I Was Just There Last Night © James J. Alonzo “Jim, do you still think about Viet Nam?’ asked Dr. Tallutto, my shrink at Veterans Hospital. “How do you stop thinking about it.” I Laughed, “everyday for the last 30 plus years, I wake up with it, go to bed with it. Yeah, I think [...]
James J. Alonzo “My name is Hector, I got Agent Orange. “ said the homeless Viet Nam veteran to the intake clerk. There are intake clerks at the Service Centers at the local VA Facilities. One of the jobs of these clerks do is to handle any homeless Veterans claims. The weather was getting colder, so all [...]
James J. Alonzo Regardless of what anyone says there are many good things that came out of Viet Nam war. One was the discovery of the “Golden Hour”, where medical care was given to severely wounded soldiers within an hour, and their chances of survival was a lot higher. On the battlefield in Vietnam, wounded soldiers were transported [...]
James J. Alonzo Remember the guy who got on a plane with a bomb built into his shoe and tried to light it? Did you know his trial is over? Did you know he was sentenced January 30, 2003 ? Did you see or hear any of the judge’s comments on TV or Radio? Didn’t [...]
James J. Alonzo With all the illnesses, malformed babies, and suffering from Agent Orange, one could wonder who the person that ordered it to be used was. It was Elmo Zumwalt Jr., who as commander of U.S. naval forces in Southeast Asia that ordered the chemical defoliant sprayed over the South Vietnamese countryside to deprive [...]
© James J Alonzo When I worked security in 1973, at the General Hospital Cancer Center waiting room one day, I heard a woman and an elderly man in conversation. I assumed he was her father. He said to her, “When I was 18, I thought I was immortal.” The old man reminisced. I had [...]
After I got home from the Army and Viet Nam, in 1969, my wife Nanci, Sherri, our baby, (who was born while I was in Viet Nam) had to regroup, and start a new life in the civilian world. I got a job as a store detective, and in turn, Nanci got pregnant. Back then, [...]
(C) James Alonzo While we did find ways to move closer in the last two years of my step-father’s life, after he was diagnosed with Terminal Cancer, there were a few things we had in common. One of them was boxing. We both loved the sport, so I would take him to the ‘fights’ when he [...]
It was a gloomy morning, which may have accounted for my morbid thoughts. Thoughts of today, and the past. I recalled a similar dawn, many years ago, a trip to Buffalo’s airport. We went by cab, Nanci, my wife and my step-dad, which was odd, but my stepfather Ralph insisted on it. He was a [...]
Back in the 1960’s The group of Ham operators known as MARS, offered to make calls in the USA and connect them by radio (2 way air waves), and the Soldiers could call home. It cost $20.00 for three minutes, which was a lot of money back then, but still there were long lines, to [...]
This is based on a true story happening to me in the summer of 75′. I had hired on with the Donner – Hanna Coke Corporation as Director of Security, my job was to protect a Coke Manufacturing plant. My security officers were well trained in weapons, certified first aid, trained Emergency Medical Technicians, and [...]
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