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It’s windy, snowing and in the high teens hear. Would be nice relaxing someplace warm. Ed are you and Ben doing any fishing?
It’s a little cool down here in sunny southern Florida. High today around 60F but that won’t last long. Ben and Marilyn arrived yesterday and will be here for a while. We drank a few yesterday and talked to Harp and Ty Harper. Great to hear both of their voices again. Today we took a ride over to Punta Gorda. We had a great day and expect to have
several more!
Hello Larry and everybody….Here in Albany NY, it is in the teens. I took the day off work because it has been snowing since midnight and there is almost a foot on the ground…. My youngest son is out driving around delivering pizza… He drives a front wheel drive Le Sabre with studded snow tires that used to be my car…..It works better in the snow than a four wheel drive….Oh well only a couple of months till spring…
Everyone staying warm? I am in Port Aransas, TX and this morning when I got up, it was 41, which is pretty cool for here. It is supposed to get back to normal this weekend when we should be able to get back to going to the beach alomst every day. I will be getting together with Chuck & Suzanne Missar Friday. We are looking forward to it.
SSG Leo “Pops” Rose
SP/4 Alan Gray
RIP
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larry fry–good luck with all that medical stuff–keep us posted. and remember–it could be worse if doc grunge was working on you out in the bush.
Larry Harper,
You have done a wonderful job and service to this site for which we are all thankful. I think you need to have the final say on this.
Larry Fry,
That is why they call it “practicing medicene”. They are getting ready to practice on me Friday with a heart cath.
larry////in the past yr the doc’s have done a bunch of test and still can’t tell me why my right leg gave out like that///i still have pain and trouble when i walk
I don’t feel great about giving Sergeant Frankel the boot from our Honor Roll.
I don’t think C 3/21 has one.
There are discrepancies I would like to see cleared up in the whole matter, Those were some tough days, with brass shedding blame as fast as possible.
I set up this site and did the research and compiled the list for our KIA’s. I have never had 100% confidence in the list. I talked to John Bates this morning and he served with John Frankel in C 3/21 and was with him the day he died. I am sure he was not a C 2/1 KIA and I will remove him from our company’s list.
Jim,
From your knowledge He was never 2/1 but always 3/21? If so I agree he should be honorary member of 2/1. How do we correct this error on other sites?
There is some information being exchanged on the 196th LIB Forum that is of interest here,
On our Killed in Action Honor Roll is Staff Sergeant John Frankel, whose death occurred early on in November 1966 in Operation Attleboro. His attribution to C 2/1 is several places on the web.
It turns out that he was, and had been for a long period, a member of C Company, 3/21.
His wife and son have sought information about his service and death for years and may now be beginning to have some gaps filled in.
The complicating thing is that the two men he was killed with both have the right assignment as C 3/21, but KIA dates (11/5/66) a day later than SST Frankel (11/4/66) and I don’t think any of them have the official cause of friendly fire, which it almost certainly was.
Even 44 years should not obscure efforts at truth and closure.
While attempts will probably made to correct any inaccuracies (as they should be), I would like to suggest that Sergeant Frankel should be welcome to be an honorary Charlie, 2/1, Grunt as well as a Charlie, 3/21, Tiger.
May God bless all of you brothers and your families and bring you a Happy and Prosperous 2011!
Ken and Tai
to all you grunts–may your air mattresses hold air all year and your C-rats be warm
Happy New Year to all and your families and friends. An honor to know you all!
Larry
Done & you are welcome.
Hey Jim Meehan…….this website is C 2/1 of the 196th…….You need C 3/21 of the 196th…….They do have a website and it is called……. charlietigers…… Good luck to you and may your buddy rest in peace Larry, Sorry to hear about your sister….I will pray for her.
thnx bill mary taylor
Larry,
What is your sister’s name & I will add her to our prayer chain here at the church. Thx
Jim,
I am sorry about your friend. I was there during that period but do not remember him. Maybe someone else will. I barely knew guys outside my platoon.
so i’m asking for prayers///prayers
hope all had a great holiday…need to ask for a favor from all//had a call in the wk.—my younger sister has pancreactic cancer //it is in her liver already making her jaundice –the doc’s found a huge tumor and sent her st.louis for biopsy
PFC John V Folger
Co. C 3rdBn. 21INF, 196 L.I.B
2nd Platoon
APO San Francisco, Calif 96256
Happy New Years ! The above serviceman was my hometown buddy. That is his APO address that I used to write him. We both were in at the same time. I with the 3rd AmTrac Bn, 1st Marine Div, 68-69, Quang Nam Prov. We called him Jack. He was KIA early 1969. His Mother was on Flight 93 on 9/11. Her name was Jane Folger, I knew her too.
