D Day 74 years ago today

[DaveHH]

106 in one day.I remember not thinking about getting killed much, it was pure luck anyway. We'd check the back of the Stars and stripes and look at the list of KIA and see if anyone we knew had died. There was another list "Died not as a result of hostile action ". These were the plane crashes, truck wrecks, suicides, disease, gunfights with ****ed off husbands. These guys were just as dead as the others. I just wanted out of there, I was drafted and that was the mindset for every draftee I saw, just do your time and get the hell out of that place. 6 June 68 I had been home and out of the Army for a year. 22 1/2 months with a 72 day early out. You think about what it was years later.