I Live with my wife Maggie not far from my grand children on a nice peice of land with an airstrip and a good sized garden.
I would rather be in New Mexico where Maggie and I lived for 2 years. But we came back for the grand kids.
I have traveled some and went back to Vietnam in April.
I am a peace activist and have been involved in Marches and Demonstrations since 1969.
I am a Ham Radio Opp.,K1FYD a long haul biker and a Buddhist.
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I served with 1st Plt. H. Company 2/9 spring, summer and fall of 1967 until I was wounded for the second time near Con Thien.
I was treated at BAS and Transferred to 3rd Med at Phu Bai.
At 3rd Med I worked on the Vietnamese civilian ward and the POW cage. I also floated to ICU, The OR and Triage. and choppers runs to NSA. and pick ups in Hue and Khe Sanh. During Tet 68. I also covered at med station at Khe Sanh.
I served at both Chelsea and Portsmouth Naval Hospitals.
On January 7, 1836 the Chelsea Naval Hospital was completed and commissioned. Located on a hill on the banks of the Mystic River in Chelsea, MA, it is 112 feet (34 m) above sea level. The original building was built of Vermont granite. The hospital was a three story building with a 100 bed capacity. A wing was added on the west side of the building in 1865.
Chelsea Naval Hospital was one of the first three hospitals authorized by Congress to accommodate naval personnel. Previously, personnel received treatment at marine hospitals operated by the Department of the Treasury for mariners, both naval and merchant. The hospital served naval personnel and others during the American Civil War, Spanish-American War, World War I and World War II.
In 1970, a plaque in remembrance of Medal of Honor recipient Wayne Maurice Caron, a hospital corpsman, was placed on the grounds of the hospital. In 1973, the hospital and the surrounding grounds were added to the Naval Hospital Boston Historic District.
When it was decommissioned in 1974, it was the oldest naval hospital in service in the United States and consisted of 88 acres of land on the Mystic River. Notable patients during the hospital's history include Presidents John Quincy Adams (after his presidency) and John F. Kennedy (before his presidency). The original hospital buildings were converted into condominiums while adjacent land was dotted with single family townhouses and high rise apartment complexes. Still extant are the perimeter wall and guard shack, pier, chapel, ordnance buildings, nurses' quarters, and the Captain's House. In addition to the redevelopment of the housing and hospital portion of the property, several acres on the Mystic River were taken over by the Metropolitan District Commission for Mary O'Malley Park.
