Gary Cantwell
Vietnam | 1st Battalion, 8th Cavalry Regiment, 1st Cavalry Division
He was a country boy, working on a farm in upstate New York since he was six years old. Then, Gary Cantwell was taken by the draft in 1968 shortly after high school. Designated as infantry, he got a good taste of the conditions in Vietnam when he went down to Tigerland at Fort Polk. (4:50)