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No bells on my in as I was there 11/68-11/69. But at my age my bells don’t ring very often anymore.
Didja ever feel this way?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZzU9FgNTYrU&feature=related
Larry Fry: No, sorry. I don’t know him.
thanx gary needed that just hoping somebody might have on a old roster somewhere with eiher on it. names like HAWK HILL CHU-LAI -HILL 251 BALDY just don’t leap out you in a conversation least you have heard them/been there.
lt-mitch-larry-gary anyone else that might have input.
i may be spelling last name wrong but it shure has familar ring to it they are brothers in the true since——————————-JACK & AMES ROSENBAUMB they were with c co. 68/9 told him of site so he might come in
guys i rember rvn——————maleria/106.5 temp———————-being wounded 40 yrs ago[ sometime this month]——————what i don’t remember is the pain being as intense as this——other things—- motar rnds overhead——–bullets passing by so close you reach out and catch them. the c-rats-the long periods of wet socks and fatiques-water buffalo passed off as usa steaks. i have an appointment at va tommorrow ready to ask for surgery whatever they need to get rid of the pain. i hope none has to go this prayers to all my brethern
update————gallbladder gone [the sooner the better i say] wait and watch on anerysium
STOP can’t do any surgery till heart better
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I don’t remember the typhoon Clay was talking about because I wasn’t there yet. I do remember a typhoon which came through while we were in the rear at Danang. It tore up a lot of stuff. I also remember some kind of storm which came by while we were in Antenna Valley, but I don’t know if it was a typhoon or not. All I remember of it is huddling against a palm tree on guard duty to shield myself from the wind, and the tree would bend over me and nearly touch the ground before springing back up again. It was a notably miserable night among many miserable nights.
gary–snowbird lou and wife left yesterday, after a nice visit here. showed him a few pre kham duc pics and a few K.D. pics. i remember hearing about that typhoon, sure glad i missed it. yes, far as i remember, hiep duc and LZ siberia were at extreme arty range. seems i should remember more about the typhoon, was in chu lai then. didn`t some aircraft go up to da nang to avoid the typhoon, ?
Come on guys! How about jumping on the web link to Caringbridge below for Lawrence(Larry) Fry and give him some words of encouragement. He is our brother and Lord knows he is going through a heck of a lot!
Clay:
You’re right. I remember how all you guys who were on that operation called it the “Tam Ky Death March.”
Re: Where the company was in Sept & Oct, ‘70–My first time out in late Sept/early Oct must have been around Hiep Duc or south of there. We were near extreme range for artillery support. A typhoon came through, the choppers couldn’t come get us so we walked 20-25 clicks over two days in a driving rain til we got where trucks could get to us. We then went east several clicks by truck to Tam Ky and then north to HH. After that we operated in the hills west of Baldy or in Happy Valley northwest of Baldy until we went to Antenna Valley a week or two after Thanksgiving. Gary Capshaw’s timeline is correct after that.
Lt,
Color me cyber space dumb! Thanks. As for you Larry Fry you have won many a battle in life and you will win this one.
like to say thanks to all who have responded———————THANK-YOU
Bill,
I have been in it today. Try http://www.caringbridge.org/visit/lawrence
LT,
Site deactivated. Larry Fry my best wishes.
Ben Buhler:
I have some money in Charlie Company checking account that some of our brothers donated for the Doc Rimmer scholarship fund. Can you get the details as to when the ceremony will be this year so that if anyone wants to attend they have time to plan for it? Also, if anyone wants to donate to the fund, I will collect and remit to the scholarship fund for Charlie Company. Let me know if you are interested in helping out.
Hey brothers! We cannot visit brother Larry Fry in the hospital but the next best thing is to send him words of encouragement at Caringbridge.org. His site is Lawrence Fry!. It is easy to sign up and get in touch with him. I would certainly hope that all who attended the St. Louis reunion and met him and his wife Frances would get on board!
Owen,
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as some you know i have been having more health problems it got to the point of hospitalization. today the doc’s done a sonigram and found a 3.5 cm anaurysum in my stomach my info is on the roster page
I am always amazed at the postings of those who came before & after me. The names change on where the fire fights took place, the fire base names change, our KIA’s continued, new friends are made in each time frame, and we will always be brothers for eternity even though we may have never met because of these bonds.
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So ol’ “Snowbird” Louie is coming to visit? Tell him I said Hi.
i left RVN on 22 oct of 70. a week prior i caught a ride out to hawk hill and spent my last nite out there with 1st platoon, then back to chu lai . not sure where they were prior to that, and after leaving kham duc on 26 aug of 70. C. company did have a 3 day stand down in chu lai, i believe early to mid sept of 70,. i`ll see lou laparl tomorrow and ask him about sept and oct of 70. lou is here in AZ, away from the back east snows.
Janie!
How’s things in Ar-kan-sawww!
I tried to send you an email the other day, but it bounced back. I guess I’ve lost your new one.
For those who don’t recognize Janie, she was married to the late SFC Ronald Stailey, who was the 2nd PLSGT in 1970-71. She’s family.
Hello Gary, every now and then I come onto this site. Found a couple of pics of Ron on this trip. Was nice, although nostalgic, to see. Copied them to my file. If you come across any more, I’d appreciate being copied. (SFC Ronald Ira Stailey)
welcome janie to this site we put our other half thru alot so again i say welcome
LT:
I’m sure it’s me that is wrong. Since I got there in November of 70, I doubt they went back sometime between August and November. Someone else who knows may come along and straighten me out. Whenever it was, people who were there talked about it a lot. Kham Duc became like the standard of bad operations, until Antenna Valley and it was the standard until the DMZ. I guess since we had no institutional memory, a factor of 1 year tours, the worst area the company operated in during anyones year became as “bad as it gets.”