I enlisted in the USAF 2 months after graduating HS in 1971. CCR, Rolling Stones, BS&T, Iron Butterfly, Steppenwolf....that was music! I volunteered for SEA but the USAF had other plans for me. I salute the warriors who fought, suffered and died in that miserable country. On the ground, in the air or at sea, you were asked to do the impossible (against all odds) and treated like $h!t when you came home (carrying visible and INVISIBLE scars that no one knows about). I remember standing in front of the TV and crying as our POW's came home. I am proud of my 10+ years of military service but most proud of the brotherhood of military men and women I have been honored to be a part of. I have been fortunate to see both the "Traveling VV Wall x2" and the Original at the Mall in D.C. A trip to Arlington once and witness the Changing of the Guard did something to me that can never be undone. Freedom is PRECIOUS and it is FRAGILE. President Ronaldus Magnus said it best, "Freedom is only one (1) generation from extinction..." Greater love hath no man.....
WELCOME home brother,something nobody said when I got back,just had crap thrown at us,cussed spit on,and shunned everywhere.Love this country,right or wrong,anyway made it back.Semper Fi,ooorrraaahhh!!!👍
I am so sorry for the treatment you received but my heart and soul are greatful for your sacrifice just missed the draft but lost many friends and distance relatives! Much love and respect ty
So many died in a war that should have never been. We were following orders and thought doing the right thing. May God forgive the wrong that was done.
1968, 5 months after graduating from high school, I enlisted in the USAF 30 December, with the hopes of becoming an aircraft mechanic. Eleven months later , this aircraft mech stepped off the plane in Bien Hoa, Vietnam. These were the songs I listened to while working 12 hours a day, most times with no nights off launching, recovering and fixing our aircraft. then tried to sleep during the day. These songs and many more like them was my lifeline.
Gerald... hi there buddy Thankyou" i was out there too,,,,, helicopter pilot search/ find / recover,,,, injured troopers in battle field conditions Edwin John
@@geraldmurphy1428 Thanks Gerald god bless you too great talkin to a Vietnam vet i aven't been to a reunion fr quite a while now "medical problems ,,,,i have "Bowes Decease" type o skin cancer from exposure to "Agent Orange",,,,, so iv been told but its being treated,,,,, Ed
I cannot listen to this music and not think of Vietnam when I served 67-79. . . .it was the music that we heard everywhere e.g. a live band at the club at NAS Miramar played CCR and so much more LOUD & continuous😂😂 Finally, thank you for your service. . . .
I was in Company E, attached to 1st AirCav. Coming back to base camp after 4 or 5 hairy weeks all I wanted was the music, real food and nobody in my face. That got me through the ...
It is unfortunate that one of the most popular songs played during Vietnam was Fortunate Son. It was about a young man who didn't have any connections to get out of serving. It was a war where the sons of the rich, important , and well-connected didn't have to for the most part serve. The young men who served in Vietnam were primarily from the lower middle class, the lower-class whites, blacks, and Latinos, and the boys from the rural small towns and farms.
& THOSE BURNING THEIR DRAFT CARDS , LEAVING THE U.S. ONLY ALLOWED BACK IN LATER . PRESIDENT EISENHOWER WARNED ABOUT THE MILITARY INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX & POLITICS PLAYED A. HUGE PART FOR NAM . TO. THOSE WHO DID THEIR " TOUR OF DUTY " IN NAM , WHO SHED THEIR BLOOD , KIA , MIA & THOSE HORRIBLY WOUNDED ----- AGENT ORANGE , PTSD. CAUSALTIES AS MY DAD WOULD SAY. ( 22 YR DEVIL DOG , FROZIN CHOSIN / TET SURVIVOR ) ---- " WAR IS HELL" THANK YOU ALL !!!!!!!!
The Democrats love war. The last time Jane Fonda and the Democrats protested any war Nixon was our president. The only time we get anti war songs and movies from Hollywood is when a Republican is president. The Democrats future is war and the Cheney (D) family is on board.
I saw the letter to Johnson from McNamera that basically started it all at the National Archives in D. C. years ago. I was surprised they displayed it. Johnson gave the go ahead to get involved beyond just advisors.
One of those afternoons and my mind drifted back to a time and place across the water... Then I found this music and it finished taking me back to thinking about people I knew then who are no longer with us and some that are tying to die from the stuff sprayed on us....
