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Vietnam / General Custer and Glazed Donuts

July 10, 2021
JanscruggsVietnamWarstories@buzzsprout.com
Vietnam / General Custer and Glazed Donuts
Show Notes

Bill Kupper is an amazingly successful person.  He was publisher / CEO  of Business Week.

During  Vietnam  he was willing to do his part and saw action with the 1st Cavalry Division.    While training as a rifleman, he was injured,  yet reported to Officer Candidate School.  He had a lot of extra time while waiting for his injuries to heal.

Bill decided that he would start a business by making Glazed Donuts.  It was fun and successful.  When he got to Vietnam he once again started with the Donuts.  In rear areas US troops loved them.  Don't we all love Donuts?  

Bill was often traveling to 1st Cavalry HQ.  While on guard duty a soldier announced his name,.   He was  Benteen.  Captain Benteen was a  soldier famous for not being able to rescue Custer at the Little Big Horn.    Since Bill is a lifetime student of the Battle of Little Big Horn, he figured this would be the last day of his life.  Yet , Bill  survived without a scratch!

Kupper lives in  Florida and Cape Cod....