I can talk from a childhood perspective; you always fearing of getting kidnapped, fear of taking and turn into a force to become a soldier, fear of stepping on a mine field or getting into a cross fired attack
The media was also one of the reasons most of these men got booed and called baby killers when they returned back to the US. Should have just let these men do their jobs without a camera in their face on the front lines
My grandpa only talks about Vietnam because he feels it’s the only way to show me how much suffering and death happened over there, only for those vets to come home and be treated like shit
Сочувствую! Судьба, в виде политической ситуации, президентов и генералов, жестоко обошлась с этими парнями! А ещё более жестоко с простыми вьетнамцами!
My ex got drafted right before it was over but his brother was in Nam as a Medic and it did some major damage to his personality I personally worked as a KP supervisor for the Army so I met a lot of good guys and respect for you all God was on your side and still is never give up my brothers ❤ Eva Soldiers are always welcome to my heart peace I know the country treated you All not right they have to answer one day love you all out there Thank you for your service my dear brothers
I was in Vietnam 1969-70 and listening to this in 2023 I do not believe I have heard this song before. Just in looking back to us NOW VETERANS when were so much younger.
Proud daughter of a Special Forces Airborne Vietnam Vet. He suffered from PTSD his whole life. He was drafted 3 years after coming to this country. He didn’t talk about it until his last days of life. God Bless all of them!
@@earljohnson2113Created during that era, played in that era. Therefor a Vietnam song, doesn’t need to say “Vietnam” or “war” in it for it to be a Vietnam song
THE ACTION I WAS TALKING ABOUT WAS VIETNAM. NEVER A DULL MOMENT OR, DAY FOR US MEDICS. PJ WE WERE PROUD AND STILL ARE. NEVER A DULL MOMENT!!!!❤️🩹🕊🇺🇸🤞👍🕊♥️
I was just getting out of high school during Vietnam Nam. My life never changed but done classmates did. Done never came back. But it affected all and still is.
I'm an OR nurse and I wanted to go to the front a treat the wounded men. I told my recruiter that I can get a job anywhere I want in the states but that's not where I feel I was needed.
You have no idea. I was not in combat in Vietnam in 1969. But where I was stationed we got mortared and rocketed night and day. When that happens and you can’t even shoot back, that’s very terrifying! My younger brother was also a Marine in Nam. He was wounded badly but came home.
My cousin had a jacket from nam it had a saying on back went like this, fighters by day, lover's by night, drunkards by choice, ready to fight much love and respect for all of you vet's 👍🏽
My best friend I grew up with, form grade school to high school. He joined the Navy and I chose the Air Force. His plane got shot down over there. I didn't go to VN but lived through that era. Miss him.
My father volunteered for Vietnam, 4th infantry division by Plieku...rice farmers gonna swim across the ocean and take my GOD GIVEN RIGHTS and camel HERDERS. Watch more tv and worship it by believing it and doing what it says.
At 1:44, that guy looks exactly like Dale Earnhardt when he was in his younger years...and Earnhardt would fight to the bitter end for his country...that's just the way he was.
We are old men now. I normally always avoid these clips because I don’t need to remember or get blue but since I will soon be joining my buddies who died so long ago, I am glad that our sacrifices are memorialized in small ways like this. USMC CH 46 Marble Mt.
Incredible editing... war is a living nightmare. A man was executed in this video... that was horrible to see. I wish the world was like Mayberry, but it just isn’t 😔
@@sullysquid4377 ... hi Sully... it will when the Prince of Peace comes to set up his kingdom on this earth and he will put an end to all war, sin, hate, suffering, sickness, pain and death. Jesus promised to return. Looking at the sign of the times, it won’t be long. If you don’t know him and would like to, all you have to to do is seek after him and you will find him.✝️🕊
@@aleciabjorlie3103 but there will be always hate, jealousy, envy those are the things that will bring this world down and it's close by the time we see it it will be too late... its enviable
The guy that got executed is a VC who was caught in the act of slaughtering 7 families of South Vietnamese officers. The guy who executed him is Major General Nguyen Ngoc Loan, who emigrated to the US after the fall of Saigon.
Been there and done that … 1st Cavalry Division 1967-1968 … two year draftee … got more holes in me than John Kerry, but I never got a Purple Heart 💜 … just alcohol poured on my butt … not even an aspirin These are some very realistic battle scenes …
Jesus, Mary & Joseph... TONS OF NASTY BITS in that war. Average age was 19!!! Jungle warfare with NO JUNGLE TRAINING STATESIDE!!! LOVE OUR VIETNAM VETS!!🇺🇲🇺🇲🇺🇲
Alot of this footage was being broadcast to Americans at dinnertime during the evening news. I don't remember this because I was too young. Must've been awful to watch when you knew a loved one or friend was fighting in Vietnam. What a waste of life, on both sides.
