These are guest book entries which I have placed on the More or Less Official 30th Arty Bgde site linked from this blog over at the left. I have left these entries on that 30th Arty web site because I am challenging anyone, anywhere, anytime to prove anything which I am writing about in my postings and publishings on the World Wide Web to be incorrect in anyway.
Total Entries: 51
David Robert Crews
Monday, 1/29/07, 12:56 PM
Here is my latest email: From: David Crews
(To the Senate webmaster, please forward this to Cardin and Mikulski) To Jim Whitcomb, T. Gordon Barber, and Gus Hergert, I realize that it is time to tell each of the three of you that I have been in contact with two other former 30th Arty soldiers, one directly and then my former commanding officer through his son. You three are: T. G. Barber: eddiebar@bellsouth.net Gus Hergert: gushergert3@bellsouth.net son of Col. Louis G. Hergert Jim Whitcomb's contact info: Studio Houston Digital Photography 5401 Mitchelldale Suite B2 Houston, Texas Phone 713 682 0067 Fax 713 682 0067 sales@studiohouston.com I have a case pending with the Veterans Administration for a fair service connected disability rating. The VA does not believe me when I tell them the facts about my assignment to the 30th Artillery Brigade on Okinawa. The last VA doctor whom I talked to looked me straight in my face and told me so, then he put it in my records that I am more or less making it all up. Jim Whitcomb is in my VA files as a witness, but the VA refuses to contact him. The best thing for us all is for you two other veterans and Col. Hergert to contact each other, and then contact the VA to set them straight on the facts. The VA already knows that I became a depressed and angry man in the 30th Arty, and still am in my adult life, they know that I abused alcohol and other drugs, I went through substance abuse rehab in the VA, the only thing that you now need to add to my records is that I am not lying about the illegality and immorality of my assignment to the 30th as brigade photographer (http://magic-city- news.com/D_R_Crews_84/The_Illegality_And_Immorality_O f_My_Assignment_As__5891.shtml). To Gus and T. G. Barber, one day about two years ago I had long phone conversation with Jim. We discussed many things that are in my written works. He can verify things that either you or Col. Hergert may not be aware of. To Jim, you have no reasonable choice left but to tell the truth to T. Gordon Barber and Col. L. G. Hergert. To Barber and Gus, you have no other reasonable choice left but to listen to Jim when he tells you the full facts of how the 30 Arty's photo lab was set up and how he got his photo equipment and supplies and that the lab was in a place that was there for a very different reason. A reason that I believed in so much that the knowledge of how my photo lab compromised the stated military mission of the 30th Arty Bgde drove me to the brink of complete insanity. Hopeless, debilitating, depression and anxiety nearly destroyed me. I still suffer from it. The guilt that I felt as a result of being a part of endangering millions of lives, whom I was there to protect, crushed my soul. The fact that those soldiers at the 30th who had arranged to virtually kidnap and enslave me were going to get away with it turned me against the entire US Army. I lost most of my lifelong love for my country, a land which I had been willing to fight and die for ever since I was child growing up in a good, patriotic family and living in nice community going to schools that had taught me patriotism from the beginning of my formal education (http://magic-city- news.com/D_R_Crews_84/Nuclear_W
From:Dundalk maryland
Web Site:An American GI On Okianwa 1970-71
Email:ursusdave@yahoo.com
Unit 30th Arty Bgde HHB
David Robert Crews
Sunday, 1/28/07, 1:30 PM
Due to the length restrictions on guest book entries this was left off my entry that appears two entries down. This is a sad set of facts to have to expose as a potential black mark on your father's record. I have never thought that Col. Hergert should be held responsible for what happened to me under his command. But in the military world he was in fact responsible to some minute degree. It may not mean much at this stage of his life, but I will be further emotionally injured by my 30th Arty experiences if I have to cause Col. Hergert any serious stress or other problems that are unhealthy to him. You have maybe till the end of the month to go over my 30th Arty web site and talk to you dad. I am at the end of my rope.
