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This Remembrance Profile was originally created by CMSgt Don Skinner - Deceased
Best Friends Nurse Lt Pepper Nurse Cpt "Mickey" Spillane
Best Moment When I had recovered from my 7th abdominal surgery and 6th period of rehabilitation, I was allowed to leave the ward (in wheelchair.) I would go to ground floor level, out onto the patio, find a place not shady, not sunny, and listen to country music on my transistor radio. I was now approaching 7th month in hospital, and longed to "breathe free."
Worst Moment Propped in bed on left side, unable to move except for ritual cleaning and rebandaging wounds and surgery sites each day.
Chain of Command I only know I was PCS to the hospital because I was expected to be there for more than a year.
Other Memories I was PCS to Wilford Hall USAF Hospital as I was severely wounded in Vietnam during the Tet 1968 offensive. I required a long period of surgery, recovery, and rehabilitation, so I was PCS instead of TDY in patient status. At first, I was propped on my left side in bed, unable to move except once a day. As I began getting my strength back (when wounded, I weighed 200 pounds; I now weighed 135) I was allowed to move about the ward except when new sutures required healing. Food was good and plentiful. I was the only patient in the general surgery ward that had been wounded in 'Nam, so I was pretty much well taken care off. Other people were there for routine surgery. I was visited by a Colonel who was preparing information so I could meet a medical board and be medically retired. When he discovered I had 20 years service, that was forgotten and upon my release from the hospital, I was assigned (limited duty) to a radar site in SC.
