https://www.ipernity.com/tag/jowo/keyword/87997 https://cdn.ipernity.com/p/104/9F/8F/298911.buddy.jpg https://www.ipernity.com/tag/jowo/keyword/87997 Thu, 28 May 2026 19:34:33 +0000 Thu, 28 May 2026 19:34:33 +0000 https://www.ipernity.com https://www.ipernity.com/doc/jowo/32064167 tag:ipernity.com,2010-11-11,doc-32064167 Thu, 11 Nov 2010 14:55:53 +0000 2010-11-11T09:44:07-04:00 nobody@ipernity.com (Joel Dinda) <p class="who"><a href="https://www.ipernity.com/home/jowo">Joel Dinda</a> has posted:</p><p class="preview"><a href="https://www.ipernity.com/doc/jowo/32064167"><img src="https://cdn.ipernity.com/142/41/67/32064167.04037ee5.240.jpg?r2" width="240" height="161" alt=""/></a></p><div class="description">Frankly, I've grown weary of Veterans Day photos featuring graveyards. So here's a Vietnam snap.<br /> <br /> Sergeant Burnis Johnson, of Muskegon (Heights?), Michigan, at rest in the former Ward 2 at the Pleiku Army Hospital (71st Evac), which served us as a Signal Corps barracks. Sometime in 1971. BJ always seemed like the most capable, sanest, and calmest, member of our little detachment.<br /> <br /> Can't find anyone I recognize as BJ in a quick web search, though I'd not be surprised if another SGT Burnis Johnson (who seems to be serving overseas), also a Michigan native, is a relative. <br /> <br /> <i><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/jowo/194071028/in/set-230661/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Another, similar, photo</a> I posted several years ago. It has a bit of background information.</i></div> BJ <p class="who"><a href="https://www.ipernity.com/home/jowo">Joel Dinda</a> has posted:</p><p class="preview"><a href="https://www.ipernity.com/doc/jowo/32064167"><img src="https://cdn.ipernity.com/142/41/67/32064167.04037ee5.240.jpg?r2" width="240" height="161" alt=""/></a></p><div class="description">Frankly, I've grown weary of Veterans Day photos featuring graveyards. So here's a Vietnam snap.<br /> <br /> Sergeant Burnis Johnson, of Muskegon (Heights?), Michigan, at rest in the former Ward 2 at the Pleiku Army Hospital (71st Evac), which served us as a Signal Corps barracks. Sometime in 1971. BJ always seemed like the most capable, sanest, and calmest, member of our little detachment.<br /> <br /> Can't find anyone I recognize as BJ in a quick web search, though I'd not be surprised if another SGT Burnis Johnson (who seems to be serving overseas), also a Michigan native, is a relative. <br /> <br /> <i><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/jowo/194071028/in/set-230661/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Another, similar, photo</a> I posted several years ago. It has a bit of background information.</i></div> Joel Dinda