SAMUEL K. BEAMON

Hi Sam:

Hope, your trip to Orlando was great. I got home from CT. It was very hot until the weekend and began reading the book on Saturday and finished it on Sunday. I usually don't read many book's but your story was probably the best I have read on Vietnam. It gave me a greater insight on your experiences and those whom had flew during the war. Your discription of your time in Vietnam' the good times and bad times, the missions that you had flown on a daily bases to re-supply those of us on the ground, med-vac the wounded and dead and rescue troops in places that were hot amazed me. It was very thoughtfully written and composed. During the point you had enter PI, I was on operation Starlite and others until returning to the land of the roundeyes. It had meant something to me, as a good friend had taken the time to write his story and I proud of you for doing it. You have honored friends that you had lost in Vietnam in the writing of the book.

You will always be a brother, fellow US Marine and a good friend forever.

"Semper Fi"

Ron Marshall