This article is a must read.....
http://www.si.com/vault/1993/10/04/...point-and-one-of-the-countrys-finest-soldiers
The Lonesome End
By standing apart, Bill Carpenter became an All-America at West Point and one of the country's finest soldiers
Dear Coleridge—Did you seize the opportunity of seeing Kosciusko while he was at Bristol? I never saw a hero; I wonder how they look.
—Charles Lamb, in a letter to Samuel Taylor Coleridge June 24, 1797
At about half past three on the afternoon of June 9, 1966, on an exploding finger of land in a dense bamboo jungle of South Vietnam's Central Highlands, Capt. Bill Carpenter barked into his radio-telephone the message that would echo through his life as a combat soldier. "We're being overrun!" Carpenter called to the air spotter circling above the battlefield. "Bring it right on top of me. Put it right on my smoke."
From the east an Air Force fighter, laden with napalm, swept over the treetops toward Carpenter's position......
http://www.si.com/vault/1993/10/04/...point-and-one-of-the-countrys-finest-soldiers
The Lonesome End
By standing apart, Bill Carpenter became an All-America at West Point and one of the country's finest soldiers
Dear Coleridge—Did you seize the opportunity of seeing Kosciusko while he was at Bristol? I never saw a hero; I wonder how they look.
—Charles Lamb, in a letter to Samuel Taylor Coleridge June 24, 1797
At about half past three on the afternoon of June 9, 1966, on an exploding finger of land in a dense bamboo jungle of South Vietnam's Central Highlands, Capt. Bill Carpenter barked into his radio-telephone the message that would echo through his life as a combat soldier. "We're being overrun!" Carpenter called to the air spotter circling above the battlefield. "Bring it right on top of me. Put it right on my smoke."
From the east an Air Force fighter, laden with napalm, swept over the treetops toward Carpenter's position......
