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Date Posted: Wed, October 17 2007, 13:19:37
Author: Jim Epperson
Author Host/IP: NoHost / 148.141.31.89
Subject: Re: Anyone that knew George W. Weldy Jr.

Ruby, I did not know George, but my best friend since I was four years old was Kenny Gilliam, a Marine in George's unit who also died on that fateful day. I had spent 18 months in Vietnam in the Air Force and had just been discharged on January 29, 1969. Kenny and his unit were dispersed to Vietnam of Christmas Day of 1968 and he wrote of "changing the world", and what fine men he was serving with. Two months later to the day, he was killed. I was called out of a college classroom by our minister to go with him to tell Kenny's grandmother that he was dead. Even though I had been in Vietnam and seen what was going on, it was on the day Kenny was killed that I lost my innocence. Although I think of him almost every day, I had seen nothing in writing about him until I stumbled across your posting while exploring an idea of writing an article about him. Since you were only eight months old when George died, I hope you will take comfort in the fact that his sacrafice and those of others really did make a difference in that God forsaken place.

Jim Epperson

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