Vietnam Veterans Mortality Rate
Posted: Fri Oct 19, 2012 7:15 pm
The stark reality of our dwindling numbers urges me to ask you all to try to attend our next reunion.
Vietnam Veterans are passing at a rate between 300 and 400 every day! Shocking.
If you have put off attending one of our 1st Battalion, 50th Infantry Association reunions for whatever reason...PLEASE give it some serious consideration. Truth be told, there may not be many more chances to gather and share the camaraderie those of us who have attended have come to know & love.
I've got my own personal "wish list" of people I would like to see. Some of them were in command...some were grunts just like me...some were "REMF's"...as I became after my field time. For all their own "reasons" they have chosen not to attend...or attended once years ago...before we began what has become the traditional gathering at Fort Benning. The honor & red carpet rolled out for us by the present day 1st Battalion, 50th Infantry at Sand Hill is something we all should experience before we die.
Are you on my list? Are you Herb Randall, Bob Driscoll, Mike Terrebonne, Al Smith, Walt Podraza, Fred Maida, Wally Wroblewski, Wally Chow, Jim Kelleher, Steve Black, Rick Rajner, Rick Hambley, BARBARA DANIELS, Rigo Ordaz, Wilson Parks, Dan Schlect, Joe Dulany, Richard Hooker, Oren Culpepper, and even Ray Sarlin! Dozens who have not come within the last 6 years...Charlie Company....my 3rd Platoon!???
I've missed many names that should be on my list...but these just popped up without lots of "searching".
Again, the death rate for Vietnam Veterans is near 400 PER DAY!
Vietnam Veterans are passing at a rate between 300 and 400 every day! Shocking.
If you have put off attending one of our 1st Battalion, 50th Infantry Association reunions for whatever reason...PLEASE give it some serious consideration. Truth be told, there may not be many more chances to gather and share the camaraderie those of us who have attended have come to know & love.
I've got my own personal "wish list" of people I would like to see. Some of them were in command...some were grunts just like me...some were "REMF's"...as I became after my field time. For all their own "reasons" they have chosen not to attend...or attended once years ago...before we began what has become the traditional gathering at Fort Benning. The honor & red carpet rolled out for us by the present day 1st Battalion, 50th Infantry at Sand Hill is something we all should experience before we die.
Are you on my list? Are you Herb Randall, Bob Driscoll, Mike Terrebonne, Al Smith, Walt Podraza, Fred Maida, Wally Wroblewski, Wally Chow, Jim Kelleher, Steve Black, Rick Rajner, Rick Hambley, BARBARA DANIELS, Rigo Ordaz, Wilson Parks, Dan Schlect, Joe Dulany, Richard Hooker, Oren Culpepper, and even Ray Sarlin! Dozens who have not come within the last 6 years...Charlie Company....my 3rd Platoon!???
I've missed many names that should be on my list...but these just popped up without lots of "searching".
Again, the death rate for Vietnam Veterans is near 400 PER DAY!