The location of Penn State University is known as Happy Valley.
One night while I was in the hospital, I dreamed that I was back in Vietnam. I asked our Lieutenant where were we so I could mark it on my map. He said we were in Happy Valley. I asked him “What time does the football game start?” That’s when the nurse woke me up. There was an actual place in Vietnam that we called Happy Valley. I don’t know how that came about. It’s possible that the Vietnamese may have named it. I don’t know.
Once I was awake and realized where I was, I had to laugh to myself. I guess a fever can cause a person to have some weird flashbacks. I was then with the 11th Marines, until two days later when several of us were reassigned to the 3rd Marines. We were still using the M14 at the time, which in my opinion, was the best rifle on the field for the firefights we were involved in. When we started using the M16, we had jamming issues. The version that was given to us was considered unreliable, so we went back to the M14.
One night while I was in the hospital, I dreamed that I was back in Vietnam. I asked our Lieutenant where were we so I could mark it on my map. He said we were in Happy Valley. I asked him “What time does the football game start?” That’s when the nurse woke me up. There was an actual place in Vietnam that we called Happy Valley. I don’t know how that came about. It’s possible that the Vietnamese may have named it. I don’t know.
Once I was awake and realized where I was, I had to laugh to myself. I guess a fever can cause a person to have some weird flashbacks. I was then with the 11th Marines, until two days later when several of us were reassigned to the 3rd Marines. We were still using the M14 at the time, which in my opinion, was the best rifle on the field for the firefights we were involved in. When we started using the M16, we had jamming issues. The version that was given to us was considered unreliable, so we went back to the M14.
