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In late March and early April of 2007 several Outlaws and Mavericks and advisers
returned  to Vinh Long and made the journey out to LZ Alpha. 

Ed Thayer - Gunner, Maverick 31, was kind enough to compile everyone's photographs and
sent along a treasure chest of  photos covering that visit as well as the rest of the sojourn

Thanks, Ed.
And thanks to the others who shared their photos for inclusion here.

I don't  know what it would be like to walk LZ Alpha. 
Don't even know if I could . . . .
Lot of memories there . . . .


Here - in their photos and in their words - is an accounting of the return  . . .

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Arrival . . .

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Travel by motorbike from Hoa Binh to LZ Alpha . . . .




Ed Thayer . . . . 
ponder what was on his mind at rhis moment . . .





Fred Stetson, pilot with First platoon, 175th AHC, did not enter LZ Alpha like this the last time he was there . . . . Nor did Rex Latham, who is riding straight trail . . .






Nor is this what awaited him that Easter Sunday morning of 1967 . . . .

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Please read
Fred Stetson's account of the journey as published in the
Vermont Today as there are numerous links from this article covering the entire trip.
Fred is a Burlington writer and photographer.
Article

To read Ron Cone's account of the jorney as it appeared in the
Modesto Bee
click
Here

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