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Subject: Re: 1968 CHRISTMAS

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Jack Inman

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Date Posted: 18:18:30 05/25/00 Thu
In reply to: . 's message, "Re: 1968 CHRISTMAS" on 10:56:55 04/27/00 Thu

> > >I spent Christmas Eve, flying snoopy mission out of Fire Base Mary Lou, looking for anticipated NVA Christmas Eve attack on Khontum. We found some, ID'd them, and flew out of there as fast and low as we could because the artillary (gobs of artillary) had to cease fire precisely at 1800 hrs. It was one of the most bizzare moments of my tour. All Hell was breaking lose above and around us when all of a sudden it was almost dead silence even though the helicopter was of course making its whop-whop drone. Weird.
That evening I remember we watched Elizabeth Taylor in "Taming of the Shrew" at the outdoor Mary Lou theater. I didn't know a soul there, but as always, we were all buddies that night and it was a cease fire. The next morning, my C.O. from Camp Enari, Capt. Ross, had a Loach come to Mary Lou and pick me up for a "mission" in Dak To which turned out to be to take me to see my buddies I had lived with for about 3 months TDY. It was good to see them again and we had a great party on the airstrip. Peace on Earth that day, but of course it didn't last. I flew another 400 missions after that.

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Author: GERALD L GREEN MSG RET. [ Edit \| View ]	Date Posted: 15:54:06 11/29/01 Thu >> >OPSGT 2/8 INF. (MECH) 1968