Very true a. staff once told me "no one fights for flag, country, mom or apple pie. We fight for the man on either side of us and hope like he__, they do the same for you."

My father, several uncles and many friends were amongst you both and I wholeheartedly agree!

Welcome home, brother!!

💯 %. And, thank you for your service.

Yep. They also got screwed.

I know the school but didn’t know his MOH was in the school in a glass case. Amazing! I just hope the kids who attend that school know his story, the sacrifices people make for others in the most dire or circumstances and that people are willing to sacrifice their life for freedom. Every student who attends Robinson High School should be read his MOH citation and know his story.

What a greatresting place for MOH . A wise person knew it needed to reach more young MEN. 🇺🇸

I grew up in Fairfax City, I went to Fairfax High School but know Robinson High School.

@@417jumps3 When you walk into the school, There is a large glass case with his photo, an enlarged copy of the citation, and the medal. You can't enter the school without seeing it right in front of you. My three kids are all graduates of the school.

I was born there in 67

his choice not yours, while you lost respect for this country, he may love it and want to fight to keep his children free..... respect that sir....

If we don't have good young men serving, we will have what? A force purely comprised of leftist ideology leaning individuals? The upper level officers(O-6 and above) are already largely comprised of those.

I know I tell any young people that ask me about it and I tell them the same thing, I kinda regret serving under bush/Cheney and I know I would not serve with the shi* show we have running things now. Especially after watching the Afghanistan withdrawal, we left like cowards and looked like a joke to the entire world

​@tracyscheuermann9959 watch your mouth. You have no room to speak to a 21 year vet like that.

I tell people that I’m proud of my service cause I served five years in the Marine Corps right after high school and then I got out due to Covid because I didn’t get the shot. But I loved my time in the service but the service didn’t give a rats ass about me I worked my ass off and was told I was going to get awarded, and an accommodation, promotion and they didn’t they kept pushing it off or kept ignoring it until I was eventually kicked out ( general under honorable conditions, which I can apply for an honorable discharge now because the Covid stuff was stupid) and then they said it wasn’t their problem they even tried to force a medical thing onto my private insurance and not take it on themselves when I was in uniform during an accident then it was finally fixed only because they knew that woulda been a bigger issue then not giving my awards and achievements and stuff like I was told and the fact the medical thing was a problem from the start when it shouldn’t of been. Still can’t get to the VA the dude left 30 minutes before our meeting was supposed to start and I had no idea he did til a different person told me he left. I said I would recommend to my son who is very young at this time but I would always recommend to my friends and son that are debating on serving I recommend on my opinion not at this time because of all of the total BS and corruption going on but I say I will still support their choices and if they still choose I’m going to do everything I can to make sure they can succeed in their opportunity.

Salute)

Salute

Thanks for the info

Lol nam was in no way fighting for our freedom

Freedom cost a buck o five

Those children have no idea.

I was one of the guys who replaced you! But instead of trying to get out of service because I didn’t want to have someone else die replacing me…. I chose not to run. Why were we there? Political leaders (old rich men) wanted more money. That’s it! A little of the justification was the domino theory. And I decided I would rather spare my homeland the misery of war and would rather wage war in the other guys country.

His parents.😭

The shame is that you couldn't even spell it correctly

Are you refering to my reply ? @@L_Train

Heroes

Consentrate on the subject instead of me, I didn't write that for your criticism@@L_Train

@@L_Train You maybe an English teacher but you will never be a hero

They aren't soldiers either.

JARHEADS

Marines........... My ass really is navy equipment sir

​@@TK-tg8xcMy Ass Rides In Navy Equipment Sir. Also the Men's department of the Navy.

Did I misunderstand? Said he'd started out a Marine then re- enlisted in the Army. Semper fi my brothers

Well said

He said 'it'? That's deep

He's the one that got us over there in the first place

​@@chadrowe8452ike did I think

If you don't know really what went on it's kind of short sighted to make such a comment. Lots of brilliant plans have come to not because of some unforeseen situation that nobody could have known about. It's called war. It's not exactly like a game of chess because with your very eyes you can see what your enemy is doing if you're good enough. In war you just don't know what's going to happen. Maybe it would be a good idea for you to study some battles and the situation that happened in those battles. I'm talking about further information than what you would find in high school.

​@kenthatfield4287 Nought, i.e. zero.

@@EdwardGatey thank you for the reproof unfortunately I'm getting old and many times I forget to proofread what I speak into the microphone. Because sometimes I am too shaky to use the keyboard on my smartphone.

Maori soilders.

No mission too difficult. No sacrifice too great

Do you know this because you were hiding in the bush crying.

Do you know this because you were hiding in the bush crying?

@@richardrickey6812 I know because the title said one thing, while the story said another….

Wasn't available back then

​@@MLK_Sold_Black_america_outgrenade launchers were available as early as in WW2. But it's pretty obvious from the video that he was out of ammo for his regular weapon and basically found or remembered that he had two grenades.

They had a grenade launcher Robinson used it to take out the first sniper. Boxer grenades weighs quite a bit and I don't think that they had a whole bunch with them. I'm talking about the grenade that goes inside the launcher it looks more like a big 45 caliber bullet.

@@kenthatfield4287 a Grenade that looks like a .45 bullet? I don't think so. In fact I KNOW there is no grenade that looks like a ,45 bullet. .

The soldiers didn’t lose the political class gave up and surrendered. They didn’t want to get kicked out of office. They are the cowards. I serviced with a lot of Vietnam vet’s and they were good brave soldiers.

Because they fought a gorilla warfare enemy. When fighting that way it’s all ambushes because you are normally the smaller force. And it’s a jungle so not many open fields to fight a conventional battle

Thank you for saying that. It's easy for the enemy to set up an ambush when the opposition can't see 10 feet in front of themselves

I wonder how someone that was never there, knows so much about what happened. Enjoy your war movies, but it's more interesting if you are talking from experience.

The dems got what they wanted

Because of politicians

How is this any different than any other war. Exactly. Could say that of any war.

@joshm7225 yeah tell the jews that. I'm pretty sure they liked us fighting in ww2

I would not say they died for nothing, Vietnam was about stopping the spread of Communism throughout South East Asia and guess what ther spread stopped after Vietnam prior to that Communism was fought against in Indonesia and defeated Malaysia and defeated and the Phillipines and defeated so before Vietnam there was the "Malay Emergency"Malays, British and Australians fought that one, Indonesia the Indonesians fought that one under Suharto and the Phillipines, so Vietnam was the last roll of the Dice for Communist Expansion so because that was the underlying reason for the Involvement of America, Australia, New Zealand, The Phillipines and the South Korean ROK's as well as the South Vietnamese ARVN Troops they may have lost the War but they stopped Communist expansion so I say they won the peace. That was what was important they won the overall geopolitical scenario they stopped Communist expansion. Never forget that achievement that was the whole reason NATO existed so I say they did not die in vain.Look beyond the obvious for the truth.

South Viet Nam WASN'T being invaded? Do tell!