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01 Aug

I NEVER TALKED ABOUT MY SERVICE

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My father served in the Marines in WWII and was wounded at Guadalcanal.

I served in Vietnam, with the 1st Cav from 1968 to 1970. My experiences in Vietnam certainly changed me. I never talked about my service until recently. I was married for 19 years and my ex-wife still doesn’t know that I served in combat in Vietnam. I just did my job over there as well as I could. It was something that I decided to put on a far back shelf and never bring out. I worked for Senator Birch Bayh from Indiana in the 70’s after returning from Vietnam. I served as his assistant for foreign affairs while he was on the Senate Foreign Relations committee and later as his legislative assistant for military affairs.
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Joe Galloway is pictured here with his wife Grace at a veteran’s appreciation dinner in Phoenix in October 2015. He worked as a reporter for UPI, beginning in early 1965 during the Vietnam War. Joe has helped me to talk about my war experience a little bit. I do not try to relive my time In country nor do I talk about it very much. The last photo is of 1st Cav Colonel Joe Marm, a Medal of Honor recipient. I am on the left wearing the Stetson.
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I loved being a SOLDIER. I loved the wonderful, brave men with whom it is my eternal privilege to have served. I love them still. It is the only name that I have been called that I wear proudly. It’s a name that has to be earned.

It is a name that I paid dearly with blood and tears to earn.
~ Allen Wood, Vietnam Veteran

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