On Sept. 10, 1969, 19-year-old Barry Mishler was drafted into the U.S. Army. Assigned to the 101st Airborne Infantry, “The Screaming Eagles,” his outfit reported to Hue, Vietnam, where they slogged through jungle terrain, endured 120-degree in-the-shade temperatures and fought North Vietnamese Army soldiers. In his first experience at Ripcord, a mountain firebase, Mishler witnessed […]