I almost fell out of my chair when I saw the thumbnail for this video... The man on the right with the mustache is actually my dad (he recognized himself when this documentary first came out and showed the whole family.) He just turned 70 last Monday and I love him to pieces. It's hard to have to wave at him and say happy birthday through a closed glass door because of Covid... I haven't been able to give him a hug in almost a year for fear of getting him sick. My heart goes out to all the Vietnam War veterans and their families who haven't been able to be with each other because of this awful pandemic. I hope it will be over as quickly as possible.

When my Grandpa got drafted, He didn't even know where Vietnam was.

My grandpa was just 18 when he graduated high school. Then his number came up and he was drafted to nam. He said "Jungle warfare is like getting a ticket to see the devil up close.". I took him to Vietnam 2 years ago because he wanted to go and when he saw the jungle become a colonized city, he cried. He was and still is a one hell of a mad lad. He gave me a portrait of himself holding an M60 with on hand while he holds the belt on the other, only wearing a flak jacket with no sleeves. He is scared that war might break out and that I'll be drafted while I'm still a teenager in high school. He also revealed that one of his child hood friends got killed in combat. His body was lying lifeless on the ground, everything in one piece except his head. He said "It scares me up to this day that my best friend got killed...he wasn't any older than me. He had given me a cigarette 3 seconds ago and i look over to see him killed. I didn't even see or hear it happen, that's why it haunts me...why him but not me?! I feel sorry going home in 1970 and having to explain how much of a good man he was to his girlfriend and family." -PVT Daniel Jackson my beautiful grandfather.

1:34 the man with the green helmet was my dad he was Henry Williams Jr. he was a member of the U.S air force during the war. Sadly he never came back home he was shoot down and killed in vietnam. He was my hero

Too young to vote , but not to die. Too young to love , but too old to cry . Saigon, 68-69.

“In peace, sons bury their fathers, in war, fathers bury their sons.”

1:42 Charles Colley 82nd Medical Detachment (Hel Amb) Born: March 22nd, 1944 - Passed: February 25th, 2019

I am 19 now and when my grandfather was my age he was here driving a tank for the Australian army. I can’t imagine anything to what he felt and I’m so proud and thankful for his existence and his service.

My dad was drafted when he was 17 to fight in Angola (South Africa’s version of Vietnam) my dad still has nightmares to this day. He was forced to fight for a government he hated. My dad told me once he had to walk all the way from Angola to Namibia carrying his dead friend because the army didn’t think he was wroth saving. Respect for all Vietnam vets and those that didn’t make it

This really looks like it's from another world, another life.

1:17 Really makes you feel a certain way for these soldiers. Makes you feel sad knowing the fact, they had dreams in life, only to be sent away to a war they didn’t wanna go into. Especially with the song California dreaming, a song which could relate to the soldiers feelings on missing their home, and dreams of going back one day. Thank you to all the Vietnam war veterans 🇺🇸🙏🪖

This video really puts Vietnam into perspective. Each servicemen was a individual person who had a family and friends. I remember this old saying that goes “old men see numbers increasing while young men see lives gone” this war was a waste of life and such a waste of a generation.

I was drafted in 1966 and was sent to Vietnam 1967 - 68 along with my brother, I can't put it in words that you would understand, but if you were there then you know what I mean, how much my life has changed in the past 53 years, this song is a grim reminder that I will never forget, just be glad that you did not have to go and the draft is over, because the agent orange would kill you as well. I am Vietnam veteran Bobby Whitney

The scariest thing is that these kids don’t look much older than me

Being Russian, I understand both sides of this conflict. During the Vietnam War, I was a child so I don't have many memories of that event, I was born in 1968. But in the 1980s, my brother Tuvia was injured in Afghanistan, which made me very angry. I wrote for the college newspaper, and in 1985 I published one of the first columns criticizing the war. Result? My friends abandoned me, my car was scratched, the landlord in my building dismissed me and I had to spend the night in the KGB building listening to humiliation. They didn't harm me, but they called me unpatriotic and fearful, because when I turned 18 I decided not to go to conflict. Horrible things were happening in Afghanistan, and I was right, but the Russians were too patriotic to take notice of that. However, today, I believe I would not have done that. Not to change my opinion, but I would have respect for the young people who fought there!

