From Travis Skaggs
| The next few pages are part of a diary I kept. From August 23, 1969 through the night of the 29th we went through some very hard fighting. In the past I have had my handwriting referred to as, "A childish third grade scrawl." So you will just have to work with it. I am amazed looking back at the diary at some of the things I would put in it. There might be all sorts of things going on and what I put in might center around the peanut butter and crackers I was having at the time. Well, I was young - unfortunatily that is no longer a problem. Some of the terms in the diary might benefit from some explanation. react - to go the aid of. 441 - Hill 441 which formed the east side of Hiep Duc Valley. |