Thanks for the compliments bros...
Let me introduce myself. My name is Gary Jacobson. I served with B Co 2nd/7th 1st Air Cavalry '66 - '67, as a combat infantryman, we called ourselves "Grunts," operating out of LZ Betty near beautiful downtown Phan Thiet, Vietnam, participating in an event that took the innocence of many a young boy, and changed us all indelibly and forever. I'm now on 100% disability rating with an extra hole in my head and shrapnel the size of a quarter imbedded in my brain, compliments of a trip wire booby trap that triggered a grenade, that in turn detonated an artillery round...and in the process completely ruined my whole day.
I welcome you to check out my latest poetry, shared with a tribute to combat photographs taken by Henri Huet, born in Dalat, Vietnam, served in Vietnam as a combat photographer with the French, 1949 to 1952, during the first Indochina conflict.
Wounded by shrapnel as he photographed U.S. Marines at Con Thien, Huet was later killed when his helicopter was shot down over Laos in ?71, a place we never officially were... He was 43.....
"Primal Shout,"
"Mad Minute!"
http://pzzzz.tripod.com/primal.html
Song playing if you use the browser Internet Explorer is,
"The River is Wide!"