WHO WILL REMEMBER ME! Today this video popped up on my play list. As I listened to it and watched the video, while recovering from an overdose of food yesterday, I remembered the traveling wall had come to LaPine a few months ago. I went to the wall and was awed by it and what it represents. Being a teenager of the late 60's, I was well aware of what was going on over in Nam and all of the good men and women we had lost. One name stood out to me and I was determined to find him on the wall. With help from the nice lady assistant and the internet I found him. He went to school with my older sister and I was friends with his younger brother. This was as close as I ever got to feel the true loss of someone to the war. James Roland Golz, 3/12/49-1/27/68. Marine Private First Class. KIA after barely a month in country and not even 20 years old. Today, James I remember you. Semper Fi

It's depressing how much of these guys look like they just got out of high school

I’m not American and nobody in my family ever served in Vietnam but I keep coming back to this video. These kinds of videos invoke a kind of feeling I can’t describe, it’s very bittersweet. This video makes me want to cry, but also smile seeing all of these people smiling and playing around. There is no such thing as harmless power.

back in college in 2015 i had an elective specifically about the vietnam war, and at the end of the semester our professor brought in 3 vietnam combat vets for us to just talk to and ask any questions we want. (yes even THAT question) and it was really, really cool. all three of them were the same age and saw combat at 18 yrs old. really good memory from school

55 years later still can't forget Our soldiers young teens then Music helped. Thank you.

‘Nam had the best soundtrack.

"No one likes a soldier, till the enemy is at the gates." - Some old saying that I learned.

I myself am from Russia, but watching videos like this, I clearly feel similar feelings to when I look at old front-line photos of loved ones. All the same faces, emotions, feelings. The same young guys who were broken by the war: someone on the battlefield, and the war ruthlessly deprived someone of their minds, and even corrupt and deceitful politicians then simply wiped their feet on them. I would like to express respect and good feelings to the guys who went through the horrors of the war, regardless of the side for which they fought. Unfortunately, in wars, it is always the common people, the soldiers, who suffer first of all, and not the puppeteers who start them.

Rest In Piece for those who died during the Nam war on both sides.

Men fighting for a country that didn’t fight for them.

"War is where the young and stupid are tricked by the old and bitter into killing each other." - Niko Bellic

This song hits different after the shitstorm of Afghanistan. Sad how we never learned our lesson from Vietnam.

As a 6 year old, I was watching TV in ‘72, not understanding what was going on , finding it “cool” to see war. I live now for close to 7 years in Saigon, had a direct view from my office on the platform rooftop from which the Hue helicopter evacuated people, having visited ruins of War in different areas in Vietnam and most importantly, having learned why the Vietnamese resilience and persistence must have contributed in “ winning” this senseless war. It’s a good place to live here.

1:42 Charles T. Colley, 82nd Medical Detachment. 1944 - 2019

So it's June 1965 and the school semester is coming to an end. I look over at this cute guy in our biology class, we smile, and then a month later to the day, I read in our local paper that he had just died in Nam.

Found it! This played at work yesterday and brought back some good memories. I enjoyed singing along but my coworkers didn't xD reminded me of my dad. We shared my first beer together after a day of shooting on my birthday and this played on the radio. I wish i were there with him. Vinh long 68-69. Thanks for sharing

life is just memories passing through. today you could have the same feeling like this guys. take photos with your team and save your memories. today is the past to the eternity.

“War is young men dying and old men talking”

Imagine you are just finished high school or in college. You never go to gym or gun training. You only have months for training. Then you sent into jungles that full of deadly traps and ghosts who wields ak47. Those are teens you see in this video.

Beautiful pictures from the past. I don't know anything about these people, but all these smiles gave me today a reason to be happy. You made my day ++

Хорошая песня , культовая . Хороший видео ряд , хочется по меньше войн , по больше хороший песен .

