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10 May 68
Hi Vern,
…Did you read about my division south of Saigon? We kicked ass but pretty well got wiped out doing it…Tonight I looked at that full moon and said “What a night for an ambush….”
Your brother,
Jim
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1Lt. James M. Simmen, from Danville, California, was a platoon leader with the 5th Battalion, 60th Infantry (Mechanized), 9th Infantry Division, operating in the area south of Saigon during 1968. His platoon later transferred to the 1st Infantry Division, operating near the Parrot’s Beak on the Cambodian border. When the Memorial was dedicated in 1985, he had been working as a carpenter in Kodiak, Alaska. He has published one novel set in Vietnam.
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