An on-growing collection of Stories and Poems, most of them written by our own 327th Eagles.

Do you have a story, poem or song that you have written and would like to have it posted? Send it to Hannibal 

• Stories/Poems
  Collection
  Nick Fondo
• Flight home
  Richard F. Denne
• "I came to see my son's name"
  Jim Schueckler
• The Day Ballanger Died
  Robert Leonard
• My Journey Back
  Mark A Petersen
• June 1968 Dong Tam
  James Taylor
• A Warrior's Last Steps Home
  Authur Unknown
• Vietnam: The Way It Was
  Tom "Buddha" Jones
• PTSD program at the VA Bay Pines Hospital, Tree Ceremony
  Steve Merrill
• Survival on Birmingham
  Dan Clint
• Remarks, made to a reunion of old aviators
  Joe Galloway
• Remembering Viet Nam
  John Stiles
• Thoughts on Independence Day
  Rex Andrea
• Veteran's Day, 1992, Letter to the Editor
  Tom Carpenter
• The Fatal Wounding of Bret Crandall
  Tom Carpenter
• Doc Lefty Keeps an Unwanted Rifle
  John Neely
• Remembering a Soldier's Mother - the hero's hero
  Steve Shewalter
• Law
  "Yankee" Jim Simchera
• N.D. oral history project reunites veterans who served in combat
  Terry DeVine column
• The Long HUE Home
  Contributed by Conley and JoAnn Wilkerson
• When a Good Jump Goes Bad
  T.J. McGinley
• Vietnam Veteran's Memorial for Veteran's Day
  Mike Moreno
• The Final Inspection
  Authur Unknown
• "When the Good Lord was creating Vietnam Vets"
  Authur Unknown
• Dear Vietnam Veteran,
  Jack Cunningham
• Memories
  Roy Aguero
• Brief History of FB Veghel
  Steve Patterson/Roy Aguero
• Water
  Roy Aguero
• Veghel, An Old Soldier Remembers
  Roger Morris
• Point Men
  Roger Morris
• Medics
  Roger Morris
• Popcorn
  T.J. McGinley
• Hill 882
  Ted McCormick
• The Man of the Mountains
  Leslie Hughes
• and was forever changed by Vietnam
  Tim Lickness
• Radioman Story
  Dan Stroebel
• Rescue of Dustoff 65
  Tim Lickness
• Lucky To Adjust
  Jim "Doc" Webb
• Eye Witness Accounts
  Pete Mitchell/Dave Gratton
• Generals I Have Known
  Donald W. Aird
• Hill 86
  Douglas N. Field
• VIETNAM:
  A Look Back- At The Facts
  K. G. Sears, Ph.D.
• Murphy's Law
  Authur Unknown
• The "Things" They Carried
  Tim O'Brien
• Delta Air Strike
  Ben Costello & Dick Farr
• After Glow
  Peter S. Griffin
• Vietnam Memories
  Phil Neel TF-'66
• Let us never forget
  Authur Unknown
• Fisherman's Fate
  Richard Denne
• Flash Back to Nam
  Richard Denne
• Gun Ship
  Richard Denne
• The Thing From The Sea
  Richard Denne

• The Plan
  Gary Ratliff
• Passage of Time
  Bill Hall
• Ghost Warriors
  T.J. McGinley
• Brave Falcon
  Ken "Doc" Nance
• Memorial Day 2007
  A Vet Who Remembers His Brothers
• The Honor Company
  Robert Leonard
• Then and Now
  Mark A. Petersen
• Does the first Amendment give us the right to desecrate the American flag?
  Authur Unknown
• Where Are the Seats?
  Don Matthews
• 544th Replacement CO.
  Tom "Buddha" Jones
• Basic Training 1969
  Tom "Buddha" Jones
• The Lucky Ones
  Tom Caramanno
• An Unusual Birthday Party
  Tom Caramanno
• Prejudice
  Dan Clint
• Going Down, But Not To Woodstock
  Morris Cox
• Vietnam Facts vs Fiction
  CPT. Marshal Hanson, U.S.N.R (Ret.)
• Introduction to War
  Morris Cox
• What a Tangled Web We Weave--Decoding the Mystery That is HOOAH
  Sgt. Michael Volkin
• "Was There Last Night"
  Robert Clark
• Old Sarge Gets a Care Package
  Russ Vaughn
• Long Journey Home
  Dave Demsey
• Grunts Have a Sick Sense of Humor, Gomers Party
  Dave Shade
• Looking Cool
  Dave Shade
• My First Night Jump
  T.J. McGinley
• Black Panther's Helmet
  Dale Wiese
• Veterans Day 2003
  Barry W. Fox
• Honor Among Soldiers
  Joseph L. Galloway
• Joe
  Linda Patterson
• Downed Choppers
  Hank Ortega
• A Snake Story
  Roger Morris
• Our Experiences In Vietnam Were Not All On The Down Side
  T. J. McGinley
• Recovering Fallen Brothers
  Roger Morris
• What Does a Hero Look Like
  Lester Montgomery
• The Telegram
  Edith Montgomery
• Becoming "Legal" in Nam 
  Roger Huffman
• LZ Construction
  Dale "Hannibal" Hansen
• LZ Construction Part 2
  Marion "Mouse" Hammond
• Morale As High As The Clouds
  xxx
• The Train Station
  Wayne Gaskins
• Vietnam 1968
  Tim Lickness
• Going Home
  "Yankee Jim" Simchera
• Everything I Ever Needed To Know In Life, I Learned As A Helicopter Crew Member In Vietnam
  Dan O'Brien
• Reunion
  Tim Lickness
• My First Jump
  George Santaguida
• Reds were planning to assault firebase
  Ted McCormick
• Who Are The Eagles?
  Rick "Pointman" Swing
• Letter to the Editor of Vietnam Magazine
  John Pagel II
• Address Delevered at Breakfast Commemorating the Arrival in Huntsville, Alabama of the Traveling Vietnam Memorial Wall
  Retired Lt. Gen. James Link  
• Carmel by the Sea
  Richard Denne
• "A" Company Memories in Vietnam
  James Evans

