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Every week, Jack Jeter adds another daily entry from the diary he kept while in Vietnam
to the Message Board in the Members' Area. In addition, he adds a comment containing more
explanation of the entry or some other current observation.
Vietnam Diary is
a compilation of those entries thus far.
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Edd Holtz's short story To Kill and Be Killed is a
powerful and
probing account of the emotions, apprehensions, and even anguish of a squad leader
as he guides his men on point in the jungles of Vietnam. Warning:
the language and the description of violence and death in this story are
quite graphic.
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Point Man
is an excellent poem written in 1969 by Paul Decker's late mother, Ruth Decker.
It is amazing how she was able to describe the fears and apprehensions all of us
experienced in Vietnam. Perhaps it was related to her own anxious moments waiting
for her son to return. This poem, as well as several others she wrote, was published
in the early 1980's.
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Here is the link to an
interview
of General Barry McCaffrey (retired) by
Company Command.Com
in March, 2002.
"Outlaw 6" was the company commander of B 2/7 from November 1968 until he was
wounded in action in March, 1969.
The interview includes audio and video.
Listen especially to his responses to questions 1, 2, and 8.
And here's yet another interview of
Outlaw 6,
this one from July of 2001 by the Association of Graduates of the U.S. Military
Academy, West Point.
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Lt. Michael "Mac" McMahan was a Field Artillery Officer for the 21st Artillery,
2nd of the 7th Cavalry, in Vietnam in 1968. He was assigned to Bravo Company from August through
December of 1968.
Mac's novel,
A Breach of Faith, is about two boys, one white and one black, who grew up together in a
small rural town in North Carolina. When called upon to fight in Vietnam, an unpopular and arguably
unnecessary war, each accepted his duty and responsibility.
Mac, aka "Scarlet Guidon 28", drew heavily on his experiences with B 2/7
in describing the frustrations and sacrifices of the soldiers who fought together there.
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Howard Burbank, "Chickenman Yellow 1", of Company A, 227th Assault Helicopter Battalion, 1st Air Cavalry, explains the
derivation of the callsign
Chickenman used by his company in 1968.
Larry "Skinny" Spaulding tells a couple of stories about Chickenman 102 in the video below.
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The following contain both audio and video recordings. You must have a sound card installed
on your computer to listen to these.
There are two versions of each:
(1) for Window's Media Player (wmv and wma), and
(2) for RealNetwork's RealPlayer (rm)
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