November-December 2017, Issue 76 See all issues to date at 503rd Heritage Battalion website: Contact:
[email protected] http://corregidor.org/VN2-503/newsletter/issue_index.htm ~ 173d Photo of the Month ~ Father Roy Peters conducts services for Sky Soldiers at Dak To in the jungle battlefield of Vietnam before next assault up Hill 875, in November 1967. See more about Fr Peters on Pages 45-47. Photo courtesy of June Peters 2/503d VIETNAM Newsletter / Nov.-Dec. 2017 – Issue 76 Page 1 of 88 We Dedicate this Issue of Our Newsletter in Memory and Honor of the Men of the 173d Airborne Brigade & Attached Units We Lost 50 Years Ago in the Months of November & December 1967 "It is, in a way, an odd thing to honor those who died in defense of our country, in defense of us, in wars far away. The imagination plays a trick. We see these soldiers in our mind as old and wise. We see them as something like the Founding Fathers, grave and gray haired. But most of them were boys when they died, and they gave up two lives -- the one they were living and the one they would have lived. When they died, they gave up their chance to be husbands and fathers and grandfathers. They gave up their chance to be revered old men. They gave up everything for our country, for us. And all we can do is remember." Commander in Chief Ronald Reagan, at dedication of Vietnam Veterans Memorial Wall in Washington, DC Clarence Mattue Adams, 25 Louis George Washi Arnold, 19 SSG, A/3/503, 12/30/67 PFC, A/2/503, 11/20/67 “Thank you Staff Sergeant Adams for (Virtual Wall states A/4/503) your devotion, leadership, and courage.” “Buddy.