Freedom Bird

Drafted in the army at the age of eighteen while living in Phoenix Arizona,

Donnell completed his army training in the Deep South in middle sixties. Then

shipped to Vietnam where he was assigned to The 2nd and 18th Infantry

Unit with the 1st Army Division, on an operation assignment as his platoon

was separated from the main unit and pinned down behind enemy lines. Had

to fight their way out and back to their main unit. Then transferred to 2nd &

16th Rangers attached to the 1st Division. In a ranger unit and forced to be

a sniper. Then lift in the jungle and reported dead and missing too his mother

and family. Wounded in the jungles of Vietnam somehow he found his way

back and was rescued by another unit. Med Evace. to Zama hospital near

Tokyo Japan where he recovered from his wounds, his military records were

lost and they did not know who he was for weeks. Then assigned to a radio

and TV station located Soul Korea (AFKN) where he finished his military tour

Before returning to the States.