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Posted on January 25, 2017 at 05:33:05 PM by Pat Ryan (6-29th FA, Cambodia)
From: PRyan59150@aol.com
Sent: Wednesday, January 25, 2017 10:51 AM
To: jerryberry@currahee.org
Subject: Re: Nesting Falcon & 2018 Currahee Rendezvous
Jerry,
It is good to hear from you. I have some interest. I am kicking myself for missing Reno. I have only driven past Reno--never spent any time there. I would be most interested if Cavedo, Brokaw, Holbrook and the other Cambodia/LZ Philips guys were there. But I also have to say I am pushing my luck with my wife on military reunions. We usually go to the 4th Infantry Reunions each year, and my artillery battery gets together once or twice each year. Three or four each year is a bit much for her to digest.
I want to share with you that I am going to Vietnam this year. My older daughter is global marketing manager for the United Technologies' company, Otis Elevator. She has done business in both Hanoi and in Ho Chi Minh City (Saigon). Her Christmas gift to Mary and me is a trip to Vietnam using her abundance of frequent flyer miles. She wants to share with us what she knows about Hanoi and Saigon. And she wants to see where I was in the 4th ID AO between Pleiku and An Khe.
Our son will also join us for the trip. Our younger daughter and her husband will not be able to join us because of their jobs.
As planned we will arrive by air in Pleiku from Hanoi (after several days eating, touring Hanoi and cruising Halong Bay), pick up a car and driver, drive from Pleiku to the Cambodia border and back on HWY19, catching a glimpse of Dragon Mountain, the former site of Camp Enari, stay overnight in Pleiku, drive HWY19 east through the Mang Yang Pass through An Khe, the former site of Camp Radcliffe, drive on to Quy Nhon to stay a couple nights on the beach, do a day-trip the next day to my favorite firebase, LZ Hard Times on the Song Con (river) north of HWY 19, drive north on HWY 1 after the second night in Quy Nhon past Phu Cat Airbase, which in the day I could see from LZ Arnold Trail, which hung on a mountain to the west (ocean on our east), then drive further up HWY 1 with a stop at My Lai to Hoi An/Hue/Danang, and finally fly to Saigon for several days of touring and eating.
Needless to say, we are excited. We are busy everyday making preparations for the trip. In those preparations I am getting the impression that the country is making great strides to modernize. Particularly shocking have been the pictures I have seen of Pleiku. We will be staying in a high-rise hotel--15 stories?? Nothing I remember was more than 3 stories and they were run-down French buildings. Now there are resorts, classy restaurants, soccer stadiums and monuments--none of which look familiar. It's amazing what can happen in 47 years!
Pat Ryan
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