Hooch maids were paid by the GIs on a monthly basis to do a number of chores. These included doing laundry, making beds, sewing patches on uniforms, cleaning hooches (our sleeping quarters) and a number of odds and ends. The maids could earn as much as a

There are some men who refuse to die and then there are some men, too, who refuse to live life only for themselves. It is my honor and pleasure, this issue, to write of a man who is both of these things. Lieutenant Joe Dilger. I first met the lieutenant i

Long ago and far away… here we go again! It was one of the unusually "quiet" nites in the "Rear". One team in the bush, lagered down, ambush position, no movement. The C.O. and Opn's NCO, John Barnes, and I were going to solve the problems of the world. N

Those rare days when the newsletter arrives are never easy ones. When I find one in my mailbox, my mood always shifts. Upon the sight of my old unit crest upon folded paper, I find my inner me is suddenly stilled.