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23 Sep 69
Red,
…Someday climb into the shower with your clothes on, stay there three days under the water, shutting it off every now and then but always turning the water back on before your clothes can dry out and you’ll have a reasonably good idea of what it’s like in the boonies during the seasonal rains…
Red,
…Yes, I do think our landing on the moon was quite an achievement… I sure as hell admire the courage of the men who went there. I really sweated out the time between the landing and the takeoff once they were up there. I only hope man doesn’t go off and louse up the rest of the solar system with his pollution and family quarrels like he has mother earth….
15 Nov 69
***You’ll never know how much a man can fall in love with a machine till you’ve stood on the ground with your head near a noose and had the rope cut at the last minute by a Huey’s rotar blades. I’d marry one of those helicopters if it could scratch my back and cook a respectable meal….
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Sp/4 George T. Olsen, a son of New York City and a graduate of St. John’s University (then in Brooklyn, New York), arrived in Vietnam in August 1969 and served as a Ranger with Company G, 75th Infantry, operating in the area around Chu Lai in I Corps. He was killed in action on 3 March 1970. He was 23 years old.
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