LYONS, Colo. (KDVR) — Gerald Tabor has spent a lifetime serving others. Whether it was in his Army uniform, deployed as a teenager to Vietnam, or back here at home in Colorado, when fires and floods devastated the places he loves.
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“I got drafted. Shipped over there (to Vietnam). That was kind of my senior trip,” Tabor told FOX31. He served in the 23rd Infantry Americal Division, serving at Landing Zone Dottie and Chu Lai in Vietnam. He was just 19 when he got to Vietnam.
His toughest day in Vietnam was July 7, 1971.
“I don’t want to get too much into it, but seven of us went up the hill, and three of us came off,” Tabor said, holding back tears…