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I Corps Vietnam, bloody 1968; by Corporal Osborn R.E. 2258512, MCRD and Vietnam survived; also vividly remembered as the 'great Communist Lunar New Year Surprise Offensive, Year of the Monkey, and did we, or Pvt me, feel like the scared wide awake monkey's nephew, January 28th up North I-Corps Vietnam, about noon thirty-TET: Commie attacks throughout the South would be another day before they kick spectrally off, for some of their 'drive us to the sea where we came from' lot seem not get the 'commie attack word' tried overrun Camp J.J. Carroll, too, but were turned back or destroyed. 'Heard that, 'the Pvt up to his 'NFG' sweaty ass in pots and pans in the lowly pot shack, when the mess cook shouted, 'INCOMING, Oz, find you ass in a hole!' And did the Pvt turn to, yet falling down, not knowing how manage this unruly, slipping and sliding speed on states side, no panic traction drill boots, enemy arty and 122 mm rockets screaming, howling in, close shrapnel hissing by with each volley of horrid, 'ka-runchrunch-runch! impact sounds like loads of dry lumber dropped on a gym floor, and you were looking off, sudden shock.