It happened 50 years ago, but the colorfull pictures seem to have been taken yesterday... It's incredible. Poor boys, they are 70/75 years old today...
Nicolas Richard I may be 70 but I'm still a bad ass marine, was 1st Mar. Div. Cat killer AO 0864, ”Best damn killers on the battlefield.” Shot down and wounded twice, received Bronze Star. 69/70.
@@Mikeschmidt61 Dear Mike, happy to know you survived the Vietnam War. You can be proud to be a Marine, like your predecessors at Bois Belleau, Iwo Jima and Hué. You are part of the American History. Once a Marine, always a Marine. Best memories from France.
Nicolas Richard I was 16 when I went in, we had 72 in our platoon and graduated 29, so we are an exclusive club with a rich heritage. Never given, always earned, and because it's so hard to become a Marine is the reason we are Marines until we die. HONOR, COURAGE, and COMMITMENT are more than words, they are a code that hopefully I have lived by since graduating boot camp.
@@Mikeschmidt61 I have great admiration for the Us Marine Corps. It's a big honor for me to exchange words with a Vietnam Vet, especially a Marine. Semper Fi. Have a nice day.
@@WhatEvenIsAGoodName yes my parents were of the "Greatest Generation" they didn't approve of this type of music. I too introduced this music to my 2 boys. They now 38 & 36 yrs old. Your parents have great taste in music too. Semper Fi from an old Marine Sergeant.
@@wymanwilson6975 I guess you are talking about Vietnam. If not, but heres a story about Vietnam.Yes I was young (born in 1955) but I was almost 20 yrs old on Okinawa with the USMC, 3rd Force Service Regiment. During the Evacuation of Saigon April 1975 Marines from 1st Bn 9th Marine Regiment & The Mayaguez Incident aka Battle of Koh Tang Island Cambodia May 1975, Marines from 2nd Battalion 9th Marine Regiment; both of these 2 operations the military lost over 40 Marines, Navy and Airmen. Most of the people that was lost were born in 1953 to 1957. Yes to young for the Vietnam War but old enough to go into combat. I know these numbers are nothing compared to KIAs in 1969. Again, I was to young for the Vietnam War. Sorry about rambling on. Stay safe and greetings from Charleston, WEST Virginia.
@Kiet Noob I hope the history teacher learn the students that this war was wrong and unnessesary. 58.000 thousend young men wasted in a war that no one believed in.
Why would a normal person die, while the leader is a greedy ass and wouldnt give his Life for his People. Murica is a joke with a stupid Ideology as islam.
One of the best 'Vietnam Songs' was by Kenny Rogers, called: "Ruby, Don't Take Your Love to Town". It was released in January of 1969, 5 months before I was sent over. A song that hit home for many of the young soldiers who came home disabled, with a young wife or girlfriend waiting for them.
I remember that song...I was 13 years old. I also remember many of the older boys in my neighborhood going off to fight that war... Some did not return. Sad, very sad.
Damn, must've been hard times. Im a 14 yo brazilian, but I admire de courage in every soldier from any country. It takes balls to kill and die for almost nothing.
Took a second to listen to that song, first time hearing it. Man its a good song, you can really hear the sorrow coming from his lips. Thank you for your service and i hope you are well
My uncle was in Vietnam, 101st Airborne US Army. He came back messed up, had restless nights and would wake up wanting to choke my aunt when he came back. Shit was fucked up what the government did to all of these people. I hope he’s doing better now, wherever he may roam. I never knew him, but he deserved better than what he got.
11 Nov - Please remember and honor our brothers and sisters who served, especially those who never returned - May God bless them all! Thank you for your service and sacrifices.
I remember it all to well,the dampness,the tearing from your flesh,the smell of death.You see alot of men died,but nobody knows how painful it was to see the death.It was everywhere you could not help it,Americans and Zips was thrown into this war that nobody knew what we was fighting for.Rest easy and Godspeed 1st platoon Alpha Company..DARK HORSE
@@nadie2919 Alpha Company “Dark horse” is a real thing,.. from what i remember he was in the 3rd Battalion,,.. 5th Marines “well known as Dark Horse”,... They fought in Operation hasting La Nang and much more,.. what a shithole all of the war was when i think about it,..,.. I was in the 26th Marines 3rdMarDiv myself and fought in nov. ‘75 Dec. ‘68. I remember the Motto for the Dark Horse “Get some”,.. under command of 1st Marine command “Old breed”,.. and i’ll rather not talk about my own experiences,.. most of us old war reels still try to put the memories away though,.. i still remember the starting of the end and it sure as hell wasn’t pretty,... “The Professionals” was our Motto,... I experienced Khe Sanh myself and i thank god till this day for sparing me and allowing me to live out the rest of my life with my wonderful wife and family,... Semper fi.,,, sad that my old reel regiment was deactivated.,.. Anthony if you read this,... i hope you leave peaceful and have someone to take care of you as i do, stay strong brother,...
