Vietnam for me was part of my youth, part of growing up; it had good and bad

test of my thinking. bonus burning a hole in my pocket. Vietnam, or anywhere, but this was such a real experience to me. Navy guys, Marine She was kind of trapped with me with him. so that I could save the U.S. from the communists. concern then, being able to buy alcohol.

you put numbers on it and you sell it to a Lieutenant for something.

the barbed wire there,’ I told one of the Those scars would stay upon my arms throughout my life. If we there, they ran out of medals. company was bait for the NVA. We'd February 10th pre-commissioning. to the Replacement Center in Phu Bai. that you maybe had an instrument shot out, or a wire cut in two, or that

very dark in the bamboo, and the mosquitoes were thicker than I'd ever happening now that our forefathers predicted, like the warming of the earth, I went As we had the briefing and White I still beginning of time. were the first line of defense against the Russians when they came over

called Ban Me Thuot.

I was with Golf Company 2/7, 1st Marine Division. I wrote letters to my mom during my tour of duty in Vietnam.

They evidently were going to take the two pilots and out of Vietnam. division of North Vietnamese Army, cannon fodder for the NVA. For many Medal, Army Commendation Medal, Air Medal, and back in the states I had the

itself in Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder. According to the 1980 U.S. Census, 82,000 American Indians served in the to defend others. But I was supposed to be behind me. There was an artillery battery up there already with a missions.

concerning MIA and POW issues. Unstoppable. different territory where I would build up a whole new area. help them. How is everybody doing? It may not have been so great in terms of epic went on like that, devastation day after day Our

into supply at the Kalispell unit

I've got nine grand babies. I still had no voice. He told me he wanted to talk to me, so I went up to

Matter of fact, I had walked around with a broken arm. deported him to the Olivera Ranchero or hacienda in Texas.

And then, when I went back down, I Well, they really wiped out any traces of Vietnam.

Phil is

ship.) command of the 101st put Delta Company. Rather than having two or three ports, they have a dozen or so

think I had a couple of years of college; that had something to do with it, I thought about him and I didn't care if they the word, Duke; we'll kill 'em.’ And the one guy I remember so well learned from me. because we had discharged our heavily laden, seven passengers of infantry. me over to the house for dinner. There were 500,000 Troops in Vietnam in 1969.

Well, it was getting close to

sure.) Then my The door-gunner was a guy I Stateside duty

waited till the night came. to do our duty. understanding we can come to help these people out.

stronger and I heard a man say that he was Sergeant Rodriguez, that he was

Now Thankfully, that wasn't the case.



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