I happen to know Oliver Halle personally. Let me rephrase that. I am honored to know Oliver Halle personally. We lived in the same neighborhood until just recently. He’s an unassuming guy who has led an exemplary life, and he has made the most of life. He is, without a doubt, the most honorable human being I’ve ever met. My life is better for it.
Reminds me of the best people I knew in NYC as a kid. Just a solid good guy who’d help anyone out if they really needed it. The family part was crazy. I was thinking the whole time that Mr. Halle looks Jewish. I’ve had enough Jewish friends to know, and then the story blew my mind! Americans don’t believe the same things we were brought up to believe. I was an active duty Marine for 6 years. I’m 60 years old and my hero’s were Vietnam Vets in High School. I’m so happy that your children are so successful, and you seem very happy. God bless.🙏
As a member of the USS Canon (PG-90) that served in Vietnam, I found this to be a fascinating and interesting interview. I was hoping your program would seek to interview veterans who were with Swifts, PBRs and Gunboats. As he said, no one seemed to care. I do. I care on behalf of the more than 58,000 American men and women who died over there and continue to die as a result of Agent Orange. Thank you Lt. Halle for a most enjoyable and interesting interview.
Great interview. I learned so much. I have known Oliver since 1989. He lived in my neighborhood in Marietta. We had also gone to the same College.I have learned so much from him over the years. He is a true American Hero in Both His military career and the FBI!! Thank you Oliver for your service.
Very moving, God Bless you, my brother served 24 years in the Army, then he passed because of AGENT ORANGE.Thank you ,Lt. Halle for your service to this great country.
One of the best interviews in the series. Excellent interviewer and fascinating guest. This is a movie waiting to be made. Great life story with interesting front and back stories. Very good production value. Thanks!
As someone who has listened to probably one thousand or more interviews of Vietnam veterans on various YT channels, I would just like to comment the Atlanta History Center for the way they allow their interviewees to speak without interruption. Other interviewers tend to rush the interviewee, guiding the interview in a direction they desire. Far better, at least I find, is to give these people with their great stories a platform to tell their story the way they want to tell it. I understand that in some cases it is necessary to offer questions but this should be done only when there is a clear pause and not when the person is in the middle of telling something they want to tell the audience. Kudos again to AHC.
@@AtlantaHistoryCenter I am a Vietnam vet - TSN AB USAF SPS base defense 1971. I knew nothing about Swift Boats in Vietnam. Now I feel I have a good grasp of how dangerous their missions were. Great interview - by both men. Thanks. (From Tennessee but retired on Jomtien beach, Thailand 6 years ago - I spent1973 at Ubon AB and decided to spend my retirement years in Thailand)
This is a one of the greatest interviews. This was a great insite to the intense daily duties and high moral standards these guys maintained while at WAR. Thank you for your service and thanks for this interview.
I went through the Vet Center in 1980-81 and met Steve Rooney who, I believe, was an Ensign and JG with the brown shoe Navy. Steve passed a couple of years ago. I greatly honor you all for your service. Ed, Combat Apple 1973-74.
I was a door gunner on a helicopter gunship 1st air cav we would go on night missions on the bong son coast looking for boats in the waterways the Vietnamese weren’t suppose to be moving at night one night we spotted a big wake right off the coast we thought aha we got a big one we followed the wake till we caught up with boat turned on our landing lites and went oh shit its a swift boat and they were manning those twin 50’s needless to say we broke off real quick
I cared. I didn’t know enough about the war in Vietnam to relate to my cousin after the three tours he served, but I was very curious and I read fanatically about Vietnam-pros, cons, oral and academic histories for 5 years. The significance of this soldier’s legacy is his debt to his nation’s history of rising to overcome isolationism to welcome refugees to this nation. There are excuses people exhorted for refusing entry to millions of Jewish men, women, children throughout Europe, resulting in 6,000,000 murders. We can’t demean ourselves by refusing to take in refugees whom we helped to create or who were our allies. Many young Jews who managed to survive the roadblocks to immigration made it their business to serve in the US army against the NAZIs.
Amazing ! You sir are a genuine hero a life of service and sacrifice! Sir you have a huge family and one glorious day i hope we all get together in HEAVEN!!!!!!!!
Swift boats were built in Louisiana mostly used for off shore work.They were work horses but you didn't want to be on them in rough weather.Mr.Halle's story about his mail is hilarious.
OMG, what a flash back, (ref water pistol) we nearly slotted someone in the dark with a bb pistol, my buddy saw the small silver barrel inside, in a fraction of a second and screamed don't shoot.....
@@dwightbrown6365 The requirement to register with Selective Service was re-instituted by Jimmy Carter in 1980 and is still required of all males at 18 years of age. Only from 1975-1980 was the requirement removed.
Hello. If you Still want to find your friend. Vietnam television has a program name Nhu Chua He co Cuoc chia ly. It is free and you can apply at haylentieng.vn I”m Vietnamese and living in US for few years. My father was a soldier and on similar boat. He is living in Vietnam . It touches his heart when I sent this clip. He loves it so much. Thanks a lot
SORRY YOUR MOTHER HID YOUR JEWISH, SORRY YOU HAD TO HIDE YOU SERVED FOR US IN VIETNAM . WE ARE ONLY ONE COLOR, WE ALL BLEED RED. MR HOLLE THANK YOU FOR YOUR SERVICE, FROM NON WAR TIME NAVY VET JON RICHARDSON AND THANK YOU FOR YOUR GREAT STORY HOW YOU SERVED SIR
That moment you realize you came by your hook nose honestly, that your mom really does speak too much Yiddish for a Catholic and that it was pretty weird they hid her during the Holocaust because, despite being a Catholic, she couldn't pass as a Gentile. Yeah, been there too. 😂
The grunting and breathing into the mic by the interviewer and the very low volume on interviewee makes this a very hard listen. Disgusting, actually. But I will hang. I am half way through. Maybe it can be cleaned up for future generations.
