Delta Troop 3rd Squadron 17th Air Cavalry
Letters to Home #1

Place: Chu Chi, Viet Nam
Time: Tet of 67/68

by John Dungan



Dear Folks,

Today is the day all Hell broke loose, the blood splattered and the screams were beyond the human ears. The Cry of fear chilled your bones. The hot metal ripped through the skin. This is a New World of Life and Death. The sweat covered the tears. But the fear was there and it showed. Time is a prison within its self. Life can be beautiful or it can be a chamber of Horrors. You live to put in your time. You buy your time for a better world. History does repeat itself. If not in facts, but in memory. Memory can be a terrible monster when it brings out the past, but there again it can bring out the good things of life in just a few seconds. Which outweighs the other?

Life can burn out before your eyes. How do you keep it from burning out before your time is up?

Keeping yourself in a high state of mind and keeping yourself out of the stress is one of the hardest things a person can do.

There is nothing wrong with feeling fear, shedding a tear, and being afraid of the unknown, as long as you can control it from within.

Many died today on both sides. We were lucky today; Delta troop survived another day.

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