The Green Beret Medic Gary Beikirch Who Had to Come to Terms with Himself

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We have the story of medal of honor recipient Gary by Kirk Barry didn't have the most stable upbringing.

He moved 11 times before he was in the ninth grade finally settled down in high school, fell in love with a girl and followed her to SUNY Brockport college when they were both starting to become phys ed teacher is Gary having gotten there and started college after about three or four weeks she broke up with me. So there I was in college in 1965 without any real good reason for being there anymore in in in the meantime a very good friend of mine get suffer the same kind of experience and so one day we were sitting together and we got talking into his name is Don Don jocks a set so Gary would be going to do and I said I don't know Don, you know, we're both young guys 20 years old with our hearts broken. Andy he said I come from a Marine family. All my family were Marines to the school in the Marine Corps together buddy system. He said on the neck and going to record those guys are crazy. I recently read a book called the Green Berets by Robin Moore and to me, that was exciting. That was challenging and besides that, from what I knew about the war that just seemed a real good way to fight the war to become assimilated into the culture of become one of the people and I sounded very very challenging and not only that, but it felt like the way that the war should be fought and I said to Don, going to Green Berets done and we shook hands, said goodbye.

He went on in the Marine Corps a couple years later, I received word. He was killed a caisson like gone down to the recruiting station in Rochester. Here and I told the guys look at him and to be a Green Beret and he kinda laughed and he said we just can't enlist in the Green Berets and he was saying you don't really know you get yourself into. I can't sign up to be a Green Beret posse looked at Mimi didn't look like the type that could do that with. He threw down a challenge to me.

He said, but if you're really interested.

I think I can get you in two of the airborne infantry and then it's up to you whether or not.

Get to be a Green Beret. So in August 1967 I raised my hand and took the oath, and I was on my way to Fort Dix for basic training, stated Fort Dix for infantry training after another after eight weeks of basic eight weeks of entry, and then I receive orders to what airborne school at Fort Benning took off Donna Fort Benning had three weeks of the airborne training.

The challenges that I encountered in basic and and and AIT advanced infantry training were challenging, but it was never really felt like I wanted to quit or do anything, even though they tried a lot of mental and emotional things that nowadays are are illegal, but that then they worked each one of those things just kind of made me more committed to achieving my goal of becoming a Green Beret and then airborne school was another physical challenge rice.

I say that I had the first experience of hitting the wall. The mild 5 mile run and everything in combat boots and stuff and I really hit the wall. It's like we feel like I think I might quit. But if I just I just told myself I can do one more step and I just did that and that's what got me through the wall and it was an important lesson that I realized that I was capable of doing much more than I thought I could if I could just do one more one more push up one more step. Take one more breath I could break through that wall and I finished airborne school graduated, I had the silver wings put on my chest. The last week we had a group of about 45 of these poster men from the for the Green Berets they look like they could've been posterior guys advertising Green Berets.

They came down and they interviewed for.

Think different about 15 of us are so that were trying out for special forces, and we had data a couple days of physical test.

Some some written exam something interviews and after that thinker, about five of us were told we were accepted in your honor way too well on her way to the Fort Bragg to begin special forces training. It was through special forces training that I probably received most of the things in my life that impacted me, changed me in help to make me the person I am today. It was just a tremendous tremendous challenge, both physically and emotionally, mentally, briefly, we had the first first phase that was some eight weeks of just intense military training tactics operations physical little bit more guerrilla warfare weapons training, and X called phase I back then back now I think it's called selection. After that we were allowed to wear a beret but we didn't have a group flashlight yet which signified which group you're going to go to that being able to wear that brave the first time was a real sense of achievement to it was a goal that the I had had. I was partway there I had a Green Beret. I wasn't a Green Beret at but I could wear the Green Beret. At that time.

Then they the interview to solicit okay great special forces has a specialty of medical weapons, communications, engineering, demolitions are operations and intelligence which one you want to go to.

I chose medic because at the time and it still is one of the most challenging programs that the military has a special forces medic is is just a tremendous accomplishment to be able to achieve that at the time. This would been 6768. Most guys after a training remix we expected and wanted to go to Vietnam. I was assigned to the third special forces group which are area of operation was Africa. We are based at Fort Bragg, our time there. We were welcomed by our Sgt. major company Sergeant Major.

