From Ethan Miller, on Sun, 28 Nov 1999 22:28:35 GMT
I think that what you have done is a very great thing. People need to be taught what really went on in Vietnam. My Great Uncle Ralph Harry Barlett was one of so many brave souls unfortunate enough to be immortalized on the Vietnam Wall. He was on a mortar crew. One day when they were on there way through the jungle, they started taking heavy rocket and machine gun fire. He fired his mortar at one of the machine gun nests. When he saw that the machine gunner in it was dead, he got out of the safety of the sandbags and ran to the nest. He then grabbed the machine gun and began to run back to his crew. Less than two feet from the sandbags he was hit seven times in the back of the head, killing him instantly. The mortar crew then wiped out the other machine gun nest with the machine gun my Great Uncle Ralph brought. He won the Bronze Star for that act of bravery. Thank you for allowing me to share that story.
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