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| Eddie Johns |
| Posted on: March 29th, 2012, 12:05pm |
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| march 29,1971 was my first day home from Viet Nam. I often wondered what the guy's were thinking on this morning. I was with C/3/21/196 and spent part of Nov. and Dec.70 on L.Z. Mary Ann. Remember being being sapper probbed.March 28, 1971 L. Z. Mary Ann was overan. I still pray for those Brothers every March 28-29. |
Eddie Johns C3/21 6/70-3/71 |
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| Jim Gray |
| Posted on: March 29th, 2012, 9:58pm |
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Big Member Sept 67-Sept 68 D 3/21 and HHC
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Eddie
Welcome home brother |
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| Cotton |
| Posted on: August 16th, 2012, 8:28pm |
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| Welcome home. Glad you made it. Was only a few clicks from Mary Ann when she was overrun. Close enought to hear the explosions and small arms fire. Too far away to get there in time to help. We could only watch from that distance - helpless feeling. Knew lots of the guys KIA and wounded. I also think of them. God be with them. |
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| Jim Armstrong |
| Posted on: August 16th, 2012, 11:46pm |
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I apologize for butting into your thread, but whenever I see dates like March, 1971 it hits me that the Fort Devens/Sea Transport 196ers had already been home for almost four years by then!
Jobs, school, marriage, kids.
And American soldiers would continue to be killed for four more years after that!
As for learning the "lessons" of Vietnam, we have spent two years more than that in Afghanistan.
Who benefited then and continue to benefit now from these seemingly endless wars but the Pentagon bureaucracy and "defense" contractors? |
Jim Armstrong
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| Jack Krohn |
| Posted on: August 18th, 2012, 1:55am |
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Big Member  1stPlt A 3/21 - 1971
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| Jim, there were 4 KIAs on the last 3/21 patrol in Aug72 |
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