From Rick Lewis
| Memorial service at Dia La pass for KIAs. |
From Lester Jones
From Frank Rodriquez
| From left to right: Wilson (with the PRC-10 radio), Gary Williams, Frank Rodriquez, Ron Melendez. The morning road sweep. Frank thought this was somewhere between Cobb Bridge and Hill 10. They have just bought some ice cream from a vendor. Some folks might question the wisdom of consuming Vietnamese dairy products, making the mighty leap of logic that suggests their food quality/purity measures are a tad under US standards. But, as we drank any water at hand it probably didn't seem a big deal. Road sweeps never seemed like a big deal to me. I don't remember much of anything happening on any that I was on. If you don't count a couple of men catching the clap while we waited for a truck to stop and run us back to Cobb Bridge. This wasn't the way it always was though. I was just lucky. You generally didn't see to many people stirring around on the roads before the sweeps. One morning I had the last watch, it was just getting good and light. Down the road, maybe a half mile, there were several people going about their business. I saw someone on a bicycle run over a mine. You could see fly through the air. Don't know what happened to him, died I suppose. |