1st Battalion, 327th Infantry Regiment of the Airborne Division
327th Infantry Regiment Jungle Jim Grainger 327th Infantry Regiment
   

Jungle Jim Grainger
A/1/327 

 

 

 

Jim Grainger
Won Purple Heart and Bronze Star with V/ D

 

"Jungle Jim" Grainger
Dec 1, 1947-Sept 7, 2009
Vietnam Veteran 1966-1969
2 tours

 

 

Jungle Jim, 101st Airborne to the core became animated factions of the Viet Nam war

You think Viet Nam when you think of Grainger Still fighting, but home, in a land full of strangers

The war of the sixties his psyche eludes an abandoned soldier PTSD intrudes

His expressions distorted, his mirror unnerving But his brothers stay gripped by a cable of serving

Grainger a puzzle to piece what remains A walking contradiction like the war unexplained

Through his death we find life for those serving now Grainger would tell them get help here's how

I'm proud to be an American he sang from his heart We salute his service as he departs

Freedom Flight LZ Other Side He rides like the wind with American Pride

HUUUUA! Rest in Peace

 

 

US Army as Staff Sergeant,
1967 -1968 A Company, 1st /327th 101st Airborne Division.
AK National Guard Sgt training Eskimo Guides

 

 

Grainger continued his service through volunteering which supported the following :

 

ASA: America Supporting Americans as an Original Adopted Son of the City of San Mateo

Airborne Association

Purple Heart Association

Run foir the Wall 2000

RFTW Documentary "Homecoming"
(www.homecoming.tv)

Vietnam Veterans of America
(Nam Jam Chairman 2000)

Disabled American Veterans

American Legion

American Legion Riders

Pony Express Riders / Messengers

Amvets

By Tric Ortiz, A True Friend !