Jeter’s Diary – Oct. 29, 1968
June 17, 2011 12:35 pm in Diaries by Jack Jeter
Oct. 29, 1968 – Quan Loi, Vietnam
We are about thirty miles North West of Saigon and about ten or fifteen miles East of Cambodia…This is the dustiest place I have ever seen. You can’t hardly breathe in all this dust…I was taking a shower this evening and a Medivac brought in some guys from the field…There were six, five were walking one wasn’t. He was on a litter, covered up with a poncho…his back was blown away. It sure pisses you off to see another GI like that.
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At the time I made this entry, we had only been in Quan Loi a couple of days and had not seen a lot of action. I remember watching the medics unload these guys, and noticed that there was an older lady helping them. I was told later that the lady was Martha Rae. This was when I sort of realized that you could get killed in a place like this. Then all I could think about was, hey, they are going to send us out there soon, I guess I better get my stuff in order.
