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Thank You Cousin Brucie – 40 years late

01 Jul 2006 @ 9:10 PM

Published – Brownsville Herald 7/16/2006
I want to say a thank you to my “Cousin Brucie” that I should have said four decades ago.
We have just passed Memorial Day and Independence Day is just coming up. My thoughts went back to my friends that I served with in the Vietnam War and to the many that are still there. They also went to a few great people who, without a lot of hype did great things to be of service.
A little over forty years ago I was assigned to a Recon group and sailed aboard the aircraft carrier U.S.S. Kitty Hawk CVA 63 in the Tonkin Gulf. President Eisenhower and President Kennedy had felt the threat sufficient to send advisors and then troops. President Kennedy had been recently assassinated just prior to my first tour n Vietnam.
Our days were busy and hazardous and we were defending our homeland from the Communist threat. Most of the nation at the time believed that what we were doing was necessary.
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