Tears welled up in Sharon Evons eyes when she watched the documentary for the first time with other wives and family members. She and unit member Dan Evon had been married just two years when he shipped out.It opened my eyes,'' she said. “I'm surprised there weren't more accidents and they didn't lose guys.”
Pat McGrath, who became engaged to unit member Jim McGrath a few weeks before he deployed, said the DVD helped her better understand the roles her husband and the other men played in Vietnam, whether it was as a driver or mechanic.His daughter, Stefani Lane, works for local video company Dynamic Productions and helped her dad, giving the DVD a professional look. The DVD was completed in 2010 and shown to family members last year.Parts of the DVD look and sound like they could be an opening montage from a TV show or movie about Vietnam.
The documentary flashes iconic images of the war Huey helicopters and shirtless soldiers gripping M-16 rifles as 1960s hits like Nowhere to Run and Satisfaction provide background music.
The DVD starts with the unit flying from Omahas Eppley Airfield in May 1968 for five months of training at Fort Lewis. The Fort Lewis photos show the men chowing at the mess hall, playing poker in the barracks firing automatic rifles and driving Army trucks over dirt roads lined with pine trees.The documentary highlights The Crow a 7-foot-tall black and yellow fiberglass crow that unit members somehow acquired during their training in Washington state. “The Crow” became a company mascot that traveled with the men to Vietnam and now at the U.S. Army Transportation Museum at Fort Eustis Va.
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