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    From:  Joe Ciokon

     Date:  March 3, 2012

Subject:  Going Back to Vietnam

    From:  Jim White

     Date:  March 3, 2012

Subject:  Going Back to Vietnam

Hope you can keep the Web site in mind.  A good story of your trip complete with photos will make a nice addition.

Jim 

    From:  Forrest Brandt

     Date:  March 3, 2012

Subject:  Going Back to Vietnam

    From:  Peter Berlin

     Date:  March 3, 2012

Subject:  Going Back to Vietnam

Tomorrow I leave on a vacation to Vietnam.

Vacation and Vietnam...they don't quite sound right together, but it is so.  I have waited many years for this day.  I remember one day in May of 1969.  I was standing on a street corner in Vung Tau. I did a 360 with my eyes wide open, the air was fragrant with the smell of flowers blooming..for a second, I felt like I was in a beautiful place, then the reality struck and I remembered where I was and what was going on around me.

I vowed to return to Vietnam under a different circumstance and see the place as it should be.  I have spoken to many who have made the trip and they have no regrets.  I do have one mission planned.  I will attempt to locate the original site of Det 5 Hue. I was OIC of Det 5 Quang Tri. The Quang Tri Det 5 site was just about 6 clicks north of the former Det 5 site in Hue.  The equipment was moved following Tet of 1968 when the NVA overran Hue and fellow AFVN staffers were lost and captured.  I will pay my respects to our lost brothers, there, for all of us.

I will report back.

Going Back to Vietnam - Peter Berlin

March 2012

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