John "Pointman" Gabbert
Company D 1/22 Infantry
4th Infantry Division
July 1969-December 1969
John was shot in the afternoon
on Dec 10, 1969, by an AK-47 round. Laying on the jungle floor
for about 18 hours
before we could get him and Les Bowerman choppered out, John was
sent to Qui Nhon, Japan, St. Alban’s (Queens, N.Y.)
and finally to the V.A. before being released in November of
1971.
He has undergone 22 surgeries
and still has an open wound because of the infection. John is
like many of our brothers
whose physical or other wounds have never healed from Vietnam.
---------------------------------------------------------Gary Hurl 2011
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