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...wrote Lieut. Calley a letter telling him that I am praying that he will soon be free. He fought for me and for all of us in beautiful America. He did what he thought best on the battlefield. He did not burn his draft card or say he was a conscientious objector...
...frigid Bear Paw Mountains with the words: "From where the sun now stands I will fight no more forever." Red Wolf became a cobbler, country musician and farmer. In 1967, he returned to Big Hole and turned the first shovelful of dirt for the visitor center at Big Hole Battlefield National Monument...
That the ARVN withdrawal was not yet a rout was due very largely to U.S. airpower. Day after day, B-52s, F-4 Phantoms and F-100s, flying as many strike sorties for the Lam Son operation alone as they ordinarily stage in all of Indochina, kept the battlefield under incessant barrage. Giant B-52s, used like Phantom jets for close ground support, pursued North Vietnamese soldiers through jungle and elephant grass, dropping their 30,000-lb. bomb loads as close as 600 yards to allied positions. Everywhere ARVN soldiers went, they stumbled upon phalanxes of enemy bodies, or survivors...
...Battlefield Credentials. Wearing blue coats to distinguish themselves from physicians, the Washington State Medex men take patients' histories, help give physical examinations, suture minor lacerations, apply and remove casts. In a recent survey of the results, eight doctors reported that last year they were able to treat 25,000 more patients than in 1969-an increase...
...Patients are equally impressed with the work of ex-Navy Corpsman Ronald Graves, a veteran of Marine combat in Viet Nam, who now works with Dr. Marshall Thompson in Davenport. Says one middle-aged patient: "If he's good enough to take care of our boys on the battlefield, he's good enough...