Post by LarryK on Apr 7, 2008 14:41:17 GMT -5
Vietnam Vet Represents 1960’s on Stamp
The world has gotten a lot smaller for a Beaver County Penn man since he learned that a 33-year old image of him jumping off a helicopter in Vietnam has been chosen to represent the war on a US postage stamp. People have come up to me and congratulated me and a woman hugged me in Wal-Mart the other day said Jim Patton a 53-year-old general laborer Patton said he led a rather simple and anonymous life until few weeks ago when news about his appearance on the stamp began to spread
The picture featuring Patton was chosen last year to represent America's involvement in the Vietnam War The Vietnam War stamp appears on a sheet with several other 33-cent stamps commemorating the 1960s
His image is immortalized with pictures ' of 'Neil Armstrong's footprints on the moon Martin Luther King Jr the Barbie doll and New York Yankee Roger Maris hitting his 61st home.
Beaver Postmaster Charles Nowry said the 1960’s collection had suddenly become popular in his post office.
"It's created quite an interest," Nowry said. "I have people specifically asking for the 60’s stamps. You hear it from veterans and from everyone else. That picture is getting quite a lot of press."
It seems everyone wants to talk about the stamp that shoves Patton who was getting ready to jump from a helicopter landing skid and two other members of the U.S. Army's 1st Squadron 9th Cavalry, 1st Cavalry Division (Air-Mobile), when they arrived in Chu Lai in the spring of 1967.
Patton had been in Vietnam for less than a week when SFC Howard C Breedlove, an Army reporter snapped the now famous photo.
The world has gotten a lot smaller for a Beaver County Penn man since he learned that a 33-year old image of him jumping off a helicopter in Vietnam has been chosen to represent the war on a US postage stamp. People have come up to me and congratulated me and a woman hugged me in Wal-Mart the other day said Jim Patton a 53-year-old general laborer Patton said he led a rather simple and anonymous life until few weeks ago when news about his appearance on the stamp began to spread
The picture featuring Patton was chosen last year to represent America's involvement in the Vietnam War The Vietnam War stamp appears on a sheet with several other 33-cent stamps commemorating the 1960s
His image is immortalized with pictures ' of 'Neil Armstrong's footprints on the moon Martin Luther King Jr the Barbie doll and New York Yankee Roger Maris hitting his 61st home.
Beaver Postmaster Charles Nowry said the 1960’s collection had suddenly become popular in his post office.
"It's created quite an interest," Nowry said. "I have people specifically asking for the 60’s stamps. You hear it from veterans and from everyone else. That picture is getting quite a lot of press."
It seems everyone wants to talk about the stamp that shoves Patton who was getting ready to jump from a helicopter landing skid and two other members of the U.S. Army's 1st Squadron 9th Cavalry, 1st Cavalry Division (Air-Mobile), when they arrived in Chu Lai in the spring of 1967.
Patton had been in Vietnam for less than a week when SFC Howard C Breedlove, an Army reporter snapped the now famous photo.