Bonnie Harbin thank you for him. You must have been so strong and supportive, thank you

God rest his soul

Bonnie Harbin Condolences I hope he wasn’t too haunted by his experiences

so sweet

Im sorry to hear. Wonderful song tho.

899

Thank you for your service sir.

RIP.

Jonny Crash. Similar story here, grew up listening to this music. My dad was in Vietnam too but never talked about it much. I joined the service and after being down range a few times we talked more and more about it. One night he told me how him and his buddies would all sing along too this song when they were over there. He passed a few years back, miss him everyday.

@@PSIfied My condolences, I'd like to think people like my father, yours, and all of our fallen brothers are somewhere in the next life, a sort of Valhalla or something and they're all catching up with eachother,laughing, and sharing stories. I hope when my time on this earth is up I'm worthy enough to join them.

Thank you for your service

i recon its in wartimes youl find true friends aswell as enemies

Thank you for your service. Welcome home.

@@BitStClair Thanks

I never felt more alive and vibrant than when I was in Vietnam, what perplexes me is that I miss it, God knows I miss my friends.

Three MILLION innocent civilians didn't survive your murder

Welcome home and thank you for your service.

@@TheCatLady65you have no idea what these guys went through and what they had to do just to get home. Most were drafted and had no choice but to go.

Sad 😮

Disrepectful

Never Forgotten, lost a cousin as well, marine. Land mine.

At least for the right cause communism

@@alexanderwest7083 yh wasn't even yr country

amen

RVN 68-71 nevar will forget it, and the folks who gave their life like your dad...

Huge appreciation for your father! My condolences!

Rip to your dad

God Bless you

May he R.I.P. Lilly

Duane Hoisington Thank you dear one, I was in high school when my 18 year old friend was dead on the front page. I will never forget him dancing with me. We did candlelight walks through our city at night, praying for you all to not die! I'm sorry that horrible people trashed you guys. That was so wrong, I will never forget!! God bless and keep you. My dad was in WW2, came home and drank too much. I treasure all the pics he took while up in the air, and his flag and dog tags. I miss him, he was always so angry and drunk and never talked about the war. I wish he had. 🙋💜✝️🇺🇲 I honor you all and hang my Flag with a prayer ✝️🇺🇲

How many women and children did you kill???? Loser

All the respect Duane. Shalom from one of our borders.

Same with me Brother. Welcome Home!

Thank you so much for your service! I’m so glad you and many others were able to make it back home. Welcome home! 🫡

My Husband's unit would get hit every time they went out! Turned out, their interpreter was a double agent and he was giving the VC the locations where the guys would be, it was ambush after ambush! So no, you couldn't trust anyone! I heard "rumors" a CO was accidently, "on purpose" shot in the head because he kept getting their location wrong and was calling in air strikes on top of them! I feel like I was there, I lived it through my Husband!

@@evelynmabe7877 hope he is doing ok

@@popeles He passed away Valentines Day 2017. Complications of Agent Orange.

El Alamein no picnic

To all the innocent people in the world who have been caught up in the violence of wars they didnt want, and who have lost their lifes due to the action of their governments, we remember you, you who were the innocent victims of people who were following their governments orders. Holywood war movies are not reality. A soldier will tell you the truth of war

I was not there, was a bit bedore my time, but my.late father in law was and I have the utmost in respext for all oud Vets! Thank you sir for your service!

Paul Bear Welcome home brother.

Paul Bear Welcome home brother.

Paul Bear I know what you mean!

