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20 Apr 70
Dear Gail,
You don’t know how close I have been to getting killed or maimed. Too many times I have seen guys near me get hit and go home in a plastic bag….It is all over now. Now it’s time to forget. But it’s hard to forget these things. I close my eyes and try to sleep but all I can see is Jenkins laying there with his brains hanging out or Lefty with his eyes shot out…Then you stop to think, it could be me. Hell, I don’t know why I’m writing all this. But it feels better getting it out of my mind….
I love you,
Pete
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Sp/4 Peter H. Roepcke, from Glendale, New York, served as an infantryman with Company A, 3rd Battalion, 506th Infantry, 101st Airborne Division, from September 1969-April 1970, operating in I Corps, when he broke his leg jumping from a helicopter. He died of a heart attack in October 1981.
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