There was about four or five of us that went to the third group. He welcomes us in the morning formation diversified of the standing out front of the headquarters building and for about two minutes. She just walked up and down in front of us stared us in the I walk behind us was given us the once over while we stood at attention and he came around to the front of us and began his official address and basically he was telling us.

I know you all think you're pretty special X he want you to know that you are really only be about two or 3 inches above will bomb at the bottom of the ocean. He said he think you're a Green Beret. He said what you are going to experience now and you're gonna realizes that you just learned and earned the right to begin to train to know what it is to be a Green Beret more with this remarkable American voice carried by Kirk's voice as path of the metal of honor and beyond ear on our American story books. If you love the stories we tell about this great country and especially the stories of America's rich past. Know that all of our stories about American history more the innovation culture and faith are brought to us by the great folks at Hillsdale College placement. Students study all the things that are beautiful in life.

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He and his pal decided to enlist his friend Don the Marine Corps. He was killed in Vietnam and Gary well he decided he wanted to be a Green Beret. Let's return to Gary thinks it special forces looks for his independent attitude of a person who thinks out of the box almost like a rebellious kind of person who doesn't like to conform to the norms and boy I fit into the T during basic training. Average training usually got KP wants to so that have the experience I had it nine times in basic training because of my attitude and so I met these challenges along the way my attitude got in the way many times and so I was always getting extra duty or things like that in one of these times I had guard duty.

The day that I had off I went on to Fayetteville.

I had a bar early morning started drinking and the only thing I remember about that time was going up to the parking meter, but every 25 minutes to putting another coin and so we get a ticket for parking. The next thing I remember is I woke up and I was trying to move and I just ate that was really really sore could hardly breathe and I looked up and I saw might my team Sgt. behind bars and they said start we do behind bars, and he said I'm not behind bars by Kirk, you are supported. I do, and easily read it at this time and I said what I got from the police report you spent most the day in the spar got in your car tried to drive back to base, Fort Bragg bounced off a couple of parked cars and Fayetteville.

The Fayetteville police tried to pull you over.

He wouldn't pullover you took off to the Interstate 95 in the North Carolina state police got involved with Chase the rainy order you came out of the car with the Billy with a billy club. I usually carried a billy club under my seat, I cannot with a billy club and try an assault of this North, state police and they beat me up really bad and they said and now you're in jail and he said right now you're facing charges of driving while intoxicated hit-and-run assault with a deadly weapon and those of the only charges I can remember, and I sent what you think I should do. He said you better get yourself a lawyer, so I took his advice and went on to Fayetteville.

I got a lawyer started telling him my story about 30 seconds into the story. He pushed himself with the desk and said you can stop right there. I've heard this 100 times. Here's what you gotta do.

How quick can you get herself out of the country and I said well I think red alert to go to Molly Africa and he said when I said maybe six months and he said not good enough. He said you could get yourself out of the country in 30 days. Can you do it and I said that I know I can try. So he said you better so I went back to back to base, and I thought I said well the only way that I know of his uncle reenlist for Vietnam reenlisting I could go to Vietnam within 30 days. So I reenlisted for Vietnam was promoted to E4 receives reenlistment bonus at the time, which was $600 for reenlisting back to the lawyer and I said looking I met I'm going to Vietnam within 30 days. He said good that when we get the court when I tell you just a guilty Your Honor I said okay so we went to court. There were a lot of military guys facing the civilian court and they were get handed tremendous sentences. Jail time and everything in the regular received military discipline as well. My case came up they call my name.

I stood up for the judge. He ran off a bunch of things ask me how I plead my letter looked at me. I look at him. He shook that it is had, and so I said guilty Your Honor and he said okay fine you guilty of reckless driving, and I find you $100 so apparently what my lawyer had done was he had talked with the DA and they got. He said look at the skies on his way to Vietnam from little grace but I was on my way to Vietnam so I got in the Cam Ranh Bay and Mike was sent to a replacement company and when my first duties because I was in E4 was I was an burnout latrine duty which meant that I do take those 55 gallon drums at the user burn on the trains and I had to pull them out of the train and poured diesel on him and and stir them up with Enlightenment fire adjuster and stir them up so there I was in Cam Ranh Bay doing this one day with my with my Briand and I saw a Sgt. major walking over the distance he and Brandon happen to see me and he said hey beret what you doing there said what's it look like I'm doing a signature MOS which of military specialty as an emetic and he said come on with me. I submitted any orders on him anything that's okay don't worry about it and he said look at. I work up into core. We need medics with her special operations groups up there. I would put you in a plane looking to get you up there so I was there I met them at this crusty old T8 turned out he was a veteran from World War II, Korea, and he spent like five years already in Vietnam and he was just a tremendous tremendous medic he was. Mike became my mentor.

