Vietnam war (Music by Dire Straits - Brothers In Arms)

MCPO Roger Collins, the second verse really means so much to me when it states, "Through these fields of destruction, baptisms of fire, I've witnessed your suffering as the battle raged high. And though they did hurt me so bad, in the fear and alarm, you did not desert me -- My Brothers in Arms." I don't want to get onto too much daring do stuff, but the last time I got wounded I received over 200 wounds, wound up alone (other than the bad guys), my radio was out, my rifle was busted and right when the final curtain was about to fall, and sporadic shooting was taking place, in the distance I heard my name being called. Two of my three teammates were also wounded, but they didn't desert me. One came alone and unarmed looking for me. My rescue was even mentioned in the documentary "In The Shadow of the Blade."

SGT Robert Pryor You folks that served during that ill conceived war have my respect, then, now and forever

SPC Randy Zimmerman - I was the little kid in the center. The other six guys sometimes even referred to me as The Kid. Yo, me and most of us were all kids -- but came back old me.

SPC Randy Zimmerman - I just noticed something about that picture. The three guys on the right side of the picture (standing on my left) were in their twenties and the three guys to the left were in their thirties. For my first 12 days on my team I was the only teenager. In fact, SF had almost no teenagers serving on A-Teams in Viet Nam. especially when you consider I went through a little over a year and a half of training before getting there. Those were the days, my friend.