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B-CS adopts Grenada veteran
By KIMBERLEE D. NOR
RIS
Reporter
A Grenada veteran nearly
killed by “friendly fire” saw
Bryan and College Station, the
towns that “adopted” him after
extensive combat injuries, for
the first time Wednesday.
Harry Shaw was part of the
82 Airborne Division of the
U.S. Army, the elite strike unit
always ready for deployment,
that led the invasion of Gra
nada. After an American naval
pilot mistakenly fired on an old
barracks where Shaw’s division
had set up headquarters, Shaw
was nearly left for dead by med
ics.
Several operations to remove
schrapnel and 58 units of blood
later, Shaw was very much alive,
but had lost both his legs. It was
then that his commanding offi
cer, Lt. Ken Stover, wrote a let
ter to the Bryan-College Station
Eagle asking the town to help
Shaw through his ordeal. Stover
is a Texas A&M graduate and
former Corps of Cadets mem
ber with close ties to the Univer
sity and College Station — his
father is a University civil engi
neer, and his brother is a senior
cadet this year.
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izens of Bryan-College Station
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sent cards, letters and packages
encouraging Shaw during his
recuperation in Brooke Army
Medical Center in San Antonio.
In December, Gen. A1 Jones,
commander of the local army
reserve unit; Ron Blatchly, the
mayor of Bryan; Stover’s fa
ther, Virgil Stover and other
concerned university and town
leaders, visited Shaw in his hos
pital room. Not long after, he
was named an honorary citizen
and invited to visit the twin cit
ies and the University.
Shaw reflected on the days
preceding the Grenada occupa
tion:
“We were deployed just days
after the bombing in Beirut —
that was a dismal day, hearing
about all those marines killed.
“We’re always ready to be
sent out, but there’s always
some speculation about what
world events are happening,
where we may be heading.”
Shaw said after his division
had entered Grenada, they set
up a defense perimeter.
“We didn’t see much of the
people or the land,” he said.
“Some of the people had this
nasty habit of going into the
house and grabbing a weapon
and taking a few shots at us.”
Shaw said his fellow soldiers
told him it was later, after he
was injured, that the people’s
appreciation was evident, and
Grenadians walked the streets
shouting “God bless America.”
After the third day of occu
pation, his division moved
headquarters to a deserted Cu
ban barracks, and had been
there only a few hours when
they were hit by air-strike fire
from an American plane.
He said the fighter made a
second sweep very low, “and
then we knew something was
up.” The fighter was piloted by
an American navel flier from
the USS Independence,
anchored off-shore.
Shaw remembers medics
Hooking at him and saying “he
won’t make it.” But said some
thing inside wouldn’t let him
give up and die.
“I told them ‘don’t let me die
here,”’ he said. “I remember
that. Afterwards, a lot of it was
kind of a blur ’till I got to San
Antonio.
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“I’m not bitter about what
happened but I would like to
know what went on, what went
on in his head.”
None were killed in the air-
strike, but 17 were wounded
and one soldier has been in a
coma since the accident.
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Shaw came to Bryan-College
Station to see the area and be
honored by the town that “a-
dopted” him. Since arriving
Wednesday night, he has ap
peared on several television and
radio talk shows and toured
Texas A&M and Bryan-College
Station.
Friday is Harry Shaw Day in
Bryan. He will be hosted by city
and University leaders at a vari
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