A heart warming story about Ann Margret and her Vietnam gentlemen.
Published: Sunday, December 24th, 2023 @ 11:25 pm
By: Bobby Tony
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Most people will remember April 4, 1968 as the day that Martin Luther King was assassinated. While that was a more histrionically important event, that date will always seired in my mind as the date of a battle we fought in Vietnam. I was only in country for a couple of months and the loss of comr
Published: Monday, May 29th, 2023 @ 2:14 am
By: Tony Adams
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I am writing my most difficult book report ever at 70 years old. It is about another GI I did not know, and an enemy I never wanted to know. Yet we were all in the same place forty-eight years ago along with a bunch of others, with us trying to kill him and his comrades and him trying to kill us
Published: Monday, May 30th, 2022 @ 1:03 pm
By: Tony Adams
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U.S. Army Private First Class William “Hoover” Jones is lying in honor in the North Carolina State Capitol today for his service in the Korean War.
Published: Friday, June 21st, 2019 @ 12:04 pm
By: Governor's Office
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On Friday, June 21 at 10:00 AM, Governor Cooper will lay a wreath in his memory and present PFC Jones’s family with United States and North Carolina flags flown over the State Capitol.
Published: Thursday, June 20th, 2019 @ 12:05 pm
By: Governor's Office
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I suspect that we have all heard the phrase "The deck is Stacked." It usually is uttered by losers in any field of endeavor.
Published: Friday, December 29th, 2017 @ 2:16 pm
By: Bobby Tony
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I am somewhat sensitive to the "a soldier" reference in most of the news articles. The result is now that we are embroiled in a donnybrook over the death of someone who is now being referred to in almost every account as "a soldier."
Published: Tuesday, October 24th, 2017 @ 10:58 am
By: Bobby Tony
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For many civilians, the memories of a military event are an abstract memory. However, for the participants it is the faces, names, and specific events that mark the event. Here are some of their stories.
Published: Wednesday, December 7th, 2016 @ 4:56 pm
By: Bobby Tony
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My memory is cloudy on this exact dates but sometime around March or April 1968 we made an incursion into Cambodia.
Published: Wednesday, July 6th, 2016 @ 1:47 am
By: Bobby Tony
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Knowing where you are is very important when you need fire support, but it is more important that the fire support crew know where you are.
Published: Wednesday, March 23rd, 2016 @ 12:22 am
By: Bobby Tony
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