First: DONALD
Last: SHAKE
Email: [email protected]
Date: 11 Jan 1999

First: mack
Last: masters
Email: [email protected]
Date: 13 Jan 1999

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First: Daniel
Last: Allen
Email: [email protected]
Date: 15 Feb 1999

Comments:

|I volunteered for Vietnam but was sent to Thailand as an air traffic controller at the Royal Thai Navy base at U-Tapao. My tour was from Feb. 1971 to March of 1973. We were one of the two B-52 bases in SE Asia. I have always felt guilty about serving in the rear area while many of my friends served in Vietnam. What made it worse, was learning that some of them never came home. I hope to God that someday they all come home!

First: Donald
Last: Vinzant
Email: [email protected]|
Date: 14 Feb 1999
Comments:
THANK YOU TO ALL MY FALLEN BROTHERS IN ALL SERVICES
I would to hear from anyone who was in A 1/9 3^RD MARINES AND IN VIET NAM IN 1967 TO 1968

DON -A MARINE FOR EVER
SEMPER FI

First: Norma
Last: Losh-Runyon
Email: [email protected]
Date: 10 Feb 1999

Comments:
I liked your webpage,it is very thought provoking.I just found out we also have Carmichaels in our Losh line.Good job.Norma

First: Alan
Last: Anderson
Email: [email protected]
Date: 04 Mar 1999
Comments:

Losing these "kids" caused me tremendous grief, I can’t imagine the pain and anguish it caused their, (and your), family.

Alan G. Anderson
Former CO, Company A, 5^th Battalion, 60^th Infantry, 9^th Division

First: Ray
Last: Marshall
Email: [email protected]
Date: 16 Mar 1999
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First: Larry
Last: Barbour
Email: [email protected]
Date: 05 Apr 1999

Comments:

Great job Dave. I had a first cousin KIA and my brother was a dustoff pilot. Know where you are coming from. Larry

First: Herman
Last: Reid
Email: [email protected]
Date: 04 Apr 1999

Comments:

US Army, June 1967 to June 1970.

First: GYSGT ROBBIN J
Last: HANKERSON
Email: [email protected]
Date: 17 Apr 1999

Comments:

SEMPER FI

First: Cindy
Last: Carmichael-Smith
Email: [email protected]
Date: 19 Apr 1999

Comments:

A very lovely memorial to your brother. It touched my heart.

First: Jason
Last: Dunaway
Email: [email protected]
Date: 05 May 1999
Comments:

Semper Fi Dave. I found your webpages through the NATCA webring. Youve got a good site here. Just a reminder, there are plenty of us that appreciate what you guys did in Vietnam.

I was in the Marines also, along time after you though. ‘92-‘97, Air Traffic Controller
Take care

Semper Fi

-Jason Dunaway-

First: Hunter
Last: David
Email: [email protected]
Date: 26 May 1999
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First: WILLIAM
Last: WOMACK, JR.
Email:
Date: 28 May 1999

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First: David
Last: Fichtner
Email: [email protected]
Date: 06 Jun 1999
Comments:

Dave,
Nice rememberance for your brother. i hope it helps you contact his old friends. Semper Fi

First: Thomas
Last: Poulk
Email: [email protected]
Date: 15 Jun 1999
Comments:

Served with H&S Company, 3/3/3 December 66 thru December 67. Went over on the same ship and if I am not mistaken we pulled liberty together in Naha Okinawa on Chirstmas Dec66. I was in Weapons Section, H&S Company during the time of this action and packed a 3.5 rocket launcher. Things were not easy on anyone and a lot of good men bought the farm in just a few days. "Your brother did his job and we are all better off for his sacriface." God Bless.

First: Jim
Last: Wodecki
Email: [email protected]
Date: 25 Aug 1999
Comments:

Thanks for the site a wonderful tribute to you brother. You have traveled far down the road from last year on your quest. I’m sure is proud of you for telling his story fo I am.
Semper Fi

Jimbo

First: Tom
Last: Eichler
Email: [email protected]
Date: 25 Aug 1999
Comments:

I served with E/2/26 and spent many months on Hill 861A, which was the Northern Finger of Hill 861, which Dale and those brave Marines died on. We were also overrun on 05 February 1968, during the Tet Offensive, but managed to drive the enemy off our Hill, the same one Dale and his friends died trying to take.11 Marines died that day and many more were wounded. Maybe it was the legacy of Dale and the other young Marines, which drove us, to beat the large enemy force and keep that little piece of dirt which so many Marines gave their lives to take.

This site is a geat tribute to your brother, and as the Vice President of the khe Sanh Veterans you are welcomed to join our organization, where you may meet many more of the Marines who served with Dale. God Bless you and thank you for helping to keep the memory of Khe Sanh alive, with this site and the story of your brave brothers sacrifice.

http://www.MaxPages.com/khesanhveteran/home

First: Michael E.
Last: O’Hara
Email: [email protected]
Date: 25 Aug 1999
Comments:

Dear Dave,

I was refferred here by a friend from Texas, Jim Wodecki. I am truly sorry for the loss you and your family have suffered. I know only too well what that is. I was in bootcamp when your brother was killed and was fortunate enough to get to the Siege with Bravo 1/26 the following winter. We lost nearly 60 in 11 weeks. It really sucked.

