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Jim Ulmer, U.S. Air Force, Clifton Heights

(2011) Jim Ulmer, from Clifton Heights, was in the Airforce during the Vietnam War

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00:00 -

00:01 - And they come on the air base

00:02 - and they want to meet the

00:05 - aircrews you know especially the

00:07 - spooky gun crews.

00:10 - And we asked them why and they

00:11 - said well you know they saved

00:14 - us.

00:15 - We were out in the boondocks in

00:19 - the jungle and we called in for

00:21 - air support and that's who

00:23 - showed up.

00:24 - And I would just you know they

00:26 - saved their lives.

00:27 - And so they wanted to meet the

00:28 - aircrews loved that they they

00:30 - always like to meet the.

00:32 - You know they heard this kind of

00:33 - story so we take them down the

00:34 - flight line and you know take

00:36 - them to the spooky crew you know

00:39 - where they were at.

00:41 - You know but we had to go with

00:42 - them because we don't want

00:43 - everybody just walking along the

00:45 - flight line.

00:46 - So that was you know that you

00:48 - were playing some kind of

00:50 - important.

00:51 - You know sometimes important

00:54 - that you were saving American

00:55 - lives and in some small way.


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