![]() Then all of a sudden, all hell would break loose," he said. "But your body becomes acclimated to it," Bongiovanni said. In the monsoon season, it would rain constantly. The temperature would drop considerably at night and it would get cold. ![]() We were the ground pounders," Bongiovanni said. They were right on the North Vietnam border and were constantly receiving incoming rockets and mortars. With their operations based in Quang Tri, they were on the move up north in the I Corps. When other units got into a tough spot, Bravo Company would be alerted and would get inserted mostly by helicopter and a few times by landing craft. They were called a special landing force, a special reaction force. He served in the 1st Platoon of Bravo Company, 1st Battalion, 3rd Marines, 3rd Marine Division. He arrived in Vietnam in late August 1967 and left Sept. "What are the odds of that happening?" Bongiovanni mused. On the very first day he arrived, he saw a guy reading the Niagara Falls Gazette newspaper. But curiously he encountered four people from there while he was in Vietnam. saw a lot of our brothers getting killed and wounded."īongiovanni, who moved from Madison, Alabama, to Arley, Alabama, in 2016, has traveled the world since then without meeting people from his hometown Niagara Falls. "Well it was a lot of excitement, a lot of anxiety," he said of his war experience. ![]() ![]() Bongiovanni spent 12 and a half months with the infantry in Vietnam from 1967-68. 9, 1967, in Niagara Falls as the Vietnam War raged. "I wanted to become a Marine from a very young age," Bongiovanni said. ![]()
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