Paul Bear I was in the French Foreign Legion, that is my inner secret, because everybody have mouth to talk, to spit on you saying you are a murder, but nobody is helping to ending all those wars around the world, nobody is helping to build social structures and end with all war glorification and propaganda, nobody is helping to help us to not take the tragic decision to have a job in the military, because at the end of the day... Nobody cares whom live or whom die in a war. For the people that just stay at home, is another movie, trying to guess who will be the "winner", and when the war ends, all people imagines that Oliver Stone say CUT! I met an american soldier that sent me an e-mail and said: When the war is at the gates, everybody glorify the military, everybody have its stickers that say support our troops, they give you little slaps in your back and keep saying that is our duty, defend your nation, is for the future of our nation and your sons. Parents are sending its sons to war, and when sons are in uniform, parents say: That is my son (or daughter) and when you came back they say: I do not know this man o woman, and when you come home, everybody shut the door in front of you because maybe you are a lunatic. They say Welcome Home, but inside them they say: Welcome Home but do not get too close to me. Everybody say: Thanks for your service, but with a phony smile, wishing to themselves never having been there. Sad words I guess. I cannot tell you welcome home, because all of us never returned at all, is just a little time in our lives that, the only place we can call home, is when we are in peace, begging for forgiveness for what we did and forgiving for what others did to us. And doing good things in benefit to others without waiting the others thank to us. And the last I can tell you is: In a war the winners are those who sold, and the losers are those who use (what they sold). So simple. However brave man, if you learned the lesson, you will never send your sons to fight a meaningless war. We Decide to take the propaganda and believe all the lies, or say NO!. But anyway, at the heat of the battle, we can decide if we will do atrocities or keep a human inside us. Fight with honor and respect, or just have a behavior of a little boy playing a video game. Keep Pushing to Life! =D

I agree. I hate war and epically ones that could've been prevented or at least less brutal. But vets should never be punished particularly when you have been drafted. They had no idea and neither did you no one could've known how bad it would be but there were ways to get out that didn't happen.

Jiminy Cricketer : I with you all the way an your comments: your title name seems to ring a ting ting bell :Oh yeah I know. Sorry you went through so much, thoughts with you and all in the WAR HALL. R.I.P wall good Americans that served

CartridgeGod 86

+Jiminy Cricketer, I had a sergeant who had managed to survive the battle unscathed, in his own words "just barely." He said that the VC managed to drag 12.7 mm guns into the mountains around the LZ's and were actually firing *down* onto the helicopters' rotors. Likely the only soldier I ever spoke to who had more horrific combat experience was an old general who, as a 2nd Lieutenant, lost 3/4 of his platoon trying to get ashore on Omaha Beach. Thank you for your service. Welcome home!

Damn... you've been through a lot. I'd like to thank you for your service! Take care brother.

Afghanistan was the soviet equivalent to vietnam, or so they say.

Wow man how did he pass ?

Goosebumps reading this

ok boomer

@@funfofa what a dooshbag millennial you are

And when were you paroled?

Ha ha! :)

Thanks for the laugh of the day:)

YES! Best part of my day right now reading this!

Oh

Why not blame the Satan instead. It all started with Adam And Eve defying God in the garden of Eden in the first place. With that attitude, you will never see God, never mind make him pay. Brush up on your bible studies my friend. Good luck. And thank you for your service. I lost friends too in that waste of a war. Merry Christmas!

@@thejoker2000 there are no sky spirits. The gods are all man invented.

​@@brucekube858: Trans' are man invented.

Good British group with so many hit

😰

Love you and Dad❤

Sad. My Huey Copilot was shot South of Hue and didn't make it. I have his band on my arm.

BLKBRD6. Thank you. And your welcome. USMC 1965---1969.

You guys were my inspiration when I signed up in 2006.

You are all heroes. Hold your head high, you guys are the most patriotic, heroic, and brave people this country has to offer. People like you inspire me.

Thanks.....2nd BN/12th Infantry, 25th Infantry Division, RVN Oct 67-Oct 68, GRUNT ...... I did what they asked and was lucky to get out unharmed as each day was very very risky.

Thank you Peter.

thanx for your service sir.

