Perhaps I missed a promotion.
My husband spent 3 tours in Viet Nam. He is a decorated war hero.....2 silver stars, 5 bronze stars with a V for valor and, I always get this number wrong, but I think 6 purple hearts. The last bullet he caught (he was/is 6' 5' tall and always claimed to be a great bullet catcher.) 50 caliber in his right arm. He was carrying one of his wounded troops (he was the Captain and at one point by the was was the youngest Captain in the US Army at the age of 23). Ok, he was carrying this young man whose leg had been amputated at the hip by a 50 caliber round when a tracer bullet burned across Jerry's chest and broke the major bone in his upper arm and blew away his triceps muscle . When he called me from Japan he wasn't sure if he would come home with an arm or not.
He did but I had to learn to bandage it before they would let him leave the hospital.
Jerry was a Ranger, Airborne, Special Forces, Pathfinder. He volunteered for his last tour even though I was pregnant with our first child who was born 5 weeks before he went back.
He said that he had to go back. Said that he knew a great deal and might be able to keep some mother's son alive because he was there in command.
He did. I was with him some time later when in a former soldier came up to him in a restaurant and thanked Jerry for saving his life.
I am burdening with you with this because?
I am delighted for everyone of your winners. God bless them.
However, if you have ever had a promo or contest honoring any Viet Nam veterans and/or their families I have missed it.
We have a newborn grandson in Scottsdale and would be there in a heartbeat if we could afford the flight, hotel and rental car! Outside of that nothing is preventing us from going . The car we drive is a 1998 Caddy with a fried AC compressor. Our only car with working AC, a '95 Lincoln Town Car died last week. The salvage company gave us $165.00 for it.....Wow.
Our kids don't have any room for us if we come and probably can't afford for us to be there anyway.
Writing this has been stupid. Sorry, I am hurting and needed to vent somewhere.
Thank you for listening.\
Barbara Andrews
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