Vic LaSarte (pictured above), now 60, received the Bronze Star for being one of the last soldiers to leave a firebase as the enemy overran the position. He made sure the wounded were evacuated and that nothing useful including ammunition or weapons was left to the enemy that swept in from the jungles along the DMZ. He was five months into his tour and a piece of shrapnel struck him in the leg. “We encountered hand to hand combat,” he recalls. “I was blown off the hooch.” The explosion left him hobbling to a remaining helicopter that fluttered away ushering LaSarte and his fellow soldiers to safety/Ralph Bartholdt, St. Maries Gazette-Record. More here.  Publisher Dan Hammes comment here.

Question: Did you serve in Vietnam?

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