Vietnam vets describe military experience to Knoch students
JEFFERSON TWP — Tom Foor described to the freshmen and sophomores assembled Thursday in the Knoch High School auditorium an instance during his Army service when a rare treat was presented to him, along with his fellow soldiers, in the steamy Vietnamese jungle near the Cambodian border in 1968.
Foor said quarts of ice cream were issued to the sweating young men as they served their country in Southeast Asia.
Problem was, the normally welcome confection tasted terrible and could not be eaten by the platoon.
“I got an idea,” Foor recalled. “I said ‘Let’s put our feet in it.’”
So dozens of sweltering soldiers took half the ice cream out of their two quart containers and plunged their burning feet inside.
“We never had anything cold over there,” Foor said. “It was refreshing.”
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