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Oct. 30, 1968 – Quan Loi, Vietnam
We were supposed to go on an air assault today, but we aren’t going until our artillery and gun ships get here….Fooled Again, we are making a sweep thru the rubber plantation outside Quan Loi right now. Christ it’s hot down here!!

Today – The World
After they figured out that we didn’t have any artillery or gun ships to support us, where we were supposed to go, they called off the charlie alpha, which was probably a good idea. We made a sweep thru the rubber plantation and set up for the night. We had a couple of rounds of sniper fire that night, but nobody got hurt. I thought it was going to be like this every place down South, boy was I wrong.

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.

Today – The World
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.