It is with a heavy heart and my deepest sympathy that we learn, through a message from Jerry O’Brien, of the passing of another of our Distinguished Veterans and a Valued Comrade. Dr Loran B. “Doc” Morgan, Hq 466th PFA passed away on 23 November, 2009. With an assist from Ed Siergiej I was able to contact the family to obtain the essential information for this message.
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Nov
28
2009
Nov
10
2009
Category : Archive Stories, George Day MOH
I got shot down over N-Vietnam in 1967, a Squadron Commander. After I returned in 1973, I published 2 books that dealt a lot with “real torture” in Hanoi. Our make believe President is branding our country as a bunch of torturers when he has no idea what torture is.
As for me, put thru a mock execution because I would not respond…, pistol whipped on the head…, same event… Couple of days later… hung by my feet all day. I escaped and a couple of weeks later, I got shot and recaptured. Shot was OK… what happened afterwards was not.
They marched me to Vinh… put me in the rope trick, trick… almost pulled my arms out of the sockets… Beat me on the head with a little wooden rod until my eyes were swelled shut, and my unshot, unbroken hand a pulp.
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May
26
2009
I have found this information online and because I receive this question sereval time a years I will put the answer online. The number of American Soldiers killed and injured in combat :
Revolutionary War : 25,324 killed 8,445 injured
Civil War : North – 3636,020 killed 281,104 injured
Civil War : South – 199,110 killed 137,102 injured
WW-I : 116,708 killed 204,002 injured
WWII : 408,306 killed 670,846 injured
Korean War : 54,246 killed 103,284 injured
Vietnam War : 58,219 killed 153,356 injured
Operation Desert Storm : 363 killed 357 injured
Iraq War : 4300 killed and growing 31,285 injured and growing
If you do not have to support the war, but please support the troops.