Just kids. They were just kids. Edit: The funniest thing about seeing the replies calling me a commie is that I'm in the military myself. Yet, I can still recognize the longstanding effects the senseless war in Vietnam has had.

They were kids, and draftees, not professional troops. Draftees were civilians drafted into the military and trained hastily to be sent into war. Professional soldiers sign up voluntarily, get trained during peacetime, to a high standard, and if a war breaks out, they are sent in better prepared and better disciplined.

This was so emotional.... Rest in Peace soldiers who lost their lives in Vietnam war. Thank you for serving, soldiers, veterans... thank you :)

My grandfather was extremely lucky to have served his time before Vietnam in West Germany, but my heart goes out to everyone who served in this war. Such senseless loss of young life.

So much friendship between those boys. Can't imagine the horrors they went through when they came home. (Everyone, I'm not saying that the Vietnam War was any good. Neither am I saying that these soldiers shown in the video were good. All I'm saying is that friendship in a military conflict is the best thing those boys had.)

I feel nostalgia for a time i haven’t known

There's something about this song and this video which brings me back every week.

Somethimes time flies way too fast- I'm still so used to meeting vietnam vets in their 50's to 70's, sometimes younger.

miss my cousin Dan... chopper pilot. MIA 1969

RIP to my grandfather who died in 1966. He was a Master Sergeant and had also served in the Korean War. He got fatally wounded escorting a wounded soldier to a Huey and died on the ride for further medical aid. My father was only 6 at the time. The people within the video and the song itself are basically the only things I can imagine by grandfather through, as even my dad barely even knew him, it hits hard man.

Watching this and seeing the soldiers doing their thing mixed with the upbeat pre war footage got me thinking about the idea that its possible young men like myself could be in that very spot, taken away from home to fight somewhere unfamiliar with only our spirits to keep our heads up. This definitely hit. Much love to the Vietnam Veterans.

When I was a kid in Slovenia in the 1980s, I was fascinated by this war. It was a horrible war, of course, but I don't know how to explain it, but I enjoyed reading all about it. In the 1980s, many films and documentaries from the Vietnam War were on TV, and I watched them all. My brother went to a rock concert in Frankfurt in 1987, and he met a veteran, who signed a paper that my brother gave me as a gift.

Just to know that these people can be: Dead, in their 70s dying right now and their bodies still in vietnam

This video honestly hits a lot harder now that I work at a veterans home.

Sei dolcissima e veramente brava mi trasmetti un'emozione unica, grazie

FEELING THE UNKNOWN COMING TOWARDS THEM. ENJOYING LIFE AT THEIR MOMENTS IN LIFE ❤️

The saddest part of this video is that they're all kids. A bunch of 20 year Olds fighting in a horrible war. Rip. Especially today. Nov 11.

Born around 1900 Fight in WW1 Born around 1920 Fight in WW2 Born around 1940 Fight in Vietnam

Как же атмосферно) Такое чувство , что сам в тех годах побывал) Оч. круто)

I had heard this song when I was a kid, back then I was less than 10 years old in America (I am not American), today I found and heard it again after more than four decades and I listened to it many times again and again. The voices of the singers are so emotional that you really do not want the song to end and that is why you replay it so many times. Regardless of politics and anything else, it should never be forgotten what sacrifices the Americans made to uphold democracy, civilization and humanity in the world.

Im not the only one who is listening to this masterpiece in june

The life expectancy of a radioman in firefight was 5 seconds

For some reason the song combo and video footage is giving me some past life vibes that I can't get over.

I had many family members part of the Vietnam War this helps me know what fun they had while being off duty and on duty Tribute to all those lost in war.

I don’t think I’ve ever wanted to be involved in something so much, yet be so glad I never was

Flashbacks from a time I never was

even though I wasn’t born during that time of year, my father was. He was born in the late 60s & my mother was born in 1971 so just knowing my parents were born such at a time like this, is heartbreaking. But I’m also thankful that my dad wasn’t up to that age where he had to be put in that situation.