And while I was there, he said, look, you don't want to go to special operations city were trained as a medic do with Greenbrae.

Medics were trained to do. Caught in a camp and he said I could to perfect a camp for you. He said at the camp tonight.

I hope established back in the early 60s throughout the highlands of Vietnam. There were probably close to 30 Mountaineer tribes of the mounting yarns were not Vietnamese.

They were ethnic minority, but 30 different tribes, each tribe had its own area and its own territory in his own language had its own village culture and community. And so I was assigned to docs, tanks, and the mounting yarns in that area were called sedating.

I member flying after the first day just seeing the beautiful lush jungles that were that were that made up the central highlands in the mountains.

It was just a beautiful beautiful country and so I reported into doc saying there were 11 other Americans there. We lived in the middle of this amount in your village. There were 2300 mounting yarns in an amount in your culture because of their need to exist and that kind of a environment. When an individual reach 12 years old. They were considered an adult, which meant they had responsibilities to fulfill. They depended on each individual to fulfill those responsibilities.

We had a 12-year-old. That was an M-16 machine gunner intercompany.

We were instructed to pick on a bodyguard, someone that we could befriend develop a special friendship with.

I picked a young nontenured boy named Dale he was 15 years old, which meant he'd already had three years of combat and I remember saying to him, Dale.

You got help me. The word for Dr. and Vietnamese is boxy so they'll call me boxy, and he said how can I help you, boxy, and I said look I hate snakes. I'm afraid of tigers even help me learn how to survive on this jungle and he laughed and he said boxy. He said we don't survive in the jungle.

He said we live.

The jungle gives us our way of life. We need the jungle to survive to to live and exist to teach you how to live not just survive in the jungle that was important lesson that he taught me about the difference between surviving and living because these people had found a way to in the midst of this beautiful but hostile environment on jungle that which is filled with snakes and tigers and things that can kill you in a minute. They weren't afraid of it. He found a way to to live to thrive to developing a village in a way of life. The culture it help them become the people that they were under Dale's tutelage.

He hoped me assimilate into the mounting your culture. I became one of them. On April 1 early in the morning we started receiving incoming and we had had a lot of incoming in the past many times but many times, but does this was different. To me it was just intense. We had a brush is just it never stopped for hours of discontinuous artillery and rocket attacks. I was up because I was a attending an all-night funeral for one of our security guards would recently died.

So when the garage started, I started to run towards the my alert position. On my way to go there to meet some of the other yard medics because I was gonna distribute medical kits and things to them so that they could go to the respective companies and start treating the wounded didn't make it to the bunker because halfway there I saw yard that had been wounded so I stopped to started to treat him. I heard a rocket coming in. I threw myself on top of him and the and the rocket landed about 25 feet away from us as rocket exploded much of the shrapnel slammed in my back and I remember thinking that must be what it feels like to get kicked by a horse and you're listening to Gary by Kirk is a medal of honor recipient means telling is telling his story. The best way he can, which is straight as an arrow.

This great storytelling continues buried by Kirk story dear on L American store and we continue with our American stories of the story. Medal of honor recipient Gary by Kirk we left off of him working at camp central highlands of Vietnam is a special forces medic camp been attacked by the North Vietnamese rocketed landed about 20 feet away from him and the mountain people he was embedded with very light on top of one of those men to protect returned to Gary as I was impacted by the shrapnel. I think that happened like an out of body experience because I saw myself going head over heels and as I was going head over heels. I look back in the Mountaineer that I was laying on top of which is blown apart and so I landed in the four deuce pit surrounded by sandbags.

