âI volunteered to be drafted but I was a draftee,â he said.
The Mobile native entered the Army on Jan. 5, 1967. That Dec. 31, on New Yearâs Eve, he arrived in Vietnam as a demolition specialist.
âI got in at Tan Son Nhut Air Base. And for fireworks, people were firing rifles,â he said with a laugh.
But on Jan. 31, 1968, the North Vietnamese launched the Tet Offensive, a major escalation and one of the largest military campaigns of the Vietnam War. Markell experienced it firsthand.
âKind of scary,â he said. âA lot of work. I mean I worked around the clock.â
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Huntsville Hospital prepares for increase in COVID hospitalizations
Tracy Doughty said right now the hospital has enough staff to take care of patients and they help each other out.
Posted: Jul 28, 2021 6:35 PM
Updated: Jul 28, 2021 7:06 PM
Posted By: Sophia Borrelli
Growing concerns from the largest hospital system in North Alabama as the number of people in the hospital with coronavirus rising.
Tracy Doughty, the president of Huntsville Hospital said as of Wednesday, there are 69 people in the hospital in Madison County with COVID.
A month ago, there were 17. That s quadruple the amount of people in the hospital fighting the virus in just a month.