By Tom Thompson
PORT ANGELES — For Dave Kanters, a Port Angeles nurse practitioner, some things have not changed since his days as an Army medic with the 173rd Airborne in Vietnam.
“In Vietnam I was a flying medic,” Kanters recalled.
“Now, I’m still a medic and I’m still flying.”
However, instead of flying in helicopters over rice paddies, Kanters, 54, flies an ultralight-powered parachute over North Olympic Peninsula pastures and foothills.
The brilliant yellow parachute displays the proud colors and emblems of the 173rd Airborne service ribbon.
The group’s nickname in Vietnam was the “sky soldiers.”
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The rest of the story appears in Monday’s Peninsula Daily News Clallam County edition.