I realized what I needed to be doing so I try to get up but I couldn't move because some of the shrapnel had been lodged in my spinal column and not my spinal column unconscious. I couldn't move, couldn't couldn't get get up the next thing I remember is I felt somebody picking me up. I looked in it was Dale my bodyguard and I said to Dale how did you find me and he said this is where I belong. I belong by you by your side, so he picked me up and he wanted to take me down to the medical bunker and I said no, we need to stay up here during this time Dale carried me in. We've been notified in American officer are XO had been shut out of the we had a John Wayne tower in the middle of the camp and we heard he was in a real dangerous spot. We went up we got him brought him back on the medical bunker deal might be to stay down there. I said no, we need to get back to the battle so we Dale carried me back out the battle during that time I was shot another time in the side and back Dale again took me down to the belt bunker. The other medic on the team. Dan said I gestate out here and you take care of you and I said no, we need to get back and so Dale carried me back out and at the battle again and we continue to fight continue to provide aid to the to the women and the children and the men that were being wounded at the time we were in in our bunkers in the trenches area and we ran into a river running into this on the NVA that had instead circled the wire and remember him seeing him he shot me in the statement be the stomach. Dale took me back after that wound by that time they were looking at me and saying it's gonna be pretty bad and I said look at Dale accompanied die not dying down here on I choose to die in the battle because that's a warrior creative you're going to die you dying the battle, so Dale took me back out into the battle. Once we get back out there.

Dale keep in mind this is a 15-year-old kid's doing this he got shot in the leg. He couldn't carry meeting more, but he didn't want to leave me didn't want to go down and take care of himself. He began to drag me as we continue to fight continue to provide aid to those who were being wounded. I can remember that there were times we both both feel like we can do anymore and would look at each other and we would just smile and say we can do this we can do this and Dale strength became part of my strength, my strength became part of his strength as we continued to do what we are trained to do, which was minister first aid to those were pained we were to rocket coming in. Dale rolled me overlaid on top of me, to protect me from the blast because we knew this was coming close in the rocket exploded. We both went up in the air came back down and I said okay, Dale commandants, I found out there was killed by the rocket blast because I think the time there wasn't really people say how did you feel at that time and honesty say that I there was really no time for any kind of guilt or anything that was just I knew what we had to be doing. I don't remember feeling anything except looking back now it was just a tremendous sense of love, love the Dale had for me the love that I had for Dale.

The love that I had for those people. I wasn't afraid that I might die because I think love is a much more powerful emotion that was motivating me at the time and we continued on doing what we're doing until I finally collapsed and that I was bit of act I don't only remember being thrown in the chopper that was my last conscious moment in the next conscious moment that I have is waking up in the ICU ward in the 71st of complete coup.

Remember doing a doing like an exam of myself, my surroundings where I might what's going on. My abdomen ripped open from the from the shrapnel from the gunshot wound to my large intestine which is lying in a bag in my in my stomach. I looked up and I saw all kinds of tubes running into my neck into my arms. I was catheterized I couldn't feel my legs but I reached down to make sure that they were there they were there and I felt this darkness, overcoming the unconsciousness and I had been unconscious 20 times before in college, but this was different was darkness and the fidelity to this and so I is what I call my hand-to-hand combat with death because I knew that death was overtaking me and so I brought every weapon that I could every skill that I have been taught all things and brought me success in the past. I took those weapons those skills and those strengths and I fought death. I said I'm not going consciously can't because I don't want to die. Don't want to die, but it was like death was saying this the best you got Gary you're not going to live and I go unconscious with an experience of waking up and fighting death hand-to-hand and then losing that happened a couple times and each time it became more and more certain my mind that I was dying. The times I came to and there was a chaplain standing there. He sent me was a young guy maybe about my age. He said I'm glad to see you're awake and I said I'm glad to be a weeks or he said you want to pray have been praying for you.

Would you like to pray and I said I don't how to pray.

I don't even know who to pray to, and handed me a cross and he said that's okay son. God knows how to listen so at 23, 24 years old. I made my first prayer to God. If your real I sure need you and something happened that moment was miraculously healed are no bolts of lightning or things like that but also had this piece they came for me and a sense of something bigger than me more powerful than me.

That was real close and that was where afraid of dying anymore. I was even afraid I could never walk again because at that time wasn't clear whether I would walk again or not but I just know that there is something greater than myself and I say that when my courage field hospital bed. My faith was born.

