Posted by Mike (WA) on February 26, 2009 at 17:22:52 from (69.10.199.245):
In Reply to: The Wall posted by DH in Carolina on February 26, 2009 at 12:25:39:
A little different perspective.
I signed up in the National Guard in 1969. Took basic training and infantry AIT with a lot of US's and RA's that were surely headed for Viet Nam. Our company was about half guard and reserve, half regular Army. They shipped the regualar Army guys out directly from Advanced Infantry Training, without even a leave to go home- guvment was afraid they would desert if they let them loose.
There was a hispanic guy in my company in AIT that I started a conversation with on one Sunday. He made it very clear that he would do what he had to during training, but on his days off, he wanted nothing to do with me or any other whitey. If I ever bothered him again, he would "cut me."
I never forgot the incident, or his name.
Fast forward 38 years- the "travelling wall" came to our town. I went down at 6 in the AM, and found the names of the only 2 guys I knew who gave it all in Viet Nam, and said a little prayer for them. Then, looked for Jose's name- and there it was, about 3 months after we finished Advanced Infantry Training.
Jose Santa Cruz, I'm just a little ashamed not to have mourned your name on the Wall. But what goes around, comes around.
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