISTMAS TO ALL MY C/2/1 BROTHERS! MAY YOU ENJOY GOOD HEALTH AND HAVE THE HAPPIEST OF NEW YEARS 2018!
One Solitary Life. He was born in an obscure village, the child of a peasant woman. He worked in a carpentry shop until he was thirty, and then for three years he was an itinerant preacher. When the tide that popular opinion turned against him, his friends ran away. He was turned over to his enemies. He was tried and convicted. He was nailed upon a cross between two thieves. When he was dead, he was laid in a borrowed grave. He never wrote a book. He never held an office. He never owned a home. He never went to college. He never traveled more than two hundred miles from the place where he was born. He never did one of the things that usually accompanies greatness. Yet all the armies that ever marched, and all the governments that ever sat, and all the King’s that ever reigned, had not affected life upon this earth as powerfully as that One Solitary Life.
Merry Christmas to all!
Thank you, Bill
Larry, is there an airport in Branson ? If so , does the hotel have a shuttle service ? Tooch
I could not find out much on line, Touch. Can you contact Cliff Stueve? He lives near there and is the one putting on the reunion.
I emailed reunion notices yesterday. If you did not get a reunion notice, it means that I do not have your correct email address. I got several email notices returned because the email address was no longer valid. If you have an email address change, please let me know.
The reunion notice is also posted to this site under the reunion tab.
Talked with LT tonight and talked about Branson. A little confused about the prices but no matter, I’m there with Louise.
Can anyone tell me how to go about adding a photo of myself into the Roster Page? I am not stuck on myself, I just want all of you to see how young I still look. (At least to myself)
Thanks, Rick
Larry Harper is your guy.
Happy Thanksgiving to all my brothers who served at LZ Hawkhill 69-70. It’s hard to believe that this was so many years ago.
Happy Thanksgiving to all my brothers! Hope you have a delicious meal and great fellowship!
I want to wish all my brothers a happy Thanksgiving. We all have much to be thankful for. Families, friends and mostly , you all. I look at our website every day and enjoy it very much.
Had a great time at Larrys for pheasant hunt even though we did more hunting than finding. Would gladly do it again.
Wally Searight came out and stayed with me for about a week and attended our annual pheasant hunt. We had a great time. Rex Allen missed his first hunt in about 10 years. By the way, thanks for the donation you left for the web site, Wally!
I saw a good show on C-Span- 3 this morning where they interviewed Chuck Hegel and his brother, Tom .They volunteered to serve in the same outfit in RVN . They used to walk point together. Chuck was wounded twice and Tom three times. Happy Veteran’s Day to all my brothers!
Happy V D Everybody….
Don’t they use penicillin for that. Now they call it STD.
I carried an extra “Boom Boom” box under my ruck. It had Penicillin in it.
Before Bergdahl joined the Army, he was kicked out of the Coast Guard after 26 days….reportedly for psychological reasons…..He should not have been allowed into the Army, but the Army lowered their standards to get enough recruits for Iraq……I am OK with the no jail time decision.
Bill,
The Army lowered their score for me to make their quota for me in 1968 and never kicked me out.
Bill, I am just saying that I think Bergdahl was not mentally or emotionally fit to be a soldier and the Army knew it and still accepted him.
Bergdahl. This guy should have been taken behind the barn; if you get my meaning!!!
No jail time for Bergdahl ! What do you think about that, Brothers?
I’m pretty disgusted, myself.
I have to think that the judge knows a whole lot more about the case than I do and that justice was done.
Jim, I listened to all of the testimony from the soldiers and leaders that were responsible to search for this POS.
Having seen and heard all of this, I don’t believe justice was done.
I saw an interview with the seal that shot Bin Laden. his unit was on that base when Bergdahl walked off. I have a gun safe full of justice that I would like to share with that trader……
Have I missed a lot in the last three or four years??
The last time I was on HH reunion site the reunion was always
At fort Campbell ,ky
I don’t remember names any more, just faces.
I was thinking I would go to the 50th
I live in New Mexico, I was B co 3/187 from 7-11-68 to 7-12-69
Please get back with me. I would like to go to 50th
Victortallman67@gmail.com
LARRY–NO NEED FOR CHANGES–JUST MENTION ONCE HERE THAT WE HAVE A NEW MEMBER AND NAME.
Larry–to me,listing new member names would make things easier, rather than going down the member list looking for new names and trying to remember if that member is new or not.
