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HONORED ON PANEL 2W, LINE 47 OF THE WALL
DANIEL GROVER DYE
WALL NAME
DANIEL G DYE
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2W/47
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DATE OF CASUALTY
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REMEMBRANCES
LEFT FOR DANIEL GROVER DYE
POSTED ON 3.17.2000
POSTED BY: Joe 'Ragman' Tarnovsky
My Brother And Friend, Danny Dye
Hello Danny,
Well, it has been almost 29 years since you were killed. I sent you a Christmas card in December of 1971 but your Mom wrote me back and told me you had been killed. I just couldn't believe it and I cried. I sent your Mom some pictures that I had taken of you and she invited me out to California to visit her. I wasn't ready to go in 1972 and when I finally got the courage to go, I found out through the postmaster of Cupertino, CA that your Mom had passed away. I was going to Cleveland State University at the time and one of the ladies in my psychology class was going to visit a friend near the cemetery where you and your Mom are buried. She agreed to find both of you and was so kind to take pictures for me. I am sorry I didn't go to visit your Mom when I had the chance.
I'll never forget how they brought you out of the maintenance platoon and made you my doorgunner. I was an OJT (on-job-training) crew chief and you had been school trained. When I got you as my doorgunner, Mad Dog Gunship 497 became one of the best UH-1C choppers in the 240th AHC. I don't know if I ever thanked you for that, Danny, and if I didn't I want to thank you now.
The 240th AHC has had a couple of reunions after all these years and many of the guys that knew you were shocked that you had been killed. We all remember that smiling face of yours and what a joy you were to be around. You were always happy, always smiling!
Through the use of computers, I found out that you left the 240th, went to Germany and then back to Vietnam and the 116th AHC. You were a crew chief on an H-Model Huey when it crashed into the side of a mountain. It was hard to read the details of your death but I am glad I found out. I've talked to a few guys from the 116th AHC and they informed me of your time with that chopper outfit.
Danny, you paid the Supreme Sacrifice for our country and I will always make sure you are never forgotten. I talk at high schools and colleges about the Vietnam experience and how it changed us young men into old guys quick. I talk of the love and selflessness we had for each other and the willingness to die for one another if that was what the Lord had planned. I miss you, Danny, and I think of you often. I'll be speaking at Kirtland High School, east of Cleveland, Ohio on the 7th of April of this year, 2000. I will again dedicate my time with the students to you and I will make sure they know of Daniel G. Dye, my buddy, my brother.
Your Friend and Brother Forever,
Joe 'Ragman' Tarnovsky
240th Assault Helicopter Company
Doorgunner/Crewchief
UH-1C Mad Dog Gunships
July 69 to October 70
Well, it has been almost 29 years since you were killed. I sent you a Christmas card in December of 1971 but your Mom wrote me back and told me you had been killed. I just couldn't believe it and I cried. I sent your Mom some pictures that I had taken of you and she invited me out to California to visit her. I wasn't ready to go in 1972 and when I finally got the courage to go, I found out through the postmaster of Cupertino, CA that your Mom had passed away. I was going to Cleveland State University at the time and one of the ladies in my psychology class was going to visit a friend near the cemetery where you and your Mom are buried. She agreed to find both of you and was so kind to take pictures for me. I am sorry I didn't go to visit your Mom when I had the chance.
I'll never forget how they brought you out of the maintenance platoon and made you my doorgunner. I was an OJT (on-job-training) crew chief and you had been school trained. When I got you as my doorgunner, Mad Dog Gunship 497 became one of the best UH-1C choppers in the 240th AHC. I don't know if I ever thanked you for that, Danny, and if I didn't I want to thank you now.
The 240th AHC has had a couple of reunions after all these years and many of the guys that knew you were shocked that you had been killed. We all remember that smiling face of yours and what a joy you were to be around. You were always happy, always smiling!
Through the use of computers, I found out that you left the 240th, went to Germany and then back to Vietnam and the 116th AHC. You were a crew chief on an H-Model Huey when it crashed into the side of a mountain. It was hard to read the details of your death but I am glad I found out. I've talked to a few guys from the 116th AHC and they informed me of your time with that chopper outfit.
Danny, you paid the Supreme Sacrifice for our country and I will always make sure you are never forgotten. I talk at high schools and colleges about the Vietnam experience and how it changed us young men into old guys quick. I talk of the love and selflessness we had for each other and the willingness to die for one another if that was what the Lord had planned. I miss you, Danny, and I think of you often. I'll be speaking at Kirtland High School, east of Cleveland, Ohio on the 7th of April of this year, 2000. I will again dedicate my time with the students to you and I will make sure they know of Daniel G. Dye, my buddy, my brother.
Your Friend and Brother Forever,
Joe 'Ragman' Tarnovsky
240th Assault Helicopter Company
Doorgunner/Crewchief
UH-1C Mad Dog Gunships
July 69 to October 70
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