RE: Lest we Forget
HI MY NAME IS CHUCK AND I THOUGHT I TELL YOU A STORY OF A FRIEND OF MINE. HE WAS IN THE ARMY AND THE GROUP OF GOOD MEN WERE TOLD TO HOLD AND SECURE A PEACE OF DIRT FROM THE EMENEY. THEY WERE TAKEN HEAVY FIRE ALL AROUND AND MEN WERE DROPING LEFT AND RIGHT. THEN CAME THE ORDER TO FALL BACK. UNDER FIRE HE CARRIED MEN HE WOULD PICK THEM UP THROW THEM OVER HIS SHOULDER AND HEAD FOR THE L.Z. HE LOADED THE CHOPPER UP AND AS THE CHOPPER LIFTED OFF HE HEADED BACK IN TO THE FIRE FIGHT TO PICK UP MORE WOUNDED AND CARRIED THEM BACK FOR THE NEXT CHOPPER TO LAND AND PICK UP THE WOUNDED. AGIAN UNDER HEAVY FIRE HE RAN BACK IN TO THE FIRE FIGHT TO HELP HIS FRENDS. THERE WERE ONLY 5 LEFT. THEY COULD HERE THE CHOPPER COMING SO MY FRIEND GRAB UP THE ANOTHER WOUNDED AND RAN TO THE L.Z. THE CHOPPER WAS JUST LANDING AS HE LOADED THE WOUNDED MAN INTO THE HE TURN AND SAW HIS CAPT. HOW WAS THE ASSULT COMMANDER FALL TO THE GROUND MY BUDDY JUMP OUT OF THE CHOPPER AND RAN TO HIS AID PICK HIM UP THROUGH HIM OVER HIS SHOULD AND HEADED BACK TO THE CHOPPER. THEN IT HAPPEN . HE TOOK A ROUND IN THE BACK AND AS HE LIFTED HIS CAPT. INTO THE CHOPPER HE TOOK ANOTHER ROUND THROUGH HIS KNEE. HE WAS THE LAST MAN LIFTED OFF AND THAT PEICE OF DIRT WAS CALL HAMBERGER HILL HIS NAME IS TOM CORRUTHERS. HE IS MY CO-WORKER AND I AM PROUD TO HAVE HIM AS MY FRIEND AND FISHING BUDDY.