Our Community in Vietnam

"I thank God every day that I made it back home from Vietnam. I was there in 1967, ’68 and ’69 and to me it is a miracle that I am here living now. I was in the infantry

“I was in Vietnam in 1970 and 1971. I spent most of my time in the Quang Ngai Province near a little village called Moduc. I carried an experimental grenade launcher

“We had landed in a small village to drop off and wait for a military officer. The kids were curious, and I encouraged them to come out. I enjoyed seeing them and did my

“After arriving in Vietnam, a Captain approached me and said I was qualified to be a pilot and could be trained in in two weeks to fly a helicopter.” “I told him I was

Jimmy Bumgarner graduated from Garner High in 1962 and was drafted into the U.S. Army. He was stationed in Vietnam from 1967 through 1968. He was with the 52nd artillery

“I have no explanation for what happened to me in Vietnam, except for divine intervention. “I was working with indigenous people, none of whom could speak English. …

“I volunteered for the US Navy in June,1968 and served six years until June, 1974. After basic training and specialized training as a sonar technician, I was assigned to

Corporal Dewey (Buddy) Chrisco was in Vietnam during the TET Offensive. The Greensboro native was diagnosed with tongue cancer in July 2018 and died a year later. He was

“One evening while our patrol was scouting an area, we could hear something in the underbrush. We carefully eased up to see if the Viet Cong was hiding. To our surprise,

This picture was taken after Crumpler left the hospital, possibly at Fort Gordon. He was wounded in the knee in Vietnam and had to be evacuated to the states. The wound

“I had guard duty in the Red Zone and my orders were to kill anything that came in. It was at the start of Tet and we were extra diligent. “Around 6:30, I saw a woman

Leon Douglas Davis grew up on Sunnybrook Road and graduated from Garner High in 1967. He was wounded while in Vietnam and had back pain from a piece of shrapnel that

“It’s been over 50 years and I am still fighting the Vietnam War. I was squad leader of a diverse group of younger men. For over a year we trained together playing war

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“I almost got to meet John Wayne when he came to Vietnam before filming “The Green Berets.” He was scheduled to come to our Green Beret camp … but they, whoever they

“I graduated from Garner High in June of 1966 and was drafted into the U.S. Army the following October. I spent my first year at Fort Riley, Kansas, which was like a

Ed Hicks was drafted soon after graduating from Garner High School. He went to Vietnam soon after basic training and was wounded in the hand. He received a Purple Heart.

Chalmers Hinnant, Jr., was a 1965 graduate of Garner Consolidated High School and landed in Vietnam in 1968. He soon began to display symptoms of post trauma stress and

“I was in Vietnam from 1968 through 1970 and received the Army Commendation Medal. It was a life-changing experience serving in Vietnam for a year.”

“My brother and I both served in Vietnam. My brother was drafted in 1964. Most of his fellow soldiers voted for LBJ because he promised to keep us out of war. HIs unit

Johnny Lassiter was a Garner High graduate who grew up in the Panther Branch community. He played for the Garner Rams high school football team and loved to hunt and

“The military police had a vast assignment of duties in Vietnam. We escorted supply convoys to get badly needed supplies to the guys in the forward base camps and as an

“I was on guard duty in Pleiku one night when it was so dark, I couldn’t see my hands in front of my face. The only things I could see well were the tracer bullets in the

“I was trained as a helicopter mechanic, but when I got to Vietnam they needed people to be gunners because so many helicopters were being shot down. It was 100 degrees

“I entered the Army in 1969 and served on active duty for 22 years, retiring in 1990. I volunteered for Vietnam near the end of the war after most American combat units

“I grew up in Vietnam. OCS (Officer Candidate School) and Vietnam took a young man whose father had a first-grade education and whose mother was mentally ill and who

“On 19 August 1969, I was flying in my helicopter on a command and control mission over a rifle company that was engaged under heavy fire I in the dense jungle in

Specialist 4th Class Alex Skolny (second solider from the left) somewhere in the jungle of Quang Ngai Province, South Vietnam on a reconnaissance mission around July

1SGT Sammy B. Stephenson was a Clayton High graduate and served two tours in Vietnam during 1966 through 1968. He was a member of the special forces. He was exposed often

“I didn’t have any misgivings about going to Vietnam even though my brother Donald had been killed there. I knew it was a place where you always had to be alert and not

“Very few people know the sacrifices that were made by our men and women in Vietnam.”

“It sounds strange, but when I think of Vietnam, I think of how beautiful the country is. I was in the 82nd, but my primary job was to work with the South Vietnamese

“I was drafted in February of 1968 and arrived in Vietnam in April. I was a mechanic and we worked on just about anything, especially planes. We were shelled

Paul Houston Woods joined the U.S. Army right out of Whiteville High School and served 20 years. He was in Korea and Vietnam. He was awarded many medals and honors