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with the BSM, AM, and ARCOMv for his tour, and after a ten-year courtship he married at age thirty-three, finally putting away his bitterness (although his wife's miscarriages have prompted him to check into the possibility of Agent Orange contamination) and getting a job with the security division of a defense contractor. He now lives in Harleysville, Pennsylvania. Lieutenant Colonel Conrad (CO, 2-8 Cav) won the BSM and AM during his first tour with the ARVN, two SS, LM, DFC, BSM, AMv, seventeen AM, and two PH during his second, and is presently a major general who recently commanded the 1st Cav Division. Sergeant First Class Beauchamp (C/2-8) earned the SS, two BSM, and two PH for his two tours, served in Cambodia with a temporary commission, and is now a sergeant major with a son and daughter. He is planning to retire to Lacey, Washington. Specialist Fourth Class Lemon (E/2-8) made sergeant and won the MH, two BSM, two AM, two ARCOM, and PH; after a youthful marriage, a son, and a divorce, he went on from a construction company he started to earn his undergraduate degree in communications and his master's degree in business, and is now an insurance senior account executive living with his second wife and their son and daughter in Colorado Springs, Colorado. Private First Class Rappaport (E/2-8) won the BSM, AM, and ARCOMv for his tour in Vietnam and Cambodia, and is now a hospital supervisor in Hoboken, New Jersey. Private First Class Valldejuli (E/2-8) won the BSMv during his eighteen months in Vietnam. Divorced with two children, he is now a police officer living in Arlington, Virginia. Lieutenant Colonel Ianni (CO, 2-12 Cav) won the SS, LM, DFC, BSMv, BSM, and twenty-one AM before retiring from active duty as a colonel. Now a major general in the National Guard, he lives with his family in New Castle, Delaware. Captain Rector (S-3A, 2-12) served two tours in Vietnam, retired as a lieutenant colonel with two BSMv, three BSM, AM, ARCOMv, and two ARCOM, and is now a management consultant residing with his wife and two children in Denham Springs, Louisiana. Captain Schaffer (chaplain, 2-12) earned the SS, BSMv, AM, and PH for his tour, and is presently a colonel on active duty. Captain McBride (CO, C/2-12) won the ARCOMv for Cambodia, resigned his commission a year later, married before entering medical school, and now has three daughters and a family medical practice and lives in Sarasota, Florida. Captain Johnson (CO, D/2-12) retired with twenty years, major's oak leaves, and the SS, BSMv, BSM, ARCOMv, ARCOM, and PH, and is now an automotive service manager. He lives with his family in Universal City, Texas. Captain Camp (CO, E/2-12) won three BSMv, two AM, and two ARCOM. Married with children, he is currently a lieutenant colonel. Second Lieutenant Hudnell (E/2-12) was wounded after Cambodia, retired five years later with a forty-percent disability and the SS, two BSMv, two BSM, two AM, ARCOMv, ARCOM, and PH. He is now a postal employee and lives in Centre ville, Virginia. Lieutenant Colonel Fitzgerald (CO, 2-19 FA) retired as a colonel to be an airline executive in Seattle, Washington. Major Furey (S-3, 2-19) wears three BSM and eight AM for his two tours. A family man with one son, he retired as a colonel in Anniston, Alabama.
Major General Walker (CG, 4th Division) received a SS and PH in WW II and a DSM and SS in Vietnam before retiring as a lieutenant general with his wife to a small cattle farm in Union, Mississippi. Brigadier General Wheelock (ADC, 4th Division) won the LM, two BSM, and two PH in WW II, plus the DSM, SS, BSM, JSCM, and nineteen AM for his two tours in Vietnam. Retired with two stars, he is now suffering from a neuromuscular disease and lives in Lees ville, Louisiana. Lieutenant Colonel Adams (CO, DISCOM, 4th Division) earned the BSMv and two PH in Korea, and the SS, LM, two BSM, and AM for his two tours in Vietnam. Retired from active service as a colonel, he is now on the faculty of the U.S. Army War College in Carlisle, Pennsylvania. Colonel Yow (CO, 1st Brigade, 4th Division) retired as a