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this date was when we had 5 soliders of 1 st plt injury in booby trap explosion and the next day cpt smith killed by bobby trap . hope all is well with those injured and are with cpt smith family 40 years ago 1969
The bird is the word……whether it is pheasant or turkey. God bless and watch out for all the troops, past and present, especially those that will be away from home for the holidays.
Happy Thanksgiving wishes to all. I have two nephews heading for the middle east in the couple of weeks and one is Army infantry going to Afghanistan. I hope they are enjoying the holiday too as they will Xmas away.
Happy Thanksgiving to everyone and to Larry for making all this possible.
I wish all my brothers and their families a very bountiful and joyous Thanksgiving. We all have much to be thankful for especially the brotherhood that Larry has brought together for us! God bless you all!
We have much to be thankful for: Happy Thanksgiving to you and your.
Hi Rock. No excuse. Just busy working (not making money, just trying to!) Sometimes I get distracted from one thing or another.
Met a local guy the other day. Drafted a week before me (April 68). He was an MP and did stuff like escorting convoys or something. He got hit fairly bad and went home after 5 months. I remember my cousin was an MP during Tet and I’m pretty sure he saw more combat than I did. I remember them at Hawk hill with clean uniforms, shiny jeeps and brand new M-60s that never got fired.
I went to a wake a few weeks ago. 27-year-old Green beret who died in a helicopter crash in Afghanistan. I had coached him and his twin sister in soccer when they were 7 years old, with my daughter. that’s two from my neighborhood. The other was Navy Seal Micheal Murphy, who got the CMOH (died in 2005 in Afghanistan also). It seems odd that both were special forces guys. But, I guess the odds are worse for them. More training, more expertise, tougher-but in worse situations more often.
HAPPY THANKSGIVING to one and all.
I got home this morning from Larrys. What a great time my son-in-law and I had. It was good to see Larry, Judy & Rex again.
One of my recurring dreams is to be in a situation, needing a weapon but unable to find one. Can you even imagine what these men & women felt as the firing started with no cover or weapon to defend themselves. To excute him is what he wants but life in solitary confinement with Christian hymns playing 24 hours a day might be a nice sentence with water boarding at odd times a nice add on.
I do pray for his soul and salvation as well as my own but the human side is in me also. Always remember unless he sees the “true light” he faces a judge and punshment we can not imagine. Sorry for the sermon but it is one to be remembered.
I want to thank Wally Searight for a generious donation for the web site before he left here yesterday!
Chuck: Your photos have now been updated.
What a surprize for him when he finds out the virgins aren’t women……
Infantry…. Where have you been hiding?
Jim,
I’ve never seen a guy in a wheelchair hung but I think that would be quite a spectacle. Just think the dumb bastard won’t be able to do much with his 77 virgins being paralyzed.
So. The Fort Hood bastard is paralyzed from the waist down. I have a nice idea. How about we hold him up by the shoulders and nail him to the wall for the firing squad, with nice big nails with dull points. Jeez. I didn’t know I could be this brutal. As bad as combat was for us and for these guys today, what could be worse than to be killed by this sob in the middle of an army base on U.S. soil?
Gary,
Wish I could come but my wife has me home by dark. Thanks for the invite.
Wally Searight and his son-in-law Terry Moore just left this morning. We have been hunting pheasants mostly but a lot of prairie dogs also. With the skeet shoot, I think Wally said that he had shot over 200 rounds of 12 gauge shotgun shells and around 400 rounds of 17 HMR rounds. They took home several birds. It was a fun time and I hope more of my Nam brothers take me up on my invite to the hunt next year.
While Wally was here, we worked on his photos posted to this site. We put in who everyone is in his photos and some information of what was going on if he knew. I think now his photos are more than photos with the work we have done on them. I would like to get everyone’s photos set up like this in the near future. So when I contact you about doing this, you can see what I am trying to do. Check out his photo section again.
Bill:
Some of us aren’t so “young.” LOL In fact, at least 2 of us are now in their 70’s and several more on the far side of 60.
Of course, we’d be happy to welcome you old geezers, but the hotel doesn’t provide nursing services. 🙂
Gary,
I am talking to my lawyer about an age discrimination suit since you are only accepting the young grunts of 70-71 & later at the reunion in VA. Our lawyer will call your lawyer as soon as I can find my glasses to call him after I drink my prune jucice & my nurse changes my Depends.
lololol I got a real good chuckle out of that.
The pheasant hunt is still going on as Walt Searight, his son in law Terry Moore and I are still at it. There were only 3 Charlie Grunts here. On Sunday night, Walt & I took Rex Allen up to catch the Amtrak in Lamar, which is 70 miles North West of here.
