This page is dedicated to my father, Charles
A. Peters, a Vietnam Veteran, a wonderful father, and an excellent teacher.
He taught me all the core values before the Air Force thought of them.
Integrity, Service Before Self, and Excellence in All I Do. I must
say, when he found out I was entering the Air Force, he was happy, proud.
When he found out I was going to be a Crew Chief, like he was before me,
he wasn't so happy, but still proud. I remember it well. He
ranted, he raved, he told me I'd hate it. He tried to talk me out
of it for almost two weeks. He finally resigned himself to the fact
that I am just as hard headed as he is, and he stood behind me. He
advised me, counselled me, entertained me with stories of what I could
expect. You're a woman going into a man's world. They'll resent
you, they'll make your life hell. You'll have to work twice as hard
to prove you're half as good. He advised me on how to handle harassment,
what to do and most importantly, what NOT to do. The things he told
me helped me more than any training I could ever have received through
the Air Force, the TI's, or any amount of instructors. I have been
in the Air Force for going on 14 years now, and I credit my father for
where I am, who I am, and what I am today. I've very much enjoyed
being a crew chief, and will continue to enjoy it until the day I retire.
To
you, Daddy, with all my love.
why did i make this page you ask? because there are grown men and women out there who didn't have the benefit of growing up with a wonderful father as i did. because their fathers are still in vietnam. I have the utmost respect for Veterans. All veterans, whether they be World War I, World War II, Korean War, Vietnam or Desert Storm. I've always had a special place in my heart for the Vietnam Veteran. I think perhaps it's because they were treated so shabbily by their own country upon their return. The names we called them, spitting on them, and generally looking down on them. We as a country should have been ashamed of ourselves. But we disparaged what we did not understand. You can't imagine the relief I felt to see the Desert Storm troops returning home to a proud country, welcomed with opened arms! I was very fortunate, I didn't lose my father, Charles A. Peters, nor did I lose my stepfather, Fredrick A. Berquist, to Vietnam's jungles. But every day, I wear upon my wrist a small red band made of metal. Inscribed on this band is CMS Samuel Adams usaf 10-31-65 svn. On the other side, near the end are two letters: fl. All this stands for a man that went to Vietnam and didn't come back. Chief Master Sergeant Samuel Adams was in the United States Air Force. He disappeared on October 31st, 1965 in South Vietnam, and he was from Florida. Being in the Air Force myself, alot of people see this small red band. "What is that?" they ask me. I tell them it's
an POW/MIA bracelet.
where is chief master sergeant samuel
adams?
ADAMS, SAMUEL Name: Samuel Adams
REMARKS: 6512 DIC-ON PRG DIC LIST Source: Compiled from one or more of the following: raw data from U.S. Government agency sources, correspondence with POW/MIA families, published sources, interviews. Update by the P.O.W. NETWORK. SYNOPSIS: On October 31, 1965, four U.S. Air Force personnel
were captured while traveling by truck from Vung Tau to Saigon. This incident
occurred on Route 15 at grid coordinates YS224805, just on the border of
Binh Hoa and Gia Dinh Provinces of South Vietnam. The individuals in this
incident are SSgt. Samuel Adams, SSgt. Charles Dusing, TSgt. Thomas Moore
and TSgt Jasper Page.
On November 2, 1965, while being taken to a detention camp, Jasper Page, managed to escape and return to U.S. control. It was reported that Samuel Adams had been shot during the same escape that freed Page, but a defector identified Adams' photo as a prisoner at a later date. CIA's analysis of this identification has been inconclusive. The names of all three appeared on the died in captivity list furnished by the Provisional Revolutionary Government (PRG) in 1973 at the Paris Peace Accords. The list reflected that they had died during December 1965, but no details were given. When 591 Americans were released at the end of the war in 1973, Adams, Dusing and Moore were not among them; their names were on a list. No bodies were returned to their families, even though the Vietnamese clearly know where to find the three men. Since that time, Vietnam has doled out handfuls of remains as the political atmosphere seemed appropriate, but Adams, Dusing and Moore remain unaccounted for. The three are among nearly 2500 Americans who remain missing
in Indochina. Unlike "MIA's" from other wars, most of these men can
be accounted for. Tragically, over 8000 reports concerning Americans
still in Southeast Asia have been received by the U.S. since the end of
the war. Experts say that the evidence is overwhelming that Americans were
left behind in enemy hands. It's time we brought our men home.
' till he comes home '
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