Further adventures ensued in his year over there; returning home, he didn’t receive a hero’s welcome and he battled a drug problem; on the upside, he overcame that problem, got married, raised three children and co-founded his own business (Bloomington’s Associated Constructors,where he still works). Florida’s Department of Health on Saturday announced 3,406 new confirmed cases of COVID-19 — the most since May 14. I’ve never unlocked the door.”. “I mean, I met a lot of great guys but after we all got out, everybody went their own way and we never did get back together. Maubach, now 67,worked 38 years at R.R.Donnelley & Sons in Pontiac before retiring. Kindred got home from Vietnam on a Monday and returned to his job at Noble Bros. “There wasn’t much of that when we came back,” he says. “Some of the things that got back here (in the media) were not true. “We would fly to different areas as troops were manipulated, and depending on the trouble infantry would get into, fly in and help get them out,” he says. “Everything was dependent on what weather we were getting,” he says. According to The Guardian, Johnson’s affiliated group, Taking the Initiative party, announced the news on social media on Sunday. A week later, the Hudson native got a job in the then-new field of cable television. “I would catch a helicopter and go out into the field and pick up some guns and machine guns – M16s – and bring them back to work on them,” Dennison says. Along the way he encountered the remnants of a roadside massacre and witnessed other horrors of war. He married his wife, Linda, before being sent to Vietnam and they wrote each other every day. “I didn’t talk about it for years, but then I found out that it’s better if you do,” he says. The White House says it is already working on plans to vaccinate teens if a CDC advisory panel signs off on Wednesday. The assault left the troops on the base immobilized in bunkers that had been constructed to weather such an attack. “I got the memo that he was killed and I was supposed to escort his body home, but by the time they got to me, his body was already on the plane coming home,” Huber says. “Guys in our unit were killed. Carstens is a much-decorated member of several veterans organizations, including the VFW, American Legion and Amvets. Zimmerman went to Vietnam in September 1967 as a 19-year-old sergeant truck commander on an armored cavalry assault vehicle with the 11th Armored Cavalry Regiment.His base was northeast of Saigon. “Tet of ’68 was their New Year,” he says. Fifty thousand patriots formed a tunnel of applause. Bragonier says his battalion had to vacate the site “so we wouldn’t get overrun.” They went into the jungle. “We were friends but not best friends—it was hard to get close to anyone in Vietnam—but I still ask myself, ‘What if?’”. CBS's Dr. John LaPook is standing by with answers in just a moment. MATT DAVIS: We have to engage parents in the fact that vaccines are a safe and effective way to prevent that infection and help keep our whole community safe. That’s the unit I went to. Between his active duty and years with the reserves, Herrin served a total of 24 years, including three years as a recruiter. But first, CBS's Meg Oliver is going to lead us off from a new vaccination site in New York. “We heard stories about protests against the soldiers coming home, but I never had to deal with that,” says Steele. We just helped out wherever we were needed. “My grandkids both got emotional on a recent trip to Washington, D.C., when we stopped and looked at Terry’s name on the Vietnam memorial. He retired as a lieutenant colonel on Dec. 1, 1991. As members of the 1st Marine Air Wing went about their business at the main helicopter base known as Marble Mountain, the supposed civilian fishing boats on nearby Vietnamese waters presented a picture of tranquility. “The main thing was to protect each other,” he says. “I was looking down at it the whole time and spending my off-duty time in Thailand.”. via Trevor GernonThe father of the 4-year-old boy kidnapped from his bed and dumped dead on a Dallas street says he will never forgive himself for leaving his son and his twin brother with a friend while he skipped town under a cloud of legal problems.Trevor Gernon released a recorded statement on his sister’s YouTube account both apologizing for not taking care of his son Cash and asking the public not to be too hard on him.Gernon said that when he moved to Dallas, he moved in with an old friend, Monica Sherrod, and when he moved back to Houston “after an unsuccessful job hunt amongst other things,” he decided they would be better off with her.“I felt it was in the boys’ best interest to not disrupt their routine,” he said of Cash and his brother, Carter, who was not harmed and is now with his mother.“They were comfortable, they were around other kids, and from what it appeared, Monica was a trustworthy person. 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In those days, the Army didn’t offer counseling for traumatized veterans. “We dealt with tides and currents,” he says. He’s still married and has three kids and seven grandchildren. After three years, he became an intelligence officer/weather officer. Starting Tuesday (May 11), people born in 1981 and earlier will be able to register for the vaccine, says the province. The specialized soldiers were inserted or dropped into place in order to set up and operate drop zones, pickup. Now, all of this has major implications for parents who have a lot of questions tonight. “But we got out of there just lickety-split and got back in good shape. “There was so much firepower coming out of that village that we could not get up and move. “When we were evaced, the doctors and nurses thought we looked like we came from Auschwitz,” he says. It was “common” for detainees to walk home from the shelter, about 15 minutes away, the IIO was told. “I very seldom got any sleep,” he says. Beeler was a Tremont teenager when he joined the Army in August 1965. I still have the brochure.”. Carroll joined the Army at 17, right out of Bloomington High School. When Nelson Thorp got off the plane in Da Nang, Vietnam, in September 1970, the first thing that hit him was the smell. She said, ‘You can have a beer anytime you want here.’”