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A-1-6 > Gary Stading (KIA 25 April 68), drew this rendition of Captain Zig Zag (of cigarette papers fame) in shades for Alan Allen's wife, Susan. The captain is smoking a dinky dow cigarette in front of a bunker with a flag showing 'LZ Chippewa 1/6th.' The art is signed 'From a friend of Al's, Stading '68,' and notes Orange County, California (where Stading was from), and a flag with marijuana leaves on it.

A-1-6 > This brass figurine once was the handle for a big brass pot. Alan Allen found it on the pot, in a hooch, in a free-fire zone. We've seen the figure somewhere before, so if you know what it is or represents, please let us know.

A-1-6 > This gun-oil container was taken off an NVA soldier by Alan Allen in mid-April, 1968. The writing appears to be Chinese.

A-1-6 > This card proves the owner was initiated into the 'Domain Of The Golden Dragon;' such cards were given to those aboard the USNS Upshur T-AP 198 for crossing the equator at Latitude 30, Longitude 180 on 11 Oct 67. It is signed by 'His Majesty's Scribe, Davey Jones,' and the commander of the Upshur.

A-1-6 > This is the front and back of a letter for his wife that Alan Allen dictated to a Linda Weeks while at an air-up-like-a-balloon hospital in Da Nang. The letter is dated 29 May 68, the day after he was wounded. He lied in the letter to protect his wife--he didn't tell her he was completely paralyzed from the waist down and couldn't walk, or that he had no bladder or bowel function, or that he required a urinary catheter. A doctor had told him he might never walk again, but he evaded that subject. He even claimed he was hit by shrapnel or a mortar, knowing that would sound less serious than a bullet wound--especially since his wife knew he'd been hit by shrapnel twice before. "I felt like hell," says Allen, "and my back was one solid, dull ache--but at least the pain wasn't horrible, I guess even paralysis has a silver lining. Yet the full implications of my predicament hadn't hit me--and wouldn't fully until 35 years later, and I likely don't understand it all even now." Allen signed the letter himself, in a weak, scrawly hand; Weeks wrote on the back of the page, "Linda Weeks, MA 7 3237, Camp Zama," as did a "Recruiter, Reserve, Red Cross, Jo Jones." Is the MA 7 3237 a phone number? Why did she write Camp Zama--because I was to be sent there? Any ideas would be appreciated.

Gary Stading (KIA 25 April 68), drew this rendition of Captain Zig Zag (of cigarette papers fame) in shades for Alan Allen's wife, Susan. The captain is smoking a dinky dow cigarette in front of a bunker with a flag showing 'LZ Chippewa 1/6th.' The art is signed 'From a friend of Al's, Stading '68,' and notes Orange County, California (where Stading was from), and a flag with marijuana leaves on it.

> Gary Stading (KIA 25 April 68), drew this rendition of Captain Zig Zag (of cigarette papers fame) in shades for Alan Allen's wife, Susan. The captain is smoking a dinky dow cigarette in front of a bunker with a flag showing 'LZ Chippewa 1/6th.' The art is signed 'From a friend of Al's, Stading '68,' and notes Orange County, California (where Stading was from), and a flag with marijuana leaves on it.

Gary Stading (KIA 25 April 68), drew this rendition of Captain Zig Zag (of cigarette papers fame) in shades for Alan Allen's wife, Susan. The captain is smoking a dinky dow cigarette in front of a bunker with a flag showing 'LZ Chippewa 1/6th.' The art is signed 'From a friend of Al's, Stading '68,' and notes Orange County, California (where Stading was from), and a flag with marijuana leaves on it.

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