This song helps me deal with my C r i p p l i n g D e p r e s s i o n.

don't forget white Rabbit brother

I was there in 65-66. doors hadn't come out yet but this song got us through along with california dreamin, ballad of the green berets and paint it black by the stones. good times. RJ 65-66 Dong Ha. Vietnam.

Loved them all. Know Dong Ha. Chu Lai & Danang for me. Marines.

Thank you for your service 🙏

Robert A huge ELOGE 2 you! 🙏🌺🙂

Same here pal OP's Banner ,Telic,Herrick tours Fob inkerman sangin valley comes to mind

solarpurplestarlight your story sent a chill down my spine and i dont get that feeling often. Keep your cousin in your heart he will always be there watching over you.

Thank you, we57h4m. I know that I will never forget my cousin Dale and that he will always be one of my greatest heroes, along with all of our prior, present and future service people. Have a beautiful week, we57h4m! =)

+solarpurplestarlight Thank you for relating your story to us Solar.

Worse yet, it was NOT a declared war! All those young lives lost. It's despicable. I lived through the Vietnam era and was a war protestor, but it DID NOT save those innocent lives on either side.

+coastie378 I'm Canadian I hope that you don't mind, but you guys served well and deserve all the respect.....more to say but for now I salute you and your brothers you served with

no

Nope

Oh yes

Certainly in the top ten British R’n’B bands of all time.

Glad we are allies Love you Auzzies from Kansas

Amen, bro.

Thank you for your service.

I love you

I'd sing this with my gal every time we went to Jersey City.

Nice view of NY. What do they get to look at? Jersey.

I know where getting our ass drafted to Iran

It’s time boys Vietnam 2

I gotta get outta this Scamdemic 🙄

@@johnhariis250 Maybe you'll get out in a body bag. Boo hoo, wouldn't that be a shame?

Yes indeed get your arms up veterands Patriots! Red white and blue! Praise the almighty!

I'm a Brit and served in Aden from 1964 to 1966. Two years, nine days and seventeen hours of the place. Imagine the panic when the rumour started that many of us serving in Aden were being posted to Vietnam to support the yanks. Many years later i met an American veteran of Vietnam who openly stated that he would rather have served in Vietnam than Aden. Anyway cheers to all vets wherever they served.

I have some news for you. Your country did not stay out of that particular conflict. Perhaps you didn't see it but there was British involvement from day one. Those of us participating with the least publicity were the ones doing the things others could not or would not do.

The Red-Eyed Baron That I would believe, in fact, more surprised if they were not, the various SAS ( UK, New Zealand, Fiji and Australia )are one happy family. There was an incident of a deadly ambush of the IRA on the border that Aust SAS were involved in. It makes sense, they train together all over the world. I for one am happy that they do.

RLH Wabash. USMC 1965---1969. Yeah. I was there. Very proud to have served. Happy Veterans Day.

Thank you for your service. My respect goes out to you.

58 Corvette. LOL, You got more than what I started out at. My starting pay was $57 a month paid every other Thursday. I remember those times very well.

were you afraid to fight?

At least you got paid! My Husband couldn't keep his mouth shut, or his fists to himself, not to mention the 4 times he went awol! ( Before getting shipped out) He didn't get paid the entire time he was over there, made his money gambling! The last time they picked him up from being awol, the CO told him, you done F'd up boy, your orders were for Germany, guess what son, you're going to the jungle, when they literally kicked him out of the chopper, the guy said, where you gonna run to now! So he did his time, but he was never the same man after that. He didn't even get to finish his AIT! They made him wear handcuffs all the way to Vietnam! He DID NOT want any part of a winless war!

Thank you so much. For all you went through

@@1badsteed Thank you

yeah, respect to you and your friends for what you did over there, you guys are a real inspiration for me, thank you.

@@jasonlewis4440 Thank you.

My Children did not know I was a disabled Vietnam Vet each one were in their teens by the time they knew. I never talked about it.

Wish there was a love button, hit on the nail!

