John (second from right) Fort Bragg Basic Training 1967
Baumholder, Germany 1967 John and the ambulance line--"diapering the cracker-box"
John and friends outside the Budapest (John in center)
The Paddock Da Nang Vietnam
236th Helicopter Ambulances Da Nang Vietnam
Sandbagged hooches Medic's hooch far left
Robert Long (2nd from left, back row) John Seebeth far right, front) and other members of 236th
Inside the medic's hooch at Red Beach
When stationed at Baldy, their call sign was Charger Dustoff.
Graves Registration at LZ Baldy
photo courtesy http://lzbaldymedic.homestead.com/
An exhausted John in the perpetually dirty Dustoff hooch at Baldy
Sandbagged entrance to the aid station at LZ Baldy
photo courtesy http://lzbaldymedic.homestead.com/
Acting First Sergeant, Senior Medic SFC Gary Weaver
Gary offered much information and support during the writing of An Introduction to War. We were honored when Gary requested that we use his actual name in the book. The first edition of the book does not represent actual persons except for Gary and the professors and doctors who influenced and saved John's life. Also, the character Raymond Allen is based upon crew chief Robert Long.
Sergeant Weaver was well-liked and well-respected.
Crew chief Robert Long inside his chopper. Robert is Raymond Allen in the first edition of the book.
Robert Long flew with the 236th for two years. Picture on left taken soon after the 236th's arrival to the Nam.
photos courtesy R. Long
Three Dustoff ships coming into LZ Baldy
photo courtesy http://lzbaldymedic.homestead.com/
Joe Kralich was a lead medic with 196th stationed at LZ West. That's John sitting inside the cargo bay on his lead pad facing aft.
A pickup at LZ West or Hill 445 (John standing outside of cargo bay moving litters. 5th man seated in hell hole beside John and holding an M-16. Crew chief Robert Long seen across the cargo bay.) This picture was taken by Joe Kralich in August 1969--the day before John was shot.
John 1968
John 1969
Bullet holes in window where John was hit
Photo courtesy of Terry Caskey, Specialist 4 in 1969 who worked in the receiving unit (ER) at the 95th
http://www.95thevac.com/
John--first weekend pass home from Walson Army Hospital with a tracheostomy
John's VW, crashed in the snow on his trip to New York State
The Summer of Love Wildwood, New Jersey (John's orange Firebird--and his suede vest)
Wildwood, NJ
John and the Montgomery T-tube
The Matterhorn
John hitchhiking through Europe
Ocean County College, Toms River New Jersey
John's Elkhart green Corvette outside his upstairs apartment in Toms River
From the OCC Viking News (campus newspaper) John (far right) and members of the Veterans Club
John dancing at the Viking Ball
President of the Student Association Ocean County College
John addressing fellow graduates at OCC
Spot and Marblecake
Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana
John camping at Grand Tetons National Park, Wyoming
Going to the Sun Road, Glacier National Park
John halfway between Banff and Jasper along Icefield Parkway
Icefield Parkway and Columbia Glacier
John's bicycle--along the spur of the Cassiar Highway from Stewart)
The Cassiar Highway
YouTube - Gerry Rafferty Baker Street
As "heard" in
An Introduction to War on John's bicycle trek
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EgbGaYTkkPU