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From: Larry K. Clark lsclark@ix.netcom.com
Sent: Wednesday, July 12, 2000 6:08 PM
Found this interesting picture on the following web site.
http://www.flagsys.com/vietnam/605-boneyard.htm
Larry Clark
Gunslinger 37
Phu Loi 65-66
From: Bryan Sams
bryan
Sent: Saturday, April 22, 2000 2:44 PM
My name is Bryan Sams I served tour 04/70 to 03/72 with 128th &
135th as an AC. I am looking for patches of both Witchdoctors &
Gunslingers for new flight jackets. Any info would be greatly appreciated.
Thank You, Bryan Sams
From: Bob Jones
txbob@bigfoot.com
Sent: Tuesday, April 18, 2000
I did some research on the names on the Tomahawk Memorial Page...the
website is listed at the end. Thought you might could use it...if not "no
biggee." I was curious about some of the names that "sounded
familiar," 30 years later a lot of things "sound familiar!"
Some show "no record," I'll check other places for them and keep ya'
posted...BJ
CASUALTY RECORD - 128th AHC
RICHARD LEE BAUMAN - Columbus, Ohio - CWO - Cambodia - 01/08/79
(?-BJ)
PAUL EUGENE BONNETTE - Springfield, Massachusetts - SP4 - South
Vietnam - 11/25/68
MICHAEL ERVAN BRADY - Newport, New Hampshire - SP4 - South
Vietnam - 01/28/67
MICHAEL EDWARD BURNS - San Jose, California - SP4 - South Vietnam
- 07/12/70
PFC JAMES CONRAD CARMEN - no record
CHARLES HENRY CUMMINGS - Hadley, Massachusetts - SP4 - South
Vietnam -
03/12/70
LEONARD DWIGHT CUNNINGHAM - Pulaski, Tennessee - CWO - South
Vietnam -
03/12/70
JAY THOMAS DANDURAND - Riverdale, New Jersey - WO - South Vietnam
- 03/12/70
JAMES LEO DARCY - Helena, Montana - WO - South Vietnam -
04/06/67
CRAIG MITCHELL DIX - Livonia, Michigan - SSGT - Cambodia -
10/27/78
GERALD ANDREW DORR - Gardiner, Maine - WO - South Vietnam -
01/28/67
ALGER EDGAR DURELL JR - Fair Oaks, California - SP4 - South
Vietnam - 04/06/67
GREGORY CHARLES ENGEL - Van Nuys, California - CAPT - South
Vietnam - 07/24/69
PATRICK DALE FINCH - Rockford, Illinois - SP4 - South Vietnam -
06/04/69
GEORGE HOWARD GLAWSON JR - Toms River, New Jersey - WO - South
Vietnam -
06/01/71
BOBBY GLENN HARRIS - Mission, Texas - SSGT - Cambodia - 04/16/79
WILLIAM RAYMOND HARTWELL - Indianapolis, Indiana - CWO - South
Vietnam -
01/10/68
RAYMOND LEE HOPKINS - Naturita, Colorado - SP4 - South Vietnam -
10/05/68
JOHN CHARLES HUGHES - Redlands, California - SP4 - South Vietnam
- 11/23/67
CHARLES SUTHERLAND HYMERS - Erie, Pennsylvania - 1LT - South
Vietnam - 02/04/67
CHARLES MANUWAHL KALANI - Paia, Hawaii - SP4 - South Vietnam -
01/01/72
LEE MYRL LESHEN - Philippines, Other - SP5 - South Vietnam -
02/12/70
TERRY LEE MANZ - Milwaukee, Wisconsin - 1LT - South Vietnam -
01/28/67
OSCAR CLEMENT III MAYER - Lititz, Pennsylvania - WO - South
Vietnam - 06/04/69
WO1 THOMAS MICHAEL MCDONALD - no record
SP4 GARY DOUGLAS MCNICHOL - no record
DENNIS LEE MEDUNA - Dickinson, North Dakota - SP4 - South Vietnam
- 06/01/71
MICHAEL MERENO - San Jose, California - SP4 - South Vietnam -
02/10/70
THOMAS CHARLES MICHEHL - Santa Maria, California - CWO - South
Vietnam -
06/01/71
RICHARD ERIC NEWTON - Columbus, Ohio - CAPT - South Vietnam -
04/06/67
WILLIAM JR PISHNER - Tracy, California - CWO - South Vietnam -
03/10/70
RONALD JAMES REDENIUS - Fulda, Minnesota - WO - South Vietnam -
10/05/68
PAUL BRUCE SEVERLOH - Temple City, California - PFC - South
Vietnam - 01/28/67
JOHN CHARLES TINGLEY - Kathryn, North Dakota - SGT - South
Vietnam - 01/10/68
MICHAEL DENTIS TURNER - Ft. Leonard Wood, Missouri - SP5 - South
Vietnam -
06/04/69
DONALD LYNN WANN - Shawnee, Oklahoma - CWO - South Vietnam -
06/01/71
SP4 SCOTT WILLIAM WYATT - no record
EDWARD OTTO WEIMAN - Tampa, Florida - WO - South Vietnam -
10/05/68
CHARLES WATSON WILLINGHAM - Batesville, Mississippi - SP4 - South
Vietnam -
10/05/68
JOSEPH VINCENT ZAPPINI JR - Orlando, Florida - WO - South Vietnam
- 06/04/69
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Source:
http://www.militaryusa.com/vietnam_casualties.html
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Bob Jones - txbob@bigfoot.com
From: Waugh, Mike (GEAE)
Mike.Waugh@ae.ge.com
Sent: Wednesday, July 19, 2000
Subject: VHPA Reunion Washington D.C.
