.. vietnam. vietnam. so that s captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2008 . very short time period. right. you did all this battle there. right? even in charge of 125 people there? yes. it s an amazing story. you know, there s another story that i didn t miss that i feel obligated to tell it. when i was wounded i was going down to the cp and i was taking this so-called prisoner and i just pushed him off the bank. he probably survived. i went down to the dispensary and they left me there and the dispensary that night was overrun by north koreans. i couldn t find my weapon. i found someone had left two 30 round clips back to back. the koreans were running through the courtyards, a couple miles north of chinju, in a place by a river, i can remember the route cropping to know exactly where that is. anyway i had to fight my way out of there. there were running through the courtyard and i ran out, i had a very, ver
interviewer: you are not baldy. baldwin: no. but when when i reported back to them years later, 30 years later, that this is frank myers and i wanted to talk to them, they didn t know who i was because they only knew me as baldy. but we when we got that cleared up, then everything else flowed. interviewer: and could you spell your last name? baldwin: m-y-e-r-s. interviewer: what is your birthday? baldwin: may 29, 1931. interviewer: where were you born? baldwin: in owyhee county, idaho. that is spelled that is the indian name o-w-y-h-e-e county, idaho. that s near jordan valley on the oregon-idaho line. interviewer: owyhee. baldwin: owyhee. yes. interviewer: that is the indian name. baldwin: that is indian. i don t know what it means. [laughter] probably beautiful country. interviewer: tell me about your family when you were growing up. baldwin: well, i grew up on a cattle ranch about five miles south of jordan valley, and my mother was born in east europe. she was austria
i am baldwin frank myers. my first name is spelled b-a-l-w-i-n when i reported back to them and said this was frank myers they did not know why was because they only knew me as baldy. can you spell your last name? myers. my birthday is may 29th 1918 owyhee county, idaho. it is an orange valley. that is an indian name? it is an indian name. i do not know what it means. tell me about your family. where you are growing up. i grew up on a cattle ranch about five miles south of jordan valley. my mother was born in east europe. she was austrian. my father was an old cowboy whose ancestry goes back to the neptune in 16 22. he arrived in charleston, south carolina. his descendants served in the revolutionary war. they were original founders of tennessee, the city of newport. they came to missouri, and in 1841 migrated to california. an old man of 62 brought his 12 grandchildren out in california. what about your siblings? i have one in reno who runs a computer store.
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