My first husband went in that mess. I wish I had not been born when I was born. All I see around me in this country now is that war that never ended. It is just being fought over here in the US. What was the point of all the work I did, all the studying I did, the scrimping and saving and always trying to do the right thing. It was all pointless. The ugliness of it. I wish I had not been born when I was born. Maybe I would’ve had some happiness. Maybe....
@@kishanchali8752 Can you express that in a prayer for the over 400,000 Amerasian babies that we abandoned in Vietnam? Can you express that in a prayer for the deaths of children in Chicago this last year? Are you even aware of how many have died that are under the age of 12? Can you express that to Mr. Anderson whose son had finally graduated and he was curious about Seattle and he went them to CHAP or CHOP and before he even got out of the car, they shot him three times and then dragged his body in there and would not let anyone have it FOR THREE DAYS. Can you comfort Mr. Anderson with Buddha? Mr. Anderson who said, "He was my son. He was my son. There will be no more Andersons." WE DON'T KNOW SUFFERING? WE DON'T? WE NEED YOU TO LEAD US TO THE TRUFFLES? ARE YOU SERIOUS? Listen to what Socrates said: "I know what I do not know." You should realize that you know nothing of human suffering. I've seen those words before..... On a blacklight poster in 1970.
@@kooptt look man ik we lost the war but the vibe is just good everything about it is good even though we lost alot of men in the war the music the movies everything is good around the time but people now just don’t appreciate being in America even tho we are going thru times right now but the freedom it alot
The only thing that I can think about imagine being 18 years old, knowing that you’re gonna be drafted into the US Army, you’re in the helicopter and they’re gonna drop you down to where it’s going to be your destination and the only thing that you can think of is that if you’re gonna die, you’re gonna live and the rush that you’re gonna have what a fucking rush
There is no greater love/hate relationship than the one between a grunt and a chopper. I very well remember those times, sitting on the tarmac with our gear and rucks loaded with everything we could imagine we might need, waiting for those birds to take us out to God knows where to do God knows what. Smoking, with an occasional low conversation & feeble attempts at gallows humor as the knot in your stomach tightened. You just hated it when they came thump, thump, thumping in. Loud and blowing dust all around. Loading in and lifting off. Like moving in slow motion. Hitting the LZ was the opposite. Everything adrenaline packed..out as fast as you can go, hauling ass for cover, then watching that Huey lift off and leave you there. It was a very sinking feeling, not knowing if you just had your last ride. We were usually out for 2-3 weeks at a time, but when it was time to go back in there was nothing you loved more than seeing those birds coming for you. To this day, more than 50 years gone, the thump, thump of a chopper makes the hair on my arms stand up.
Definitely wasn't expecting the clip at 4:14. Like damn. I've seen a lot of war footage in my day, even some of the more grueling stuff from The Holocaust, but that clip just ruined my day, to be completely honest. It's not like it's explicitly gory or anything, it's just how pitifully the man becomes limp with death as the soldier who shoots him point-blank does not even flinch... I really wonder what the context behind that was.
I see very poor people trying to defend their farms, little villages, and rice paddies from invaders, with anything they have or anyone would give them. But this is like the invader view, from the invader side. Looks like they were totally undefended and had nothing, and the invaders were going to just cake walk all over them. And then mother nature and the jungle stepped in... I mean, who would do that, drop bombs on undefended civilians.... ??? What is wrong with them..
Well, the " invaders" were there to defend the people and farms of South Vietnam against invaders from North Vietnam and China. Ever look at it that way??
@@chipthomas4169 Nope. How would you feel if China interfered with internal military aid during the American Civil War on behalf of the Confederacy? As in a Chinese occupying force fighting along side the South Carolinians at Bull Run... not only fighting with them, but making up the majority of the force? You know, to protect their people and farms.
Guerilla warfare is pretty effective plus the us didnt want to or really couldn’t invade north Vietnam because of the fear of retaliation from the soviets and chinese because that would basically be a korea 2.0
Two of my uncles were days away from being called up in the draft when the war ended. I asked them if they were scared, they said Not at all, because it was what all their friends and dad had done as well. Even if they died, why should they be treated special. I guess thats what they call a sense of duty
It was a war of attrition. The Vietnamese dug in and could stomach the loses. The Americans couldn't. Short of Nixon's proposed bombing of Hanoi with a Nuclear warhead, it was over.
Trees dont move unless your in vietnam and it's the 60s but may god bless the vets my grandpa saw everything in nam people burning beign eaten bleeding to death body parts flying everywhere
