From STIGLER, OKLAHOMA
Length of service 4 years.
His tour of duty began on Oct
30, 1967
Casualty was on Feb 02, 1968
in GIA DINH, SOUTH VIETNAM
HOSTILE, GROUND CASUALTY
ARTILLERY, ROCKET, or MORTAR
Body was recovered
Panel 36E - - Line 82
HUBERT PRICE JR
HUBERT PRICE JR was born on
March 5, 1946 and joined the Armed Forces while in STIGLER, OK.
He served as a 57H20 in the
Army. In 4 years of service, he attained the rank of SP4/E4.
On February 2, 1968, at the age
of 21, HUBERT PRICE JR perished in the service of our country in South Vietnam,
Gia Dinh.
You can find HUBERT PRICE JR
honored on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial on Panel 36E, Row 82.
From: Andrew Ansenberger [mailto:andy@ansenberger.com]
Sent: Thursday, March 19, 2009 10:38 AM
To: 'Joe Wyatt'
Subject: RE: Hubert Price
Hello
Joe,
It
was a very moving letter that you sent me this morning. Please see the
attached e-mail that I received years ago from James Brady, jbradyepa@cox.net,
a medic that talked to Hubert before he died. I wish I could recall more
that happened that night but I can’t. It was just too long ago. I
was with another sergeant that packed Hubert’s personal effects in a crate to
send home a few days later. Another fellow, Sam Burrows, chief201@enter.net,
may be able to give you some more information. He was the sergeant in charge of
the office duties and handled most of the paperwork of the day. I have
attached a copy of a letter he sent me too.
I
have had a good life and am now retired. If and when I receive any more
information from anyone about Hubert, I will send it to you.
Andy
Andrew
Ansenberger
244
Orchard Dr
Wood
Dale, IL 60191
630-766-4969
From: Joe Wyatt [mailto:wyattrealty@yahoo.com]
Sent: Thursday, March 19, 2009 2:24 AM
To: jordanhappy1@netzero.net
Subject: Hubert Price
Andrew R. Ansenberger, I would like to also thank
you for finally closing the death of my cousin for us. I have tried to
find out just what happen to him all my life. Your comments posted has
helped me understand what became of him in his first and last three months in
Vietnam. I have attached the email I sent to David, through his post and
your comments I now have a ending to what became of Hubert Price Jr.
Next time I go to Sulphur I will try and come up
with a photo of him so we can get it posted.
----- Forwarded Message ----
From: Joe Wyatt <wyattrealty@yahoo.com>
To: davidmcnaught61@hotmail.com
Sent: Thursday, March 19, 2009 12:12:58 AM
Subject: Hubert Price
David, I have looked at my cousins name many times
on the wall and on the net. I see that you have made a post to his page
on "The Wall". Do not think that he is forgotten fore he is
not. I also share with you that I think of him often. I would
like to let you know that he came from a very poor family in Sulphur Ok.
I do not think that any of his brothers or sisters can or use a computer.
His mother and father are gone to be with him.
I have looked many times to try and see what happen
to him, no one at home was sure what happen to him, some say that he was killed
by friendly fire, your comments were the first I have seen that say what may
haven happen to him.
Kenneth his younger brother (also Army) was sent to
Korea after his death, my father was in Vietnam while I was there, mom sent us
both a letter stating she was going to file a protest, as my dad had over 16
years in the USAF you know what his comments were to her, I also said to let it
go, her last comments to me in a letter was "If either of you get killed
its your fault" to this day I steal do not feel that I did enough.
I would like to thank you for your service, as I
know how it felt when we returned. Like you and "Junie" (that's
what we called him as Hubert was also his fathers first name also) I
enlisted in the Navy in 1968 and served two tours in Vietnam.
When people come up to me now and tell me welcome
home and think me, it brings triers to my eyes. The first time that some
one came up to me a few years ago and took my hand and thanked me I
started crying. I was with my son who is now also in the Navy, he
did not know what to do, latter I tried to explain to hem how we were treated
when we returned, I do not think the younger generation understand us.
We were proud and just wished to follow in our
fathers footsteps as they did in the past wars. I hope life has been
good to you and again thanks.
Joe C Wyatt
Mount Pleasant, Texas
From: James Brady
[jbradyepa@cox.net]
Sent: Saturday, April 23, 2005 12:36 PM
To: jordanhappy1@netzero.net
Cc: jbaliasjb@cox.net
Subject: Hubert Price
I was a
medic at Camp Red Ball. I had just arrived there a very few days before
the Tet Offensive began. There were several American soldiers wounded at
Camp Red Ball. There was only one soldier I am aware of that was
killed instantly and that was Hubert Price. The person I remember
had dark blond hair and wore glasses. The reason I remember this so well
is that a very, very short time before he was killed, we talked very
briefly. He apparently had some kind of premonition, because he said he
was not going to make it and he was very visibly shaken. We talked for a
few minutes and he sort of calmed down a little bit. But as you know, I
think we were all pretty shaken from the events that had
happened earlier in the day. Then he went back to the area
where he probably was assigned to wait out the offensive. It
doesn't seem like it was more than 15 minutes later before we were
hit. Price wasn't one of the first brought we saw that evening I don't
think, but he was the only one who had apparently died instantly. You
can only imagine the feeling that came over me when I saw his face and
remembered what he had said just moments earlier.
I really
don't remember how many Americans were wounded at Camp Red Ball
during this time. I know we had Med Evac choppers in at least
3 different times. I know there was at least one who had some very
serious chest wounds that got wounded during the night and there was another
who had both legs very severely wounded. The other wounded were not quite
as horrific. If you recall the first wounded were the nearby villagers
who had been wounded in the early morning hours when the Offensive began.
The first casualty I saw was a Vietnamese girl maybe 4 or 5 years old who
had been wounded in the stomach hours earlier. Her mother carried her in
to Camp Red Ball late in the afternoon/evening of the first day. She
only lived a couple minutes, because she had already bled to death. As I
recall there were other villagers who were evacuated and there were a couple
other Vietnamese casualties carried in who were taken away on the first
evacuation helicopter.
I don't
know if you recall or not, but the building next to the shower that housed the
little PX later had a little first aid station and a barber shop. The aid
station then moved across the compound to a building close to the Club. I
vaguely remember that move. I was reassigned to MACV headquarters to work
in the dispensary to be the senior medic replacing a guy in my outfit who
returned home.
I shared
a tent with 2 other medics who arrived when I did and with 3 guys who worked
off Camp Red Ball. I remember on guys name was Eller from North Carolina,
one was Mack from Ohio, I think and the other I don't remember but he was from
Missouri. I don't know if these guys were part of your unit or not.
I am thinking they may not have been. I seem to recall a majority of the
guys at Camp Red Ball were there to process the personal belongings of those
who were killed.
I just
want to say that your website along with the photos you have provided bring
back a lot of vivid memories. The one picture I don't see and don't
regret not seeing is the half barrels that were set on fire with diesel
fuel to burn the human waste.