"Commies"? Are you a fucking child? you must be. "Commies" Fuck you, Billy

Kitten Lyric My father did tour tours of Vietnam and has broken down in tears to me about what happened over there. You don't know shit. Shut the hell up. It's real easy to be a badass behind a fucking keyboard. My Dad did what was asked of him. He didn't puss out and dodge the draft like many others. As far as I'm concerned, you can go to hell if you can't appreciate that.

two tours**

That's not always true, we did fucked up shit in Vietnam, not all, in fact not most, but some did, and civvies blew that outta proportion.

It was Hell I had PTSD, Anger Management issues, and panic attacks, for many years. I still have nightmares about what I/we did. I was in the First Air Cavalry and just this year have brought out my hat to wear. The Cavalry hat with the braids and the Crossed Swords. I will wear it today, May 31, July 4th, and November 11th - Veterans Day. Took me this long to find pride in Serving in the most racist group of people I have ever had the bad luck to know.

@@marymoreno1172 Who were the most racist group?

@@marymoreno1172 happy late veterans day, my dad and all my uncles were over there, my dad didn't get off the carrier so the va says he wasn't there. My uncle was a F4 pilot. They are all dead now. I got brain problems from firing mortars the va won't recognize. I have a 1st Cav hat I don't wear. 2/7 Cav.

Thanks for the offer but there a current bunch of people who are in need of the same. Take some of that beer and food money and help groups like the Disabled Veterans of America, The Veterans of Foreign Wars and others. Maybe give some of your time if you can. And, if you see a soldier in uniform going or coming, take a chance, say hi and good luck. they won't bite and I promise you it will be appreciated.

Klos1neMN. You got heart and soul plus a whole big bunch of character. Thanks for being a decent human being. Big bear hugs and kisses to ya hon!!! 😎✌❤PEACE!!!

Thank you means alot ✝️

Read that again my friend. "I owe him, NOT because defending 'Nam saved my life" Meaning serving didn't save his life.

Pawns of LBJ and Cold War, MEANING they HAD NO CHOICE. Not personal meant just follow orders. LBJ / Nixon Killed all of them - U. S.; (S/N) VN; Cambodia; Laos and all the rest.

AMEN BROTHER! Did my tour in 66-67 in II corps, Pleiku

AMEN bro!!! I did my stint in 67'-68' Dak-to!!

I was there before they sprayed that deadly "Agent Orange" sh*t that killed alot of My friends that were fortunate to come home, only to die later!!

i have parkinson and becase of agent orange that can not tell me what is going to happen next. i have the shakes and trouble walking,and i am only 67 years old

First let Me say "welcome home Allan" and at least You made it "Home"

When would that happen? In civilian life? Just curious....

We are all a little different after the Nam. You just live with it.

he kicked ass.

@@bearsausage8599 I'm not sure if you understand what they meant.

@@Birtheater4545 it

They think of themselves as being used.

0:21 The public should blame the politicians; the military were there because they had no choice but to go.

I had one friend who was a Slick pilot. I had another friend who flew Snakes. He volunteered for a second tour because he couldn’t leave the grunts.

@@f4tweet grunts?

we were all brothers i was there in 70-71

@@dennispasparage1964 Bless you sir and your service to this country. My Dad was my hero, I miss him terribly. Merry Christmas

@@susansabatka5318 grunts = private/soldier. G.I.’s basically.

was a bunch of commie shit looks like there is more incoming .

That's interesting I haven't really looked at it like that before wow

@@scullcap357 what

Yeah, especially since Vietnam veterans were the children of the Greatest Generation.

I didn't go to num ,l did serve in the AIR Force in the early 1980's and everytime I meet a nam vet I shack his hand and say welcome home and thank him for his service!!!!

John Schaffer thanks for your service...God bless you, and all the guys who fought in Vietnam...

i Hope you were treated okay when you got home I know most of you guys weren't treated right when you guys got home. Thank you for your service

Phu Cat thanks dude your awesome

Phu Cat my father served and what was the one thing about the nam' you remember? Same as my father getting the fuck out of that place.

