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Finally, just before 8 a.m., Pfc. Paul Healey, 20, led a counterattack through the front gate, personally killing five V.C. with grenades and his M-16 rifle. Minutes later, two paratroop platoons from the 101st Airborne Division at nearby Bien Hoa landed on the rooftop helipad...
...smiles, hugs and tears. There was, for the moment, a rekindling of strength by being together. And there was a weather report of clearing in a couple of days. That could mean sun and drying earth and time to get the crops planted and to think ahead to the 101st high school graduating class...
...China in 1937 beside "Vinegar Joe" Stilwell, studying the advance of the Japanese army. In the eerie nether light of 3 a.m. on June 6,1944, Taylor-by then a brigadier general -floated to earth behind Utah Beach in Normandy, gathered a handful of his men from the 101st Airborne Division and secured one of the causeways over which troops from the Allied armada would march onto mainland Europe. Later he served as Army Chief of Staff and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs. Now, at 80, he is a guardian of the nation's conscience...
Joyce, a 26-year-old woman from Georgia, met her husband Don in 1972, six months after he returned from Viet Nam. He told her funny stories about the war. He did not tell her the scary ones about how, as a scout for the 101st Airborne, he would disappear into the jungle to search out enemy positions and kill Viet Cong stragglers. Joyce and Don were married. Then Don began an agony of delayed stress: sudden flashbacks, explosions of anger, a restlessness that propelled him from job to job. Joyce heard about the Atlanta vet center...
...West Pointer (class of '57), Block served for three years in the crack 101st Airborne Division; in 1960 he returned home to build the family farm, then only 300 acres, into the thriving enterprise it is today. He married a circuit judge's daughter, Suzanne Rathje; they have three children, including Hans, 21 who will run things while his father i: in Washington...