Photo of a Chinese SKS Rifle

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I purchased this Chinese SKS rifle several years ago. It is perfectly legal because it is a SEMI-AUTOMATIC version. I tagged several weapons that I personally captured but I never did get to bring one home with me. You know how that goes, THE GREAT BASE CAMP WAR HEROS took them I suppose. I just wanted one to keep for myself. It is a fine hunting rifle. It is listed as one of the top 10 best war rifles of all time along with it the Russian AK-47.

Photo of a NVA Knife

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This is a photo of a NVA knife that I brought home with me from the war. The NVA had this knife on him along with a German Luger hand gun. I also have his soft hat.

Photo of a Vietnamese Pot Belly Pig

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This is a rare photo of a Vietnamese Pot Belly Pig. I thought that they were the funniest thing. Little did I know then that they would become popular in this country as PETS.

Photo of Bobby Ray Tabrons name on the Viet Nam Wall

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This is a photo of Bobby Ray Tabrons name on the Viet Nam Wall. I wasn't as close to Bobby as I was to Stanley W Dix because he was a replacement to my unit. He didn't go over with us to Viet Nam but joined sometime later as a replacement to us. All that I can remember is that he adjusted to us very quickly. He was a Black Kid but the color of his skin didn't matter to us because we were all brothers. I still remember the day he was killed by the NVA. I remember I was one of four people that had to carry him up this steep mountain side to the LZ for his chopper medivac. I remember that we could only carry him just a few feet before we had to stop and rest a spell. As I think back on that day the words to the song come back to me. HE AIN'T HEAVY, HE'S MY BROTHER.

Photo Scene Just Hours Before The Battle for Plei Ya Bo

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I took this photo just a few hours before our Battle for Plei Ya Bo (Three Trees). All I can remember is that we were dug-in for the night and we were HANGING OUT I think this is today's terminology. I think a couple of the boys names were Tommy Routh and George Talton.

Photo of us Parlaying (interrogating) the Montygnard People

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This photo is of us Parlaying (interrogating) the Montygnard people. Let me see if I can remember the Montygnard custom-- they would place a huge CROCK OF RICE WINE in the center. The rice wine was made up of slices of green bananas along with rice with the husk on it mixed with water. I remember them having the croak covered with a banana leaf. They would then lay a flat piece on bamboo wood across the top. They would cut a small splinter in the center of the flat piece on bamboo. They would stir the mixture and then top off the CROCK off with water. They would then take a long piece of bamboo which served as a straw. It was their custom that we and they take turns of drinking from the CROCK. It was the custom that you drink until the wine cleared the splinter on the flat piece of bamboo lying across the top of the CROCK. The best that I remember that was anywhere between 1 pint & 1 quart of rice wine that you had to drink per your turn. I remember the comments from everyone participating in the ritual was Boy that was a cheap drunk.