Bill wants me to try and find some of his Vietnam buddies and the best way to do that is with the Internet so this is the first post. I need to get all of the information about his division which I don’t have yet so I thought I’d start off with a story Bill told me about a little spider monkey that he and his buddies made friends with and took care of for a couple of months. The stories he tells are funny, but the end of Herman was sad and tragic.

We have pictures of Herman some where, but I can’t find them right now. My aunt had spider monkey’s and they were meaner than sh*t so I’m not very fond of that type, but Bill said Herman was cool. They would give Herman a stick of gum and crack up with the way he took it out of the wrapper after they showed him the first time and stick it in his mouth and chew it up. The way Bill tells a story I can actually see everything just like I was there.

Apparently Bill’s Sergeant had the only dog around that area and he was very protective, but Herman took a liking to the dog and he would lift up the dogs tale and get very excited and if you’ve ever been to the zoo and watched monkeys you know the kind of antics they get up to, anyways Herman liked to do that and would literally spank the monkey. He would also jump on the dogs back and try to do other romantic things, every time Bill tells me about Herman I crack up.

Bill and his guys were sent out on patrol and while they were gone Herman decided he was going to mess around with the Sergeant’s dog well needless to say the Sergeant wasn’t happy with this situation so with no one to protect Herman the Sergeant shot him and told Bill and the rest of the guys that he had rabies and had to put him down. Apparently he didn’t like Herman on the back of his dog trying to get romantic while the dog was running all over the compound trying to buck him off.

I feel bad for Herman and Bill because he still talks about the little guy and has a lot of fond memories. Poor little Herman was just horny he didn’t have rabies and that was a tragic end even if I don’t like spider monkeys I would never have done that.