LOL...I feel completely silly after reading some of these stories, but...I guess you can get yourself killed just as dead being a stupid, careless or unlucky civilian as you can being in a military helicopter spiraling towards a hostile LZ.
Thanks for your service, FRiend. Glad you made it...:)
That was just one of several exciting episodes of the south eastern vacation. MY wife (was just a girlfriend then) got very angry with me a few years later when she found my duffel bag with all the decorations I had hidden. I had her convinced I was stationed in a very boring place where nothing happened. Thinking back on it now I don’t remember being scared except for an episode where we resupplied an American firebase in Laos (6 times) under heavy rocket, mortar, machine gun (kitchen sinks)fire. My grandmother told me something woke her up and told her “Pray for that boy now!. She slipped out of bed and prayed fervently for 2 hours, and then felt a great peace, went to bed.. We figured the date out years later, and yes, the dates matched. p.s. I do NOT feel like any hero, just doing the job my uncle sent me to do.