Yeah, we talked about this
a little at Franks funeral, right John?
Mine has a 9th Division emblem on one side with my name engraved under it---the other side has engraved---"When I die I know I'm going to Heaven--cause I've served my time in hell"--" Vietnam 1967--1968".
Still works---but the "flip-top" is broken----I need to take it to a jewlers to get it repaired.
I keep it my Fathers old cuff-link box.
One of the few things that made it back with me from Nam. Most all of everything else I had over there was lost (or stolen) after I got wounded. Still got my old "shot record" card, my first Social Security Card, some photos that were in my wallet (what was left of it!), a P-38, my dog-tags and a watch that I wore over there.
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Gimpy
"MUD GRUNT/RIVERINE"
"I ain't no fortunate son"--CCR
"We have shared the incommunicable experience of war..........We have felt - we still feel - the passion of life to its top.........In our youth our hearts were touched with fire"
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
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