To the Billings Gazette I just want you guys to know that I go through phases of binge watching these interviews with war heroes and every cycle I end up back at the Billings Gazette your videos are the best

Enjoying this hero. He doesn't think he's a hero, but he is

Love the Vietnam Voices series. I would like to see more of these. The men and women who served in Vietnam, their voices need to be heard.

Tom seems like such a gentle soul.... He was so shocked to be injured while driving, and still has trouble speaking out.... as do so many vets... its taken so long for them to talk about a war where their own countrymen turned feral on return home... Thank You Tom for Your Service.... Im hoping your son came home safely and your grandsons never had to serve.... I also hope you have some inner peace...xxxx 💞✌️🙏

Great interview....Dad had a `68 Charger with the 383 Magnum cannon stored neatly under the hood,Charger blue,vinyl top...fastest car in the county,here on the coast of Maine....Dad was in the sub service from `65-`69,and I had an"uncle" Billy,who was a medic in Nam,keeps dreaming about the soldier he tried to patch up over there,trying to talk to Billy without his jaw..Billy became a funeral director after he got home.

Welcome home brother, glad you made it. You mentioned “chopper blades” bringing you right back so I’ll share something to at least let you know it’s not only normal but also ok. I went to a Christmas party with my wife (girlfriend at the time, the day after getting home from my last deployment in 2010) to her office party in downtown Boston at the Hyatt and was outside smoking a cigarette. I was chatting with Eddie Money the singer/musician who was staying there, when a chopper broke silence from behind a building and the next thing I knew I had a couple of body guards pulling me off of my girl AND Eddie because I had swept them both down and was laying over them on the sidewalk. After my lady explained I had just gotten home, Mr Money got us a room because he didn’t want me driving anywhere that night after seeing my nerves in action. He was a good man, he got it and I’ll always cherish that memory even though I probably looked like a fool. He said “thank you for your service,” and he’ll get us “one ticket to paradise,” by booking us that room. It was heavenly😉 Anyway, It is what it is, I still do the “turtle” when hearing the “whop whop whop” for the first few seconds of those blades today and the same with loud noises. Thanks for sharing your story. Just an FYI, trans hasn’t changed much since you paved the way for us there in nam. I went army in 79, at 17 and did 27+ years off and on finally getting out in 2019. It’s still a shooting gallery when in convoy, but thankfully we’ve upped our armor from the old sandbags on the floor days! Stay healthy, stay safe and enjoy each day forward. They’re all a gift✌🏼

Thank You SIR for your Service and Dedication to our Country during a very fucked up time !!.....Utmost RESPECT for ALL you Vietnam Veterans and may God Bless ALL of you !!........WELCOME HOME SIR !!

I'm new to this series, Billings Gazette, but now I'm hooked on these stories. We were a Navy family, and we saw my dad off to combat three times during Vietnam. Even now as I type this, I can see his face every time he left. God bless them all, and thank you for your wanting to preserve some of this history.

Thank you for sharing your story. You are right to be upset that your son had to follow in your footsteps as a war affected soldier. Thank you for your service. And Welcome Home Soldier.

These deserve way more views

Thank you Billings Gazette. What a great thing that you’re doing supporting our great American veterans. The History Channel could take some lessons from you.

Mr Schumacher..Thank you for your service. You are appreciated more than you will ever know. Please know, you have touched 1 soul.. Thank you..

Great interview, very powerful.Thank you for your service Tom and welcome home.

Thank you for your service Tom and the courage it took to tell your story. You are a good and caring man. I hope you and your family are doing well and may God bless you and your family. Peace on your journey.

Firstly many thanks to those that served in Vietnam and also grateful to the guy that makes these very important videos. Much love from down here in Oz.

Amazing interviews, these man are heroes. Thank you will never be enough.

Thank you for your service and welcome home. These interviews you conduct are the very best on KZfaq. Your style is genuine and you seem to connect with the veterans but also your audience. At least in my case. Thank you for your programs.

Great way to preserve history of the Vietnam war, with firsthand accounts from those that fought it and lived it. Welcome home and may your accounts of the war live on for future generations to hear.

So enjoyed Jose's story. God Bless Jose and thank you for all that you did for us.

This is a really great series. The questions are fair and on point. Respect to everyone involved

A real joy listening to your story, every story is something new! Thank you brother.

Been watching loads of these interviews. This is one of the most powerful one's I've watched. Thanks for your honesty!

Thank you, Tom. Semper Fi !!!

I binge listen during my 12 hour shifts . Thank you BG and all the the vet's.

I love this man. he said a mouth full - when he said we did not go to war for stupidity between vietnam and the 1st gulf war. you are a hero of mine brother / father. I got a lot of questions................

👍 much respect and admiration!

GREAT INTERVIEW, MUCH HISTORY

thank you.

Thank you both

I love this channel. Love from the UK

602 Brother.Thanks for your service

Thank you for your service

I think his answers (I don’t know) he probably blocked all that out. A great living American!! Thanks for your service sir

Thank you Tom. Your story really grabbed my attention.

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+1 Tom. Thanks. I'm also from Minnesota.

Watched most of the interviews. Enjoyed them. Good work. B/c I’ve seen so many, a few things stand out st times. This time I think the interviewer couldn’t let moments of silence be and let the interviewee be.

It is the most powerful one I have watched.

Watched most of the interviews. Enjoyed them. Good work. B/c I’ve seen so many, a few things stand out at times. This time I think the interviewer too many times couldn’t let moments of silence be. The potential of quiet resonance after an answer, or further interviewee words following poignant reflection, was lost. Felt skittish. Felt awkward. But still, this wouldn’t have been noticed if so many fantastic interviews (including this one) hadn’t been produced.

