Edward Herda Edward Herda, I’m From My Yorkies, U.S. Marine Corps (Vietnam War), Purple Heart Recipient, Lakota, ND: Experiences of running a convoy to evacuate the wounded and dead in the Vietnam War. This audio is part of a special thread within the TellTale series that honors veterans and military service. It features memories sparked by the creation of an auto-biographical poem used in the exhibit Poetic Portraits: The Lives of Veterans.