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Date Posted: Mon, May 28 2018, 9:12:37 PDT
Author: Hector
Author Host/IP: 135.198-pool-nas2-lor.sccoast.net / 66.153.198.135
Subject: Memorial Day

Just winding down from two memorial weekend evens here in Myrtle Beach and proud to participate in our VVA Honor Guard. There was an open house at the Vet Center on Friday, then my two hour can shake at Sams Club & today the parade at the former Myrtle Beach AFB. Lest we forget, the Memorial Day Weekend & day means more to the folks that served and the connected families of the fallen than a very fair number of fellow Americans. Although Myrtle Beach is a great veteran community there is a noticeable nonchalance & “holiday” atmosphere as well.
Yesterday evening I happened on a Nat Geo documentary, Brothers in War, that covers the Vietnam experience of Charlie Co. 9th Infantry Division. Mostly draftees, deployed as a group to Bear Cat, “the arm pit of Vietnam” in one grunts words. I thought about my buddy Mike in NJ a US Amy medic in Charlie company who survived his tour, as well as the many of us that served in IV corpse. Later we were to learn, from 1967 on, that was the start of the the realization as Bill Reynolds 2nd platoon leader stated in the film, regarding an LA times article that depicted the June 19, 1967 battle of Can Giouc, “That America is not with us”. l was touched and humbled by revisiting an indelible history that appears to be dying as our own lives wain.

Today, on this Memorial Day, I salute you and all those that served and paid the ultimate price by making the ultimate sacrifice. It is also somewhat appropriate, that a good part of the east coast is being deluged by tears of rain as a reminder of this solemn day.

In closing I end this with a quote by Frank McGee, NBC news after the Can Giouc battle. “Right or wrong, for better or worse never have so many Americans had so many doubts, and never have we been less united. This attitude is not lost on the men who fight in Vietnam. But for them as for all men who fight in all wars, their is only one meaningful reality...... life or death”.

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