Thank God and Jesus. I thank you my friend for everything you have done for me at 62 and my grown adult children. I can't thank you enough my new friend
Their 130mm guns on the DMZ could fire further and faster and were very accurate compared to our 105’s and the Army 175’s at Camp Carroll. When the transition from the M14 happened they basically gave our soldiers and Marines single shot muzzle loaders with the early M16. The cartridges would get stuck in the chamber after one or two rounds. Then you needed a cleaning rod to punch it out from the barrel. They didn’t have enough cleaning kits so they were issued to groups of two or three to share.
Huge thanks to US for WWI & WWII (eventually). I would have rather more respect for US military these days, had they fought in Russia or China, instead of always invading tiddly little third-world countries. Like those playground bullies who only ever pick on the junior kids.
Um som pra ouvir a qualquer hora pena que numa época triste que muitos jovens tiveram seus sonhos interrompidos por interesses dos outros que nunca sujaram os pés.
Oui la guerre du Vietnam j'avais 14 ans...et je suis allé au Vietnam pour la 1ère fois à 64 ans puis à 65 ans . L'Asie du sud-est en temps dz paix est inoubliable aussi...
@Fjj ahahhahaha everyone is human, and if you atack someone's home, I bet your ass it won't be easy, what do you think is easier, to defend you precious country and family from an invasion or to be sent to a jungle where bushes speak and the ground is full of traps, you americans were playing with fire and you really got hurt, and they were humans just like us, I bet that if Vietnam invaded america you would do everything to save your family and country, even the most horrible things just to defend you and your loved ones.. peace
@Fjj you liberals, that love so much liberty, can´t stand a person that thinks politically different to you? Damn there´s no much liberty after all if you wanna kill a person just because he or she thinks different, I ain´t communist, but I respect every type of thinking if it doesn´t put others freedom in danger, communism is a way of thinking, the fact that all communist governments were shit is beyond us, but as it comes to me, I think every person in the world is human just by the fact that they are born, you love freedom til a person puts your way of thinking in danger, I ain´t saying communism is good, not at all, but you being full of hate is beyond being communist or not, is pure racism and xenophobia, God bless you
The Vietnam War was so pointless X years later Vietnam is one of the US's closest allies in the region. Vietnam is a fking socialist democracy now. Allows private businesses, some freedom of religion, has a strong economy, open to tourists And Communism was relegated to just a bunch of underfunded rebel/bandit cells fighting for nothing But you can say that the war focused all the efforts for Communism support on Nam thus turning the others broke. Still. What a pointless war. Amazing soundtrack though
The Vietnam War was about Rubber resources controlled my the French multi national cooperation Michilan Tire... that's why the French were fighting them first
You think being ruled by Communist Party is good? Then you know nothing of Communism. They do not allow "fledgling democracy" to exist. The reason US, S Korea, and Australia was in Vietnam War was to stop the spread of Communism. Look up the "Dominoe Theory." Then read up on the horror of Communism, if you have access to actual history.
@@willieboy3011 Looks like you never read up on how the Domino Theory was false. Sure, Communism had to be stopped...but political powers in the U.S. that wanted to maintain their own power had every reason to hype the Communist threat as worse than it was. Other than nukes, the Soviets weren't anywhere near able to maintain an economic competition with the U.S...
@@rikk319 The threat of Communism was real from the moment the Bolsheviks took over USSR, which became 1/6th of the earth's land surface. By the end of WWII in 1945 Communists enslaved Yugoslavia, Hungary, Albania, East Germany, Romania, Czechoslovakia, Bulgaria, and Poland. 1949 Communists gained control in China. 1950 North Korea invaded South Korea and the war waged unit 1953. 1959 Castro took Cuba and by 1965 Communists were in control. By 1955 Laos, Cambodia, and South Vietnam all invaded by Communists. I think the treat of Communists taking over was quite real.
I played a video game in the 1970s at Southland Mall Hayward California that had this song playing, it was actually a shooting game, you shoot at targets moving, back than video games were simple, light beam shooting at targets, they had bumper cars also at the Lemans Speedway adjoined to the arcade, Southland Mall also had an ice skating rink, hockey league included, nearby Southland theater
to kid I lived in Hong Kong from 70 to 73 as my Dad was a British soldier posted there. One of my most vivid memories is looking out of the family flat and seeing the US Fleet anchored in the bay. all lit up.
It was tough out there, some made it to the world. In some cases Vietnam killed the man but not the soldier, in the worst of cases it killed the soldier and the man
@@subicstationditosailor4053 I lm so sorry to hear this. We deserved better. I know exactly what he was going through, I still have bad nightmares. God, is the only reason I'm here today. God bless you and your family remember that he loves you.
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Thursday morning at 6:39am October 8, 2020, “ GOOD Morning”!” Andreea Munteanu & Andrei Cerbu “ Have a Nice Day ... “ Sinfully Yours, Neal Patrick Fry from Straight Outta Detroit!
“ I Love ‘ you ‘ Hayden Panettiere “ During The Vietnam War, Warrant Officers Did Not Have to be Saluted. We hung our Beer Mugs with ‘ our ‘ Names. Upon returning from ‘ our ‘ Missions, “ THOSE “, I can’t See right now. All my Love, Always, Neal
