European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - June 22, 1968, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Incr car in will argue As they do in every where Surprise attack or declaration hacking about when the War actually m. But Tom Davis. Died in Bat dec. 22, 1961. The tragedy of ther american War by Harry f. Rosenthal a staff writer War in Vietnam become and month kor them years longer than any of the campaigns in ingest War in american history Lee Days before Christmas in 11961,is Thomas Davis an amiable ten Tan who used to stuff Hoot owls Asbby pitched headlong onto a Road re l or a  a movie in the Indian wars. Officially americans were military advisers to South Vietnam before  i i  Auvia Cio i ovum .-.-spec. 4 Davis and nine South Vietnam Ese were killed in an ambush and Otti scially americans remained advisers Tor nearly three More years. But Youngton Davis was in president Johnson s words the first american to fall in buy  ii Vivi of -.,Saigon. He was the first american a killed by Viet Cong  will argue As they do in every where Surprise attack or Declara Lare lacking about when the War works us a Illy began. After All America has defense of our Freedom in Vietnam involved in Vietnam for a Quarter nearly 25,000 other americans have by most intimately since that coun. Died there. One was Thomas Las divided in 1954. Lansden a Cousin of Tom Davis killed it Tom Davis no one called him by May 8 this year.  a i T i at nor 9.2 he was 15 when my son was killed say James Clarence Davis. That shows you How Long the War s been going on the years Between deaths in one fam ill one Way to record a  Story of a War is told in other ways fragmented bits that add up to the whole. It is told in the clean quiet rooms like those at it. Mcnair in the do j.u111 a Vivio a Vic first name died in combat dec. 22, the tragedy of another american began years six months one Day. Nger than the six years six months american War of  began with a skirmish Angton mass., april 19, 1775,and bated with the surrender of Corn is at Yorktown oct. 19, 1781two s before the peace treaty actually  than the four years of the 1 War. That began april 12, 1861, i the guns of the South fired on  and ended april 9, 1865, when Tsui rendered to Grant at a Pomat or than the three years and nine. It is told in thighs of world War ii the three years scrapbook mat like Tose a strict of Columbia where professional historians comb daily Battle reports. To is told by officers like it.  t. Williams and Gen Paul d i Harkins who tried As both said to put the . Army out of a Job Over there before there was a War. It is told in the apr and mrs. James Davis stand beneath a portrait of their son first american Soldier to die As a result of Viet Cong action in Vietnam. Show proudly in the years of a childlike Tom s daughter Cindy who was 9 months old then and is m the Iris Trade now in the age of Tom s sister Jane who was blowing out 15 birth Day candles the Day Tom died and now has a son of her own named when Tom called and said he was being sent to. Vietnam i looked at a map to find it the father says. I had never heard of it before. Tom had three choices Alaska Okinawa or  picked Vietnam and Felt he had made the right Choice that what we we redoing there was  the father leafed through the scrap Book pausing now and then to show a letter of condolence from a vietnamese continued on Paije 12 a is. " Sif a. 1 f aft a but rapidly escalating War quickly put andean troops in heat of Battle Early stages of Vietnam conflict cast americans in purely  . The stars and stripes sturday june 22, 1968