Vietnam – Columns by nellie

Of Christmas past from Rio Grande to Pleiku, Vietnam

By Nellie Curtiss … Christmas Eve 1967 in small town Texas, where water was a big deal, was markedly cold as temperature dropped to 36 degrees on the weather gauge. It was bittersweet though because the children’s stepdaddy stationed at Pleiku AFB, a US Air Force base in South Vietnam couldn’t get leave to comeContinue reading “Of Christmas past from Rio Grande to Pleiku, Vietnam”