We had a very successful hunt. It snowed and rained on us Sunday, so that day was cut short. We had somewhere around 20 guys and 6 dogs in the hunt. However whenever we had our dinners, the crowd swelled to the mid thirty’s.
Walt, Terry, and Rex all got to ride and drive all our new John Deere combines while they were here as our harvest is very late this year.
I think Walt and Terry get to stay until Thursday or Friday, so I will be checking in here from time to time.
The 70-71 and later annual reunion will be held in Alexandria, VA on Aug 28-31, 2010.
We’ll be staying at the Hampton Inn/Old Town-King St. Metro hotel and the room rate is $129 plus tax and parking ($7.50 per day). The hotel is just a block from the DC Metro train station and all of Washington is at our fingertips!
If any of you other guys would like to join us, please visit our reunion website at http://hamptoninn.hilton.com/en/hp/groups/personalized/WASALHX-C21-20100828/index.jhtml or contact me directly at kiteria@graysoncable.com.
Larry: When you get your notice via snail mail, would you please post it under the “reunions” tab?
The 70-71 and later annual reunion will be held in Alexandria, VA on Aug 28-31, 2010.
We’ll be staying at the Hampton Inn/Old Town-King St. Metro hotel and the room rate is $129 plus tax and parking ($7.50 per day). The hotel is just a block from the DC Metro train station and all of Washington is at our fingertips!
If any of you other guys would like to join us, please visit our reunion website at http://hamptoninn.hilton.com/en/hp/groups/personalized/WASALHX-C21-20100828/index.jhtml or contact me directly at kiteria@graysoncable.com.
Larry: When you get your notice via snail mail, would you please post it under the “reunions” tab?
Thanks!
in reading the new DAV mag we are [vets] starting to get a bigger voice in washington praying this is a trend that will improve. what we fought for and all those that came before and after. larry hope your pheasant hunt was a great success
there have been some new info and pics added to the caringbridge.org/visit/lawrence site
i think they should leave the military goings on to the people in the military and the lawmakers to experience military life .{like Mr. Obama} i’m with sr i’ll volunter for that firing squad. even with all the media the people don’t seem to grasp the severity of it all.
Short Round,
None of us are totally sane & especially the world is not sane.
Ben is putting together a 3d platoon roster for the period Feb – March 1970 which will go into my book, The Art of Aggression: Leadership Lessons from a Year of War, as an appendix.
Would appreciate your collective help by providing Ben with rank and name, squad and if they were KIA or WIA to include the dates, even if outside of the Feb- Mar timeframe.
Thanks in advance, Mitch
todays assignment–assist s.r. in a sanity test.
politicians , thru today`s media events, are telling me waterboarding is cruel and unusual. ok–who would prefer and hour or 2 of waterboarding-or chose a monsoon season -or 2–outdoors ? did waterboarders eat cold food out of cans for a month or 2 after boarding ? did any get malaria or do leech picking after being boarded ? how many boarders picked up pieces of buddies after a booby trap ?
maybe ALL lawyers and politicians should be given BOTH of the above before they try and tell the people what is “cruel and unusual” oopppssss–let us also add the minor detail of having people with automatic weapons running around looking to kill them.
somehow i think an hour or 2 isn`t quite as “cruel” as some alternatives. am i still sane ?
larry–are all 27 of them pheasant chasers grunts ? do pheasants have slanted eyes ? will they be cooked in O.D. green cans ? make sure no 1–like rock or rex adds too much hot sauce. i`m betting –and giving 3 to 1 odds–that at least 1 guy gets bird shot plucked out of his butt. any takers ?
i was at fort belvoir on 5 nov. when fort hood news came out–un-friggen real. yea, i`d volunteer for firing squad duty.
my daughter is now stationed at belvoir. i`d tell you all her job duties, but if i did, you`d all have to re-up.
rock–any idea if it was april of 70 when we blew up that bomb ? i`m thinking it was. i blew up a mortar round booby trap sometime in that time period, up on some no where hill.
hi ben and all–ben-i was at fort polk the summer of 69, in D-3/5. at the top of our street there was a movie place and a gym , if i recall correctly. july and august were not fun months there. to top it off, some dumb future grunt cut open the 1st sarge`s prize watermelon, ate it out, then replaced it. when top saw ants on his prize, and tapped it with his foot, he turned several different colors. we did a LOT of morning runs after that.
i saw a small part of “tigerland” movie-bunch of stereo-typed nonsense–my opinion.
Rock,
If they had a contest for shooting the bull you would win hands down. God bless all our brothers and a special thought and prayer for the soldiers needlessly killed at Fort Hood. Rest in Peace!