usnpilot Loc: Ft Myers Fl

Thank you

RRS Loc: Not sure

Thank you!

BboH Loc: s of 2/21, Ellicott City, MD

As I mentioned yesterday, I was Navy - '54-'64 so I neither saw nor endured ( from the Viets, the U.S. Politicians and that segment of the public)
what you guys did...
I have 3 things to say -
,,,Thank you is not enough, but those are the only words I know to say.
,,,I still have disgust for the politicians and the anti-war "expletive deleted" - I'm not sure whether it was an actual news report or the movie Coming Home that had a scene of vets leaving the plane, walking thru crowds some of whom were spitting at you. Given my choice they would have been incarcerated in the Hanoi Hilton.
,,,It is still my opinion that Jane Honda should be nearing the end of her life sentence for treason and aiding and abetting the enemy.

alby Loc: very eastern pa.

Exactly and Thank You!!! .... visited my best friend in Arlington this year... heartbreaking.

tradio Loc: Oxford, Ohio

Thank you for our freedom!

chikid68 Loc: Tennesse USA

as one who had several family members over there I thank you

ramdon

Thank you! It was not the greeting I expected when I came stateside but I thank my God I arrived home at least somewhat healthy!

GreyOwl40 Loc: Quebec City

The horror of that experience is beyond words. May God grant them the inner peace they so richly deserve.

phlash46 Loc: Westchester County, New York

Thank you.

tom kf4wol

God Bless All, and Thank You to All!!

sgtpreston Loc: El Paso, Texas

It was a news report in 1969 in calif

robertjerl Loc: Corona, California

Some where on "The Wall" is a name in the spot mine should have been. I was packing my desk to go on a weeks TDY guarding a pass used by VC/NVA to come into our region when our Cartographer/Draftsman came into the office and said he was done with all his projects for the next two weeks and wanted to go on outpost duty to see if they had followed his blueprints for the new bunkers. (As an Sp 5 he would command a bunker/position and the duty was a quiet vacation 90%+ of the time, guard at night, lounge and goof off all day.) I was told to get back my reports etc that the Colonel's clerk had taken over and George went. Three nights later was Tet. In the first 30 seconds or so the bunker door was blown by an RPG, a satchel charge was thrown in and a grenade tossed into the tent where George was getting his first sleep in two nights between shifts. The Sp 4 who was his second in command ran back from the other bunker he was checking on and got all three VC, too late. George is on the wall and I am not. It still bothers me at times. But the VA says I don't have PTSD because 99% of my tour was in a safe HQ area. Maybe I shouldn't have told them that after a few years teaching in East LA my nightmares changed from military themes to teaching problems.

GreyOwl40 Loc: Quebec City

robertjerl, I can't even begin to imagine the combination of relief, stress, pain and guilt that you must have endured (maybe still do). I wish you the best

robertjerl Loc: Corona, California

Thanks
Tet started about 2 AM in our area - the outpost was the first place hit. by 3 AM we were all awake and either on duty in our jobs (I was at my job in the Tactical Ops Center.) or backing up the camp perimeter guards. By 4:00 or so we got the word that 3 of our company's 7 men were dead, the other 4 all lightly wounded (George in command and three 2 man guard shifts for our bunker in the complex. A second bunker of the 6 bunker complex was manned by men from our HQ specialist detachments-they had wounded but no dead. The other four bunkers were manned by men from two other companies in the base camp. Then we got the word George was one of the dead when our CO tried to contact him to get a situation report. At first light choppers with gunship escorts took in an oversize platoon with supplies, ammo and medics to the outpost and they started pulling the dead & wounded down to the Evac Hospital. Some of the lightly wounded refused to leave, they stayed to help hold the outpost and show the new guys what was where and what places on the mountain/pass needed to be watched. HQ let them stay, they/we were too busy with reacting to attacks in other places.

jerryc41 Loc: Catskill Mts of NY