Merely a kid. May he live forever in your family's spirit. May he never be forgotten.

RIP Richie, thank you for the ultimate sacrifice. Our country loves you..❤🇺🇸

Please send me a message or an email, I would love to buy a head stone for him.

I’m so sorry for your family’s great loss. I thank Ricardo for giving the ultimate Sacrifice of his life 🙏❤️

Thank you for his service..respect

Please excuse spelling on my comment. I get emotional at this

Gary Castle, This American is appreciative for your service and sacrifice for those living and lost to your country I've had family serve in the military. I was in chaplaincy for almost 20 years. The visits I had with Vet's and active duty were the most humbling and respected experiences,cI will never forget God Bless from across the pond

Elaine Cragel Hello Elaine. Thank you for your post. Sometimes as a Pardre. You my not always have felt appreciated. But I found there were times. When the Pardre just showed up did his rounds, and it was just so good to have someone different to talk to. Also it didn't have to be about religion. I also remember a number of years ago. I was out of the Army and had lost my right above the knee. At that time I was in a civilian hospital, the military staff come in every now and then. A Chaplin appeared at my door. I was in a private room. The Chaplin was so surprised to see me their, my artificial limb leaning against the chair. I had started to get problems with my amputation, and needed work done on it. The Chaplin had never met a veteran yet alone an amputee. She wanted my life story. She was so interested it my whole military life. My Regiment, and things I had done and where I had been. She sat taking notes. At the end of it. She told me this word be here sermon for Sunday's church service. Before she left sh blessed me. Though I think with some of the jobs I did I was beyond that. All that seems so long ago. 2020 looks like it will be my first year I have not had to go in hospital for 10 years and have my amputation opened and shortened. So now hopefully I my get my life back. Though I am now in my early 60's. Being in a wheelchair takes life away from you. But being back up on my artificial limb makes all the difference.

@@garycastle3709 Hello Gary, thank you for sharing. I am so glad that those chaplain's, when in the military and when you were in hospital with your knee, where there for you. I always"s felt that I was doing my job, where God called me to be. I wanted to work in a VA hospital, yet I retired a few year's ago. I am also in my 60's. You made my morning, in reading that you will be out of your wheelchair. I am very happy for you, and it will be much better for you to get around. Funny thing, I just finished watching a movie with Harrison Ford called "Hanover Street" set in WWII in London. I will keep you in prayer. God Bless from across the pond.

@@elainecragel4647 Elaine, Thank you for your post. I don't know what to say. It's been a long road from my initial injury just prior to leaving the army on my 40th birthday. I really felt useless then. A knackered leg and going from someone in demand to a Mr!.of course things got worse. I spent early 2000 to 2003 in various hospitals in London. Lucky enough my last consultant was a former Colonel in the Royal Army Medical Corp. Who had left the Army after the Falklands War. We used to have a lot of laughs and he still had that Army sense of humour. Which dome people don't under stand. Especially when he told he he would be taking my leg off above the knee, and doing it the next day. I cried but I think I came back to him saying "well you won't be getting bombed by Argue aircraft in Ajax Bay this time Other staff members jaws dropped. As for Hannover Street. I always chose the mission. My pot wife has been through hell with me. We are still together. Though everything I did in the Army and flooding my leg. Finding work after Amputation, and this last 10 years has put a strain on her Mentle Health. I think she is the true hero.

Thank you for your service & sacrifices Sir. My Dad was a Vietnam Vet from Australia, & I have so much respect for you all.

like all soldiers we serve

At 18 I didn’t have a clue what it was about. I was just doing what we had to do and count down the days.

That one hit home brother. in a major way. 9th Infantry 7th Grp RVN 1972-1975

God Bless your dad.

It’s unreal. They’re all heroes.

Me too.

how many were conscripted

Hanoi Tripper No need to be rude. Women served.

@@Katie2986 They did but they were not in the thick of the fight

+CaesarInVa Rather, it was.

That was intended.

Me also.

He didnt fight, he is lucky

on May 23,1982 on a saturday afternoon the aerea fuerza argentina lost many pilots in a large air battle many were the cream of the crop !! with teutonic heritage !!!

Agreed! That one line says it all

Anthony Salgado whats sadf

@@hanoitripper1809 South African Defense Force.

Anthony Salgado ah i see. Did you participate in Rhodesian conflict of the 1970s?

@@hanoitripper1809 No only in the then South West Africa and Angola.

We dont learn much about history of that area in schools. Do you still live in SA?

While they didn’t fight they were nurses and chefs for veterans which was a huge help and is why they deserve a spot up there

Of course not

Women died in Nam maybe not as many as men but rockets and mortars don’t care who they kill. A lot of nurses died because they had to be close enough to help. There were no front lines like you see in movies.

Tell me you missed the point of the song, without telling me you missed the point. If you didnt realize this two years later, I hope you have now. "We left in plastic As numbered corpses" "They left their childhood On every acre And who was wrong? And who was right? It didn't matter in the thick of the fight" "And we would all go down together"

Ok

66Freesia fuck you! my uncle died in that war he's a Hero!

Hero for what? Iraq, Afganistan, Vietnam - what the US is doing all over the world?

66Freesia His uncle is a hero for believing in America and the rights and freedoms we offer. He is a hero for fighting and believing he was protecting you and your family in Vietnam. His uncle is a hero for being willing to lay down his life so you can enjoy each day in the USA. A soldier does not know the politics and the bullshit....He goes and does his job for you and your freedoms and rights.... and his uncle would have stepped in front of a machine gun barrage for you if you were there... and he fought thinking of all Americans back home!! His uncle is a HERO and you ought to thank him that you can drive down the street or say what you want or have 10 children or do any of what you do each day!! When those kids in Vietnam died for YOU, how dare you think of what could be wrong about it.!!! I am hurt that you do not see this with your own common sense.

America offers freedoms? You are all watched by the government and Snowden proved it. There is no democracy or freedom in America.

66Freesia I don't actually think you get the point of the song. It isn't about the war itself, but those men, mostly drafted boys, who died and fought for each other because when they got home for a very long time that's all they really had. This song is about honoring men who were vilified for their service. Leave the awful unlawfullness of it to history and historians. This song is about the soldiers who fought and some who gave their last full measure of devotion.

What do you know? Nothing. Fucktard ! You jelous because your a coward?

Save us your scorn, unwashed idiot.