European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - July 2, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse By Dontate Scalf Wriler Uirl full of Sti Vav Ellen on a Marine s he Mel Vietnam i Imi the run he is hey Dun l like in Iii it them those did d.iy-. Sink around. I Isten in in pins pulled ii grenades i or k r la tin verbal shrapnel milling around inc rooms Rrt i Nelv it in it la annual i w invent Wiiri of Lumpe in Mannheim just Lum h the right nerve in Liun .1 i Ertain Hill in Korea or one bad Day in Lone on hat Bea h in France. Mil men who tht1 i Asl no War in 1he l v i1 an hardly Slop Lal King Droul in. Want id know Aboul rouble ii y la Tell you a Little bit about trouble. There s .1 couple of them Lala my new this Black fellow and this while fellow and they be seen the up i Irise More than most. Lor men like a. Cales i he while one who Speaks Aboul in so quietly it s As if lie s afraid it la head Liim and come Bath trouble in Korea a is usually right there in i face. ,. Like hearing horns blowing Over the next Ridge As if eerie traffic jams Wen forming Hen seeing that traffic appear in Mysse on thi1 Ridge ,. Bugle blowing Humar waving chinese Raffic charging berserk by right at inert in the freezing Snow with his Little pop gun carbine or a i outnumbered 500 to one. Trouble formate watch ing ii Popeye american comrade., still alive and somehow Mil trawling on the ground Wil awhile. Phosphorous Morlar round slinking clean in Rouglin his c Hust. It had Boon ,1 direct hit but no Boom. The fins is Rick nut a kick and Iho fuse Ihn Nib his front but it never exploded just Kepi hissing out while Hosp Nerous in thl link Bibl a Hole in his chem until Fie . Final la and i , when i lie in 1li years old suddenly Sinh on 40. More 35 yews liter he still sees soviet inc a in his Drei ims. For .1 while in gut mixed up Villi his Vii Lri in , tht1 chinese and ch.irlic1 both Filer him. Trying lot ii him for Slitni h. The Nice thing Ghoul lie chinese they Lei you know where they wore Dies billion of Thorn. The tiling Riboul the Vii t conk. You could go ,1 whole and never see Ime buys Jiji kept dying around Utt kill Ino Lher big inf risks its Wells soil voice Wells is in retired Linker who on on do in plus Bur a incr ictus he in Norl old s army in the Battle of die Rul rapped business up t Emu in the service ii few years inter to kind at Inchon and a any in i up and Down die Kon in . Kept ins tank Rill in into Vietnam. Got by a Rotkel ind missed in in the by three inches. He pulls up his shirt in there s .1 Lim ugly nil his belly thai looks like somebody plated it there with an jux. "n.nv, that s not the one. It s this liitle up War was a Tust for this fellow who Ouirl keep on remembering them All Nielli. Reeling off Ibe of generals dates Ballac a strategies kind of in it he rank my inc women looked like in this i Giuili or half the worst for me Vietnam because you Oulen l it la their marbles from our marbles ind Lull Ain l no Way to play marbles crawling with ans and . We look b1 casualties of week Mil t seen one vietnamese. No one. Yeah old Vietnam. the one i a lion l hink i would make in Back irom. The last night it re i la ironed a Good one. Col drunk and fell in .1 ditch and thought i d Licens Hiil 1 Hric , he says three life firm a. If you Don i something Oul of , our bean s nol by Iliria toys i believe in the , Bei Ause i be sure Abdul Hadil a Nisi wills is Black and admits i h it for a while Piliere i h ullo wonder Alx iut All that Freedom let a Kepi saying i was fighting for wondered Aboul in in the or i Wii dered Abdul in in England before hit France they had All . Units Bank Ihen. Anal w Oulen t Lei them go to i Ondon on it some nights. Would a l id the Blacks March in some of the Prat i. Lii a was a Genera who a Iid Blacks foul int fight All Lii d kind of stuff. Well thai was Back then. During Korea Ihly decided enough was enough and things started netting la tier in tin army. Those Wio wait through battlefields wire is one in Korta Don t easily Fortl in. Now Don l think i was ,1 sad Soldier. I had More strip pc s on and off than a Zebra. I was enjoying he girls and drank a title booze. Made some Money shot Dice played poker played anything. Figured i might As Well have my fun cause i was bound to gel killed anyway. Well i can make .1 joke of in now cause i m out of in. I m alive. Leas i think i m Ilive. Sec half 1 k Rolls up a sleeve to show ugly Multi coloured patches on his Elbow. Thai came out of Vietnam. Don t know what it is. Pon l Ever go away. Ii must be alive. Anyway a lol of in in those wars i d do again. Only next Lime around i d make a few Lames Wylli a Veteran at Thrif wars Aid boys i believe in the Herf alter Beca if i be sure about had it arts Wells and others say the worst trouble beast of War is not facing death but giving Don l never forget says Welli and fora few moments this Happy old Soldier s eyes Well up with tears. He Sils looking Al the Wall and just shaking his head shaking his head. It la teach you logo to Church he says finally Man. It la sure do Gates 2 5 years a Soldier and now a civilian working in Germany like most of the Hundred a lending this convention fought in places like the Punchbowl and along the pm in Kiver in Korea As a dewy eyed Grunt. Laler older he spent two hours in Vietnam As a helicopter Rio or gunner flying into hot Landing zones machine gun blazing or zooming in As part of a Quick reaction Force for troops being hit on the ground. What was the scariest Liling Ever happened to him flying As a helicopter gunner Heck just Hying because never believed those Damn helicopters could Fly. It s not ice they can Fly. I i pfc flying. I get vertigo just standing up from a chair. I get vertigo even hearing a so Why did he Fly to get off the ground. It was worse on the ground. No place to go. At least in the air we were then after talking about All the irn Uble he s seen a. Gates gels a strange gleam in his Eye and says something one hears More than once around old warriors. As bad Asil All . He says he would be willing to do it again. In a Ini Nule. Maybe some of us have death wishes or something. Maybe it s like an addiction. Can t really describe it Bill some of the feelings you gel in combat nothing in peacetime even comes close. It s like everything a Derwerd is kind of a drag you re pretty much . One thins 1n " combat motivates you. You re scared in hell but . Totally Molina led. Lasso info is he talks about seeing kinship pilots so hypnotic Eil by heir own Damn Irac trs thai Illey followed those ers right into the round. Thai s thai s trouble. Another three War Veteran and Wishful who fought in terrible place like re chop Mill says i lease Don l use my name or future because All the War widows nut Nheru would see my face and was pork chop the Niu Gheil he i vers is in was rough just rough Fiul i be seen says he does t Woji to talk i but in but then he t Slop he talks Abi my Bis wars and says at could tight with guns and uni i Sand Onui hands but i sure Don t to be Here Lor the be i one when they pressing the you mean Here in Germany i i Here m ibis july 1, 1987 to Tifi
