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Frederick Downs, Jr., prosthetic consultant, is a decorated Vietnam veteran, published author, and a prosthetics and sensory aids expert.
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The Killing Zone: My Life in the Vietnam War

April 13, 2021

"In the fall of 1968, as I stopped at a traffic light on my walk to class across the campus of the University of Denver, a man stepped up to me and said, “Hi.” Without waiting for my reply to his greeting, he pointed to the hook sticking out of my left sleeve. “Get that in Vietnam?”
I said, “Yeah, up near Tam Ky in I Corps.”
“Serves you right.”
As the man walked away, I stood rooted, too confused with hurt, shame, and anger to react.
Ten years have passed. The hurt, shame, and anger still flood over me with the memory. But of one thing I am certain—none of the men I knew who served in Vietnam deserved to die or to be maimed, either physically or mentally.
I think it is necessary now to give another view of Vietnam, that of the day-to-day life of an infantryman on the ground.
I have always been asked what I thought about Vietnam, but never what it was like to fight in Vietnam. This is the way it was for us, the platoon of Delta One-six..."

The Killing Zone is the memoir of author Second Lieutenant Frederick Down
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Rev. Dr. Frederick S. Downs IM India Alumnus Called Home
Reverend Dr. Frederick (Fred) S. Downs, an alumnus of International Ministries (IM), passed away on May 19, 2024, 2024, in North Carolina, at the age of 92.
Fred was born on February 15, 1932, in Tura, Assam, India, He was brought up on the mission field of Assam. His parents, Dr. E.S. Downs and Gladys Hall Downs, were medical missionaries in Assam. Fred’s father was also a mechanic, builder, plumber, hiker and father. His mother was a nurse, but in the early years she was primarily the teacher of all four of the Downs children.
When Fred was nine years old the Downs family returned to the U.S. and due to the Second War breaking out the family did not return to India for better than four years. Fred entered public schools for the first time in fifth grade. This was a difficult time. Fred’s father returned to India leaving him as the only “man” in the house with his mother and three sisters. A year later his mother also returned to India leaving all four children in a home for that purpose. The next year Fred’s young
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Dr Frederick S. Downs ’49

Fred Downs has spent his life in service to the Church and to theological education in India. He was born of missionary parents at Tura, Meghalaya, in 1932. An official member of the Class of 1949, he attended Woodstock from 1946 to 1948. Following graduation, he embarked on a rigorous path of academic and theological study, receiving a BA in History from the College of Wooster, a BD from Colgate Rochester Divinity School, and a PhD from St Andrews University in Scotland in the field of Church History. In 1960 Fred and his wife, Mary, were appointed to Eastern Theological College in Jorhat, Assam, as missionaries. There, he served as Professor from 1961 to 1969 and also as Acting Principal from 1963 to 1966. Nearly thirty years later, he would return to the college as Visiting Professor of History of Christianity from 1997 to 1998. During his time in Assam, Fred served as Vice-President of the Council of Baptist Churches in North East India (CBCNEI) in 1963 and 1968. While in Bangalore, he also worked in the area of the history of Christianit