Reply #29: Unfortunately, I don't think it was a poor attempt at sarcasm [View All]

[pinboy3niner]

The guy who made the offensive remark wasn't in my platoon. He was another platoon leader who may have reached out to contact me only because i had also been a platoon leader.

He'd apparently met "Doc" at unit reunions.

I saw Doc only once after the war, when there was an All Airborne reunion in D.C., at the Wall, 20 years ago. A guy from my platoon had organized a reunion of my battalion, so a bunch of us got together then, including our Bn. commander, who'd been a LTC in VN, but was a Major General at the Pentagon at the time of our reunion.

A weird thing that happened at that reunion is that, when some of us were walking The Wall, I happened to look up and see Doc's name engraved there. He was only a few feet away from me at the time, and in that moment I felt like I was losing touch with reality. Of course, the name on the Wall was a different guy--same name, different middle initial.

When I saw him, there was nothing about Doc that would strike you as effeminate. The website I found indicates he attended reunions with his wife.