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Date Posted: 06:10:10 02/11/00 Fri
Author: tom ziegler
Subject: Re: 513th engr co. (dt)
In reply to: Max Stephens 's message, "513th engr co. (dt)" on 08:59:44 02/08/00 Tue

> Hi ya, boys - I'm still looking for anybody from the
> 513th who served anytime between June 68 & June 69.
> Do any of you recall an accident I had with a little
> girl? I believe it was somewhere near Qui Nhon, I
> can't remember. We were hauling asphalt and paving the
> road somewhere between Qui Nhon and Ahn Kay. The road
> was down to one lane of traffic. The right lane had
> fresh pavement. It came my turn to proceed up the
> road. About half way up a Vietnamese bus jumped the
> gun and headed in my direction. He pulled onto the
> fresh pavement and screwed it all up. The paving crew
> stopped the bus and waved me though. I had to run up
> on some bushels of grass that was on the side of the
> road in order to get around the bus. I didn't see the
> child that was squatting down in front of a bail of
> this grass and I ran over her with a 5 ton dump truck.
> Our XO saw this happen and he saved my life. I stopped
> the truck after I was flagged down by a GI driver who
> was stopped at the other end and saw me run over this
> girl. I flipped out and the only thing I remember is a
> gook cop pointing a gun at me and my XO pointing his
> carbine at the cop. The XO finally got the cop to drop
> the gun and he told me to 'un-ass the AO' I followed
> orders gladdly. This incident had me screwed up for a
> while but I put it behind me and kept on trucking -
> until about 10 mos ago when I went down in a crisis
> and found out about PTSD. Now I need to find this XO.
> Fat chance! No records of the time period, can't find
> anyone from the company who might remember, no mention
> of it in btn records.
> I found out that I have four other major stressors
> left over from the war but running over this little
> girl has ripped my heart out, even if it was an
> accident.
> The 513th had about 110 men in it - where the hell are
> you people?

Let go and let God,
good luck buddy.
tom

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  • Re: 513th engr co. (dt) -- James Delamater, 18:46:32 09/11/05 Sun
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