CALL FOR STORIES

Paul Rutowski is actively collecting firsthand accounts, letters, photographs, and memories from veterans of the 173rd Airborne Brigade, their families, and anyone who has a connection to Operation Hump or the Vietnam War.

No story is too small. A name remembered, a letter saved, a photograph found in an attic — every fragment helps build the complete picture of what happened on November 8, 1965, and the lives lived before and after.

“Every story shared is a ghost given voice. These men deserve to be remembered as individuals, not just as numbers in a casualty report.”