Chu Lai

[Timothy R. Kuhr]

Feeling a bit guilty, hearing this shit.
9th Engineers, 1st Mardiv. We had our base camp just outside the airbase on the wrong side of the road. Used to run our security patrols down to the river or across the creek and between the paddies North. ( We had a base at a hill #69 up past Tam Ky where we had a platoon set up to keep the road clean, ran a couple trips up there, to work on a bridge) and hardly ran into trouble. A grenade, a sniper, a damned crazy dog or buffalo.
Remember when the Americal moved in and got shelled right away. And the damned cannons were right over our heads. We weren't out the night of Tet - truce, right? So they came in and knocked out the bridge at ?An Tan? Damn Alszheimers. Whatever. They hit us that night like some kinda afterthought and 1KIA and 12WIA.