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Issue #1, July 1998, Table of Contents
BRIGADE COMMANDERS Page 1
In this issue Colonel James S. Timothy is featured. Brigadier General Willard Pearson and Brigadier General S. H. Matheson will be featured in subsequent issues. The editor is searching for official photographs and resumes of these three 1st Brigade Commanders.
BEGINNING THE ODYSSEY Page 2
Stories by Brigade Movement Officer, Colonel Dennis “Duke” Vasey, USA, Ret., and Brigade Information Office photographer and writer Sp/4 Gil B. Valle, set the tone for the 33rd anniversary of the arrival of the 1st Brigade in Viet Nam.
MEDAL OF HONOR Page 6
According to the records available to the editor three men of the 1st Brigade earned the Medal of Honor. 1LT James A. Gardner, Sp/4 Dale E. Wayrynen and SFC Webster Anderson. LT Gardner is featured in this issue. The remaining two will be prominent in future issues.
VIET NAM VALOR AWARDS Page 7
The valor awards printed in this issue comprise one of two and one half pages now available for use in the magazine. If you have orders listing men who received awards for valor please contribute them. They will be scanned and returned to you.
MOVEMENT ORDER Page 10 & 11
Copies of the Brigade Movement Order were furnished by CSM Grady Jones, USA, Ret., who was Brigade Operations Sergeant.
POETRY Page 12
Peter Griffin contributed a file folder full of his poetry. OLD ABE is printed in this magazine. Each issue will have a poem by Peter.
SUBSCRIBERS Page 14 - 17
A list of those who have subscribed to THE DIPLOMAT AND WARRIOR shows that more subscribers are needed. Break even for the number of pages and quality of paper depicted by this magazine is 500 subscribers. This list has the names received on or before June 10, 1998. Those received after that date will be published in the September issue. All efforts to gather names of 1st Brigade veterans are being used. If you have the address of one or more veterans who served in the brigade, please send it to the address inside front cover.
THE DIPLOMAT AND WARRIOR, VIET NAM ISSUES Page 18 & 19
This issue has a reproduction of a page from THE DIPLOMAT AND WARRIOR published in Viet Nam, in the centerfold. All issues will have this reproduction, until the limited copies of the brigade newspaper in our files are exhausted.
BOOK REVIEW Page 20
The review of SPECIAL MEN, by Dennis Foley, in this issue was a happy happenstance. The book was in a book store and was purchased and read just in time for this magazine. Too late for this issue, Larry E. Forrest (an original LRRP with the 1st Brigade who furnished information about the original 1st Brigade LRRP Teams) sent a copy of the book SIX SILENT MEN by Reynel Martinez. It will be reviewed in the September issue.
REUNION STORY Page 22 & 23
The 6th Bi-Annual Reunion of the 1st Brigade, (Separate), in the “Clarksville - Fort Campbell” area was an unqualified success. More stories and photos will be used in subsequent issues.
RETURNED MAIL Page 29 - 33
This list of 1st Brigade veterans contains the names and the addresses used to mail material about the magazine. If you have a correct address or addresses for them please send it.
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR Page 34 & 35
All letters received before June 1, 1998 are acknowledged and printed in total or summarized. Your letters are welcomed and solicited.