Does anyone remember my friend?
Great website and the best to all the members of the 196 LIB !!!
Jim
God has blessed us all and given us another day by waking us up this morning. Merry Christmas to all and to all a good night.
“santa just had time for a fly by.”
Pursued by green tracers? 🙂
here`s hoping all are having a MERRY CHRISTMAS with loved ones.
hope santa had time to stop at all your places. seems i remember, Christmas of 1969 santa just had time for a fly by.
At Christmas Eve service tonight I came to tears and had to come here. Can’t meet Gary’s eloquence, but I need to express myself. Christmas 1969 I was assigned to night ambush. Raised as a Christain I know God has forgiven me. My Jewish heritage tells me I am God’s chosen. We shall see when we get to the other side.
I was the one who created the Christmas tree on the nearby hillside made from det cord and smoke grenades. I loved you all then and I love you now.
I had managed to acquire a coconut and my buddy Bill Clark supplied the whiskey that we injected into the milk with the medic’s syringe. When I got back from night ambush Bill Clark and Ty Harper had finished it off. Never did get over that. We have re-enacted that a couple times together and will do it again in a couple weeks.
Merry Christmas to you all.
Brotherhood: I had enough psychology to realize we were friends in VN because of the situation we shared and also realized it was temporary as we all came from differing backgrounds and it would not last. Boy was I wrong. Besides that time we shared we also share similar paths in our lives after VN with our emotions and feelings making us brothers like no other. I feel solace here and better yet to be with you guys.
After church I have had a good time with my family, so good maybe someone should have taken these “keys” away from me. If I need to apologize I will, but my feelings are sincere. I often think of how lucky I am to be here. Feelings most people do not know or comprehend.
Gary says it best.
AMEN–very well put Gary
40 years ago, a 21 year old PFC sat inside the single strand of wire on a little OP above LZ Annette in Antenna Valley with 10 or 12 other guys. It was his first, and only, Christmas away from home and his only present to open had arrived in the mail a couple of days before. It was a box addressed to “any soldier” from a Garden Club in W. Baton Rouge, LA. It contained a few things like writing paper and ink pens, some things usuable and some not. But, it was the thought which counted.
Today, that same PFC, considerably older and hopefully wiser, waved good bye to his brood of kids, grandkids, great grandkids, sons in laws and daughters in law and even grandson in law. Altogether, that PFC is now the patriarch of a close-knit, loving family of 15 souls who gather each Thanksgiving and Christmas, plus other times, to renew themselves.
As he sits alone now in his upstairs computer room and “man cave,” which reeks of cigarettes, stale coffee and old beer, he can’t help but marvel at how this same Jesus whose birth was the reason for this gathering, has blessed him in ways which he cannot fully comprehend and certainly does not deserve.
Beginning with directing his path to Charlie Company and the group of guys from whom he would draw sustenance for the rest of his life, and bringing him safely through the war alive when the PFC himself had not only given up hope, but actively sought release from an enemy bullet or rocket, Jesus has brought him to old manhood and surrounded him with a loving family which cannot help but make the old man marvel.
Pause today, please, and count your blessings. There are more of them than you know. And give praise and glory to the author of our salvation and Lord of our lives, Jesus Christ. He deserves nothing less.
Gary;
What you have written is something that everyone of us probably want to say, but you found the right words, and put them together beautifully. Thanks,
Rick
Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to everyone.
on this christmas lets not forget those we served with ,but those who lost their lives and those that still deal with the viet nam war. god bless each of you and yours during this season. thanks for being there for me
While I have never consciously driven from Blue Balls, PA to Intercourse, PA… Living in Eastern, Ohio for the 1st 18 years of my life, I had know of them. Here in South/Central Michigan, we have “Climax”, MI… located off I-94 between Kalamazoo and Battle Creek.