Submitted by Name: DOC TAYLOR From: IL E-mail: Contact
Comments: I CAN NOT FIND YOU ON FACE BOOK. SEND ME A FRIENDS REQUEST ON FACE BOOK JAMES TAYLOR, JACOB ,ILLINOIS.Y WIFE AND I ARE STANDING BEHIND A MEMORIAL WE AHD BUILT TO THE NAM VETS FROM OUR SMALL COMMINITY.
Added: January 31, 2015
Submitted by Name: DOC TAYLOR From: IL E-mail: Contact
Comments: SRY DOC PAL FOR MISSING YOUR NAME WHEN I GOT OVER TO THE NEXT PAGE.
Added: January 31, 2015
Submitted by Name: DOC TAYLOR From: IL E-mail: Contact
Comments: Phil trying to look some things up for you. I went to your site but did not see the Nam pics.One of the trooper who use to help me put things on passed on. Otis helps me to. Trying to get hold of him. I was going to look at your pics. it would be nice to pic out all the medics and put them on the site 1st. and named the ones you know. My email address is docftrp@yahoo.com. I have been falling down on my job. When people don,t seem interested it d to stay focus.I just help one of my trooper in f troop to get his purple heart that i took care of when he was wounded. I took care of him in the field and it never got in his records. I ahve tried to explain this to other medics, and a few responed, you never know who you may help that will maked a change to there life for the better. some times all it takes is a pic and HEY THATS HIM.
Added: January 31, 2015
Submitted by Name: Hurst Palfey Rinehart(Palfi) From: England 42 years)originally Midland, Michigan Website: http://drpalfi.co.uk E-mail: Contact
Comments: Duh; What's up Doc? Sorry to bother you so much, but I have found quite a few possible connections on your wonderful site and it is obviously the most hopeful for finding old friends and information regarding all my questions. I have sent a couple more emails from addresses on your site and am awaiting replies. I have plenty of pictures from that time as you can see from my Facebook Album "Clown at War. I knew Otis J Baily from when he was at at Blackhorse Camp and when he received his award, but I never took a picture of him. I may have photographed the award ceremony(see FB Album). It was either August-September 68 or June-July 69 when I was at Blackhorse Camp. The 6 or 7 months in between I was at Headquarters in Bien Hoa running the Aid Station, MEDCAPS, treating wounded GI's, POW's, and civilians including Lt. Colonel George S. Patton the Forth's belly wound, transporting living and dead people to Long Bien Hospital(sometimes under fire at night), picking up supplies and people from Long Bien and "trading" dressings(Bandaids) for Serums.
In July-August I was some 4 hours North of Xaun Loc. Like someone said in a comment on your site, "some of the time we didn't know where we were." I have already said that I was sent into the Field into heavy combat 10 days before I was to go home by a nasty Sargent I refused to gamble, drink and share a prostitute with along with the other "men" in the barracks. I was wounded on the third day (possibly the 25th of August 1969 in the Field and in San Francisco and discharged on the 29 of August 1969. I never received a CMB or Purple Heart. I shouldn't have been there anyway since I was an Operating Room Technician and had signed up for an extra year in addition to my original conscription, because I was told I would it guarantee that I would not be sent onto the Front Line. I am, in a way, glad that I was, because I was able to witness the horrible conditions other men were subjected to months on end. Call me what you like, but I did not want to be in the Army and be put in harms way, be killed or wounded or have to kill or harm anyway.
I doubt there is any record of me being in combat or being wounded. It is not that I wish to have those awards as it is that I simply want to know particularly the name of the one guy who got killed in my platoon, the name of the "Chief" who lifted him up from inside the tank where he lay in an enormous pool of blood, the name of the wounded loader on my tank, my Tank Commander who was, I think, the Platoon Leader(possibly Lt. Postlethwait from Kentucky), the nane of the Troop or Company(searching madly in many places/ this last 3 month's research has stirred up a lot of bad stuff) I think that it might be B Troop and that the name of the fatality was Peter Alan Kidd who was the only Blackhorse Trooper that I have found that died on 23 August 1969, which was only 6 days before my discharge.
I am sorry to take up so much of your time and space and repeat myself so much, but some resolution would help settle muddy waters I have never stirred up before so specifically. I might even be able to contact the guys I mentioned or offer some solace to the family of the fatality on that gruesome day.
