The only thing that I would do different is that I would
have stayed in
instead of getting out after three years. Why is that?
When I returned
home there wasn't a day that passed that I didn't think
about my fellow
soilders I served with, both the U.S Army Special Forces
and their
Indigenous comrades in arms.
On the day that Pleiku fell to the communist I was setting
alone in my
living room. My Mom came in from work and saw me. I
guess I had the look
of a ghost on my face, for she said that "I see that
you have heard that
Pleiku has fallen?" I just said yes, I heard and retired
to my room to look
at old photo's. I have never been so disapointed in
my country's leadership
as I was at that moment.
I worked building military hardware for about twenty
years, but it wasn't
the same thing.
Yes, I would do it again and I would stay for twenty
or thirty years. It
took me thirty years to find my brothers in arms again
and I would like to
say a very special thank you for not making me feel
like a damn deserter.