POEMS/SONGS

• Welcome Home, Brother
  Dick Moran
• When We Saw Them Coming
  Up The River
  Chapman Burgess
• The Things I Carry
  Michael Marks  2007
• I Am An American Soldier
  Susan Paredez
• AGENT ORANGE PAIN
  Mary Rogers
• Point Man
  Jim Wilson
• Memorial Day
  May 30, 2006
  Ted Luna
• Crazy Nut
  Chapman Burgess
• ONE HUNDRED AND ONE EAGLES
  FLY Tribute to the
  101st Airborne, U.S.Army
  (Author Unknown)
• Christmas Wish
  Michael Marks
• A Tribute To Veterans
  Jerry Calow
• All I Ask
  Written by Those Who Were There
• "Night and Days Gone By"
  Mike "Doc" Ainsworth
• The Sands of Christmas
  Michael Marks
• The Vet
  Lee O'Neill
• "High Flight"
  John Gillespie Magee, Jr.
• REMEMBRANCE DAY
  Don McKinley
• I Served My Time In Hell
  Bob Graves
• Coward's Stock   
  Michael Clancy
• Quiet War   
  Michael Clancy
• Cycle of Life
  Walt Towers
• Journey Thru Hell
  Jim Wilson
• Boonie Rat Ballad
  Ronald W. Jordan
• A Day to Remember
  Michael Marks
• A Wife's Prayer
  Edith Montgomery
• Ode to the Airborne
  Infantryman of the 1st Bde. 101st  
  Author Unknown
• This Wall
  R.G. Collier Sr.
• To All Veterans
  Alan Wilkerson
• The Man In The Doorway
  Michael Ryerson
• Eleven Bravo Invocation
  Gary McGinnis
• Who Stands Alone
  Michael Marks
• Veteran
  (Author Unknown)
• Wall Poem
  (Author Unknown)
• Things you didn't do
  (Author Unknown)
• Again Last Night
  John W. Gray
• Echoes From Vietnam
  Myrna Wilson  

• For Protecting Their Right, to Say Things That Are Wrong.
  L/Cpl Jack T. Hartzel
• A Vietnam Point Man
  Jerry R. Rogers
• What Was it Like Being 21?
  Douglas R. Bergman
• Humping The Jungle
  Chapman Burgess
• The Reunion
  Rachel Firth
• Love Rises in the Body
  and Stalls in the Heart
  Chapman Burgess
• "The Wall"
  Kelly Strong
• Freedom is Not Free
  Kelly Strong
• Bury Me With Soldiers
  Unknown
• Drops
  Wes Byrd
• Fightin' Words
  Russ Vaughn
• Sheepdogs
  Russ Vaughn
• Of Airborne Wings and C.I.B.
  Claude A. Frisbie
• The Animal Grunt
  Keith Colville
• The Name on the Wall
  Michael Marks
• For My Friend Snow
  Mike "Doc" Ainsworth
• THE VIETNAM WAR
  Mary (Houck) Rogers
• Soldier
  George Skypeck
• COBRA
  Bill Fowler/Larry Evans
• Hot L.Z.   
  Michael Clancy
• The Wannabe
  Rick Swing
• A Soldier's Christmas  
  Michael Marks
• Time In Hell
  Walt Towers
• Battleground   
  James Wainscoat
• She Didn't Want to Play
  Wayne Gaskins
• Why  
  Gary Berry
• A Paratrooper's Boots
  Edith Montgomery
• The Wall Still Teaches, Still Reaches
  David C. Moore
• JUST A COMMON SOLDIER
  (A Soldier Died Today)
  A. Lawrence Vaincourt
• Tears and Rice
   Larry Evans
• My Vietnam Moon
  John Farr
• Vietnam Mist
  Author Unknown
• A Soldier
  Samantha
• FREEDOM OR PEACE
  Ron Jones
• WAR, WHAT IS IT GOOD FOR...?
  Peter S. Griffin
• I AM THE INFANTRY
  Harvey Larry Wilson
• My Left Knee
  Ken "Doc" Nance
• Come Home
  John W. Gray