Dau Tieng Airstrip
Last Thursday, two days before my 70th birthday, a gift I never could have imagined, arrived in the mail. From a man I had never met. He hoped I would receive it in time for my birthday. After Eddy was killed in Vietnam March 4th, 1968, I put my head in the sand and wanted to hear nothing about the war. I never watched a Vietnam movie or read the news reports. And there I stayed forever, until 2008, when a Viet Cong veteran, who fought in the firefight against Eddy, gave me
Bobby Eagleson, Vietnam KIA
"The tragedy of war is that it uses man's best to do man's worst." - Henry Fosdick It was his smile that Gary noticed first. They were in line at the Induction Center in Portland. It was an innocent smile. When Gary Ascher was sent to Fort Lewis, there was that guy with the easy smile again. They ended up in the same company. Gary noticed how Bobby always seemed cheerful and made others laugh. Gary was then sent to Fort Polk, and as fate would have it, there was Bobby agai
