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The first time I saw maggie, I was helping to carry a wounded GI into the SocTrang dispensary circa 1965, or 66, I don't remember the circumstances re the wounded GI. It may have been the rescue attempt for Nick Rowe, and we had wounded everywhere. Most had been medevacced to other medical facilities.

Anyway, the dispensary was a real f-ing mess, blood, cut off uniforms everywhere, weapons thrown into corners, guys moaning and groaning, guys dying! I was directed into the operating room with the wounded GI, there was blood EVERYWHERE, so I am trying my best to get out of there and back into a gunship where I know what I am doing. I then noticed an individual in one corner with a bucket, and rags, trying her level best to clean up some of the gore. I knew she looked familiar, but didn't put it all together for a minute...It was maggie, and she had been doing everything in her power to help the situation, at that moment it was to mop some of the blood off the floor and walls. she was so covered in other peoples blood that she was almost unrecognizable!

That evening I saw her at the Soctrang SF club, drinking with the boys. Her "beloved boys"!

I loved that LADY!