James Donald Budahazy, II
Specialist Four
155TH AHC, 52ND AVN BN, 17TH AVN GROUP, 1ST AVIATION BDE, USARV
Army of the United States
Baltimore, Maryland
November 03, 1948 to June 24, 1968
JAMES D BUDAHAZY II is on the Wall at Panel W55, Line 26

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I remember being at the 8th Medical Dispensary right after lunch sitting around talking to a couple of the other medics who were assigned there. We were part of the 155th Assault Helicopter Company in Ban Me Thouc. On this day I heard a gun shot go off in our base camp near us and a couple of minutes later someone ran in and asked us to come quick as someone had been shot, to please hurry. I grabbed a medical aid bag and ran after the guy and someone else went to get Dr. Mirman, our Flight Surgeon. I noticed a gun shot wound to the guy's chest on the left side. I cut off his shirt and started to apply a bandage to his wound. Dr. Mirman arrived and immediately began CPR. He did the heart compressions and I did the mouth-to-mouth. He instructed one of the other medics to run and get some whole blood and his medical bag. We worked on James for over a half an hour and we were not able to bring him back. After James was pronounced dead we found out one of his best friends, a Sergeant Sparks, and James always played a game of cops and robbers and they would point their 45 caliber pistols at each other and pull the trigger. This time the gun was not unloaded. I never found out what happened to Sgt. Sparks. WHAT A STUPID WAY TO DIE !!!

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