SYLVIA FAST
wandsstates@sympatico.ca
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BATTLEFIELDS
COUNCIL SCOUTS
CANADA HONOURS
AND AWARDS RECIPIENTS
2002
– 2004
MEDAL FOR FORTITUDE
(for fortitude)
Sylvia Fast – Niagara
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Canadian vet recalls Vietnam horror
Injured Niagara Falls woman was on third last
helicopter leaving Saigon
By JOHN LAW Review Staff Writer
Local News - Saturday, April 30, 2005 @ 02:00
....Even if she wanted to, Fast couldn’t go back to Vietnam to make sense of it all. Because she was a ranger for the South Vietnamese, she still has a $10,000 price on her head.
.... She served for two years at a South Vietnamese orphanage, then came
home. Two years later, with the war escalating, she was asked to return.
This time, she was treating injured soldiers on the battlefield.
Parachuting from a plane, she saw North Vietnamese soldiers firing flares at
her. If they could take out the medic, she realized, it would hurt their
enemy’s morale.
On that final day, Fast was frantically trying to patch up the wounded as
bombs and bullets rained down on Saigon. The North Vietnamese were making
one final push into the city and American troops were fleeing.
A mortar shell exploded near her, killing the nun she was standing next to.
Fast was blown into a cathedral wall, shattering her back and right leg. She
was dragged by two marines onto the third-last helicopter leaving Saigon.
Fast spent the next two years in a back brace. Because she was in Vietnam so
long, she had forgotten English and had to start over.
She was given the South Vietnamese Medal of Honour – one of only 36 given
out by a government that no longer exists.
After recovering at the Bethesda Naval Hospital, she returned to a country
that didn’t seem to care.
.... Fast moved to Niagara Falls six years ago, and became the first
Vietnam veteran to become a member of Legion Branch 51 on Valley Way.
She is also the Canadian post commander for the Veterans of the Vietnam War,
an Internet-based support group.....
To: <info@pownetwork.org>
Subject: Candian vet recalls serice in Nam
X-FID: PLAINTXT-NONE-0000-0000-000000000000
To: "P.O.W. Network - Chuck and Mary Schantag" <info@pownetwork.org>
Subject: Re: Candian vet recalls serice in Nam
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If you don't believe me or
VvNW Headquarters, I am not giving you my service number. Now leave
me alone,
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"Sylvia & Rod Fast (Rod or Ron died of cancer many years ago)
Both lack credibility as to Service in Vietnam. They may have served with
the Red Cross ... and that's about it.
Is she still playing the game? Bummer ... they never fade away ... do they?
What Command is she talking about? "
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Hello .
My name is Sgt. xxx xxxxx USMC. Myself and some other vets find some problems with Ms Fast's account of her Vietnam tour.... The story she gave about her tours in Vietnam is very bazaar.
Ms Fast told me to get in touch with you and you can verify her military record as she will give us no information or documentation.
tks Sgt
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WE CANNOT AND WILL NOT AUTHENTICATE HER LIES.
She refused to provide a service number. We are waiting
for 2 other sources to confirm our suspicions of out and out lies, and we
will then POST her to the list of fakes, frauds and wannabees.
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