Joe Ziel
A note to Heli-vets members from Claude Stevens.
© 1998
Flight:
      First I would like to thank Larry Russell for his post and help.
Larry’s post had the name of a guy who was a good friend of mine in Nam.  He was killed in a truck accident on 11-30-71 while returning from the flight line.  There were three people in the truck.  Two of them died and the third was revived.  I could never remember my friend’s full name, I could only remember Joe and knew his last name started with a Z.

    I talked with his sister Barbara this morning and she filled in a lot of blanks as I did for her.

    Now I know his full name Joseph Bernard Ziel.  This has closed another
chapter foer me in the pages of D-Troop 3rd of the 5th and C-Troop 3rd of the 17th Air Cavalry.

    For all you new guys this is what happens here on this net.  I have waited
for a long time for this to come about.  Now I can move on to the next name
that needs to be found.  Don't ever take this net lightly it will help you one
day get something off your mind that has been there for a long time.  This was
a big relief.

    I had called this man a friend and I couldn't even remember his name.  Doesn't seem I was much of a friend but I was.

     Rest in peace my friend Joseph Bernard Ziel.  Thanks again to "Heli-vets" and Larry Russel.

Claude Stevens

1971
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