VOICES OF HISTORY PRESENTS - PFC Charles Vega, U.S. Army, Vietnam, 1969 - 1970 

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Welcome home Vega.

Charlie , thank you for your service & sacrifice to America .Welcome home : ❤❤❤❤😢

Thankyou for your service ! You are a hero !

Thanks, Charles, for ur service! May God bless U and ur family!

God Bless you Charles Vega amazing Story!!!!!

I love this man. Really.

What an hombre! Thank you for your service to our country, Charles and iIt's easy to see why your daughter pulled down her A+.

I was 17 when I joined the army jan.75.If I was a few years older I would have been over there. The way those radicals treated those Veterans when they came home was criminal. Thanks Charles I will never forget.

This guy is a real hero.

Welcome home Charles and thank you for your service and story. God bless👍🏻

God bless Charles ,his family and the friends he lost. Respect,from Scotland.

Charlie , Stand tall & stand proud . Your a very amazing person I know you went through HELL & still are . Also your a very smart guy with your coment's about war & life in general .❤❤❤❤

Man that was emotional

Wow. Bless you, Charles, for your participation in a conflict far away from home. I'll always remember you and what you endured.

Thank you sir for your service. Can't express that enough.

Thank You SIR.....for everything.........welcome home.

Excellent interview!

Welcome Home Charles! If you are still alive, I wish you peace and I thank you for everything that you went through while you were in Vietnam. I thank you for giving the raw details of war, it gives me a better understanding of what it was like. I am a wife of a Vietnam Vet, my husband will not talk about the things that he seen or went through. He suffers from PTSD and Agent Orange. I am a Desert Shield / Desert Storm vet and I can tell you that what I seen and went through does not even compare to what you have experienced. God Bless and Welcome Home!

Thank God for this solider!!

Welcome home Mr. Vega, and know that we honor your service. God bless.

Thank you for your service!!!

Thank you for your service Mr. Vega ! These interviews are very difficult to hear, but the worst part is usually how shamefully they were treated when they returned.

Thank you sgt Vega for your service and sacrifice, God bless!!!

“Like a Rainbow” ❤ Wow. Powerful God bless you Charles x From 🇬🇧

Charles is a heck of an individual . Our politicians at this time have no Idea what. they done to such good men like Charles . Charles. thanks for your story . Great. Respect for you ! You and Ed. Matterson Stories are really powerful . Please in the future offer these men some water .

Thank you Mr Vega for an incredibly moving interview. Thank you for sharing, for what it's worth, you have my upmost respect.

Amazing Larry you are doing such a service helping these men keep up the good work I pray God keeps you around to try and correct are times right now.theae men went through hell and back and i hate it

I could not finish watching the last 10 minutes or so as it was tearing me up emotionally. Those of us who were not really listed as combat troops also saw and experienced some terrible things. I am now 78 but think about what I did and saw every day. May God bless you sir.

Great video! Thank you.

From the American Dream to the American Nightmare.........never have so many owed so few for their Freedom ! Thank you for stepping up Mr Vega.

Always great Larry, thank you Charles Vega......

Thank you, Mr Vega, for your service to the United States of America - the greatest country in the world! Your sacrifices do not go unnoticed! 🇺🇲

God bless this man and I am forever grateful for his service. I know the world and our country feels so lost as of late, but with all of the things going on, no matter the outcome, I am so thankful to live in a place that has been kept above water by countless men and women like this. Whatever the future may hold, I praise and have the utmost respect to all of those that have fought to get us this far.

Welcome home Charles Vega, great American and thank you for a great interview. Larry another amazing interview, thank you for putting all of this out to the world . Everyone needs to understand what war is why we have wars and what war does. God Bless and have a happy Thanksgiving 🇺🇸

Wow!!!! Another excellent interview, thank you again Larry. Thank you Charles very much, I'm so glad you got help. I can't imagine what you went through.

Thank you for your service Mr Vega God be with you and may His peace be with you

Excellent interview . . .

Thanks Larry, these interviews are very educating for me. True Heroes! God bless 🙏 and Happy Thanksgiving.

Thank you Charles. and thank you for sharing your experiences. I know that words can't change anything that has happened, but your service to our country will never be forgotten.

Vietnam was just so unique this man made me cry most do. We need to just stop killing and dieing for nothing I forgot about Korea omg never mind doing ten years of the cold nope. I feel so bad for those men and I any war but just the history of Korea alone they were both tougher then nails

Do you have any 5th of the 60th 9th infantry 1969-1970 in your archives ?

They lost your records....bullshit man...how the hell can they treat you guys like that after going through the hell you guys went through....thank you for your service...God bless you and your family sir

You guys went there and won that war for us. Against all odds and being abused by fat people in suits. You went there, fought and won. God bless y’all

In the war I went to in afghanistan in 2011, generally, support troops did not really see action. They rarely left the forward operating bases. Mechanics rarely left the wire, but here I get to hear from a support MOS army soldier and how even with his mos (military occupational specialty) that job did not protect him from the horrors and random chaos of Vietnam. This is one of the first vietnam war stories i have heard from a non-combat arms soldier in the U.S. Army. That should tell all of us here how brutal Vietnam was. There was no "front line" of this. Afghanistan was a similar guerilla war, but this to me sheds light on the reality of that civil war that america fought in. These stories are usually told by infantry, artillery, tankers, special operations and combat engineer guys. I was a cavalry scout in a platoon supporting special operations units to train Afghan Local Police and conduct village stability operations. The enemy did not get close enough to shoot at us, and they tried to attack us with IED's and mortars. This guy went through some crazy stuff and being a POG did not keep you out of combat. Something simple like a soda can and a grenade hidden into it to explode and wipe out a squad or half a platoon. I cannot imagine support troops of my generation going through this because the discipline outside of combat arms branches of the army is a joke now.

I wish you would let him finish his thoughts instead of changing the subject