(WBOY) — A group of Vietnam veterans reunited in Fairmont Sunday afternoon in front of the very same helicopter they used during the war to help promote a new book that details stories from ...

For an aviator, Distinguished Flying Cross is like the Holy Grail of recognition. It’s the highest regard because it relates to your ability as a pilot to do really well.

On Friday and Saturday, he and others will distribute 2,400 free copies of the book titled "Vietnam War 50th Commemoration ... waiting for a Huey helicopter to pick up the wounded soldier ...

The crew reunited Sunday at the Marion County Vietnam Veterans Memorial at East MArion Park to celebrate the release of Feigel's book ... his former helicopter had survived the war.

“The horrors of war ... in Vietnam, had occasion to be aboard a helicopter flying low over rice paddies. “I was struck in the jaw by an AK47 round,” he writes in Ravitz’s book.