My salute to all Vietnam Vets who fought

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I left Feb '68, just after The Tet Offensive started. After a year there, I was really concerned about not making it back!

Thanks to everyone for all the kind words. I never hesitate to thank every service member I encounter today.
 
...I work every day (when we have work:D) with a Nam vet Ex-Pow...who came home to the crap and just dug in and beat it...made a good life and raised 2 of his own and 3 of another wife's ....69 now and it still hurts him how he was treated...my blood boils when he talks of it...the first time I hugged him and thanked him he cried...we've been neighbors about 8 years and worked together about 6...no finer man walks the earth ...
 
My last tour was in Company "C" 101st Avn Bn (Blackwidows) 101st Abn Div Hue/Phu Bia 1970 and 1971

US Army Retired
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Yes sir Chuck, good people.

[QUOTEThanks for your service Bikerdoc. [/QUOTE]
rRght back at you Tim. But nobody screwed with this Doc.

Any M60 gunners out there? The pig could get some!
 
I was born in '84, so the war was long over and I missed all of the hatred toward the vets etc... but when I hear of it, it angers me.
Thank you so much to all of you who served. The title of the thread says it's a salute to all VV's who fought. I thank you all, whether or not you fought, and i thank everyone who has ever served. it is because of all you fine men and women that our country became (and remains) great.
 
Do not forget the Nurses.They had to patch us up,if possible,maintain their composure for the combat troops. I checked out of the hospital in Dec 68 to go back to my company.Putting my Boonie hat, one nurse broke down.She said when you put your hats on,I see the individual and know what you are going back to. Byron
 
Thanks for the memories.

...MJ...
67/68
Kontum
Dak TO

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MJ somewhere I have a picture very close to that, taken at Danang 1970
Did a few tours there both in country and on the USS Kitty Hawk.
 
Artillery FO and FDO with the 101st Abn, 1/502 Strike, 1968 and 1969. Hue to the Au Shau Valley.

M16 --backed up by 105 howitzers, Cobra and AC-47 gunships and F4's.

Welcome home!
 
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...I got the M14 in boot camp, then learned all it could do...then went to Infantry training and they gave me this black plastic rifle...I felt robbed...
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That's funny, when I left for Nam they gave me two M16's, one for me and one to replaced another soldiers firearm. When I arrived in country they took both M16's away and gave me an M14. Go figure!
 
Thank you, veterans. In boot camp, we learned about Khe Sanh and Hue (yes, they still teach us those lessons learned), and I've since read about the Au Shau, and never have I been as proud to claim brotherhood with any group of men as I am to claim my time as a United States Marine. You done good, gentlemen, and the new generation that fought through Basrah and Fallujah and Babylon mirrors that dedication to duty and brother. Never a finer group of magnificent bastards has been assembled.

Semper Fidelis, Marines, and thank you Army, Navy, and Air Force veterans.
 
Another thanks to the men and women of times long past. you held the fort down till i could step up and relive you. Enjoy your downtime, you deserve it.

Now if they can get my happy ass into the fight.

Semper Fi,
 
A big hearty salute to all my brothers and sisters who were in Vietnam. I bow to your courage and your love of our country. I am pround of all our soldiers then and now.
 
bikerdoc -
"Any M60 gunners out there? The pig could get some!"

Onesiphorus -
"B Troop 3/17 Air Cav
Crew Cheif / Door Gunner"


Doorgunners count as M60 gunners right!?
I was also a Doorgunner/Crewchief crewing CH47C Chinook helicopters.
I've always been proud of my service no matter what the politicians said.

Bruce

RVN 12/2/69 - 12/4/70
213th Assault Support Helicopter Company (BlackCats)
1st Aviation Brigade
III Corps
Phu Loi
 
If you are able,
save for them a place
inside of you
and save one backward glance
when you are leaving
for the places they can
no longer go.
Be not ashamed to say
you loved them,
though you may
or may not have always.
Take what they have left
and what they have taught you
with their dying
and keep it with your own.
And in that time
when men decide and feel safe
to call the war insane,
take one moment to embrace
those gentle heroes
you left behind.

Major Michael Davis O'Donnell
1 January 1970
Dak To, Vietnam

~to my father and all those who served in Vietnam
 
I've never felt so sure that I'd make it home, but I did twice. Made many friends for life many who are gone now. I spent 24 more years and never regreted one minute.
I refused to wear any ribbon or medal awarded in RVN as I don't think you display last place awards.
I seriously think you for the kind words, I wish to pass on that thanks to the ones who serve now the Pols have been trying to demonize them to.
GOD BLESS ALL MY SHIPMATES, WE"LL MEET AGAIN and the Ba Mai Ba is on me

I must go now as salt water is getting on keyboard and that feeling of helplessness is here with me..
 
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I refused to wear any ribbon or medal awarded in RVN as I don't think you display last place awards.
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No offense, but I think you should. That war wasn't lost because of anything the men on the ground (sea/air, whatever) did. You earned them. Your tears prove you did.
 
Thanks for Remembering

It is one oclock in the morning here in Texas and reading these posts brings back a lump in my stomach and a tear to my eye just remembering. I'm 63 years old now and served 3 tours in the Nam and don't remember anyone ever saying thanks for anything related to those years. I'm now 70% disabled as a result of that period of my life. But don't get me wrong I'm not complaining not one bit. If I had it all to do over again I would step right up and board the plane again.

Thank you for remembering.

Lets all not ever forget our brothers and sisters in arms who have served and are serving today. Every time we see someone in uniform lets not forget to tell them thanks for their service, it just might brighten their day a bit to know that we care.
 
I got home alive and reasonably intact after 2 tours.
Nobody ever spit on me or gave me a hard time.
I never expected thanks, only what I had earned.

I used my GI bill.
I got a decent job with vet preference. I managed to kep it and retire, though it was tough at times. Same for anybody.
I get VA care for wounds and medical issues.
I earned that stuff.

I went to lots of reunions and memorial dedications all over the country.
Including the original Wall Dedication in 1982.
I pretty much only associate with vets if I can manage it.

I've been home 40 years.
I'd do it again.
 
i love the misconceptions about vietnam
they allow me to know who was in it and who wasnt
 
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