Saw this on the news. The basic story was these two soldiers were pinned down in Vietnam on New year's Eve. They made a pact that if they got out they would meet again every year. This was one of them standing guard for their final meeting.
On New Year’s Eve 1968, just before the dawn of 1969, Master Sgt. William H. Cox and his buddy First Sgt. James T. Hollingsworth were holed up in a bunker in the Marble Mountains of Vietnam.
Rockets and mortars were raining down all around them, or as Cox puts it, “Charlie (the nickname for the North Vietnamese) was really putting on a fireworks show for us.”
As they hunkered down, the two Marines made a pact: “If we survived this attack, or survived Vietnam, we would contact each other every year on New Year’s,” Cox recalled.
For nearly five decades, Cox, who lives in Piedmont, and Hollingsworth, whose nickname was Hollie, kept their promise to each other.
And earlier this year, Cox kept another promise: He stood guard at Hollingsworth’s casket and then delivered the eulogy at his funeral.
serter on November 18th, 2017 at 14:41 UTC »
I read the article. This was a friendship made in Vietnam.
uscEE on November 18th, 2017 at 14:53 UTC »
Saw this on the news. The basic story was these two soldiers were pinned down in Vietnam on New year's Eve. They made a pact that if they got out they would meet again every year. This was one of them standing guard for their final meeting.
unknown_human on November 18th, 2017 at 15:41 UTC »
http://www.greenvilleonline.com/story/news/2017/11/10/83-year-old-retired-marine-keeps-promise-made-bunker-vietnam/850811001/