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A site dedicated to telling the
history of one of the most important bases in the history of our country.
Read about PFC
Victor Contini and his paintings under the Camp Wolters section under
"Soldier Artist" The old base is
slowly moldering away, it is sad, but I guess time has that effect on
everything. I originally started the site because I felt Fort Wolters'
place in history needed to be preserved. During WWII over 200,000
Infantry trainees cycled through there, and when it was re-opened as the
Army's Primary Helicopter School over 40,000 student pilots graduated -
most of them destined for the war in Vietnam. Four decades have past
since I was first stationed at Wolters, now the base has a sad,
evocative air about it. Whenever I go back to visit the old base my mind
slides back to when it reverberated with the activity of hundreds of
choppers launching and landing during the day. During my visits, I also
think of my departed friends, and the other ex-Wolterites who also died
in Vietnam or during WWII. The base may be moldering and the facilities
becoming derelict, but they are still a memorial to the spirit of the
fighting men who spent part of their youth in this special part of
central Texas......
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