200: Are We Doing Everything We Are Capable of? With Jim Sursely
Podcast 200 Page0:00:00 – Opening
0:01:44 – James Sursely.
0:03:00 – Dad was a B17 Radio operator. . . trainer.
0:05:00 – Not College, Just football, Join the Army, 1966.
0:09:40 – Cars and Bikes, and Girls. Boot Camp. Germany.
0:19:30 – Civilian Job with a green uniform. Send me to Vietnam.
0:24:00 – Left for Vietnam.
0:30:00 – Orders. Curiosity. DMZ. Machine Gunner 113.
0:34:00 – Nam experience and strategy. Near Mi Lai (My Lai/Mai Lai).
0:43:00 – Don’t take the same steam crossing twice. Tracks, off the road, follow the lead.
0:45:00 – If your not tuned in 24 7 . . . you’re in trouble.
0:49:00 – New Assignment. New company commander. Draftees didn’t matter.
1:01:00 – Short time.
1:04:30 – The mission you got wounded. Odd luck, no shrapnel.
1:09:00 – Hospitals and surgeries. first 5 years, (phantom limb pain) is pretty bad
1:23:00 – Starting college. Civilian life after. DAV.
1:30:58 – Got Married.
1:32:15 – September 11, 2001
1:33:00 – Where there is war, there will be wounded. DAV. If they can make it, I can make it.
1:37:00 – What we can do to help the DAV. Website.
1:40:18 – Final Thoughts and Take-aways.
1:43:23 – How to stay on THE PATH.
2:03:20 – Closing Gratitude.