WADSWORTH:

It was the Buddy Holly glasses that Gary Jackson could never get out of his mind.

The medic who came running to his rescue on that day of the firefight so many years ago in Quang Tri Province was wearing big thick black glasses — the kind Buddy Holly wore.

It was March 29, 1971, and the Rittman High School graduate was on the ground in Vietnam, wounded by shrapnel and shot in the back...