Once, I had asked him how many gooks did he kill? He looked at me as if ready to beat the tar outta me and growled, Don't you ask me that again. Message received. It was later that I learned that dad was regularly haunted by the faces of those he had killed in hand to hand.
I made the same mistake with my dad when we were sitting at the table after he got home from his first VN tour. Mom kicked my shin so hard I limped for a week.
We'll blame it on the Fat Electrician. He posted it that way, I just copied and pasted. I'd have corrected it if I noticed it, though. My bad. I'll do it now, thanks.
There is a book about Fox Company at Tocktong pass, holding it open for the regiment. Captain Ray Davis was awarded the CMH for his companies stand there. "The Last Stand of Fox Company" I highly recommend it.
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Dad was there. Age 17. Suffered the effects of frostbite for the next sixty-one years.
ReplyDeleteOnce, I had asked him how many gooks did he kill? He looked at me as if ready to beat the tar outta me and growled, Don't you ask me that again. Message received.
ReplyDeleteIt was later that I learned that dad was regularly haunted by the faces of those he had killed in hand to hand.
I made the same mistake with my dad when we were sitting at the table after he got home from his first VN tour. Mom kicked my shin so hard I limped for a week.
DeleteMinor quibble: "Chosin" not "Chosen"
ReplyDeleteWe'll blame it on the Fat Electrician. He posted it that way, I just copied and pasted. I'd have corrected it if I noticed it, though. My bad.
DeleteI'll do it now, thanks.
There is a book about Fox Company at Tocktong pass, holding it open for the regiment. Captain Ray Davis was awarded the CMH for his companies stand there.
ReplyDelete"The Last Stand of Fox Company" I highly recommend it.