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Dear Kevin,
As an ex-helicopter pilot during the late hostilities in  Vietnam, it’s really great to see your website honors the one thing most  cherished after my family, the HUEY.
During the twenty years we flew together, the world’s greatest helicopter  carried this young Iowa farm boy into nightmares few will fortunately never experience, but more importantly, she carried me out again. Together we flew ash & trash missions, scouted, carried VIPs, attacked with mini-guns and rockets, and cradled the wounded and dead out of Hell. She got me home after crashing through trees and loosing a couple of feet off of her main rotor blades. She got me home even though she had been wounded by automatic weapon and RPG fire. Slowly, we grew to know what each other could and could not do. We bonded as strongly as parent to child.....as soon as the seat belt and shoulder harness were fastened, she became an extension of my body. We were one. I no longer needed to have a death grip on the controls while in the air. The merest  thought brought about instant change in how we flew. Today, her rotor blades slapping the air is a sound not often heard. But when it is, even after all this time, watch me. My face instantly turns upwards and eyes search the horizon. That once familiar “wop-wop-wop” sound is felt in my chest long before the sound becomes audible in my ears. The Goddess of War & Peace approaches. For me, flying her became a love affair and she will ever be my mistress. 
Cheers,        
                     Steve Bookout Razorback 33 

Kevin long after those of us who flew the huey are gone, we will depend on young men like yourself to educate the public about the huey. It was one of the finest  machines ever built by man. It brought me home day after day and never failed me  in combat. I place it up there with the P51 and the DC3. And the sound of those blades...wop wop wop....has never been duplicated. Thanks for your love of a  mighty fine aircraft. 
CW3 Donald S. Lewis 170th assault
helicopter company Bikini 25  67-68 Pleiku, camp holloway,  Vietnam

Kevin
You are encouragement to us all. Thank you for your service a zeal for the "509" gang.
I am a brother of a brother that was killed in the unit the  "509" flew with in Vietnam. The 129th Assault Helicopter Company. His name  was Lawrance David Jackson.
I am sending you a photo of his patch that he wore on his utility shirt he wore over there. I hope that you can  put in on your patch page.
thanks brother, always a brother,
God  Bless you and your loved ones.                                                                                                                                            
Mark Jackson

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