trying to post some water colors I did at the hospital

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I didn't like making moccasins or putting models together so I tried this...

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This was 31 DEC 69..first day in combat with 2/22(M).. SP/4 White hits a mine and I got the CO's bloody ( literally ) radio...

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an airstrike in Cambodia

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some nameless day in Cambodia firing my .50 cal

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probably about the end of November 1969 with my first unit, the 3/22, 25th ID. This was FSB Crook where an NVA human wave attack the previous summer had resulted in 600 - 800 dead NVA and a few American wounded. There were several cleaned NVA skulls on the concertina wire around the FSB.

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done at dusk and sometimes at dawn where all guns fired for a minute to disrupt any enemy plans.. since they knew we were going to do it, not sure what real good it did.

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North of Cu Chi in the old Fil Hol rubber plantation there were lots of these, most full of clear water..

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a nameless village in Vietnam

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an airstrike in Vietnam .. I remember seeing some poor soul running for a short while thru it ..

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we tried to get empty arty or mortar shell boxes..if none..used culverts with sandbags on them

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