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3V11J31}*JSs1l-gl-gywI-fLI-II.eLines ...By YouEDITOR'S NOTE: This column Is for use by the readers. Mat* terial submitted will not be returned. Memorials to deceased persons will not be printed. All material should be typed and double-spaced and Is subject to editing. Writers should sign their naiues and. In the cases of students, should give their age. Names will be withheld on request.)Dear Sir:You don’t know me but I am a patient on the Navy hospital ship USS Sanctuary. Before I was wounded, I was a reporter for the Dong Ha paper in Vietnam.I am sending you a story of a person who is a resident of your fair city, Pfc. Leonard E.Burris, son of Mr. and Mrs. Alonzo Burris of Blytheville.j I was stationed in Vietnam with Burris from the time he first arrived in Vietnam until the time we medi-vaced together and we are together onthe USS Sanctuary.On April 10, 1968, we were taking incoming 81mm mortars pretty heavily, when it came down over the phones for gun four to adjust. TTiere were eight men on the gun but we onlv needed four to fire it. Burris, me and another sergeant who was in charge and another Pfc.We were all outside and Burris was standing on the wall watching to see where the incoming rounds were hitting. TheBurris toour gun took a direct hit and ] trying to do also.got us all except the sergeant.It knocked us down and I gotSgt. L. KingP. S. Burris is undergoing treatment on shrapnel in the left eye and arms and both legs.The writing of this is messedup because I only have one eye also and my right arm is a little bad, but we will all be great when we get back to the world.Iup and saw Burris bleeding and running for the ammo bunker about the time another one hit about 10 foot from the other one. It knocked me back into the bunker and knocked Burris down again and he got up again and made it to the bunker and a corpsman made it to both of us.The sergeant and the Pfc. walked away and Burris and I were carried away and then medi-vaced. We are both to be medi-vaced back to the states.Burris has three Purple Hearts and I have one. (As far as I am concerned — \ phere. Polyethylene bags will be and so are the rest of the men j put over each carton and then in our battery — Burris is a pumped full of air with a low war hero. If it wasn’t for him, oxygen content but higfh in car-Better StrawberrieslSALINAS,StrawberriesCalif. (AP) from this saladbowl district will go to market this year in a different atmoswe would all be dead.I felt that the people of his home town and other people should know what Burris is trying to do for our country and what a lot of other soldiers arebon dioxide, says the Council of California Growers. Tests last year showed the low oxygen level virtually ends tissue breakdown through oxidation, and prevents mold.%I(lt;4sergeant yelled at “come on we have to fire this.” Burris yelled out, we can’t fire! They are walking them in! It’s going to hitNoI•! us! Run!The sergeant said, “No wehave to fire this.”By that time the rest of us, figuring that Burris knew what he was talking about, gathered by a bunker just in case. Burris yelled at the sergeant once more and the sergeant gave us an order to get out there and fire that gun.Burris told him he was crazy and Burris ran over and hit i | him and knocked him back into 1 a bunker and at the same time i -***********For Gov. Georgo C.***********Tables will be set up outside every court-* house in the state all day Saturday . . .* so you can sign up and make sure Gov- * *ernor Wallace’s name appears on our** state ballot. Let's show the nation this ** fighting Southerner has our full support! *i****Your County CourthouseSATURDAY»APRIL 27+***Paid political advertisement by The Wallace Campaign, 10 High Building,Montgomery, Alabama, Seymore Trammell, Chairman.k ★ ★ ★★★★★★★★★★★★★★
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Blytheville Courier News
Blytheville, Arkansas, US
Fri, Apr 26, 1968
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