The fallen so many young men went off to fight a war to never come back no future no longer here for a moment a lonely jungle they where a crack of a bullet they gone I salute all the fallen the living why is there war end of day just the fallen and the living wondering why I survived.
LOL. He was probably the DI I picture making my dad's life hell then. My dad's stories of boot camp at MCRD SD summer of '67 would put Full Metal Jacket's portrayal to shame. To this day my dad still can't sleep past 0430-0500 hrs. He can go to bed at 0200 and is still feet on the deck at that hour. He says that's from boot camp. Many, many, many stories of boot camp but the on he likes to always point out was never address the senior DI as "you"...a female sheep (ewe) for there is an ass beating to come even on the last night being at MCRD. As much as my dad had a love-hate relationship with the Marines it transformed him from a knucklehead to a retired MSgt. He still says Vietnam was his best (and worst) times in the Marines. Tell your dad thanks, for my dad and I are here today!
@@corywood171 too funny. I hated boot camp also. Don’t know many that enjoyed it. Funny thing is, my dads recruits still call him today. I’m good friends with one of them. We worked together in the Corps. He became a Di and credits my dad for his style of leadership. I never heard my dad talk about being one of the heavy guys before becoming a Platoon Commander. I’m sure he had his moments. My brother and I actually went to work with him a few times while at MCRD. It was a lot of fun on our end. Tell your dad thanks for his service. BTW. My dad was with 1st Bn, RTR.
He ain’t heavy his my brother !!… I’m not a soldier who fought in NAM but we very busy in PULAU GALANG Indonesia with Thousands and thousands refuges and most of the time we need to pick up the BOAT refugees on China sea !…RIP for many refuges who didn’t make it
a guy who worked for me dad was in Vietnam and later a Captin of a submarine. He said his dad always listened to CCR. My thoughts, fortunate son is the obe.
Was in nice sunny warm Viet Nam 71-72. Didn't listen to much music while there but can remember the song " Bye bye American Pie "was very popular when I got back to the world.
I had a friend, named Bill who was drafted in 1967 at the age of 26….who would have guessed it! Thank God he made it! I have always thought that the president should have never sent his men into combat.
Hey! You forgot WE GOTTA GET OUT OF THIS PLACE by Eric Burdon & the Animals... 😳 When I was in-country from 1970 - 1971 it was by far the most popular song amongst the G.I.s. It was played by Filipino cover bands in every EM club on a nightly basis (at least once) from the Delta to the DMZ. Also the most requested song on AFVN Radio. If one song came to represent the war in Vietnam, WE GOTTA GET OUT OF THIS PLACE is definitely it. I still play it about once or twice a week just to remind myself how lucky I am to have come home in one piece - so many others were not as fortunate. My good friend, Jon Holden, who served in the 101st Airborne, was one of them. Jon didn't die in the war, but it killed him just the same. RIP Jon Airborne Ranger 🙏
@@Johnboyboro-up1gs Thank you, John Boy! ✌ Met some Aussie blokes at the beer pavilion while waiting at the R & R Center in Saigon. I told them the problem with Aussies is that you boys don't drink enough beer. 🍺 He replied: That's right, mate... that's because they don't make enough! Clever those Aussies! ✌ 🍺🍺🍺🍺🍺🍺🍺
@@Bright.mj_ ...we had guys in Germany (971 - '74) who used'ta play this s9ng - Germany was a great place to be stationed at that time but they just wanted to go home and didn't care about the travel/sightseeing opportunities in this once in a lifetime chance. I took a friend to the local ''disco' to hear this song after one of the guys in the unit was killed in a Jeep accident ca April 1972.
I was in "Cong country" as a Marine sniper. I got injured in an attempt to rescue some prisoners. We eliminated a few of those @#%%$$ and eventually got 7 prisoners their well deserved freedom back at our base. I felt proud doing that, even though the "hippies" back in the states called us killers, and murder lovers. We used to laugh at those pathetic comments. But "back then" was "back then"...............SEMPER FI to all that served in that wretched country.
"As every cop is a criminal, And all you sinners, saints. As heads is tails, Just call me Lucifer. Think about these lines and you will see the truth of the song. Cop,criminal. Sinners,saints. Heads,tails, Lucifer, ???
this are some songs vietnam years the last time by the stones light my fire the doors bad moon rising ccr. time has come today chamber brothers on the road again who stop the rain ccr. yellow river leaving on jet plane
I thought Eswin Star's War would be #1 here! I was stationed at the U.S. Army's Personnel Center, Oakland Army Base from 1969 to 1971. There was a cafeteria there with a jukebox. Every time I went in there that song was playing. I never went to Vietnam, thank God.
