I’ve known some medics who were in Vietnam. Very special men those guys.
Medics, corpsmen, battlefield doctors - bless them all!
My next door neighbor told me that his cousin got a star in a big celebration.
A star?
Yes, a star that’s silver.
Whoa, nellie!
He was a corpsman in Afghanistan who risked his hide to help others.
....I’ve known some medics who were in Vietnam. Very special men those guys...
So were those in all other wars. My Father in law was a combat medic in
I Co, 7BN, 3rd Div in Korea in 1951-52.
They had to wear Red Crosses on helmets and armbands. They moved the armbands to the wrists and stuffed socks under the helmets to raise them up off the forehead because they were targets.
I have a picture of him and 4 buddies with helmets on and up laughing and pointing to the bullet hole in the helmet just above a Medic buddy in the middle man’s Red Cross.
We found his medic bag after he died full of about two dozen large safety pins neatly hanging on one safety pin and lots of bandages still in olive drab wrappers.