I am so happy to see this. About time that Steve Stotka, Brent Longest and others got mention. I was Asst. Machine Gunner to Andy Day so have a personal love of the M-60. Still trying to reconstruct my memoirs on this. Some have been posted on our site for the 1/8th C Company, but the account of the battles for FSB29 is much more complicated and entailed. Good job. Makes "happy" tears come to my eyes. -- Patrick Flanagan
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Dave Mueller of Boise was one of the first people to learn that Grady was going in the Army, and one of the first to know he'd been wounded. He wrote to share these thoughts:
I was Grady's lifelong pal for his all-too-short life. As I read Boocoo Dinky Dow, I felt like I was reliving my own life, Grady's Dad, Zeke, showed up at my house late the day after Grady was shot to share the news with my family. It was evening none of my family will forget. I had a high draft number, so knew I would never be drafted. But after Grady's experience my Dad swore he'd send me to Canada if I ever was. He was old signal Corpsman that was in the Anzio Invasion during WWII and hated the experience. He loved Grady and Grady carried his talisman throughout his Boocoo Dinky Dow. I can't express enough my gratitude to Julie Titone for putting this experience to the written word. Grady is always in my heart and this book captures the irreverent, wry humor that was Grady C. Myers. Memo to Charlie Company ... and all of you _ Grady Myers was an M-60 machine gunner in Company C’s 2nd Platoon, 1st Battalion, 8th Brigade, 4th Infantry Division in late 1968 and early 1969. If you served with him you knew him as "Hoss." When you read his memoir "Boocoo Dinky Dow," as I hope you will, it's bound to stir up some memories that are very different from his. After all, this book is one man's recollection of an intense and chaotic time when, as Grady put it, "we were all just kids."
I created this blog so that you could share your own versions of what happened in training and in country, or what's happened in your lives since then. Comments of other veterans, family and friends -- all readers -- are also welcome. I'd like to hear, for example, how today's war experiences compare to those in Vietnam. Just send me an email with your message and I'll turn it into a blog post. Grady liked nothing better than a good story -- his always included sound effects -- so fire away. |
Julie Titone is co-author of the Grady Myers memoir "Boocoo Dinky Dow: My short, crazy Vietnam War." Grady was an M-60 machine gunner in The U.S. Army's Company C’s 2nd Platoon, 1st Battalion, 8th Regiment, 4th Infantry Division in late 1968 and early 1969. His Charlie Company comrades knew him as Hoss. Thoughts, comments? Send Julie an email. Archives
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