'Rhe 2nd Battalion of the 8th Infantry. CO: commanding officer. NCO: Noncommissioned officer. "I remember my ruck being so heavy I couldn't lift it," he says. He says his platoon was nearly wiped out in the heat. After 30 years of trying to forget, he finds that remembering is better medicine.
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George Cressy 1996 story in Newsday: Three Days of Hell
'Rhe 2nd Battalion of the 8th Infantry. CO: commanding officer. NCO: Noncommissioned officer. "I remember my ruck being so heavy I couldn't lift it," he says. He says his platoon was nearly wiped out in the heat. After 30 years of trying to forget, he finds that remembering is better medicine.
'Rhe 2nd Battalion of the 8th Infantry. CO: commanding officer. NCO: Noncommissioned officer. "I remember my ruck being so heavy I couldn't lift it," he says. He says his platoon was nearly wiped out in the heat. After 30 years of trying to forget, he finds that remembering is better medicine.