I like this guy for saying he never listened to the beatles.. I thought I was alone

I agree that Billings Gazette does the best interviews! Much better person asking the questions. Thank you sir for your service! Welcome home!🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸

Thanks for serving. Tough interview as they say in media.

Welcome Home Sir.God bless you ALL. This story, the part about peaches on top of his food reminds me of a WW2 vet talking about a hot roast beef dinner they were being served, and at the end of the line they put a big scoop of chocolate pudding on top of his roast beef. At first he couldn't believe it, but he said it was delicious, chocolate roast beef lol. I totally get it....

If you never were a grunt,or a civilian that worked for the USMC. Why comment? You have not a clue what their life was . Vietnam was hell!

The interviewer kept interrupting him by thinking and feeling on Tom’s behalf. He was “feeding” him answers and seemed very irritated at times.

"I don't know......... yeah, I don't know..... .... yeah...."

Thank you for your service brother

Whenever I hear Fortunate Son by Petula Clark it takes me right back.

Fuck these are awesome! Strong fuckin people!

Do you still interview veterans? Great interview skills...✌

bless this guy

the only thing missing from these videos is pictures of the interviewee at the time. They must have a bunch of pictures.

Don't understand why there are not CC

The host is as his last name means (Erlich), he is earnest and sincere.

Don’t interrupt those heroes

36:43 The MILK story. Vet says "I never drank it at home" cuz he hated powdered milk. Mom had a recipe for making drinkable milk. Back then all there was was Carnation and *FOREMOST powdered milk.* Mom mixed *FOREMOST with whole (red lid) milk & we drank that and I LOVED IT.* I even drank Foremost powdered milk *STRAIGHT* and I found it *tolerable.* Had 2 b COLD. Stores now have lavender/purple lid milk. It's like coconut milk and tastes like shit. Won't drink that neither. I hate liver but I WILL cleanup the gravy & onions no sweat. Kool-Aid jug 4 milk too.

Sitttin by the dock of the bay...

This poor guy seemed really nervous, anxious or something, bless his heart. You can tell he's not used to talking about his vietnam days. His answers were short and his memory wasn't the greatest. I wish he would've explained what his vietnamese co worker meant by "you fight, we run". I don't really get why he got so pissed about that. It would've been nice if he could've been a little more articulate.

Nam, what a gap year

Time of the Season by the Zombies 1967

Those 5 ton trucks Capricorns are the man’s man

is it better to be dusty or muddy, hmm let me think

I'm a ua 170 member

i saw like 999 and clicked it and became like # 1000!

What do you do on a ship? Wait 'till late at night; sneak into the head and take things in hand.

Time of the season , The Zombies.

I don't know, I don't remember, I guess

Don't the Marines issue mess kits?

SHIP...DAMNIT...68 YO NAVY VETERAN

My father had the same MOS!!!!!! But my father had to drive to Washington DC the ass why is he not getting promoted........And that top man of the military said !there’s always somebody a little bit better........And then it was four up and three down Paris Island he’s on the wall

...the hidden terrible words, "the needs of the service."

The blooper rds were 60mm. The over and under m16 was the under was a 60mm mortar. The blooper

This guy got lucky

From what I understand the Vietnamese was just saying & admitting that he fled or ran from communist Vietnam. Not sure why Tom was mad at him.

Nothing but seems he wasn’t in the heated ares

They knew this guy had a issue

You missed some big opportunities to talk to this guy about smoking weed. Marijuana ingestion has a huge impact on memory formation. I suspect he was faded out some of the time. I know I would've been

I’ll. Glad I did my time I think should be 2 year minimum

Mortar attacks evened the playing field in Vietnam. Anybody could get hammered. Welcome home.

He doesn’t remember

And they’re keeping the secrets and that’s why I’m giving up to secrets for freeee.......GODDo you know that really stands for government of defense

That was a dangerous job driving those big old trucks into the middle of the battlefield full of soldiers and then had to drive out of there by yourself fast......... and I’ve done the research and you’re a Capricorn my father is a Capricorn and all the rest of them that was driving those vehicles with Capricorn no fear and they all drive fast like Elvis Presley.........I don’t know how the military knew that or do they really believe in astrology

Most important thing he said "if we had a draft today wars wouldn't last as long".... perpetual war has become the norm....maybe when we start sending young pretty girls to a bloody violant pointless death we can grow up and stop supporting this insanity.

Something wrong

He don’t remember much

In 1969 you had to have a high school diploma to join the Marines. I know because I tried. Had to settle with the US ARMY.

His geography is way off.Da Nang is nearer Laos than Cambodia.

I'm in Vietnam right now,, It's awesome, Free of all the politics in the failing USA 🇺🇸 no cv19

Great watch but never understood why people thank them for their service ?

The greatest war hero for me were the likes of the World Heavy Weight champ Muhammed Ali, who told the draft board to go to hell, he had no grudge against the Vietnamese people, and didn’t want to kill them. So, he refused to join the army, and he was stripped of his heavy weight title. But, he got it back. He died a real hero. Not a murderous lunatic.

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Why no black guys interviewed?

Zzzzz. You oughta interview a real hero. Look me up and hop aboard my shit.

Serious bullshit right here folks.

One of the few people you guys interviewed that actually sounded believeable. The rest not so much.

mostly. reminds me o Danny Wiley, another fake

This guy is lying

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