It took 42 years for Colonel (ret) Henry Cook to find the man that saved his life in Viet Nam in 1968. ..."It was about ten o'clock that night," Cook said. "We had suffered a heavy ground attack on a Special Forces headquarters." Henry Cook was to leave Vietnam for home the next day. But when the Viet Cong attacked, Cook grabbed his weapon and ran to the perimeter of the base... Under heavy fire, (then Lieutenant) Cook was wounded. ...The leg was broken in five places, and the pain was excruciating. Cook couldn't move, and he thought the ammunition he was on top of would explode. All the while, the attack from the enemy continued. "Suddenly a hand grabbed me from the back of my collar, dragged me out of the fire, and then stood over me. And this guy started firing his weapon because we were being overrun," Cook said... That Soldier stayed with Cook, defending him until the next day when a medevac could be brought in for Cook. Read the whole story here. [We posted about Colonel Cook here before]
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