A timeless masterpiece for a bygone epoch with rebellion, imagination and fantasy.Nothing can bring back memories better,than a song which he was once connected with.

Pfc. Little Los 1950-1971 Gone but never forgotten.

born to live, sent to die...

I lost my best friend who was a Vet not long ago to Cancer. We lived in assisted living together and shared a porch. I practiced martial arts a little bit and showed him some stuff. I am 45 YO. He liked me because the first time I saw him I asked him if he was a Veteran? Then I asked him if he was a Vietnam Veteran? I told him Thank You So Much Sir. I started practicing martial arts when I was 9 YO. Peace. Mike.

I discovered this song and video 3 years ago. Makes me feel like I been through war, perhaps I did in a past life. Even might be the reason I died.

2:01 Served in WW1 and WW2 and probably has son or grandson serving in the Vietnam war.

I think the 60s had the best music ever

Es increible lo que combina la cancion con las imagenes... Emociona

The American dream and nightmare hand in hand. Really an amazing video.

Because the song is "California Dreaming",but if it were "Fortunate son" all the comments would be memes about the trees speaking vietnamese 😂

I remember a girl I knew was talking about war, and romanticizing the hell out it. So, I told her about my great uncle who was drafted into Vietnam and how he was killed the moment he got there. His helicopter was dropping him off into the jungle, and before his boots touched the ground he was shot dead as he took his very first step.

War is hell. You can see that in the eyes of all those that were there.

My great grandpa was a first sergeant in the Korean and Vietnam wars, what a madlad

Drafted, sent to an insanely brutal war, and came back only to be spit on by their fellow Americans. These were the most powerful men of their time, those who retained their sanity.

They're just kids. Sent to the other side of the world, told if they win they go home.

Old but Gold, in 2021 to

Ay, glad this is finally back

i feel a little sad watching this video those guys have my age ( 20 years old), and they are dying for nothing...

To die for a useless war is the worst thing that can happen to any man!

Thank you for your service

such a good video with this song.

Vietnam was like poking a bees nest. Pointless and will only hurt you in the end

Doesn’t freak people out knowing that most of these people are likely dead? That’s why war footage gets to my feels

Awesome Video!

God Bless my Uncle Josh - he enlisted Marines and scored off the charts and went to the DLIFLC - did two tours in NAM - I salute you

Always the poor, the working class, the middle class who has to sacrifice themselves in wars. Always has been.

The sad thing is half of the men in this video were probably killed.

In memory of all those who died in Vietnam, Rest in peace

my grandpa didnt fought in the vietnam war but fought in the portuguese colonial war that was in the jungles of africa ,when he was 19 the war started and he was forced to go ,and he told me that when the helicopter landed the enemy soldiers started shooting he saw his friends being shot to the dead he only survived because a missile hited the bush were the enemys were ,after that the general told him to go with another squad ,they went into the deep jungle ,one of the soldier goted a flametrower, wen they eard shoots from the forest they were forced to burn that jungle down ,my grandpa sayd that it looked like hell all those trees and soldiers were burning to death ,after burning the jungle my grandpa and his squad ran to a chopper .

Me as a Vietnamese, The war most worthless both young Vietnamese and American die for no reason

They didnt deserve what they got when they came home

They should show these kind of videos in history classes in middle school n high school

Finally! This video is back again!

"How many dreams were left behind because of this damn war"...

I feel like the Vietnam war is glamorised by the music and footage so much that it is covering over the cracks for how awful it must have been for those brave men. I can’t imagine how terrifying it must have been, I’ve served in the military myself but my service was NOTHING compared to what these guys must have went through. Keep the good memories brothers!

WW³ is comming boys

I watch this video and read the comments. All this is touching and sad. Great video, great fun music. Young, handsome guys - no one knows what will happen to them in the next second. It is always sad and bitter when the life of a young man who has just begun to live suddenly and stupidly leaves.