I was at Phu Cat 1968-69 37 Transportation spent most of time in the shop at Qui Nhon supporting Aerial Port and ALCE.

Hi Maureen I saw your post if I saw your car in the carpark I would leave a note on your car too say thank you,but since I can't I would like to say thank you for your service as a soldiers wife

Good for you Maureen, from what I see it was terrible, and you and your husband should be proud. Soldiers are not politicians

I want to say thank you for his service I had two brothers in-laws who served in that horrid place and later I found out some neighbors served over there as well I was told by my dad a WW2 veteran, not to asked my brother-in-law's questions I was shocked but understood not to but got slammed by one when I made a comment about a news story about a refugee from Vietnam he apologized later then explained why I was how do you say stunned I knew te news was leftist but didn't now to what degree until that moment.

When did your husband serve if I may ask?

He always screamed in tune.

Yeah great bass on this chas chandler.

best baseline song from that era..Definitely!!

Yeah, that's a killer bass line and Chandler's tone is great, a semi-acoustic bass with flat wound strings. I'm playing C G C Bb A G F in the key of F at 4/4 on my bass and it sounds so nice.

TheLalalalani ikr

Just learned it today

"Good memories"? I assume you don't associate this song with the Vietnam war :)

+AlecFlying with all the hell going on on combat there were some good times too served w-5th mech 25 the inf div cu chi VN '66 purple heart recipient.

For their service? Better for their abuse at that land

Tinman that's means alot coming from you people I fought in Vietnam and when I got back it was nothing but hell

Unknown to many people, more Vietnam Veterans died in their first year back to the US than in Vietnam. Not all by their own hands (suicide) many were like me, Drinking to excess, Drugs, Fights, and driving cars WAY too fast!!!

To ALL the Vietnam Veterans..a big Thankyou for fighting a "government crap war"

This is murika's song

@ Same corrupt leaders as in the US

Bryan Holden oh shut up

@@warvinsroom9364 Truth hurts, don't it.

Bryan Holden It doesn’t hurt because it’s NOT true. Hurts to hear right?

My brother was in nam when he came back he was never the same but now he has peace R I P ...J P M

If Washington would have stayed the hell out of it and let the military do whatever it had to, we'd been done with it by 1967 and maybe about 45,000 lives would have been saved. Such needless waste !!

If the USA had not gone over there at all....even more lives would have been saved.

Pretty good description of the entire war that

If the French weren't such Losers in conducting warfare, then they would have handled the Viet Minh, taken care of their Far East territory and not have been emasculated by the Sons of Ho Chi Minh, then there would have been no reason for the United States to assume responsibility for the French Indo-Chine War; thus have no involvement in what became our Viet Nam War. Then again, the U.S. was trying to halt the spread of Communism aka the Cold War. Shoulda, woulda, coulda......hindsight is always 20-20.

That's a prime example of the attitude that lost America the war and that got millions of people killed

? they illegally invaded a non-threatening country on the basis of a false flag(gulf of tonkin incident) and committed so many atrocities and rapes there the good guys won

Grange34 You should read The Burden They Bear, it is a decent book that should clear up some of the media spin on Vietnam. I KNOW my Grandfather wasnt an animal like that. Blame the war not the warrior

thank u.

americanpatriot542 but without the warrior there is no war. How many times are ordinary kids gonna be duped into fighting pointless immoral wars ?

