This Veterans Day we're bringing you the story of a Montana Marine who saw combat in Vietnam. Roger Cox, who now lives in Frenchtown, also spent 14 seasons as a smokejumper out of Missoula. He's 70-years-old, but still remembers exactly what it was like to be a college kid landing in Vietnam.
On Roger Cox's third night in a Vietnam foxhole, 30 men died. He was one of three or four he served with who came home. The Marine says those who survived Vietnam have an obligation to be a good person, to live for those who didn't.
Roger Cox told his story to Emily Proctor as part of the Veterans History Project, a national archive documenting the experience of war in the words and voices of those who served. You can find Cox's story, and more like it on PRX.