so he came to charlie med and we made him a litter bearer. now, again you saw the helicopter. -- helicopters. when we first got up to khe sanh and joe and dr. feldman were actually there before me, it was a -- charlie med was a series of tents. sandbags up to about 4, 4 1/2 feet. i always wondered -- i'm going to ask a general some day if you're 6'1" and the sandbags are 4 1/2 feet high, what am i supposed to do with the upper foot of my body -- i never -- no one ever gave me a good answer to that question. at any rate part of the problem was the casualties would come in by chopper. and there was about a 20-yard run from the chopper to charlie med into the treatment bunker. and somebody had to take them off the chopper and get them into the bunker under heavy fire because the helicopters as you know were known as mortar magnets. spicer was one of those guys. everybody did it. but he was one of the leaders. carrying guys back. and then after we stabilized them we had to fly them out to a rear area. call the chopper in again. and the same fire

thank you again for being the right man at the right time for charlie med. you had the balance necessary to steer that group through the storm of their lifetime. best regards, bill gay. >> thank you, eddie. thank you. thank you. [applause] >> dr. james finnegan served as a combat surgeon assigned to the third marine division in the northernmost provinces of south vietnam in 1967 and '68. to find oht more, visit jamiefinneganmd.com. >> we're here at this year's conservative political action conference talking to radio host jerry doyle. tell us about your new book. >> the title of the book is from like two standpoint. "have you seen my country lately? ? "and then the other is have you seen it 'cause if you've seen it a lot of people would like to go back there. it was kind of -- when i was writing it it was hard to keep up everything as fast as it was changing. and you know we hear about hope at change but some people say whoa, slow down. and the book and i think a lot of what talk radio is and a lot what we're doing here we're like the speed bumps to get gove