Chapter 20: The Smithtown News Article

The is the story the local paper published about my being wounded.


The Smithtown News
November 21, 1968

Our Serviceman

Private Anthony C****k, Jr., son of Mr. and Mrs. Anthony C****k of North Ingelore Court, Smithtown, is a patient at the 249th Hospital in Tokyo, recovering from wounds suffered in Vietnam.

The soldier was wounded November 8 on a night patrol in the Vietnam Delta region when the enemy exploded a claymore mine, hitting the Smithtown man in me face, neck, back, left arm and legs. Anthony's brother, Edward, is in the U.S. Navy, undergoing basic training at the Great Lakes, Ill. Another brother, Rod, has been deactivated from the Reserves and is now home.