PrintMay 28, 2007
Memorial Day Meditation
'Memory n. 1. The mental faculty of retaining and recalling past experience; the ability to remember. 2. An act or instance of remembrance; a recollection... see smer in Appendix.' 'smer - to remember. In Germanic murnon, to remember sorrowfully, in Old English murnan, to mourn.'I remember Chuck Meerholz and the day I was supposed to drive. After four months with B Company, 1st Battalion, 69th Armor; four months of on-the-job-training for a guy trained as an infantrymen, I was being taught to drive our tank. B Company was to participate in a big operation centered on the village of Ky Son. Then Specialist 4th Class Meerholz, a trained tanker, joined our company. On April 21, 1968 he got the assignment and was driving tank B21 as it formed part of an assault element moving towards Ky Son. He was killed in action. There but for fortune go I. My R&R (rest & recreation) destination was Manila. Six...(Read Full Article)