Why did I choose to respond? Because I live in Indiana also, very close to where your family is from. I live in Brown county just east of Stone Head in a little burg called Bellsville. Ain’t nobody here but me and a church but were on the Rand McNally map. I have been to Freetown many times. I used to go thru there all the time on my way to Clearsprings.

You have to be related to the Carmichaels here in Brown County. There is a bunch of them. All good folks. You come from good stock and good country.

It is late better go now. Good on you for keeping yopur brothers memory alive. He would be very proud I know.

First: Sandy
Last: Hodak
Email: [email protected]
Date: 29 Aug 1999
Comments:

Dave:

Like you my brother was killed in Viet Nam. Charlie served in Company D, 1^st Batt, 26^th Marines, 3^rd Marine Division. He died in 1968. Long may we keep them alive in our hearts and memmories. Their love was complete, we owe them no less.

First: Nick
Last: Wiltse
Email: [email protected]
Date: 21 Sep 1999

Comments:

Dave,
I served with Mike Company 3/3 1965 in Vietnam, and all the young men that died in Vietnam are heroes to us all, especially your brother.
Semper Fi,

Nick Wiltse
USMC 1964-1968

First: Paula
Last: Eubanks
Email: [email protected]
Date: 28 Oct 1999
Comments:

I came across your webpage. I grew up during the Vietnam era. I just want to express how sorry I am that your lost your loved one over there. God Bless.

First: Cary
Last: Van Eman
Email: [email protected]
Date: 01 Nov 1999

First: Hugh
Last: Cox
Email: [email protected]
Date: 02 Nov 1999
Comments:

I commend you for your web site. I found it by searching northernlight.com for "hill 861 khe sanh". I had the honor of being there for a short while in April or May 1968 - as an Army chopper passenger who was stranded. See my story at http://www.hughcox.com at the main page near the bottom. I request your permission to link my web site to yours under "More about Hill 861".

Hugh Cox

[email protected]

First: K.
Last: Carmichael
Email: [email protected]
Date: 17 Nov 1999

Comments:

I was looking up my husbands grandfathers name, Dale Carmichael and came up w/ your site. The wierd thing id that my husband is in the military, the NAVY 7 years. Wierd huh? Well got to go. Great site. There should be more like this so that these young people can read about what the enlisted go through, and get a clue. Thank you!!!

First: Paul
Last: Sluder
Email: [email protected]
Date: 19 Nov 1999

Comments:

Thanks for the photos..I have a few in black and white...Great job on your page...PFC Paul A Sluder..I live in Winston-Salem, NC..I am now 52..have two children..three granchildren. I was wounded in Operation Prarie II on 3/27/67. I have survived all injuries well luckily..Feel free to write or e mail..I recall several of the marines in your photos..

Thanks...

First: Curry
Last: Stedman
Email: [email protected]
Date: 24 Nov 1999

Comments:

As I search for the history of the Carmichael family, I don� t want to find a memorial name. I saw your brothe�s name behind his picture on the WALL. I am from Canada, but linked to your site, I have Carmichael roots - I don�t know if those of us outside the borders can understand how much you and others have hurt.

First: Mike
Last: Maher
Email: [email protected]
Date: 28 Nov 1999

Comments:

Greetings to fellow Marines....I live in Cheshire, Ct. and I am a high school English teacher and head football coach. Thirty-two years ago next week (Dec. 12^th) my company Kilo 3/26 left Quang Tri and went to Khe Sanh. We were part of the 3 Batallion build-up for what became the siege starting on January 20^th. I spent XMAS at the base, but on 27Dec Kilo hiked up and onto 861. (we replaced a company that had been there for months) We ran patrols everyday...night ambushes....LP�s, etc. up until 15January. Then the gates and paths through the barbed wire were sealed up, and we began some serious digging in. The shit hit the fan early in the am of 21January and we spent the rest of the siege on 861. About 7April we were heli-lifted to 881s and we took part in the Easter Sunday, World War II, type assault of 881N. I was the FO for Kilo�I was just an e-3 [LCPL] (the only enlisted FO in the Batallion) and there has not been a waking day since, that at least part of my thoughts

go back to those days and nights in that red-dust, shit hole. My bunker was at the top of the hill (western side) right next to a massive bomb crater from your fights up there eight months earlier. My hat is off to all you Marines and Corpsman who fought in those brutal Hill Fights while I was still back in the States. I still have my FO map of the whole Khe Sanh area and about 80 slides of the KSCB, 861, and the terrain in and around the hill. I made my first trip to DC in �82 and I have vowed to go back to the Wall at least every three years....there are 21 names of friends of mine to visit. I hope all you Kilo people have a great Christmas and a healthy, happy 2000. In my prayers, I�ll ask some of my Kilo 3/26 pals to look up some of your guys "out there." Welcome Home and thanks for reading my words. 

Dennis

First: Jacob
Last: Wang
Email: [email protected]
Date: 06 Dec 1999

Comments:

Did Mark Patrick McCarvel serve in Kilo in 1969? I know he was in 3/3 that year and saw action at both Idaho Canyon and Virginia Ridge, among other places. How can I get in touch with him?

First: WARREN
Last: VANAMAN
Email: [email protected]
Date: 19 Dec 1999

Comments:

served with Mike Co 3/3 68/69 Had a good friend who served with Kilo during the same time Robert J Westbrock. Have been searching for him but no luck. He signed the battalion guest book but no E Mail Add. If anyone has any info on him please email me at [email protected]

First: larry
Last: reoch
Email: [email protected]
Date: 21 Dec 1999