The Wall That Heals

“We had enough firepower to destroy half of the world and if we launched it meant that Russia had destroyed the other half. But if we launched, the world as we knew it would be gone. What would we go back to?

"I have no explanation for what happened to me in Vietnam, except for divine intervention.”

“I came close to being killed beau coup many times. There were so many times that it was only a matter of a few feet or a few inches. Once I was climbing out of my foxhole when my buddy pulled himself out by pushing my shoulder down. He got it and I didn’t have a scratch.

“On 19 August 1969, I was flying in my helicopter on a command and control mission over a rifle company that was engaged under heavy fire I in the dense jungle in Lon-kohn Province. My helicopter included a pilot, co-pilot, door gunner, artillery observer and myself.

Garner resident and Vietnam Veteran, Chris Bradford. His story, told as as part of Garner’s recognition of its Vietnam Veterans as The Wall That Heals visits Garner April 16th to 19th. “

“It is very important to me that the soldiers that we are deploying now get the help that they need when they come back.”