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Entry: 6891 HI IT S ME. MACK. I WAS 17 YEARS OLD .THE KID

JAMES MCFARLAND wrote on September 27, 2015

dearborn michigan


Comments:

well it's September 25 2015. I am geting 30% now still working on the rest.
Put in for p t s d should now buy January 2016 so thay say 62 now and
things are starting to go bad pain every day my ho body is in pain,and still
can't find eney one from Pelham .




Entry: 6790 HI IT S ME. MACK. I WAS 17 YEARS OLD .THE KID

JAMES MCFARLAND wrote on March 9, 2015

dearborn Michigan


Comments:

hi camp Pelham Nov 1970. Nov 71 , got to see Bob hope at camp Casey
day after I got in country. I was 17years old ,I had to years of milltey
school so I did know. What to do. I was a U P guard,and did red ey duty in
the back, it was to b 2on 4off but no one came to releve me on phone on
rado because of the red eyes .got trench foot ,given 12 off. But the
Cap,did
not like that ,he was giving me hell .What can I do with you ,your 17 ,and I
can't send you u p north,4 papa1 aph. I will show you my feet you do I
will
get you for being out of ueraform. I sad f my uif nex time I get my m16 I
will, yes I did say it,!!! He pull his 45 and called 1 sg. To come over ,I
tould
him what the Cap said! He was from nam, he said you get out of hear and
don't let me see you for 12 days,that was what the Doc said,the Cap was
goon in 3 weeks or so.he was selling cig & Booz in sunyare.i can keep
goingon.after March or so I did jump a 2 1/2and got north 4papa1aph.
So I could get com bat pay 45$a month was good money down town I
reported to the cap at the cp at 4papa1aph in the DMZ He gave me a jeep
and maid the 2 lt drive .I would drive on and off the 2 times a day,mail and
k
p cooks.we had 3 out post on the hill We had a hell of a time up on op 2
if
you know what I meme , 1$ a pack filter o r not remember speck mo tin
We had a good firer up there , what do you think the north was thinking We
were so bad Assisi.this is where HELL IS COME AND GET US . Well if
you know you remember I did fall out of a jeep going to get the k p . First
thing the Cap asked how is the Vick tor 3. Mack. O thank cap the victor
is
o k ,then he maid me fix it that day it was a Sunday . I had to Stell a
front
diforenchell so I took one off a jeep buy the motorpool I did not know it
was the Gen! Jeep ,o well pop o son fixed the bumper and I went back up
north and fixed it that day ,you could not have a victor down when you were
on the D m z. Going for a o have typ 2 hi B p and bad knees. Back ear ad d
bad back from fort food .on 155 s p how. 313 702 0956. Mi.






Dedicated To - Arthur Donald DeLacy - 1st Lieutenant - USMCR - MIA POW - 10/07/1951 - Heartbreak Ridge