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8 Feb 71
Dear John,
…It was quite a ride through mountains so beautiful they looked like Chinese prints. The river has rushing water and waterfalls everywhere…Khe Sanh sits on a high plateau right in the middle of the mountains and jungle…They say the war in Vietnam has been replayed exactly like the preceding year - - nothing really changes. Today the cyclical aspect of this war’s history really hit home. Marine ghosts in the form of Marine mine fields are all around this base. The EOD team explodes mines that were left here uncharted. We had 8 men wounded by those mines. So far in the two days we’ve done no work - - but we look nice...
Peace,
Tom
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Sp/5 Thomas P. Pellaton worked in intelligence with the 101st Aviation Group, 101st Airborne Division, based at Phu Bai, from June 1970-May 1971. An opera singer and maitre d’ at the Carlyle Hotel in New York City at the time of the dedication of the Memorial, he went on to study at Yale Theological Seminary.
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