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Date Posted: 06:03:48 05/27/01 Sun
Author: Donald C. Owen
Subject: memories on memorial day

Does anyone out there remember the smell of JP4 mixed with burning poop, mixed with
god knows what else? Do you remember preflighting before dawn on top of a wet, oily, slick old huey? Do you remember the sound of those blades in the distance? Do you remember the time we all had the runs and played games with Charlie anyway? Do you remember the great frog eating contest down at the O club?

I remember all of those things and a thousand more besides. Many of my memories of Nam I have discovered to be good ones. I think that all of us can say that. Most of all I remember the guys who didn't come home, and I have finally after thirty years started remembering the good things and times that we had together. I remember the bad things too, but they are tempered by the many good memories of serving in Alpha troop with the best bunch of guys I have ever known in my life.

Most of all I remember how much I loved that slow, underpowered, underarmored flying target called the UH-1H or Huey. It might not be much stacked up against the new birds they fly today, but I bet that when they fly the last Black Hawk to the bone yard, that it will be a Huey that flys the crew home.

God Bless all of the ones that we can never see again, and all of the guys that I hope to see in Denver this year.

Don (assault 80) Owen

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