Story by Petty Officer 2nd Class William Colclough | U.S. Coast Guard Heartland | 08.06.2013
Blood is the color of hell. Noises, faces in the mist and the entrails of men wallpaper the psyche of those who walked point up a mountain and came down the other side of sanity. In the summer of 1970, Firebase Ripcord, was headquarters for the U.S. Army Delta Company, 2nd Battalion, 501st Infantry, 101st Airborne located in a hardwood forest of scattered, felled and clustered trees wedged......
