Rudy Garzon Morris served in Vietnam as an Army tanker. Rudy’s older brother was in the Marine Corps in the mid sixties. Rudy’s father served in the US Navy during WWII. Rudy did basic training in Fort Ord, California in 1970, AIT in Fort Knox, and was in Nam 1970 to 1971. He was in Chi Chi, Pleiku, and Quang Tri, to name a few. Rudy did mark a map of Nam all of the places that he had been…..
Our father George Andrew Carter was a tail gunner in the 449th Bomb Group and 718th squadron called “The Flying Horseman.” This is his service picture, with another after service and our family picture many years later. In the back row left to right is Andy, Josephine, myself, Marianne, Colleen and Dennis with our mother, Dorothy and Dad in the front. Our dad flew 19 missions over numerous target areas in Germany, Italy and Romania. He was also part of…..
William G. Stanley was with the Army Air Corps and stationed in Grottaglie, Italy in 1944. His son, Randy Stanley, a Vietnam Veteran has a list of his missions and an abbreviated account of his father’s wartime experiences. William was a bombardier in a B-24 during WWII. He’s still alive and at the age of 93 and has finally been able to talk about it. William was a bombardier with the 449th Bomb Group in the 719th squadron and flew…..
William G. Stanley was with the Army Air Corps and stationed in Grottaglie, Italy in 1944. His son, Randy Stanley, a Vietnam Veteran has a list of his missions and an abbreviated account of his father’s wartime experiences. William was a bombardier in a B-24 during WWII. He’s still alive and at the age of 93 and has finally been able to talk about it. When his son, Randy was about thirteen, he found his father’s war diary. He read…..
Kenneth Richard Holt was drafted in to the army in 1968 at age 19 and was sent to Vietnam within five months where he was in the infantry. This is a formal service picture of Ken and the other as a door gunner in Vietnam. During one mission into a village, he started to fall into a punji pit but his 60-pound backpack helped him to throw his weight backwards. His leg was wounded in the pit though, which earned…..
I was in the Air Force as a medic from 1977 to 1982, Eglin Air Force base. I have been actively looking for my service picture but cannot find it. Since I served during peacetime, the only service picture that I have is of my graduation from basic training, nothing exciting. My father and five other brothers all served too. I retired from the VA after 33 years as a registered nurse and loved taking care of the Veterans, a…..
My grandpa served during WWI and my uncle served during WWII. Grandpa boarded a transport ship to go to France and by the time he got there, the war was over. My dad, James Marshall was 16 years old when he enlisted during Korea. He kept volunteering to be sent to Korea and they wouldn’t send him because they told him he was too young. Dad was stationed at Fort Bragg with the 82nd Airborne Division. He never did go…..
My name is Larry Carson, and I am a Vietnam Veteran. I served in the Army from 1968 until 1976 and was deployed to Vietnam from June 1969 until May 1970 with the A troop, 3/17 Air Cav. While I was in high school, I understood that it was my turn to do what men in our family had been doing for generations. You live here, and you have an obligation to defend our country and its citizens. My stepfather…..
My mother, father and uncle were all Marines in WWII. My brother was a Marine in 1966 to 1970, and I was in the Army. Since I had enlisted for 3 years, I thought there was a good chance that I wouldn’t go to Vietnam but I was wrong! So I went and I did my job, to the best of my ability. I was in the 1st Cav Division, MOS 12B (combat engineer) in Vietnam in February 1970 and…..
I would like to honor my Uncle John Joseph Cooney who served in WWII from 1940 to1945 in the U.S. Army. I’ve been thinking about him today, wanting to thank him for his service and sending Love to Heaven. He passed in July of 1992 suddenly with no time for a goodbye. Long ago people didn’t talk much of war. I even found his Purple Heart that nobody knew of and thought what a shame. He was a quite and…..
