30 Sep 2004 Years have not diminished the memory of kindness and friendship extended by "Skip" and family during my early months in Alaska. I am standing upon the seashore. A Ship at my side spreads her white sails to the morning breeze and starts for the blue ocean. She is an object of beauty and strength. I stand and watch her until at length she hangs like a speck of white cloud, just where the sea and sky come to mingle with each other. Then, someone at my side says, "There, she is gone!" "Gone where?" Gone from my sight - that is all. She is just as large in mast and hull and spar as she was when she left my side, and she is just as able to bear her load of freight to her destined port. Her diminished size is in me, not in her. And, just at the moment when someone at my side says, "There, she is gone!", there are voices ready to take up the glad shout, "Here she comes!" - And, that is dying. - Henry Van Dyke - From a friend, Scott Freeman Litchfield, New Hampshire scott157@aol.com

 

A Note from The Virtual Wall On 15 March 1968 Companies "A" and "B", 1/5th Infantry, were conducting search operations near Bao Trang. While searching a well a man from Company B passed out. A second man was lowed into the well with belt links fastened to his own belt, but he too passed out and the belt broke, dropping him into the well. A third man attempted rescue, wearing a gas mask, but he too passed out. He was pulled out and a fourth man was lowed in with a gas mask, but he also passed out. Another man was lowered down and holding his breath, retrieved the men in the well one at a time. Two of the Bobcats could not be revived and died, and a third died while enroute to hospital on a dust-off. The three were 2LT David R. Young, Fairbanks, AK, "B" Co CPL Edward A. Lionetta, Springfield, MA, "A" Co SP4 Paul A. Young, Mishawaka, IN, "B" Co

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