Vietnam - The Road Story
Feb 7, 2015 13:12:35 #
Feb 7, 2015 13:19:44 #
streetmarty wrote:
Another rich kid with a backpack pack showing us all how beautiful Vietnam is. As a Vietnam Vet I dont get it. Im not going into a big rant but I could write from now until tomorrow morning. This would be like my father watching a volleyball game on Omaha Beach or my father-in-law watching a bike ride around the Bataan Peninsula. You want to take a scooter ride kid? How about from Baghdad to Fallujah?
Right on, brother. The photography was interesting, and I do want to go back there to compare my 1970-72 experience to what the place is like nowadays.
Feb 7, 2015 13:23:59 #
phlash46 wrote:
I remember it differently from 1966...
I bet you do. Thank you for your service to our country. :-D
Feb 7, 2015 13:30:59 #
I agree I spent 32 years in the Army and never had to deal with any of that. How lucky can you get :thumbup: :thumbup: :thumbup:
Feb 7, 2015 14:08:24 #
lightcatcher wrote:
That is not views I had in '67 wish it was. Thank you for a different view of the country.
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Feb 7, 2015 14:09:26 #
bcheary wrote:
I hear you and would like to thank you for your service to our country. :thumbup: :thumbup: :-D
Thank you. It's good to hear that. When we got back from Vietnam, all we got was ridicule and harassment. The pastor of a church where my wife and I were invited to attend a youth group meeting accused me of being a killer of women and babies! He asked me how i felt about killing women and babies. I was tempted to demonstrate on him! Nowadays, our service men and women are getting a well-deserved welcome home and thanks for their service. I was proud to serve, but not proud of the folks back home for their attitude. So your thanks (and that of a lot of others), while belated, is much appreciated. (by belated, I mean the thanks we Vietnam Vets are now getting is belated, in general)
Feb 7, 2015 14:13:35 #
The saddest thing about the Vietnam war is that we as a nation learned nothing from it. Witness Iraq and Afghanistan. Vietnam cost us 50,000+ lives and billions dollars. Iraq and Afghanistan, thousands of lives lost with more to come and trillions of dollars. Meanwhile, our country's infrastructure and education system are going down the tubes due to lack of funding. Yet we send to Washington people to represent us and insist on getting us into unwinnable wars and who just don't get it.
Vietnam '66-'67
USAF '58-'84
Vietnam '66-'67
USAF '58-'84
Feb 7, 2015 14:21:13 #
(by belated, I mean the thanks we Vietnam Vets are now getting is belated, in general)[/quote]
Long overdue.
Long overdue.
Feb 7, 2015 14:21:50 #
MikeyB wrote:
The saddest thing about the Vietnam war is that we... (show quote)
Thank you for your service.
Feb 7, 2015 14:28:27 #
collhart wrote:
I'm sure. My husband(USMC) was there 64-65,Chu Li again in Tet, 67-68. Was discharged from Tet.
Thank your husband for his service. Vietnam was where GOD stuck the enema tube for the world back then. Now, it's Washington, DC, specifically the White House and the Capitol Building to include Congress.
I was stationed at Chu Li in early 1967 when I was an F-4 Pilot with VMFA 323. Before that I was in Da Nang with VMFA 542.
Semper-Fi
Feb 7, 2015 14:29:11 #
streetmarty wrote:
Another rich kid with a backpack pack showing us all how beautiful Vietnam is. As a Vietnam Vet I dont get it. Im not going into a big rant but I could write from now until tomorrow morning. This would be like my father watching a volleyball game on Omaha Beach or my father-in-law watching a bike ride around the Bataan Peninsula. You want to take a scooter ride kid? How about from Baghdad to Fallujah?
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Feb 7, 2015 14:31:05 #
MikeMcK wrote:
Thank you for your service.
"Those who do not read history are doomed to repeat it"
Vietnam 1966~1967 & again in 1968
Semper-Fi!
Feb 7, 2015 14:33:32 #
collhart wrote:
I know. They know nothing of what this country went through or what it did to so many men. Nor how badly they were treated when they returned.
Heck, when I returned to The World in 1969 I enjoyed myself immensely.
When any dipstick gave me any grief, I gave them a good old South Side Chicago Butt Kicking.
Feb 7, 2015 16:29:36 #
Dan Mc
Loc: NM
I am a Purple Heart vet (USMC...actually, a Navy Corpsman in a grunt platoon) and made a trip back in 2009...Saigon (now Ho Chi Minh City) is nothing like we saw it in '65 - '66...it is returning to its status as "The Paris of Asia...The Pearl of the Orient". Da Nang is nothing like we saw. he little village where I was WIA is no more (we got tired of catching rounds from it so we had an air strike on it and then rolled in with tanks and troops and eliminated what was left (yes, we moved the "civilians" out first!)
Feb 7, 2015 16:32:16 #
MikeyB wrote:
The saddest thing about the Vietnam war is that we... (show quote)
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