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Our Men In Vietna:Alder son GI Leads ActivitiesToArmy Battaliontiort Medal and the Vietnamese electrical storm around our Gallantry Cross with Silver countryside. The storm was halfStar.over before we realized, thatHe is a 1965 graduate of j the flashes and the crashing Alderson High School and is a j around us were not artillery graduate of the U. S. Military! but plain old-fashioned thunderAcademy at West Point, N. Y.and lightning- It will be odd to hear only thunder again. YouBy MARYE ROWE j Captain Russell last servediand they have seen and done Home from Vietnam are the as commanding officer of the and felt things you cannot colors of the deactivated Second I battalion, having arrived in know. They will be changed. Battalion of the 94th Field Ar- Vietnam in October, 1971. They will have to learn how tfflery. . He holds the Bronze Star to adjust themselves to peace.Army Capt Medal, the Army Ccmmenda- “Last night we had a violentJames A.Russell, whose wife, Jean, and parents,Mr. and Mrs.And rews J.Russell, live i n A Iderson, led the colorguard that escorted the colors to their retirement in a recent ceremony at the U. S. Army Personnel Center at Oakland,Calif.For five and one-half years, the battalion had the mission of providing a shield of artillery fire in supprot of American andSouth Vietnamese units. It oc- . , . ,copied numerous fire bases »from Chu Lai in the ^ °f. ng“Demilitarized Zone, from theb. soldier.THE LATE, FAMED World! mu^t remember that such little€CWar H correspondent ErniePyle said it for all time when he chronicled the feelings of men returning from combat in j have 1944. The universals he expresses here are echoed today as troops return from service in Vietnam.as they are in our souls, and will take time.And all of us together will to learn how to reassemble our broken worldinto a pattern so firm and so fair that another great warcannot soon be possible. To tellWe feel it appropriate toj^e simple truth, most of U3don’t pretend to know theanswer. Submersion inSouth China Sea to the Laotian Border.W eatherwar does not necessarily qualify“It will seem odd when, at some given hour, the shooting stops and everything suddenly changes again. It will be odd to drive down an unknown roadj^ we can-a man to be master of peace. All we can do is fumble and try once more. — try out the memory of our anguish — andbe as tolerant with each other
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Beckley, West Virginia, US
Sat, May 27, 1972
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