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Just met another Vietnam vet in Saxon's Hotdogs in Abbeville
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Mar 20, 2024, 12:42 PM
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Had a good conversation about the common places we were in. He is from Walhalla and was wearing a Vietnam Veteran cap so I asked about his time there. Both of us spent time in a military hospital in Japan on the way home.
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Thank you for your service
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Mar 20, 2024, 12:46 PM
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Re: Thank you for your service
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Mar 20, 2024, 1:11 PM
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We'd all be speaking Vietnamese right now if it wasn't for guys like them. Probably be eating phở and those little bánh mì sandwiches, too. Some people didn't want to go to war, but we didn't really have a choice after they attacked Pearl Harbor.
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Re: Thank you for your service
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Mar 20, 2024, 1:17 PM
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Huh?
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I thought the Germans did Pearl Harbor
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Mar 20, 2024, 1:47 PM
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And then the Dutch dipped a nuke on Munich
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Actually there was a call for it.***
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Mar 20, 2024, 2:33 PM
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Re: Actually there was a call for it.***
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Mar 20, 2024, 2:38 PM
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No there wasn't. I don't agree with U.S. involvement in Vietnam, but I praise our brave men who answered the call to serve. You can support the soldier even though you disagree with the politics of the war.
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Letterman [294]
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Sure there was. See clovers post below.
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Mar 20, 2024, 2:43 PM
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As for supporting the vets, what did you do to “support” other than type a few words on a message board?
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Re: Sure there was. See clovers post below.
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Mar 20, 2024, 3:46 PM
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I have family that are Combat veterans. Help them out in ways that would not be necessary had they not gone to war.
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Re: Thank you for your service
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Mar 20, 2024, 2:40 PM
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We can all use a little humor. We all know the Vietnamese were not the threat at that time.... if there was one at all. Who knows when politicians are the ones who make the decisions.
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Bingo ! Far too many folks just looking to whine
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Mar 20, 2024, 3:22 PM
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These days.
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Re: Just met another Vietnam vet in Saxon's Hotdogs in Abbeville
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Mar 20, 2024, 1:53 PM
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I had a similar experience meeting a fellow Marine in Costco who spent time in the same Naval hospital in Guam that I did. We must have talked for 25 minutes. It only takes a few seconds to find out if they are the real deal. All are not!
You would not believe how many "Navy Seals", "Army Rangers", or "Marine Recon/Snipers" that I have talked to that did not know the name of the unit or place they served at in Viet Nam.
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All-In [36410]
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Hey you have met the same guys I have met
Mar 20, 2024, 3:24 PM
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CSM Charlatan and MAJ Imagination
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Re: Hey you have met the same guys I have met
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Mar 20, 2024, 5:26 PM
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My brother has a photo on his phone of a dude in the airport with a Marine Corps uniform on with three or four rows of ribbons and PFC (Private First Class) chevrons on his sleeve. Ain't no way! If he had been in long enough to earn those ribbons, he would have been at least a Staff Sergeant ..... and if he had been busted enough times to be demoted to PFC, he would have already been drummed out of the Corps.
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Re: Just met another Vietnam vet in Saxon's Hotdogs in Abbeville
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Mar 20, 2024, 2:24 PM
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I had a great year in Pleiku during 68=69. Saved several times by the grace of God. All my buddies are now gone.
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Re: Just met another Vietnam vet in Saxon's Hotdogs in Abbeville
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Mar 20, 2024, 2:29 PM
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Thank you both for your service.
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Thank you for your service. I never did serve, but was within a month of joining
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Mar 20, 2024, 4:32 PM
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the Air Force when I finally got my first job in industry. I had already taken their preplacement tests, yada yada, but had yet to sign on the dotted line.
Is there a registry for Viet Nam Vets, so we can know how many are still around? You all are hitting the threshold ages now where the Grim Reaper starts to collect those he missed over there.
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Bottom line is we should not fight any more politicians wars
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Mar 20, 2024, 4:41 PM
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unless the supposedly enemy is a real threat to our home-front.
Yes, I understand..we soldiers get all hyped up and go fight as we should but since WW2 it seems about every war was politically motivated and served the politicians & military defense industries more than ours.
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I heard a theory once about Viet Nam, which made as much sense as any.
Mar 20, 2024, 6:16 PM
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The story was, Russia / Chinese Vietnamese "sympathizers" did not believe the United States still had enough gumption, or lack of humanity, to ever drop another "A" bomb. So, to prove them wrong, we did the next most inhumane thing. We sent scores of our young men way over there to die in a senseless war, in which there would never be a definitive outcome, since NOBODY was going to drop a bomb over it. In so doing, we were to prove we were just immoral enough to do whatever it took, whereever it took, whenever it took. Sadly, we proved that point. We threw away our young mens lives for nothing.
It didn't turn out well for ANYONE, we gained NOTHING ultimately, and LOST the lives of over 58,000 of our finest young men. And the news media turned the public against those who willingly did serve, with their nightly serving up of "atrocities". The near, or actual criminal mistreatment of our veterans who survived that hellhole is, and should always be considered one of the most shameful episodes in our country's history.
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Re: Just met another Vietnam vet in Saxon's Hotdogs in Abbeville
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Mar 20, 2024, 6:34 PM
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Small world. I’m thinking it must be good for y’all to talk to others from time to time who have shared those experiences. Most of us can only imagine what y’all went through. I know I wouldn’t begin to know what to say other than thank you.
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Re: Just met another Vietnam vet in Saxon's Hotdogs in Abbeville
Mar 20, 2024, 10:39 PM
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Sometimes I feel like the memories are just imagined - that I couldn't have been there and done all that we did.
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