Excerpts From

They Were Ours

Gloucester County's Loss in Vietnam

 Dear Family,

Sorry I have not written sooner.  but we have been in the field.  It sure is hot out here.  We can never stay clean.  We have not gotten any mail out here at all.  It is getting hotter every day.  It stays about a hundred degrees.  i hope it is better at home.  I hope everyone is fine.  So how is Louise coming along ?  I hope she is alright.

I got some good news.  They said we can go down to the stream and get washed.  It will be the first time in about eleven days.

( In a letter from PFC, USA Buddy Powell to his family.)

The posthumous Bronze Star Medal for Valor, dated June 17, 1966 and awarded to PFC Elmer Powell reads, in part:

Under intense enemy small arms fire, Private First Class Powell, with disregard for his own life, was mortally wounded while assaulting the enemy position.

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