A couple of other important questions: When I click on "contact" under a person's name and address beside their comments, I am requested to type in an "administrative password". How do I obtain one? Also; I have plenty of pictures of fellow Medics(at least) that I could post if you like. I took the one of Tom Hofstadter with his leg in a cast for instance. How might I do that? Email them to you? If I could; people might recognise them or themselves, name them for me, request FREE copies emaled to them or prints and enjoy them. Again; take a look in my FB Album "Clown at War" and see if there are some you might like to see up. How do I locate your photo gallery or are they in the same "area" I saw the photo of Tom? I get muddled on these processes. I'll try and find it now. Perhaps I'll try and email you a couple shots anyway. I think I have already sent or two.
Perhaps one of the stimulants that has caused me to plough through day's worth of websites, troop sites and Viet Nam writing is because my girlfriend and I recently had a near death car crash on 11 January. Neither I or my partner were in the least bit hurt, but maybe it kicked open some old door. 15 years ago I wrote about 500 pages about my experience in the Military, but I have not been able to pick it up to write a final draft. Much of the writing is with the FB Album and the 400 plus pictures in it which I only began to scan and post starting three months ago. Most of the slides, negatives and contact sheets I have not looked at for 45 years.
I have, it seems, only begun to scratch the surface of material about Viet Nam.
Thanks again for your time and space. Everyone else has left only brief notes. If you would wish me to write less please say so.
Comments: Hi Doc, A little confused about the difference between leaving messages by signing the guest book or viewing messages and I can't locate, yet, where the great messages you left me are. I sent 2 e mails to Tom Hofstadter through your mail system I found and another email address, but they both acquired a "failure to deliver" note. Why is it my name is not on the list yet? SP5 Hurst P. Rinehart 37th Medical Company 1968-69. THanks for setting up this sight and running it. This is all new to me.
Comments: Hi again Doc, I sent emails to John Poindexter describing in detail my combat experience and he kindly replied saying he'd like to be the man I described, but that he was not. Today I found a list of all the Blackhorse Troopers who died in Viet Nam in a list put up on the wonderful D Company site by Bob Hersey. I found that the only Trooper who died in the Field in mid August 1969 when I spent my 3 days in combat(Bob has them in groups of years in in order in those groups by dates), was SFC Peter Alan Kidd on 22 August 1969. He was in B troop. I can't remember if I told you before, but I would like to find out where that was, who "Chief" was on the tank he died IN and who the Platoon leader was on our M48 tank I remembered it as Postlethwaite from Kentucky, but thought I might have been confused when I saw the photos and name of John B.Poindexter come up. I clicked on the B troop website, but it appears that they require people to "offer" some money to get through to them. I started with 50 cents, then $1, $5 ,10, $20, $25 and then typed in $100. Bingo "inquiry accepted. I'll never pay that. I told them I already paid in blood and treating the wounded under fire. Have you seen my web sites? drpalfi.co.uk and palfiphotos.co.uk. I am from MMidland, Michigan originally, but have lived in England for 42 years now. Where do you live? Love and Warm Puppies, Palfi
Comments: I tried to cancel my duplication of my letter of 19 January, but they ask me what my password is. What is it or how do I find it please? I do not remember being given one or choosing one.
Comments: I have lived in England since 1972. I was a medic with tne 37th Medical Co. 11ACR from August 1968 to 1969 ata Blachorse Camp, Headquarters at Bien Hoa and somewhere in heavy combat, wounded and suffered with PTSD every since until about ten years ago. I have sent thousands on treatments through the years. I would love to talk to anyone from our In Country experience. I have had contact with one person only from those dangerous days: Dr Gordon(then Major)S. Livingston the Regimental Surgeon of Black horse until Easter 1969. I noticed a picture on your wonderful website of Tom Hofsteader that I took and sent him an email, but it came back undelivered.
Comments: I have lived in England since 1972. I was a medic with tne 37th Medical Co. 11ACR from August 1968 to 1969 ata Blachorse Camp, Headquarters at Bien Hoa and somewhere in heavy combat, wounded and suffered with PTSD every since until about ten years ago. I have sent thousands on treatments through the years. I would love to talk to anyone from our In Country experience. I have had contact with one person only from those dangerous days: Dr Gordon(then Major)S. Livingston the Regimental Surgeon of Black horse until Easter 1969. I noticed a picture on your wonderful website of Tom Hofsteader that I took and sent him an email, but it came back undelivered.
Added: January 18, 2015
Submitted by Name: DOC TAYLOR From: il E-mail: Contact
Comments: HOPE ALL OF YOU WILL HAVE A GREAT NEW YEAR
Name: DOC TAYLOR
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I CAN NOT FIND YOU ON FACE BOOK. SEND ME A FRIENDS REQUEST ON FACE BOOK JAMES TAYLOR, JACOB ,ILLINOIS.Y WIFE AND I ARE STANDING BEHIND A MEMORIAL WE AHD BUILT TO THE NAM VETS FROM OUR SMALL COMMINITY.