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To: COB1
COB1

You are a patriot, sir! I got hit in the shins by motar fire. I didn't get hit that bad. I got a Purple Heart, and I don't even claim that, but I claimed no disabliity. I was "doc"...yep, a medic..corpsmen..what ever you want to call it. It happened in such a way that the injury was slight. I dug the schrmnal out with a pair of forcepts. A little bandage and I was still on duty. I had too, I was the only "doc" for my outfit. My job was just as important as the auto/weps, or the radio man, or any rifle man in that company. They would have done the same thing. The undeclared pledge in our company was: If you ain't dead, or missin' somthing, you keep fighting, till you can't do it nomore!

I'll trust your one eye to any two I've ever known.

If they come after us, they have sealed their fate. We don't quit till we win!

78 posted on 10/03/2001 6:24:25 PM PDT by timydnuc
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To: timydnuc
"yep, a medic..corpsmen"

SALUTE
to one of the unsung heros
84 posted on 10/03/2001 6:40:03 PM PDT by 68-69TonkinGulfYachtClub
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To: timydnuc
I salute you, sir.
I didn't get the eye injury on the battlefield.
I was between Korea and VietNam so I didn't see any combat.
I'm honored to associated with those of you that did.

I'd still like the chance to use the good eye looking through the sights of one of these:


89 posted on 10/03/2001 6:56:00 PM PDT by COB1
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