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John Nesser - Read about John's book "The Ghosts of Thua Thien"

Looking for a Hero - A book about Joe Hooper
Salute to Lowell Lockhart - A special salute from Michael Dorch

Citation Request - Personal Award citations

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JOHN NESSER

Notes from John Nesser

I was with Alpha Company from late May 1969 (just after Hamburger Hill) to about January 1970 when I transferred to the 159th Aviation Battalion to be a door gunner.

You other Avengers may be interested to know that I wrote a book titled "The Ghosts of Thua Thien" and had it published by McFarland and Co. in 2008. It won the Military Writers Society of America's 2008 Gold Medal Award for Memoirs. If you or anyone is interested, the book is available on Amazon.Com which has several book reviews. Other bookstores can order the book as well. A good deal of the book is my recollections of ground ops with Alpha Company. Some may recognize themselves in the book though I used fictitious names at the direction of my publisher.

LOOKING FOR A HERO

There has been a book written about the life and times of Joe Hooper. The authors are Peter Maslowski and Don Winslow. Several Avengers attributed to the background history of Lt. Hooper. One of the places you'll find the book is www.amazon.com

A SALUTE TO LOWELL LOCKHART

Michael Dorch was from Tampa Florida. He now resides in Alvin, Texas. See his entry in the guestbook. Michael would like to give a special salute to Lowell Lockhart from Whitwell Tennessee.

If you would like to know about Mike's background with Alpha company go to this URL:
http://home.att.net/~lzvietnam/fb173dd.htm

CITATION REQUEST

The 101st Abn Div is putting together a written history of awards from WWII, Vietnam, etc., for the BSM and higher. They are looking for all personal award citations that veterans and/or families have to submit. I will send you a copy of the information request and who to contact. The trooper in-charge is stationed at Ft. Campbell and is feverously working on getting as many of the names and citations as possible so it can be published for the official 101st historical record. He's for real and I've dealt with him for the last year.

Roger Barski
773-259-1923
http://nagteam.org/airborne

Here is the citation request form:

Classification: UNCLASSIFIED
Caveats: FOUO

Ladies and Gentleman,
We are building our History event from WWII to present and are including the following awards:

Bronze Stars with Valor
Silver Stars
Purple Hearts

Please provide any supporting documents that you might have of yourself or a family member.

CW2 Niebuhr, Ryan P.
ADAM/BAEC2
Systems Integrator 2BCT, 101 ABN DIV (AASLT)

ryan.niebuhr@us.army.mil