“These stories I tell you about the war are just stories to you, but for me, they’re still real. I can still smell it. I can still hear it. I am there.”
Bob Miller (JHS Class of ’64), 7th Cavalry, veteran of the Battle of the Ia Drang Valley

“I was among the dazed and numbed that day, and I don’t trust everything that I think I remember correctly.”
Ken Roy (JHS Class of ’66), Marine, following the battle on Hill 174

“I guess I compartmentalized a lot of this — I put it aside — and now I think I’ve lost the key to many of those compartments.”
Rear Adm. Dan Lestage (JHS Class of ’57), Navy surgeon aboard the USS Oriskany

“Like many veterans of front-line battles, Rick was extremely reluctant to discuss his experiences in Vietnam. Our children called him ‘the silent warrior.’ As John [Semmes] shared information with me, I began to see a side of my quiet, rather stoic husband that our children and I never knew . . . that Rick not only endured such horrors but also performed so heroically on the battlefield.”
Julie Boudreaux Ingalls, widow of Rick Ingalls (JHS Class of ’67), 
Hero of the Night Raids