[lunarbicep]

R.I.P. and God bless you brave soldier

[indcons]

BTTT

[ed1340]

"R.I.P. and God bless you brave soldier"

Thank you for you post.....but this fellow was a U.S. Marine,
not a soldier. I mean no disrespect to the U.S. Army, but the
marines are a department of the U.S. Navy. Once a Marine always a Marine.

God Bless this fine Marine and his family....Semper Fi(Always Faithful)

[Dustbunny]

He is whole once again.

[Muleteam1]

Your post reminded me of another fairly well known photo out of Vietnam. The fellow with the chest wound is Eugene Hodges of Lufkin, Texas, my neighbor and acquaintance in the 1960s. His family lived about four homes down from my family on what is now Brentwood Drive. Unfortunately, Eugene died from the wounds he received that day. It nearly destroyed his parents when they first saw the photo in, I believe Life Magazine, because it was published about the same time as Eugene's funeral. A short story of the photo can be found at http://digitaljournalist.org/issue0107/ss08.htm.

Muleteam1

[RJS1950]

I remember the event and the photo. I was 16 and living in Sioux Falls at the time. Several friends were inspired by the picture and the story to enter the Marines over the next couple of years, including me.

[Lijahsbubbe]

"This is what they tried to portray me as the big war hero and i'm not. I was just one of the injured."

Quite a contrast to John Kerry.