"He Was A Quiet And Peaceful Guy"
October 1968

With Bob dead and PFC Brunotte disabled, I was assigned to fill in at the outpost. I can't remember if anyone else was sent to Outpost #1 with me. I think not. Anyway, it took a day or so at the most to get ready.

During that time I took the photos of their jeep and it must have taken a day or so to get what was left of it back to the motor pool.

I knew of Bob Alicea only because he had the bunk across from mine in my "Hooch" on post. He was quiet and I don't think we talked much, he always had his head in one of those thick paperback novels some people get in to. His area was mostly vacant because he was stationed at the outpost and came in only for a day or two and was then gone again.

My first night at the outpost was sad, and I remember I was angry. At what I don't know. Charlie, of course. But maybe at the war, and all that brought us to be there in harms way. And then thinking of Bob who seemed such a quiet and peaceful guy, who didn't do anything but be in the wrong place, as they say.

SP/4 Rainer “Hippie” Trappe, B Company, 720th MP Battalion, March 1968 to March 1969.