Robert C Sargent Jr.

Hi, my name Robert C Sargent Jr. Time of service was 1964 thru 1968. USMC E-4 corp. Date of Purple Heart was On March the 4th of 1966. We were up in the Quang NGAI Area On a operation called UTAH We met NVA Hostile Forces, We were out numbered and the Battle went on for a few days. Many Young Men had died already and by night fall I had been shot up, and waiting for the air lift to come get me, I waited to be the last man out that evening, covering choppers that were trying to land and carry out the dead and wounded. I flew to three hospitals till I could get treated with skin Grafts to the back. For Gun shot wounds. I’ve never been to the Veit Nam wall, because all the young men I had been with that had died on that Operation were not placed on that wall. The reason was because we were an Intel Unit. We were never there. True story. Many men aren’t on that wall in Washington. But we all honored our Service, Sad what’s given in a time of War, but we fought for people’s rights, and the right to live. Funny to think about today, Because after all of that, when I returned home from Veit Nam and landed in California to go home for 20days before I went back, I was spit on at the airport, So Much for a welcome home. But At least we served people that needed rights and wanted to live a full life. That was in all of our Hearts and what makes us Marines… Thanks Sarg…