Everyday Is a Bonus

It’s Pironpre that sticks in my memory, because it was there that I came closest to becoming a KIA and there that the Third Platoon lost one of its most popular members, Sgt. Norman “Pop” Schultz. Pironpre, G Company’s first objective in the...

The Mysteries of Life and Death

My short extraordinary friendship with Malvin Vigneault began over half a century ago when some obscure clerk cut orders for two basic training graduates from Ft. Benning to satisfy a manpower need in I Company. Friendship is, in the end, inexplicable. It starts...

Remembering William Schmidt

“Everytime it rains, it rains pennies from heaven” was sung or whistled several times most days by William Schmidt. He was always cheerful and smiling. Nothing ever got him down. The more that others were upset by weather, food, or common adversity, the...