‘My Enemy, My Friend’

At the Chamber of Commerce meeting this morning (28th May 2010) we had the pleasure of hearing a story of reconciliation from the Vietnam War Brigadier General Dan Cherry, USAF, (Ret.)
In 1972 at 15,000 feet in the skies near Hanoi, North Vietnam, Major Dan Cherry first met Lieutenant Nguyen Hong My. In an intensive five minute aerial battle Dan Cherry shot down the MiG-21 piloted by Hong My. Major Cherry returned safely to his base. Lieutenant Hong My lived but was severely injured during the ejection. Both men returned to the cockpit to fly again. Thirty-six years later Dan Cherry and Hong My met face to face in Ho Chi Minh City (Saigon), Vietnam for the first time since that fateful day.
Picture shown: Brigadier General Dan Cherry meeting Tom Martin, Tes Murray and Pam Bowley, where the team were fortunate to receive a signed copy of his book ‘My Enemy, My Friend’.

Tes Murray