I said I need to find out who this God is think about it. If you believe that there is a God. The greatest thing you can do in your life is to find so I started this journey trying to find God.

I eventually healed and went to Japan them back to the states. I went to Valley Forge and Phoenixville, Pennsylvania eventually was fully recuperated and I was assigned to the 10th special forces group which I didn't want to go to when I was discharged. They said what you want to go, we need to get a choice and they said sure you get a choice as to the people semi-back to the fifth in Vietnam. If I can't do the fifth semi-to the eighth group in Panama Okinawa that was the first criminal, if I can't do that on 28th group in Panama so I got my orders and I did get Vietnam Okinawa or Panama. The summit of the 10th special forces group at Fort Devens Massachusetts nobody coming back from Vietnam wanted to be stateside it was like playing Army. It was just being stateside in the 70s was a difficult place to be for military at the time they were offering a opportunities for early outs. So I am really out to go back to college and now I wanted one with my medical person goals to become a doctor. Go back to Vietnam. So remember going back to SUNY Brockport red attended before change my major to premed. I got out of the military. August 31, September 3. I was in class is a Brockport and you're listening to Gary by Kirk recipient of the medal of honor, and what a story he tells more with this remarkable storyteller in this remarkable story is story varied by Kirk story here on our American store returns our American stories into the story of metal of honor recipient Gary by Kirk and by the way you want to read the story.

The book is blaze of light. Go to Amazon.com and ordered, you will put it down. Gary just returned from Vietnam after nearly dying from his battle wounds he received an opportunity early out of the military decided to take returned to school to become a doctor, so we could go back to Vietnam in the 1970s, being a servicemember on a college campus was nothing short of a hostile atmosphere. I didn't have many close so I had to wear my army fatigues and stuff fatigue jackets feel jackets a place to stay so I was sleeping in my van. It wasn't too long before I started experiencing some of the things that many of us back in the 70s who returned from Vietnam experienced.

It was a lot of the antiwar stuff be studying in library people would see that I was affected walk by my books off the desk one morning I woke up in the van and the fan was being shaken. I looked out and I saw up about 10 or 15 students out there shaking my van and yelling at me saying a command outside baby killer.

We want to know what it's like to burn villages and kill babies.

Just another hurtful experience funding one day a group of surrounded me into him, spit on me and I said I gotta get outta here because if I don't end up in jail. So I took off, got my van and I drove down to Massachusetts because I remembered that my cousin, but she and her husband lived in Massachusetts and because I knew that there was a goddess and maybe she can help me. So I went to Massachusetts I ended up staying with her and her husband. Her husband's name was Buck Wendy. He said Gary to value our friendship and I said I sure do you the closest thing I got to a friend and he said to me favor then read this book so he gave me a book I started to read it back to Vanessa Quicken a book.

Is this the same guy and he said just keep reading and handed me a New Testament so I had read through Matthew Mark Luke. I got to John and when I got to the 14th chapter, John starts out by saying, let not your heart be troubled in my heart had already been troubled.

I was afraid of the anger that was inside of me, the guilt that I had the anger, the pain was just eating away at meets experiences that the home. My homecoming had provided for me were much worse than what Vietnam had done to me so I was just a trouble trouble God was ready to explode. Something that your heart be troubled you believe in God. They said yes I do believe also in me. I am the way the truth and the life. It was Jesus speaking and when I read that I realize I could think Jesus is the God that I met in hospital bed and then 15 chapters that you not chosen me, but I have chosen you and that stuck with me to you've chosen me for purpose. I just felt God's. And yes. Got you chosen for special purpose, so that was July 2, 1972 I prayed became a Christian that like 3 o'clock in the morning. I knew that God had forgiven me and I just couldn't forgive myself.

I still did still didn't have the ability to have a relationship with other people because I was afraid to let them in, because I was afraid of my anger. I was afraid of the things that I had done.

I was afraid that if they saw me they would recheck me much like with the people at SUNY Brockport had done in my thought was you guys are calling me names but I could go myself worse names because of how I feel about myself, so I decided what I needed to do was to continue this journey and find out more about this God that I now knew was real and so the resistance seminar happen at Lancaster, New Hampshire, up in the White Mountains. I decided I wanted to go up there and just learn about this God thing now knew personally. So I went there. One of the days that I could.

