Patrick McAlister

Patrick McAlister - Army – Helicopter gunner and he and others were charged with rescuing wounded soldiers from the field. His brother, Mike McAlister, my ex-husband, was among the fortunate college graduates who found a reserve unit in Little Rock. That’s just the way it was…Hundreds of recent college graduates who would be among the ground troops if drafted were scrambling for positions in the US Army Reserves to be spared immediate and certain combat and a more-than-likely death in Viet Nam.