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9 Jun 67
Dear Mom,
The phone rang 3 times…the signal for emergency Medevac…two Marines wounded…we went down. That was the scariest part of all…we were down in the zone with the VC firing all over the place…the wounded were hustled aboard - - both were alive but head wounds can be tricky…I checked one patient over…The poor kid looked scared, but didn’t cry or scream once. He was really a brave boy…I kept holding his hand, wiping the blood off his face. He looked up and smiled and said “Thanks Doc.” I felt like crying to see the way he acted….
All my love,
Gary
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Gary R. Panko, who hailed from Yonkers, New York, served as a corpsman attached to the Medical Department, Marine Air Group 16, 1st Marine Air Wing. He flew medevacs out of Danang from June 1967 through early 1968. A nurse for 12 years after he got out of the service, he died in Houston in 1983.
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