Can't argue with any of these comments 2 tours river rat I corp. we all saw different things,then again we all saw the SAME THING. Aint nothin but A THANG.
IM A LIMEY !!!And 67 soon I GET It !!!GREAT Music SHIT TIMES To Be a YOUGE man in AMERICA ???The ARMS DEALERS Win Win !!!😳😳😳😳ITS ALWAYS ABOUT MONEY 😣😣😣😣g
Thank God I never had too Choose wether or Not, we should of been There? IT like Korea was a Police Action apparently. As for the Vietnamese People? I Fully understand that they were always Stuck in the Middle of Two, Global Controlling Ideologies, at that Time. Trying too determine Thier Future. Wether it was the Eastern Power Communist Bloc. Countries, or the Western Democracies? Neither of them should of gotten involved, as much as they Did. With Thier involvement, that Conflict drug on for a Quarter of a Century. Before it was Finally. Ended by the North. This I am thinking 🤔🤔 is how it should of been from the Very Beginning 😌🙂😃. The most Tragic thing about it was? The Human Suffering, & the Loss of so Many people, from all Parties involved. The Wound's finally seem to be Disappearing now after so Many Year's later. May we always Remember the Fallen, & the Maimed for what they Did & Gave, of themselves Over there, so long Ago. May God Bless US All, Now and in The Future. 🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏
what gets me is that all the recent Presidents have no idea what the military was to serve in and yet they become the leader for the military…does not make sense
lol! They didn't beat us (the military)! They infiltrated the Democrat Party..who helped them overrun the South...and they're still there! (i.e. South Vietnam AND the American Congress!)
Politicians did not seem to want the USA to try to 'Win the War', some seemed to want the War to keep going to buy War Company Stocks cheap (Tell the World that the War was close to an end, stocks in Military Manufacturing Companies would drop in price). They would buy stocks, then get the war going again, stocks would then jump up as more bombs and weapons would need to be made. War kept going as weapons were wasted, also 'Hills' captured after a few days of fighting were often abandoned the next day, just to let the enemy just take the 'Hill' over again. Then the USA would take the 'Hill' over again instead of keeping the 'Hill' and pushing the Front all the way back to Hanoi, (and taking over the Country).
@@krisdunwoody7037 That’s because of the “war of attrition” strategy being employed. Taking and holding territory was thought to be undesirable by the Kennedy and Johnson administrations. Instead, killing as many Vietnam Cong, and especially North Vietnamese regular army soldiers was the goal. STUPID battle philosophy if you gave a rat’s behind for the morale of your own troops fighting in a guerrilla-style war. Official estimates of the average age of North Vietnamese troops being deployed into South Vietnam at the time of the US withdrawal was 16yo. Not counting the Chinese and Russian “advisers”.
Yep, I was mostly looking for content for this video on RUclips and in some of the videos I came across this song because I didn't think it would be a big success so I didn't check the release date that much
I got 2 friends both were door gunners 1 pulled I tour the other one liked it so much he done two. God bless them both glad there now retired and enjoying there life with there family. That took a pair for that job the one that pulled 1 tour said his Sergeant when he told him what his job was his life expection was 3 days what a slap in the face at 19.
McNamara admitted later in his book that THEY knew two years into the squander of OUR blood and tax$$$$$ it was a no-win for the military as it was never meant to be more than a political chess game All the while Kissinger demeaned with: "Military men are just dumb, stupid animals to be used as pawns in foreign policy."
It was a war that should never have happened and the protesters need to be acknowledged and praised for their determination to have the truth known. That to me is freedom. Honour the ones who wouldn’t say yes.
Google It. Perfect Harmony ! The great American myth, was that California was the place to be. What was once a little piece of Paradise, is now an overrun with the homeless and fentanyl addicts. Taxes have driven so many in the business sector…out of state. Oh and then there is the water crisis, where agriculture receives the lion’s share and that is that. So no dreamers want to move to California anymore and it is all about Californication.
I was in the Navy and I made several deployments to Viet Nam. As I recall Nancy Sinatra and “These Boots” was very popular. CCR with “Senators Son” was a biggie. I remember listening to AFRTS and DJs like Charlie Tuna.
No s--t! There I was! I was interrogated...almost DAILY...by FULL BIRD, North Vietnamese colonels. They wanted to know only TWO things: What I knew about troop movements....AND....would I buy them a drink!