I went up to the took a ride because that's what I did many times when I just felt overwhelmed by the way that I was feeling still and I took a ride on route to Lancaster, New Hampshire, and I found this little parking spot. That's an Appalachian mountain trail I started to hike the trail all of a sudden getting back into those mountains into that nature reminded me of being in Vietnam and also the resist piece that came over me. I said this is beautiful. This is where I want to stay so I ended up this meeting that my home and what I would do is I would go into Lancaster attend classes after the classes I would go back up to the mountains and I remember when I remember when I found it to sanctuary of being in the mountains.

I meet another prayer in September 1973 I should guide you getting my life back in Vietnam I'm giving you my life back. Now whatever you much my life. That's all I want God to be different. September 73. Two weeks later I was notified that I was being awarded a medal of honor.

After I made that prayer. So here I am hiding this case because I was trying to forget about Vietnam. I wanted to just know about God. And I felt that the best way could hear was just to forget about Vietnam thinking if I could forget it would get better and I'm praying to God and God's is here to help you heal and give you medal of honor. And people say what brought you out of the cave and see what brought me out of the cave was is that there was a girl that I met that last centimeter, PO Box, and the resist note in my boxes at hi my names Lali seen around town and I would get these notes in my PO Box about two times a week or so and one day she put a picture in their eyes about your pretty is pretty cute so I sent to find this growth was only 2000 people in the town of Lancaster house number on every door until I could find this girl and when. Damn I met her in a laundromat. We had one date and I asked her to marry me and she said okay I'll marry you, but you gotta come out of the cave. We been married for 45 years I found out that forgetting is it getting better getting better is finding someone who come into your heart come into your caves listen to you supports you. Maybe not understand everything that you went through, but that's okay because they accept you and support you without judgment, and in doing so, they give you a hope for tomorrow to give you a reason to live. One of the things is common among us that the where the metal is that we receive a metal from battle, but a tougher battle begins when when you wear it because now all of a sudden you're having to deal with my knee.

I don't deserve this only did I was trained to do.

There are so many others who did greater things that should be here. The should receive this. Why me, would God help me understand assisted Gary. This metal is not about you come to understand that the metal is not about me it's not about any one person who did anyone thing in any one day, but there is an honor and the under the comes with it is that the metal represents something that's greater than one person it represents millions of men and women who love this, country and love others more than themselves. It represents the millions of acts selfless acts done by every man, woman who served this country and the other under the comes with it is that it this metal when people see if there's a message that goes with it. The message of theirs is a different way to live your life to really live you must almost die making it die physically, but learn how to deny yourself.yourself experience what it means to really live caring for others more than yourself.

That's the message of the medal of honor. And that's the message that has allowed me to be able to wear it when I put them around my neck. There's no room for self anymore after I received the medal of honor with Pres. Nixon came back to my cave.

I put the metal in my duffel bag and I never took the metal out again for seven years I come back to Rochester, married with my family because I was attending grad school. Some of the veterans in the area had heard that I had to medal of honor, and they asked if I wanted to participate in this demonstration, it at the liberty pool which was downtown Rochester because the rain hostages had just been released and many of us were in we were clad in ecstatic that they were released and we love the reception and welcome home that they received. But there's a part of us that said while I've been held hostage versus a return for Vietnam and nobody's ever welcomed me home so we had this rally down there and asked me to speak and had this friend at them to Tom Cray who was the director of the local veterans outreach center here in Rochester and Tom had the unique ability of being able to look through the walls and all of us as veterans try to put up to protect ourselves.

He could look through those walls and see something great and ability to help us pull that out to work through all that guilt and anger to be able to get in touch with some of the good things that we needed to build our life and we couldn't build our life in anger and hate guilt, so time on this day before we spoke were standing in the day us.

He said no. Gary, you got a special mission here, and I thought about that verse. It said you have not chosen me Gary, I have chosen you and he said where the medal of honor, and I said I can't time any sick could being so selfish. Gary is not about you. Anyhow network for yourself and for us, and he reached in and took the metal in my pocket gave it to me and I kaput that was the first time that I warned medal of honor since Pres. Nixon hung around my neck.

In October 73. And you been listening to medal of honor recipient Barry by Kirk, a beautiful story. The story of pain and suffering, and redemption. Gary by Kirk story here on our American stores