National Vietnam War Veterans Day

[Sandhog308]

For those of us that spent the worst days of our lives there , for those that spent the best days of our lives there , and for those that never came back …..either physically or mentally , hand salute !!
This rounds on me

 

[Slash0311]

Smoke and prayers to everyone you mentioned!

 

[MJF]

 

[Ronws]

Honoring my friend (who was 17 years older than me,) Lee. He was a second class petty officer SEAL 1964 - 1969 and stationed in Da Nang and spent 3 active combat tours on the laotian-cambodian border, specializing in remote ordnance demolition of enemy camps and tunnels (the standard reply you get when asking someone why they joined the SEALs - "to blow shit up.")

Came back with pins in each ankle, right hip, and a stainless steel kneecap on his left knee. Being superhuman is a young man's game. Other than not liking confined spaces and always sitting with his back to the wall, he was well-adjusted.

hooyah...

 

[oneshot86]

Thanks big bros

 

[LuckyLuke80]

This gen x dude really respects all you men that went to the land of bad things. I know that way too many bash on the soldiers of Nam, but you were all just doing your job and war is ugly.

 

[Lange Carabine]

In memory of my cousin Floyd who didn't make it back.

 

[supercorndogs]

When I was in grade school one of my good friends father passed away from agent orange related cancer.

After college the head mechanic where I worked was Vietnam vet. He was a heavy equipment operator.

One of my wife's uncles is also Vietnam vet.

You guys went through some terrible things so rich people could line their pockets. Then those same people turned the media against you when you came home. Any contempt I have for the Vietnam War is certainly not held against the soldiers who were forced to go or the soldiers who volunteered to go.

 

[Rthur]

Shout out to @foulmike...
We should have gotten you started on that book earlier.
Sanchez Claus.

R

 

[Dead Eye Dick]

Where I was.

This was our home away from home. If you can kind a read the sign above the door, we did some stuff you still would have a hard time believing. If the NVA could read English, we would have been the first place they would have hit.

All around our hill was DT’s from 155mm Howitzers Those fellows were good.

Outside the wire was our territory. That’s why they choose qualified infantry to work in Electronic Warfare.

To this day, if I drop any food on the floor, I pick it up immediately. When we got good food, just because it fell in the dirt, was no reason to waste it.

We had some interesting times.