As usual a bit warm in AZ. Set a new record at 99 degrees a couple days back. Any one else having some difficulties trying to remember some things ? age 71 next month–how did this happen ?
When using software programs they do not always have a way to make things easier. I just have to live with what I can do with the programs I use. There is no new button.
I think we are all having old timers issues.
Hi Larry. I tried to go to the roster but the password stuff that I had doesn’t work.
cn you email me what I need and/or please give me Ty Harper’s email.
thanks.
Jim Intravia
SR, I remember you guys constructed the burning match in a C-rat pound cake for my 21st birthday cake on some op in 70. OMG you were already the ripe old age of 23….. I will light up a pound cake in your honor. I can probably still get one on eBay….or Amazon. Happy 71 ole buddy !!
Cliff and Kathy Stueve reported that they visited Branson, Mo. They have found a hotel for next year’s reunion. They selected the Radison hotel. They should have information available after the first of the year when everyone puts out their show schedules.
Today, I finally got the roster section updated with newly found brothers. I also updated any address changes I had. I added photos of brothers if I had any updated photos.
I intended to say if your are not on the roster section or your contact information is not correct, please let me know thru the contact button above.
I have to tell you that our Branson days was nice but maybe I would have done it differently. The twon is very busy as someone said. As for old people, hate to say it but we have to look in the mirror-that’s us now!
The Dolly Parton western show was really the kind of thing you would love to take kids to. The military weapons place was great but that’s only a few hours. They also have some kind of rolling boat thing that goes in the river (I think it was the old military DKW duck vehicles).
There seems to be a lot of stuff there but I don’t really remember that much other stuff.
Larry. Do I owe you money? I never heard anything from you on that subject.
No one owes me any money. I do not know if you are talking about the past reunion or the 2018 reunion. The 2018 reunion is being planned by Cliff and Kathy Stueve and no money obligations have been incurred as far as I know. All the 2017 reunion bills have been paid.
Our squad was quite lucky…. We would get Chateau Brion on every third week with some surf and turf or Chicago Hot Dogs in between. The Champaign was always iced and in abundance. Larry demanded ice cold Coors which was always on hand. Our desert menu switched most every day. Looking back, the food service we had was not bad at all.
Our food service was flown and consisted of exotic dishes developed during WWII. I must say I have not dined like that since!
I was in Branson a year or two ago for a 90mm reunion, about 8 of us. Anyhow, we went to the Dolly Parton thing (She’s not there-it’s a cowboy show) and to a Japanese violinist show (hard to explain and better than it sounds and quite patriotic). Also there is a military hardware/weapons museum which was great.
for some reason, the only place that we conveniently found to buy cases of beer was Walmart and their fridge broke down. I brought back the warm cases and told the guys that in honor of the old days in the bush, I purposely bought warm beer. We enjoyed it as much as ever. Kind of did enjoy it even more that way. Am I weird? Nostalgia over those days?
Warm beer is ok, but hot beer is not so ok. Our beer usually sat on the heli pad for hours before it went on the bird. But it would get cooled down if you carried it for awhile and was great.
What did you think of Branson? Is it a good place for an army reunion?
Yes for Branson! Several times we got ice in the field. A chunk about the size of your fist. That was living. Could trade one hot soda for 3 hot beers.
I don’t remember ever getting beer in the bush but maybe once. We didn’t even get cokes very often. When we did, I’d bury them in a hole the length of my little shovel and let it cool overnight.
Branson: The one time I went, I swore I’d never go back….and I haven’t. Too much traffic, too many old people and archaic, time-worn entertainment venues. I wasn’t impressed at all. But, that’s just me.
Hey guys,
I’m going in for a VA PTSD evaluation next Tuesday. Any words of advice?
Yes. Just be honest. Don’t try to snow them as they’re very good at picking up on that. As a combat Infantryman, you don’t have to make stuff up.
One more thing. They’re not interested in hearing what happened to you during the war. They want to know how it’s affected you since then. Give them what they’re looking for and it should be a snap.
Honesty is always the best policy. What is the test for?
The 35th Anniversary of The Wall in Washington, DC is coming up, along with Veterans Day. From the 7th of November to the 10th, all 58,000 names will be read by volunteers. I will be reading a block of 30 names which includes James R. Stout of Charlie Company who was KIA on May 2, 1971 on Nov. 10th at about 2130 hours. Lee Corman and William Furniss will be joining me. We will be in Washington from the 8th until the 11th. If anyone else would like to come join us, let me know and we’ll arrange a place for us all to meet. My contact information is in the members roster above.