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melvin hodge
from
oak hill
wrote on March 24, 2021
at
10:00 pm
I don,t remenber arriveing in country.I don,t remenber this this young man in photo with M-60and m-14 beside jeep.I do remenber young men in Platoon tent who greeted me with FNG or lifer.I do remenber bottles of whisky buried in sand around tent.I remenber asking where did this all come from. I was told whem we pull guard on class VI we help our selves, when you pulled a short run no rest even then I remenber thinking what crock of s### I remenber we split a 5th of gin never did like that stuff I rember hang over the next day.I remenber being only E-5 in tent. I think I was tested that night Hopefuly I passed muster that night I remenber working all day pull guard all night .Glad to go back on Pleiku run. I remenber the first time I saw our trucks wondering if this was junk yard!! I don,t remenber young men,s faces some where in time I have lost them.I remenber hot chow at Phu Cat air base. I remenber Plam trees on the wayto LZ English and LZ Uplift I remenber we payed young Viet to climb trees and get us a coconut I remenbem we brrowed his knife to open it I think I remenber how good it tasted I rember eating sorry little bananas I don,t like to remenber Pop San,s truck in rice paddy ran out of road by one of our trucks and we laughed at him. I remenber mess Sgt at LZ English would not feed us. So we had cold C Rats again.I remenber planes droping Nalpan close to us.I remenber how it smelled I rember they said VC was to close can,t leave I remenber red mud they said looked like Ga clayAt that time I had never been to Ga I don,t remenber Rail Road bridge just what other men tell me I rember mess sgt would,n feed us again next morning ( wife asked me why not feed us some thing to do with his ration book I think) I remenber 2Lt asking if we were ready to go to phu ti H### yes we reply I remenber Enginer truck turned over spilled D9 in creek. I remenber French Bridges very narrow. i wish I could remenber all those men we did things!! we did impossible things!!!___
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