Bill,
I don't know if you ever got the below message.... I did not have your e-mail
address at work so sent to the web master address.... Also, with all the fire
walls we have on our systems, I never know if anything outside of GE makes it
out.... Anyway, here is a run down of the VHPA reunion in D.C. .... I have
gotten copies of Joe Galloway's remarks from all kinds of places (people
who had nothing to do with Helicopters except being the grunts who were along
for the ride!!)..... I am beginning to get the feeling that if you haven't
gotten a copy yet, you are not in touch with anyone!
On another note, I read a couple of your stories yesterday.... I think we can
all think of times that some force much stronger than anything we can come up
with intervened on our behalf, I know I have at least two such incidents.
Peace, Mike
(Remarks prepared for delivery Sunday July 2, 2000, at VHPA Memorial at
The Wall)
Is there anyone here today who does not thrill to the sound of those
Huey
blades?? That familiar whop-whop-whop is the
soundtrack of our war……the lullaby of our younger days. To someone who spent
his time in Nam with the grunts I have got to tell you that that noise was
always a great comfort.
It meant someone was coming to help…..someone was coming to get our wounded
……someone was coming to bring us water and ammo……someone was coming to
take our dead brothers home…..someone was coming to give us a ride out of
hell. Even today when I hear it I stop…..catch my breath…..and think back to
those days……
I love you guys as only an Infantryman can love you. No matter how bad things
were….if we called you came. Down through the green tracers and other visible
signs of a real bad day off to a bad start. I would like to quote to you from a
letter Gen. William Tecumseh Sherman wrote his friend Gen. Ulysses S. Grant at
the end of the Civil War: "I knew wherever I was that you thought of
me, and if I got in a tight place you would come---if alive." That
was always in our minds and that is how we thought of you.
To us you seemed beyond brave and fearless…..that you would come to us in
the middle of battle in those flimsy thin-skinned crates…..and in the storm of
fire you would sit up there behind that plexiglass seeming so patient and so
calm and so vulnerable…..waiting for the off-loading and the on-loading.
We thought you were God's own lunatics…..and we loved you. Still do.
We are gathered here this morning to appreciate the lives and honor the
memory of 2,209 helicopter pilots and 2,704 helicopter crewmen who were killed
while doing their duty in the Republic of Vietnam between May 30,1961, and May
15, 1975. Theirs are some of the names among the 58,220 on this precious Wall.
So many good men…..so many good friends.
Before I come here I always remind myself of what another good friend…Captain
B.T. Collins…. who is now gone….liked to say at gatherings like this:
"No whining and no crying! We are the fortunate ones! We survived…..when
so many better men gave up their precious lives for us. We owe them a sacred
debt…..to live each day to its fullest….trying to make this world a better
place for our having lived and their having died."
So we come here today to remember them…..and to celebrate their lives and
their deeds. I like to come here at dawn……or around midnight…….when
things are so quiet you can hear their voices. What they are saying…..when you
listen hard enough……is this: We are at peace; so should you be…….so
should you be.
I would like to close by reading you from something written by a World War I
poet named Lawrence Binyon:"They shall not grow old, as we
that are left grow old,Age shall not weary them…..nor the years condemn.At the
going down of the sun, and in the morning,We will remember them!"
God bless all our absent friends……and God bless you.
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