One of the first job of the 173rd Airborne Brigade was to provide security for the air base at Bien Hoa. Ask him if he was at the Bob Hope show in 1965. If so, we were in the same audience.
Memories are funny things, it is strange what can trigger a memory, a familiar sight, a sound, a smell or music. One such trigger for me is a song they came out in the 60s that includes the name of a comrade. When I hear that song, it always brings me back to the day and time I heard he had been killed.
One demon that haunts many veterans is the question "why me, why did I survive, and they didn't.
Living can sometimes be harder then dying.