February 2018

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Sergeant George A. Williams, U.S. Army Part 2: Transfer to Pleiku and Coming Home

To read Part 1: Drafted and Fighting in Vietnam, click here. After about six months at Dong Ha, George Williams transferred to Battery A of the 3rd Battalion, 6th Field Artillery Regiment, in the general vicinity of the town of Pleiku in South Vietnam’s Central Highlands. Battery A spent a lot of time out in […]

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Sergeant George A. Williams, U.S. Army Part 1: Drafted and Fighting in Vietnam

We’ve had an all-volunteer military since the draft ended in 1973, so it’s hard for us today to understand the life-changing impact of receiving a draft notice in the mail. George Williams knows that impact all too well. Drafted in 1965, he left small-town America to fight in the jungles of Vietnam during the height […]