{"id":44190,"date":"2014-04-20T09:53:46","date_gmt":"2014-04-20T13:53:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=44190"},"modified":"2014-04-20T09:53:46","modified_gmt":"2014-04-20T13:53:46","slug":"irving-rice-totally-legit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=44190","title":{"rendered":"Irving Rice; totally legit"},"content":{"rendered":"

AverageNCO sends us this article that was published in the Uniontown, Pennsylvania Herald-Standard<\/a> about this totally legit and awesome Irving Rice who was a mechanic in the Air Force in Vietnam. Rice wasn’t your average Air Force mechanic, though, according to the reporter. His tour of Vietnam was jam-packed with action and high adventure;<\/p>\n

Not long after arriving in Vietnam in 1970, the newly minted G.I. from Point Marion saw man\u2019s brutality up close. Rice said he was in a restaurant with a friend when he saw two Vietnamese men sitting at a table nearby. Rice said he didn\u2019t know why, but he thought he might be in danger, so he and his friend left the restaurant.<\/p>\n

\u201cI don\u2019t think this looks right,\u201d he said. \u201cAs soon as we got out the door, police drug them and beat (them to death). I was about six feet away watching it.\u201d<\/p>\n

[…]<\/p>\n

\u201cI heard some woman holler,\u201d he said. \u201cI wondered what was going in there, so I went in this back door. A Viet Cong soldier had a knife. I wrestled him from the door, grabbed and held him in an arm lock, swung him around and then let him go. And then he went through a big glass window. … I got out of there \u2013 I saved that woman\u2019s life. When I got back to my unit, I said if that\u2019s the worst that happens to me, that\u2019s OK. I can do this. That\u2019s alright.\u201d<\/p>\n

[…]<\/p>\n

\u201cI saw a little Vietnamese boy crying,\u201d Rice said with a faraway look in his eyes. \u201cI decided to go down to check this out, to see if he is in trouble. I wanted to see if there is anything wrong. Little did I know that that one little trip down there would change my life forever. I had no clue there was a Viet Cong unit down there.\u201d<\/p>\n

Rice said it was dark when he was ambushed. The soldiers beat him up and he passed out.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen I came to, I was in severe pain,\u201d he said. \u201cI was bleeding. I was lying on a cot in a jail cell. I didn\u2019t know what to think, but I knew I had to get out of there.\u201d<\/p>\n

Rice said the jail cell was not very big, maybe 10 feet by 8 feet and had a wooden door. By Rice\u2019s estimate, he was probably there more than eight hours.<\/p>\n

\u201cI knew I had to move,\u201d he said. \u201cI was hurt, but I finally got up. I went across the room, across the jail cell. I then ran as fast as I could, kicked the wooden door. I fell back. I was hurt, but I got out.\u201d<\/p>\n

Rice said he was able to crawl onto the building\u2019s roof where he saw barbed wire everywhere. The young soldier knew he was far from safe.<\/p>\n

\u201cAs soon as I got on top of that building, I heard pow, pow, pow, zing, right past my head,\u201d he said. \u201cI thought, \u2018they are shooting at me,\u2019 so I started rolling.\u201d<\/p>\n

Rice said he rolled off the roof and fell maybe six feet. He crawled to a cemetery, rolled over a stone wall and into the woods.<\/p>\n

\u201cI laid down there,\u201d he said. \u201cI said this is where I\u2019m going to die. I didn\u2019t want to die at the hands of the Viet Cong soldiers. I didn\u2019t know what kind of injuries I had. There was so much pain in my legs. I laid there and thought, this is it.\u201d<\/p>\n

Rice remembers hearing a jeep before he was spotted by American soldiers. The soldiers picked him up and told him what was happening.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe guys said, \u2018You are the lucky one,\u2019\u201d he said. \u201cI said, \u2018I don\u2019t feel so lucky.\u2019 They said, \u2018There was a big battle last night. We did a room to room search. We found other American soldiers, but they all had their throats cut.\u2019\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Yeah, it all sounds totally legit doesn’t it? He even avoided getting his name listed in the Department of Defense POW\/MIA list<\/a>. The reporter seems pretty excited that Irving was finally able to reveal his harrowing experiences after 40 years. But I think Irving should have waited another 40 years to recount that bullshit. Or the reporter could have spent five minutes to verify the stories.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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