By Frank Huffman

Welcome "Home" Brother. What a small world. It brought a big smile to my face and some tears to read what you wrote about Schueller and the mortar attacks.....been there done that. I wasn't sure if I was sending my comments to the correct location but sure glad you got them, and elated to find out you are one of the "troopers." If I had known it was going to be a "Brother" I would not have said so much about the bridges, tracks, and rotations, since you already know. I got in-country on Nov 14, 1968, and to Schueller a week later. Morrissey was the 1st person I met and then my Sgt.....Orozovich....(I think)...we called him "Oreo." He was from New York. I remember thinking he looked a lot like Ricky Nelson, the singer/actor. Oreo took me under his wing and taught me a lot and, directly and indirectly, saved my life. Oreo was injured pretty bad that night and after recovering enough to be shipped out, he was sent to Japan and then to Walter Reed in Washington, D.C. When I was drafted I was living in Arlington, Va, just across the Potomac from D.C. I wrote my Mom and my older sister, that was living in the area, about Oreo and to please visit him if they could. They wrote back that they had seen him and he told them not to worry, I would make it home. Thanks to what he taught me.

In 1971 I was in New Jersey, just across the river from New York, for a wedding. I looked up his name and number, gave him a call, and we met the next day in Asbury Park, N.J. The 1st 10-15 minutes we never said a word....just hugged and cried. My wife at the time thought I was nuts. Well, that's enough.....and you thought you rambled....LOL. Anyway, I too, have some great memories of the bridges, especially #20, and some bad ones....like you said, the ones overrun, blown up, etc.

Ambush Alley.....strong points.....convoys....humping (the jungle) LOL.

I live in Southwest Virginia, Roanoke, and get to Washington D.C. often. Have been to the Wall lots of times, but it took several years before I could go, and only then with another veteran who had already been. So, to this day when I meet another Vet and they say something about seeing the Wall, but it's just to hard.....I always say, "Brother I'll go with you", because someone did that for me and I would have never gone if they hadn't.

Airborne....All The Way

Again....."Welcome Home Brother"