Virgil Dale Liefer

Zipfel Charles

61w ago

in honor of Virgil.

To Virgil’s family and brothers,
Please accept our deepest sympathies on the passing of your loved one. Virgil was in a select group of Army veterans. There were only 3 “Guns A Go-Go” Chinook CH-47 helicopters that were used in Vietnam at the same time from 1966 to 1968. With a crew of 7-8 and a tour of duty of a year…that is a very limited number of combat veterans that served on these helicopters. Virgil’s Chinook number 64-13149 called “Easy Money” was the only “Guns A Go-Go” helicopter that survived the War. “Easy Money” is now in a museum at Redstone Arsenal in Alabama. His brother Don was here on a visit in 2018, I think. I had a DVD on Army helicopters that had footage of “Easy Money “. I sent it back with Don to give to Virgil. May he rest in peace…his work is done.
Peace and prayers to all.
Charles and Bertie Zipfel
Grayslake, Illinois

A lighted pale blue candle with a small white flower and a few leaves at its base, set against a soft blue background.

Kim Gambrell

62w ago

Always said I was the lucky one, and I was to have him as a Father. I bought one raffle ticket and won this helicopter he watered at a military reunion I. Alabama. He said if anyone was going to win it it would be you. I count myself as one of the luckiest to have him as a father and all my siblings to have been some of the best of the best. Although we at far apart, we come together when it matters most!