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  • Merry Christmas – Christmas in Vietnam

    I spent three Christmases in Vietnam. Each one of them was different but then again each of them was the same. Christmas 1969 I had arrived in Vietnam early in the fall of 1969 and had been assigned to my first team. I was at Ap Bac on our three-man team there. I was a →

  • Enduring The ‘Gun’ and other medical issues in Vietnam

    Most of us who were in the army in the 1960s can tell some interesting stories about medicine. I think one of the most ‘endearing’ stories deals with the infamous vaccination gun. I can remember as a buck private standing in a long line of other soldiers and as you looked up the line you →

  • Love and War

    It was a sad moving day for Colonel Paul Tyler, US Army retired. After the loss of his beloved wife, Katherine, to breast cancer, he had decided to sell their large five-bedroom house in Tilden, Indiana and move to a two-bedroom condo in the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia. As they were clearing out the house →