My name is Christine Smith and I am Eric’s little sister.
I’ve been reading and hearing about the reunion in San Antonio.
Christine:
Rod and Alan are right on with their comments.
You better be there!!!!! Smitty was “walking point” for this reunion….it was going to revolve around him….that’s his personality with us……so you have no choice….we will bring our picture’s, etc….
Semper Fi,
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Bill Ventura’s close up photo of Freddy Johnson with his ever present cigar. In any event, good to see Freddy again.
Freddy Johnson has been located. Eloy Rod has talked to him on the phone or the email. Let me post a photo of Freddy (Via Billy Ventura) when they were at he Camp Carroll or Con Thien area.
“I think you and I and maybe someone else shared a very small and very shallow hole at LZ Margo with a guy named Cooper who i remember as a forward observer, who caught a wound in the ass from the shrapnel either while in our hole or he dove in the hole with us right after getting hit.
I remember trying to console him after the shit stopped, telling him he had a million dollar wound (though not knowing what the f i was talking about) and then I remember with another Marine holding him up and helping him walk to the DMZ past all the body-bags because we were going to get our wounded out first, no matter how long it took, even if it meant sleeping overnight with our dead bodies in the body bags by the LZ, which I think we did.
– Walt Philbin
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