Guys, if the reunion is half as good as the phone calls I’ve had with platoon members recently, it will be pretty great.
From: Alan Green
Sent: Tuesday, February 16, 2010
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Subject: Reunion update
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I had a great conversation with Larry Ballard earlier this week. He had sent me a DVD that includes TV interviews with him on his reflections of Vietnam and the re-interment of 2/26 chaplain’s assistant Alexander Chin, who was killed with Father Brett at Khe Sanh. Larry contacted the Chin family in the late 90s and arranged to have the reburial ceremony at Arlington.
Al
This is great news and I had better get off my ass and start sending some emails
I think I have photos of all the guys you just mentioned and maybe even a photo of Maynard Sinclair.
Eloy, need to know exact dates, name of hotel for reservation, and destination airport. I’ll be flying from Orlando. Also, are you guys taking your respectives wifes? I’m trying my best with the search.
Rod, Pedro and all-
I’m glad Pedro’s coming. This will be a good reunion. Maybe we can even convince Billy V to steer his hog southwest…
I wouldn’t dare leave my wife Mary Jean at home — she’s heard too much about you guys to miss the chance to meet you in person.
S/F
-Alan Continue Reading »
Quick update….starting to search for guys on my list and FOUND…..Cary Cooper…..just talked to him and he has contact with others….among those he has is Charlie Kipp (Alan, you can scratch that one off your list…)………..also, Borgh, Hoopman…………Lamont Britt is no longer with us……….hope you all had a Merry Christmas and here’s to “Good Health” in the New Year!!!!
Guys, this is shaping up well. Way to go Bruce.
Sorry to hear about Lamont Britt. He was a good man.
S/F
-Alan
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Hi Eric!
I was goofing around online & typed FABYUNKEY into google & come across my dad’s pictures on your site. How are you doing?
I don’t remember if I told you or not, but my nephew, Bryan, went into the Marine Corps. He served three tours in Iraq. I kind of feel bad for the (I want to say boy because I took care of him when he was little, but he’s a grown up man now) guy. He called me up one evening all distressed because he is suffering from PTSD & he’s being treated for it at the VA where he lives. He thinks, and I can’t convinve him otherwise, that Dad (his granddad) would be disappointed in him for not being able to get a handle on himself without help from others. I know my dad was a rough character & I know that he was relatively unbendable at times, but I also know that my dad would want his grandson to be at peace and not be tormented by the demons of war like he was. Bryan served the Corps proudly and might have to go back…he actually seems pleased that they might want him active again. The called him up for an evaluation to see if he was fit for duty & he should be hearing about that soon.
I know I haven’t been in touch in a very long time. However, I just want to tell you all how appreciative & greatful I am for you. Without the Marines that served with my dad I would not have been raised by him. I would not have had someone to color with me every night at 8 p.m. (Dad would get after me for the next part…) I wouldn’t have had someone to help me study Shakespeare’s Macbeth at home during high school. I would not have had anyone to teach me how to punch or kick. I would not have had anyone to teach me the saying that has gotten me through every tough moment in my life, “Chin up, chest out, & march through the day like you own it daughter.” I would not have known the joy of listening to Eddie Arnold & standing on top of my dad’s feet while he danced me around the living room. I would not have known my dad. So, really…thank you, thank you, thank you.
Love & hugs,
Linda
Here’s is a photo of Gunny Fabyunkey. I used to call him Yosemetieitie Sam because he had that huge mustache.
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“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
“I will be back with more info about Ken Curcio and his family’s efforts to find out anything about their Marine Frank Skocich who was killed at LZ Margo.”
–Eric “Smitty” Smith
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“The two men wound up fighting side by side in a vicious battle on a godforsaken hill with the uninspiring name of LZ Margo in mid-September. Then came a fateful day nearly two weeks later.”
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