spent some time talking to my dad last night...he remembers meeting dick meadows "on some drop zone at fort gulick"...says he had just come back from british commando school and was "one of those free fall guys"..."very professional and no nonsense"..."extremely competent"...remembers hearing about his battlefield promotion and then his death....they were in the 8th together...he also remembers seargent nickerson also from the 8th...i think both were on the assault team...for the record my dad doesnt remember where the hell he was during son tay...so says my dad
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