Addendum: 1. I don't believe in" war". 2.)That does not does not change the fact that people Fell and died for there Civil duty bestowed upon them by way of this Country's leader ordering them to go. I think they call "The Draft". 3.)They additionally did not go to war. The presence was known as a " Police Action"and there is a difference between the declaration of "War" with what was expected to be a"Conflict". In closing, I'm elated I sleep with a" M1 Carbine" Because I've seen plenty of"War" in the U.S. Nonetheless, the brutality went both ways. Like a pendulum. Now it was not adding specific"conflict" I was referencing. I made a generalization. My faux pa! I also wore POW & MIA bracelets. You should Try the "Hanoi Hilton" vacation spot! I think you'd do an about face at that point. Otherwise lighten up, don't use your political views infringe upon mine. And it was a great video end of discussion! You don't get to tell me who to respect and who not to! This is America.

Army or navy?

Ratboy1955 losers.

may he be at peace in heaven with his brothers

r.i.p

Thanks to all US soldiers who severed, from a South Vietnamese descendant.

Lol

michael yates Well allies.

Thank you, Vault-Tec. Served April 1968 thru October 1969, IIFFV, 53rd Signal Battalion, Long Binh. USARV.

every war is hell from the civil war to the present thank God for our military persons

+Frank Alegria don't forget the revolution war aswell respect from Scotland to all USA troops !

Vault-Tec Rep Thank you, You are surely well come. Served 1973 to dec.1975. USN Amphib. USS Charleston. It was my privilege God bless the USA and the USN.

Jay Lopez I know right Are they still alive?

This song was the most popular among soldiers and marines in Nam. Because of the refrain: "We gotta get outta this place..."

Tommy Boye Right on, Tommy. Eric Burdon was singing about Newcastle, and the film Get Carter (original Michael Caine version) shows what it was like in the sixties.

young. we. where

Jay Lopez The animals played in Vegas a day after I left. It sucks because if I could meet anyone in this world it would be Eric Burdon.

my dad was shot through the chest by a 50 cal machine gun in 1971..he was 17 yrs.old at the time..he came home a very different person

@@davidgrasso375 I am sorry to hear that. I have alot of good friends who served over their some voluntary and others had no choice but those soldiers including your father were put through so much misery especially infantrymen .....But it goes without saying your father is a very brave man and i thank him and his family for all the hard times you guys went through while your father was serving our country ✌️🇺🇸💜

@@davidgrasso375 how did he even survive a 50?

@@nightman4142 exactly what I was thinking? 🤔

kate Grasso he lived?

Thank you. Most of us didn't volunteer for Nam but went to SE Asia as ordered.

neil rich : you said it - nice one

I think it's morally wrong to kill other people.

+neil rich And I suppose those German soldiers also did the honorable thing by serving?

Most of them had no choice - most were honorable - insane leaders led to insane atrocities for which they will remain in history as an abomination. I'm well aware that war is hell.

thank you for your service

Quan Nguyen Found the Viet Cong.

3666th TFW DaNang 69-70

Quan Nguyen communists made your country a shithole

@@dannyfit7063 tell me for what 50000 us lost theirs lives...for what ?

Tammy Shaw yeess MAAM War is Hell they needed to get out of that place

We were young and the people did not respect us at all when we got back on USA soil!

fuck anyone who volunteered for this war. You did the USA no favors. You did not serve it's people. You fought for stockholder profits, that's it. Your service did nothing but advance the military-industrial complex.

@@markmarkson1064 how can you say something like that? You have no idea why people joined a war. Not saying none didnt go to Vietnam for those reason, but to say all went for that is incredibly ignorant.

the viceos all were impressive and sad and made you wonder what for, so so very sad

Damn, you're making me feel old.. just kidding,, thank him

I understand your pain I just lost my veitnam vet grandfather about 2 years ago

Jesus bless your family

Хоть я и Украинец но слыхал обо всех ужасах которые были там очень сочувствую всем кто попал туда и уже не вышел обратно, тем кто остался без отца, деда сына, внука. Украина с вами! Even though I am a Ukrainian, I heard about all the horrors that were there, I sympathize with everyone who got there and never came back, those who were left without a father, grandfather, son, grandson. Ukraine with you!

I'm thankful for his service