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Date Posted: Mon, March 12 2007, 10:15:32
Author: Dave Wright
Author Host/IP: email.ci.grants-pass.or.us / 68.185.0.17
Subject: Re: Looking for information
In reply to: Jaimie 's message, "Looking for information" on Fri, March 09 2007, 12:57:29

Basic training was hard, but good. I was in the best physical shape of my life. The Drill Sargents yelled a lot but I didn't take it personnally. It was hard to give full attention during the various classes even with the Instructors screaming, "you're all go'na die if you don't listen up!" No one was really going to die there in basic.

Once in Vietnam, it was different. Bullets cracking by my head convinced me that someone out there really was trying to kill me. Shit! "What was that training about?"

It was like stepping into another universe, where everything we learned growing up didn't make sense. Life was not precious, it was cheap and it could be squandered with one bad decision. Dead kids didn't get up to play Army some more.

There is no glory in killing another human being. If you were alive at the end of a fire fight, that was about as good as it got. If your buddy didn't make it, there was nothing worse.

I walked point (first man in the column) every thrid day for about ten months. I was no John Wayne. God protected me the whole time. I wouldn't wish the experience on my worst enemy, but it drove me to find what is truly good and right like nothing else could.

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>Basic training was hard, but good. I was in the best >physical shape of my life. The Drill Sargents yelled >a lot but I didn't take it personnally. It was hard >to give full attention during the various classes even >with the Instructors screaming, "you're all go'na die >if you don't listen up!" No one was really going to >die there in basic. > >Once in Vietnam, it was different. Bullets cracking >by my head convinced me that someone out there really >was trying to kill me. Shit! "What was that training >about?" > >It was like stepping into another universe, where >everything we learned growing up didn't make sense. >Life was not precious, it was cheap and it could be >squandered with one bad decision. Dead kids didn't >get up to play Army some more. > >There is no glory in killing another human being. If >you were alive at the end of a fire fight, that was >about as good as it got. If your buddy didn't make >it, there was nothing worse. > >I walked point (first man in the column) every thrid >day for about ten months. I was no John Wayne. God >protected me the whole time. I wouldn't wish the >experience on my worst enemy, but it drove me to find >what is truly good and right like nothing else could.
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