Lynne Ludwick

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

Neal J. Madsen, on the right, Vietnam 1966-67 "The soldier above all others prays for peace, for it is the soldier who must suffer and bear the deepest wounds and scars of war." -Douglas MacArthur I was asked to present the wreath in honor of fallen soldiers at our local Memorial Day celebration in 2016. I was seated next to the guest speaker, Neal Madsen, and his wife, Jodean, who was a friend of a friend. Neal was in Vietnam during the worst of times. His speech abo

"American soldiers in battle don't fight for what some president says on T.V., they don't fight for mom, apple pie, the American flag...they fight for one another." - LTC Hal Moore, CMDR 1/7 Cav. la Drang Valley, Vietnam Michael Doolittle is front and center in this newspaper photograph attached to the article about one of the worst battles in Vietnam, the battle of Soui Tre. It was his first taste of combat, although he had enlisted in the U.S. Army 4 1/2 years prior to b