. He was stationed at Fort Leonard Wood in Missouri. Upon his return to the United States, Willmarth, a native Tennessean, landed a job at Growmark in Bloomington in 1972. They spent extensive time in the field, once staying out on patrol for 128 days straight—“quite a camping trip,” Koos recalls. When I came home, I’d learned a lot,” says Kirkpatrick. When he went back to work, he bought himself a hat with 1st Cavalry Vietnam Veteran embroidered on it. Zimmerman, 67, who now lives in Bloomington, attended Northern Illinois University on the GI Bill. During his eight years in the armed services, Milton G. Rudsinski strongly considered making the military his career. He was a senior medical adviser to Army of the Republic of Vietnam (ARVN) hospitals and medical units in the northern provinces of South Vietnam. He got married, raised two sons and worked in a fertilizer business for 40 years. “We walked up and down mountains. “Politicians are messing up the military tremendously. He didn’t experience much combat protecting civilians, but Steele saw his fair share of enemy fire farther north in Phu Bai while serving as convoy security. The force of the impact was so great that several bodies were flung into the surrounding forest, while others remained trapped inside. But today he says he’s a better man for it. Mike Fitzgerald’s Army career went to the dogs early on. That’s the sad part; I really hate that because I had some great buddies over there.”. Only in 1976 did Kern find out his mission had been de-classified two years earlier, after Congressional hearings, and he was free to speak about it. “It was rather indiscriminate; a lot of the people that were interrogated were just detainees and turned out to be completely innocent civilians.”. His unit called for mortars “for illumination so we could see.”. After six months, he was promoted to captain and was a meteorologist attached to the Studies and Observations Group, a covert operation based in Saigon. You would see them riding their bikes and going on with their everyday lives,” says Herrin. I wasn’t afraid to learn new things. “They washed their clothes in the river. “They’ve been great to us. Yet,when it comes to Simpkins’ memories of his nearly 13 months in Vietnam, those are his alone. But I had to carry a weapon and when I went in a jeep, I was by myself.”. “That’s one of the things that induced me to go into the service,” he says. He is grateful to have survived, even as he battles prostate cancer he attributes to Agent Orange, and he worries about what today’s troops face. Born in Morton, he eventually graduated from high school in Kankakee. As flares lit the hillsides, Kindred thought, “My God, this is the real deal.”. Winterroth is glad for his time in the Army. They could fire 2,000 rounds per minute at targets as far as a mile away. It was almost like a scene from ‘Mission Impossible.’ Very dramatic for 18-and 19-year-old kids. Tolan stops speaking to regain his composure. Jess Gates of Bloomington doesn’t remember much positive about serving in the Vietnam War. Last month, the two celebrated their 46th wedding anniversary. The other serviceman was married with a family so Cann, who was single, volunteered. “I did my duty and I’ve never said too much about it. I would do it again,” said Herrin. There was no thought of danger.”. They are unbelievably forgiving considering what we did to that country. “Boy, was that a big deal,” Kindred tells a visitor to his Hudson home. Satterfeal was an Army Specialist 4 with the 716th Military Police. Carstens wants “to make the public more aware of what we really did and the sacrifices we made in doing it.”. “(It was) like we did not exist and our government is just now starting to recognize just how much they screwed us up,” he says. ‘Hung out to dry’: Young journalist fired by AP speaks out against her dismissal, Police declare curfew after thousands of revelers attend viral Tik Tok party at California beach, Fourteen people dead and a child badly injured as cable car crashes in Italy, Cameron Young wraps up wire-to-wire victory in AdventHealth Championship at Blue Hills, In pictures: DR Congo's Mount Nyiragongo erupts, sparking mass evacuation, Florida COVID update for Saturday: 3,406 cases, 22 deaths as positivity remains low, Jordan Weber-led Mizzou shuts out Cyclones, advances to NCAA Softball Super Regionals, Nationals send Orioles to 6th straight defeat, 6-5, The return of the (Wellington) Phoenix: 433 days later, Dad of 4-Year-Old Slain in Dallas Apologizes for Leaving Kids, BLM activist Sasha Johnson shot in London, Fact check: COVID-19 vaccine won't jeopardize your life insurance coverage, Michigan father of 5 dies after refusing vaccine, Former Trump advisor Michael Flynn claims the COVID-19 pandemic was fabricated to distract from the 2020 election, A Florida high school is issuing refunds to families after editing yearbook photos of 80 female students so they'd appear more modest, A doctor in Florida who died of COVID-19 left his family a baseball card collection worth $20 million, Phil Mickelson eclipses Tiger Woods, and it only took 50 years to do it | Opinion. He examined the images on a cockpit light table for movement of enemy troops that showed up as “little black dots” and radioed in what he saw. reports first … “I have heart, kidney and nerve problems; diabetes; and cancer,” says Shindel. Vietnam helped me become more insightful. It was very healing to go back and see people living somewhat normal lives.”. The kids jumped at the chance, and in two years they added about 22,000 posts, Sax says. High scores on the mechanics section of military placement tests led Brook to an assignment as a fuel systems mechanic on some of the largest cargo planes. “That was my proudest moment in the service,” he says. “I’m glad I went,” he says, “but I wouldn’t want to do it again.”, Unlike World War II, there were no huge victory parades in major cities to welcome Vietnam W…, NORMAL — The sacrifices and dedication of U.S. military veterans were saluted in special cer….
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