![]() But what happens is that the NVA also take a break called poc time. While being followed by North Vietnamese Army soldiers, four of his Asian teammates decide to take a break at 12:00. The pilot never thinks of it as a big deal. On Christmas eve, the pilots fly in at great risk to themselves to take the man to get medical attention. Peacock calls in a helicopter to bring him out. Here are some samples.ĭuring the Christmas truce of 1967, Dinh Hun, a Montagnard irregular, is wounded. I always take Vietnam stories with a grain of salt. Interspersed with the grizzly stories are those about his war experience. ![]() Each man listens to the other, never totally understanding what is said, just getting a sense of it. ![]() Then Peacock speaks in Hre and later in Montagnard. Yet Peacock begins to listen to the man's stories. While house sitting, a Navajo knocks on the door looking for safety from the weather. ![]() There are many vignettes in the book that I loved. Exploring the wilderness and studying grizzly bears was his way of forgetting some of his experiences in Vietnam. Doug Peacock, the model for the George Hayduke of Edward Abbey's novels The Monkey Wrench Gang and Hayduke Lives!, served two tours of duty in Vietnam as a Green Beret medic, ministering to the Montagnard and Hre peoples of the highlands. ![]()
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