Guests' Comments
January - September 2010
From:
Terry Cochran
Sent: Saturday, January 30, 2010 9:23 PM
To: pvapres@usspueblo.org
Subject: Re: USS Pueblo Poem
Good Evening. My name is Terry Cochran and I served
aboard the USS Enterprise in 1969. My Aunt, Amanda Letress
Cochran wrote a poem about the USS Pueblo and it was sent to LBJ about 1969 and
published. Would anyone have a copy of the poem.
Sincerely,
Terry Cochran
From:
Alan Carper
Sent:
Saturday, January 30, 2010 2:33 PM
To: pvapres@usspueblo.org
Subject: Passing of Ted Carper, LT USN (Ret)
Dear Mr. President:
I am CDR Al Carper, USN, SC (Ret). Around 10 years ago I contacted the
USS Pueblo Veterans Association and arranged a meeting between myself and CDR
Bucher. At that meeting in his California home with Mrs. Bucher in
attendance, I shared with CDR Bucher that my father, LT Ted Carper USN (Ret) served
as the Flag Secretary for RADM Edwin Rosenburg at the
time of the repatriation of the Officers and Crew of the USS Pueblo. I
provided CDR Bucher a copy of Admiral Rosenburg’s
orders and shared with him that one of the lines of accounting on the Admiral's
orders was for "walking around money" to be distributed to those
being repatriated. Further, I shared that this was done at the suggestion of my
father to the Admiral. CDR Bucher said that he would place a copy of the
Admiral’s orders in the USS Pueblo Association’s archives.
The purpose of this e-mail is to let you know that at age 81 my father passed
away early on the morning of 27 January 2010 and was laid to rest yesterday at
the M J Dolly Cooper Veterans Cemetery in Anderson, South Carolina with full
military honors. He was a wonderful father, godly spiritual leader, proud
Naval officer, and devoted patriot.
Very Respectfully,
Al Carper
From:
Adcock, Robert
Sent: Monday, January 25, 2010 7:56 AM
To: pvapres@usspueblo.org
Subject: Assistance
Hi
I have a question. In 2000,
LCDR James B. Sullivan donated a plaque to the National Cryptologic
Museum for display, and we are attempting to find him to see if the plaque
could now be considered a permanent donation or what the future plans would be
for the item. Can someone assist in locating him ?
Thanks
Robert
Letter from A.
Lingway, retired USN CPO to US Secretary of State
Hillary Clinton
19
February 2010
From:
Mark Pickerel
Sent:
Sunday, May 30, 2010 7:12 AM
Subject:
USS Pueblo
Mr. Hemphill, I am an engineer on the Pueblo
(Colorado) Fire Department, and I'm trying to get in touch with the USS Pueblo
Veterans Assoc. to show them what we did on our new ladder Truck 1. If you
could forward these pictures to someone, I would really appreciate it. The
"Home Of Heroes" sign on all of our trucks refers to the 4
Congressional Medal of Honor recipients that have come from Pueblo. I have done
quite a bit of research on the USS Pueblo and your name keeps popping up, so I
thought you might be the one to contact. Thank you for your time.
Sincerely,
Mark Pickerel, Engineer- Pueblo Fire
Dept. Truck 1
From:
Paul Krause
Sent: Tuesday, June 22, 2010 7:00 AM
Subject: Day of the Release of the Crew
Hello, I wish I’d contacted you years ago…
In December
of 1968 I was with the 2nd Aviation Battalion of the 2nd
Infantry Division stationed at Stanton Army Airfield, or Alpha 112 as it was
called. I was Service Platoon Leader in Company B of the Bn. We
were about four miles south of the DMZ I believe. We supported 9 H-23 Raven
helicopters, 2 Cessna Birddogs and 2 DeHavilland
Beaver aircraft that were at our tiny airfield. The day of
the release 11 (?) UH-1D Hueys and one H-121
Shawnee (?) helicopter were flown up north from Seoul to pick up the crew of
the Pueblo. The 121 was to pick up and return the remains of Duane
Hodges. All the aircraft landed at our little strip to top off their
fuel. The Hueys were in line on our runway and
the 121 taxied over to our fueling area which was my responsibility within the
bn. My p.o.l. specialist, “Winky”,
from Waco, Texas and I brought our 5,000 gallon JP-4 tank trailer to the south
end of our strip and began topping off the tanks of the Hueys.
The weather was closed in, cold and a light snow was falling. After going from
ship to ship we stood down and awaited the crews of the choppers to return to
their aircraft from our mess areas where they had been having a cup of coffee
and getting out of the cold. They soon manned all their aircraft and one by one
lifted off and continued their flight north. Soon it was quiet and all of
us wondered what was happening “up north”. After what seemed a couple of hours,
the faint whop-whop of the Hueys became audible and
since the weather had cleared somewhat we soon saw each of them flying directly
over us south, toward Seoul. After the last of the Hueys had passed the H-121 passed over. And then all
was quiet.
My Company Commander, Capt Jones had flown his H-123
up to the release area for the activities and soon he returned.Someone I can’t remember came out on the runway
while Winky and I were refueling the Hueys and snapped a black and white photo of us in the snow
with the choppers. It is one of my most memorable family possessions as
you might imagine. That day made my 13 months in Korea worth more than I
can describe.
Paul Krause, 1Lt Armor, B Company,
2nd Aviation Battalion,
2nd Infantry Division
1968-69
From:
Muenks, Patrick J (Services)
Sent: Sunday, August 01, 2010 8:12 PM
To: PVAPRES@USSPUEBLO.ORG
Subject: My memories of the Pueblo incident
Hi, I
was an Air Force Crypto technician at that time. I was stationed at Clark
AFB in the Philippines. General Westmoreland (I believe) used one of our
comm. centers just after the incident. It was my job to set up a secure
teletype circuit for him and to be near by if he
needed me, but not too close. I can't
remember where the circuit was set up to. I was thinking about your
crew.
Pat
