Jeter’s Diary – Nov. 13, 1968
October 7, 2011 12:30 pm in Diaries by Jack Jeter
Nov. 13, 1968 – Outside LZ Billie, Vietnam
7:30 AM-Went out on a small patrol this morning, back in LZ at 10:45…No contact…Right now I’m at one of the observation post, outside the LZ….Nothing going on…WE are getting ready to move to a new LZ.
Today – The World
I want to tell everyone about something really strange that happened to me a few days ago. I was sitting around one day looking at “The Virtual Wall” site, reading remembrances to guys killed in Vietnam. I did a search, to see how many guys from Dallas were killed, and it listed 261 people. I went thru and read every name, the last name listed from Dallas, was a man by the name of Gary W. Cooper, Sr., since it was the very last name listed, and on a page by it self, it sorta stuck in my mind. A few days later, on a Sunday morning, as Faye and I were eating breakfast, she tells me that she would like to go to the Macedonia Cemetery in Pittsburg, Texas someday, to get some names, and dates off of tomb stones for her genealogy study she is doing on her family. We decided to go that day, so we loaded up her truck, and took off. Within two and one half hours, we were at the cemetery searching for her ancestors. I was mindlessly walking along looking at head stones, when one in particular caught my eye, because it had a young soldiers picture embedded in it. I could tell by the picture that It was from the Vietnam era. I read the name, it was Gary W. Cooper, Sr. I did my best 66 year old a-ten- hut, and saluted this guy. Any way guys, I just thought this was really weird, or is it just me, who knows?
