On 19 Jun 2004 14:59:30 GMT, 362436 (Ron) wrote:

Another interesting bit of trivia. The son was shot down while flying the
UH-1, the father rescued them.
Six days later, the fathers helo goes down, and this time the son is the one
rescueing the dad.

Their story was wonderfully well told in a book I picked up at the
library, about fathers and sons in combat. (An idea that didn't quite
pan out. They were they only father-son vets of the same war, and many
of the entries didn't actually have a father-son match.) Can't
remember the name but worth reading for the chapters about these two
men. When the book was written (not long ago) they were living
side-by-side on the same street, still helping each other out.

all the best -- Dan Ford
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