Saigon
Tuesday, 23 November 1965
Finally got sick again so I could get some time off to write. Had 2 molars pulled from lower left side and part of the jawbone cut out. It all started Saturday [20 November] with one of those big swellings to indicate an abscess so by Sunday I was ready for anything which would relieve the pain. The doctor put me on quarters with codeine pills to take every 8 hours. Am feeling pretty good now and expect to go back to work tomorrow. This afternoon I have an appointment to check on the stitches in the gum. Sure hope I don't have any more dental trouble. At this rate, I won't have too many teeth left when I get back home!
I won't be going to Thailand for Xmas. Probably will stay right here in Saigon, although Lieutenant Colonel Keith at Da Nang and [Lieutenant Colonel] Ralph Detherow at Qui Nhon have invited me there. We are airlifting 200,000 toys for orphans at those places from Hong Kong. The people (US troops) donated the money and I am arranging the airplanes to fly them in.
The diary of Lieutenant Colonel Richard Paris Clark, Jr., U.S. Army Transportation Corps, who served as Chief, Movements Branch, Transportation Division, J-4, MACV, from June 1965 to December 1965, and Special Assistant to the J-4 for Coastal Shipping from December 1965 to June 1966. Edited by John R. Clark.
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