From:Dundalk Maryland
Web Site:30th Artillery Brigade Okinawa 1970-71
Email:ursusdave@yahoo.com
Unit HHB 30th Arty Bgde
David Robert Crews
Sunday, 1/28/07, 1:21 PM
Yesterday I sent an email to former 30th Arty soldier Jim Whitcomb. Jim set up the illegal, militarily immoral photo lab at the 30th Arty HHB in the Mole Hole. I forgot to save it to sent mail. It basically states that he is going to help me prove all that I say on my blog 30th Artillery Brigade Okinawa 1970-71 (www.ursusdave3.blogspot.com)whether he wants to or not. It goes along with the email I sent to Col. Hergert's son which is in the next message below this one. I am putting this info on here so that 1)You have the opportunity to refute anything I say. 2) Any witnesses who agree with what I say can come forward. Here is the link to the place where I found Jim Whitcomb through an Internet search for other former 30th Arty photographers http://www.asmphouston.org/webletter/002/newmember.ht m Jim was featured in a news letter as a new member to the American Society of Media Photogaphers. You can contact Jim at: Studio Houston Digital Photography 5401 Mitchelldale Suite B2 Houston, Texas Phone 713 682 0067 Fax 713 682 0067 Email sales@studiohouston.com All I am after are the hard cold facts.
From:Dundalk Maryland
Web Site:30th Artillery Brigade Okinawa 1970-71
Email:ursusdave@yahoo.com
Unit HHB 30th Arty Bgde
David Robert Crews
Sunday, 1/28/07, 12:57 PM
Today I sent this email to Gus Hergert, the son of my former commander, Col. Hergert, at the 30th Arty Bgde.=== Following this first part of my email to you is an email that I sent to the former 30th Arty Bgde officer T. Gordon Barber. Then there is an email he sent to me. I am not angry at your father as I am at Mr. Barber. Barber absolutely positively knew what was up with my situation at the 30th Arty, but I never knew whether your dad knew anything or not. I did not particularly, personally care for Lt. Barber, but maybe it would have been different had my assignment under him been legal. I admired, respected, and enjoyed the company of to no end, and would have willingly fought and died for, in a combat area, your father, my Col. Hergert. Prior to my entry in the Army I was a bear hunting guide in Maine (www.ursusdave.blogspot.com Northern Maine Adventures). During those experiences I had the great pleasure, and at very rare times the displeasure (http://magic-city- news.com/D_R_Crews_84/The_Rocket_Scientist_4547.shtml ) of guiding many types of individuals on bear hunts-- doctors, lawyers, millionaire businessmen--and as their hunting guide I had control of the situation and their safety and lives and chances of having a good, safe, fun time in Maine were in my fully capable hands. That allowed me to know that as long as person does their job well and to the best of their abilities as I did while guiding them that they are no better than me in any way. Consequently when I say that I liked Col. Hergert and his family immensely I had the life experiences to be a good judge of character. I do not wish to cause your family any stress or discomfort. I have told the bulk of my 30th Arty story with embarrassing candor (www.ursusdave3.blogspot.com), I know that your father's memories of me will be different at times from what the facts were. I have no choice but to involve you father in this to some degree. It is a matter of my survival. Read my 30th Arty blog site and it can be apparent to you that I have no other choice than to ask that Col. Hergert have his say in this. What happened to me was not something that I have ever believed or even fully suspected that Col. Hergert knew and approved of. I had to suspect that he may have known, but it just did not seem to me that it fit his personality or professional standards for him to have known the true military facts of my assignment to the 30th Arty as a photographer. My life has been, since I was assigned to the 30th, and will always be quite a dismal mess unless I finally set the record straight. What I have endured during my adult life and what I now endure everyday is too much for me to take any longer. The stress is horrible. The embarrassment and humiliation of being seen as a different person than who I am because of the lies in my military records has all but killed me. It has now just about finished me. I put it all out there on the world wide web for everyone to see but it made no difference. I am going to set this situation straight in very short time. I am giving you one last chance to allow me to do this in a kind gentle manner towards your father and family. If you do not now realize that you and your father are unfortunately stuck with helping me, than I can't help you. It has now come down to you and yours, and T. Gordon Barber and his, or me and mine. I know that this is difficult for you to understand and I am willing to be very reasonable with you. But I am going to prove these facts about my time in the US Army no matter what happens to anyone else. It is now a matter of my survival and the well being of my family, particularly my heirs. Please cooperate with me so that no one in your family is hurt in any way. This is a sad set of facts to have to expose as a potential bl
From:Dundalk Maryland
Web Site:30th Artillery Brigade okinawa 1970-71
Email:ursusdave@yahoo.com
Unit HHB 30th Arty Bgde
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Okinawa
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David Robert Crews
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