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Mr dyksema thank you..have listened more times than i can count ..had a couple neighbor kids not make it back and ive heard quite a few stories from arounf the sewing circle..i grew up in the 60s and still those memories remain fresh ..different times ..times for hope ..pray we can turn this circus around ..take care and enjoy listening ..you are a great storyteller
How are you Mr. Dykema ? One of the best Vietnam Veteran interviews , I watched this several times !!!! Thank you again for your service and thank you for sharing your story , and delivering it with such honesty , candor and humor !! I hope all is well with you and yours Sir !!!! - mikey
I've listened to alot of these veterans interviews Les tells his story the best. Great story teller I've heard. God bless you and thank you for your service to our country.
Wow how humbling to tell all the parts of his story, where most people would bury their shortcomings, and highlight their achievements, he is truly a hero
I’m speechless. What an amazing , interesting, articulate and very clever guy. I hope he was able to find more piece of mine and had lots of happy moments in his life. I’m really speechless, I never have seen and felt as if I had been in a veterans shoes before, and there’s so many mixed emotions just as a listener -I can’t imagine how it feels to experience that, come home and just live with it like that. With basically no support from the government, and particularly so with Vietnam veterans. I just hope he had peace and joy throughout the years . I really really hope he did.
What a life! His description of detail and the emotion he conveys almost transports me there with him. I was touched when he had to force himself to talk about that snake and those poor officers that got executed by Vietnamese. A few of his early misadventures really cracked me up.
Misanthrope joins the Army and hijinks ensues. PROFOUND. Whats next Atheist goes to temple.OR Whitch Doctor dose an operation. I'd be the first to THANK THIS MISANTHROPE FOR NOT SERVING!!
Congratulations. You’ve been nominated for the most irrelevant comment of the year. Misanthrope doesn’t define someone who simply stands up to antagonists. He had comrades and friends. Now look up a definition of misanthropists.
Misanthrope……. You learn one word with lots of letters. But not its definition. But to hide your failure and that you don’t have a clue you type in ALL CAPS like a child. There’s two spellings of the doctor you referenced. You missed them both!!!😂😂😂
What's the matter?Did you Never play on a team before because you were never picked?. And yet you watch a channel that usually covers proud and humble veterans. @BlueDays_BlackKnights miss somthing in life? Thats why you can identify with this joker
@@gregorybrennan8539 Wow. Just personal insults. A shame you can’t find a specific reason behind your blather. Grow up little Greggy. I pointed out specifics from this interview beginning to end that validate what I said. Give me some specifics of arrogance. But learn the definition first. This little bitchy personal insults dribble doesn’t garner any respect from any sensible person. I’m sorry you have to live your life like that.
Les, thanks for your service! I saw your name and wondered if you were from Grand Rapids. I was raised there and went to concerts at Grand Valley. I enjoyed your story about your time in country!
You flaming idiot. Why don’t you just read identical questionaries filled out by vets and available online? These documentaries are made with a purpose. The goal is simple. To learn an individual’s personal experiences, from various assignments, in the individuals own words, with their unique perspectives. Why would anyone want a disconnected interviewer who was never in Vietnam to read a list of predetermined questions? All that aside did you Really just spend over 2 hours listening to what you didn’t expect to hear? Then go to the trouble to read through the comments? Just to waste more time commenting how a perfectly conducted interview should be made bland and boring? You’re just a little bitch looking for a place to happen.
What was arrogant? I never heard him brag or infer he was better than anyone. It was the opposite. He admitted his mistakes and why he shouldn’t have made them. Let’s pay attention to the language we all agreed on. 🐔 🍭
Great STORY Teller. But much seems exaggerated. I spent a year in Vietnam - Army 69-70 Flew on many Hueys - never saw one with a 50 caliber (1:29:50 ish) - indeed if you look at a picture of a door gunner on Hueys - always an M60 7.62 mm machine gun. Reason - the 50 cal would destroy the Huey's airframe - anybody who ever experienced a 50 caliber knows it sets up a standing wave that is very uncomfortable at 30 yards - it would have torn the Huey's airframe to shreds (if not instantly - certainly over time). Also, GIs didn't burn crap - we hired Vietnamese to burn it - you could see the diesel smoke every morning. Les has great stories - i think many of them are just that - stories.
If you payed attention and listened you would know people are familiar with and often use Anaconda to describe a large constricting snake. Very often. So it may have been a Reticulated Python. The visual doesn’t change. Also, case in point ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-i6HFN-iv1JQ.htmlsi=9I458H7QIh8JeyIF
This is one of, if not the absolute best interview that I’ve ever watched. Listening to his story makes me feel like I was right there experiencing his story, just like reading a good book. I feel like I know every detail of his story.
My grandfather is a ww2 combat engineer .He took basic training in Mississippi I believe ,he said he got put on KP feeding a boiler with coal to heat the camps water he wanted to see how hot he could get it and that morning his boss came to him and said Holland what the hell are you doing the water is so hot the men can’t take showers ,he never had to do it again.
This is an absolutely incredible listen. I’m an hour and a half in and this may be the best war story/personal account I’ve ever heard. Watch this, or just listen
