Taken at China Beach.
According to Bob Muth this is "Doc" David Dean. Doc was shot August 12, 1969.
We were searching for some NVA who had ambushed one of our morning road sweeps. We were on line and sweeping across some open ground. Just as we moved across the road that led to Hill 22 two gooks in some brush opened up. Cecil Lambert was almost directly in front of them. Glen Denton, who was beside Cecil, said he tried to charge the enemy position. Cecil was knocked down in the road and lay there screaming. I could hear him from where I was. Even though Lambert wasn't more than a few feet from the enemy and totally in the open Doc David went to his aid and was shot, though he lived.
Just off his left shoulder is the road that goes to 2/7's headquarters at Dia La pass and from there to Da Nang.
February 23, 2001. Just got off the phone with Tom. He lives in Columbus, Ohio and is retired. We will be getting together this May when we will be in Ohio for a wedding. Tom lost his right leg when he was wounded. In spite of this he sounded very upbeat about things. I think he has done well.
At the 2000 reunion I spoke to Gary Wavrecam about them, he had spent some time with a cap unit around Chu Lia. He said that half of them were VC, but that sometimes they'd fight ok. They had to quit giving them grenades because they'd use them all up fishing.