Issue No. 1
HERITAGE
FALL - WINTER 2020
Destined to Serve
1st Signal Brigade Pr’ Line (aka) Primary Line communications site along main supply route and highway Q-11 vicinity DaLat City, Republic of Vietnam. cir 1968
Story by Lan T. Dalat
I
am proud to be an American and serve in the U.S. Army as a Signal Corps officer. My journey is a testament to the vitality of the promise that is America. As a young boy, I often watched paratroopers landing on the hills across the field from my house near the Vietnamese National Military Academy in Đà Lat. Beyond those rolling hills off in the distance I could see huge billboard-size antenna piquing my youth curiosity and pulling me toward my destiny to serve an organization in a distant land some 30 years in the future. The path I followed transformed me, severely tested my will to survive and equipped me with a zeal to strive for success. My parents sent me to French Lycée Yersin, a
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