Posted on Mar 18, 2019
Have you ever tried to reconnect with buddies from your past, past tours of duty? Were you successful? How?
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I have written many blog postings about my tour of duty in Vietnam and compiled them into a journal that I make available for free on Smashwords. Basically, I have included almost everything I remember of that time and still I get requests for more. A recent request from a young woman whose father, Sgt Levi Carl Warner Jr from corpus Christi Texas, now deceased, who served there during the same time as I ('67 to '68) asking for anything I could tell her to help her write a book about him. She says that he served with Charlie Company, 9th Infantry Division. Obviously, she doesn't know that she's missing some unit identification there. I have responded to her message to let her know that I'm reaching out, here on RP and other social media groups targeting Vietnam Veterans. Even if you don't know this person, there are many who would appreciate suggestions about connecting with buddies from prior tours of duty. I would like to tell her, and others on similar missions, how to research their old units or the units in which loved ones served. How to reconnect with old buddies or rediscover their past, or the past of loved ones. Any suggestions will be gratefully accepted and passed on...
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Be prepared for bad news, several I chased down were by way of the obituaries. A few corresponded by email about old times, then stopped after a while.
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CPT Jack Durish I am still in touch with a fellow from BCT at San Luis Obispo and the 101st Signal BN in Korea - 1954, he lives in Glendora, CA. Truth be told, the 55 mile drive and return is at bit daunting at my age. His wife says he does not drive very well.
I am really OK w/ driving. There are no dents in my car and I always demonstrate my capability when a son is visiting!’
As the ‘toast’ goes: “Heres to us and them like us, and most of them are dead” !
I am really OK w/ driving. There are no dents in my car and I always demonstrate my capability when a son is visiting!’
As the ‘toast’ goes: “Heres to us and them like us, and most of them are dead” !
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SSG Donald H "Don" Bates
Where were you located in Korea in 54? I was at Chunchon 1954-May 1955 Chunchon Area Command and 351st THTG
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CPT Jack Durish I'd like to learn more about how you used Smashwords? Can you provide a link or a private message on you use it? I've stayed connected with First Active Commander from Belgium from 1977 to 1980 in Belgium. I've had no contact with anyone from my days at Fort Ord, CA (first duty station of my military career from Nov 1975 to June 1977 or BCT.
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