@@donoberloh Yeah...but they ain't HALF of it. Those FULL BIRD North Vietnamese colonels had very SHORT SKIRTS. I mean 'VERY"! What the HELL was I gonna DO???
I enlisted in the USAF 2 months after graduating HS in 1971. CCR, Rolling Stones, BS&T, Iron Butterfly, Steppenwolf....that was music! I volunteered for SEA but the USAF had other plans for me. I salute the warriors who fought, suffered and died in that miserable country. On the ground, in the air or at sea, you were asked to do the impossible (against all odds) and treated like $h!t when you came home (carrying visible and INVISIBLE scars that no one knows about). I remember standing in front of the TV and crying as our POW's came home. I am proud of my 10+ years of military service but most proud of the brotherhood of military men and women I have been honored to be a part of. I have been fortunate to see both the "Traveling VV Wall x2" and the Original at the Mall in D.C. A trip to Arlington once and witness the Changing of the Guard did something to me that can never be undone. Freedom is PRECIOUS and it is FRAGILE. President Ronaldus Magnus said it best, "Freedom is only one (1) generation from extinction..." Greater love hath no man.....
I can't say it any better then YOU Brother. You SAID IT !! Thank. YOU SO
MUCH KEEP SAFE******
WELCOME home brother,something nobody said when I got back,just had crap thrown at us,cussed spit on,and shunned everywhere.Love this country,right or wrong,anyway made it back.Semper Fi,ooorrraaahhh!!!👍
I am so sorry for the treatment you received but my heart and soul are greatful for your sacrifice just missed the draft but lost many friends and distance relatives! Much love and respect ty
So many died in a war that should have never been. We were following orders and thought doing the right thing. May God forgive the wrong that was
done.
Welcome home, Brother!
1968, 5 months after graduating from high school, I enlisted in the USAF 30 December, with the hopes of becoming an aircraft mechanic. Eleven months later , this aircraft mech stepped off the plane in Bien Hoa, Vietnam. These were the songs I listened to while working 12 hours a day, most times with no nights off launching, recovering and fixing our aircraft. then tried to sleep during the day. These songs and many more like them was my lifeline.
Semper Fidelis, to all veitnam American veterans. USMC. 1986 1990. Thank you. God bless. Awesome music, the best in the world. Never will be replaced.
USMC 1968 69 70 in country. Semper Fi brother.
Just wanted to thank all the Military Men and Women for protecting our World. God bless you all. Retire Vietnam Navy Veteran🇺🇲🇺🇲⚓️⚓️
The Vietnam war was an unnecessary intervention that did nothing to stop the spread of communism. Hundreds of thousands of lives lost to no purpose.
From one Veteran to another Veteran....Thank You For Your Service ...🦅 🇺🇸...1986 - 1994 U.S.Army
Gerald... hi there buddy Thankyou"
i was out there too,,,,, helicopter pilot
search/ find / recover,,,, injured troopers in battle field conditions Edwin John
@Edwin Thompson God-Bless you EDWIN thanks for your Service protecting our Nation. 🙏🙏⚓️⚓️🇺🇲🇺🇲
@@geraldmurphy1428 Thanks Gerald god bless you too
great talkin to a Vietnam vet
i aven't been to a reunion fr quite a while now "medical problems ,,,,i have "Bowes Decease" type o skin cancer
from exposure to "Agent Orange",,,,, so iv been told but its being treated,,,,, Ed
Damn straight…we had the best music!!! It was the best of times…it was the worst of times. USA ‘68-‘76
I cannot listen to this music and not think of Vietnam when I served
67-79. . . .it was the music that we heard everywhere e.g.
a live band at the club at NAS Miramar played
CCR and so much more
LOUD & continuous😂😂
Finally, thank you for your service. . . .
@@rosaleeadams1160 Thanks to you, too. And yup…loud and continuous…to this very day. Carry on…
Yiy can't beat the old music it's as good today as tbe days of yesterday. Thank you for your choices
I was in Company E, attached to 1st AirCav. Coming back to base camp after 4 or 5 hairy weeks all I wanted was the music, real food and nobody in my face. That got me through the ...
It is unfortunate that one of the most popular songs played during Vietnam was Fortunate Son. It was about a young man who didn't have any connections to get out of serving. It was a war where the sons of the rich, important , and well-connected didn't have to for the most part serve. The young men who served in Vietnam were primarily from the lower middle class, the lower-class whites, blacks, and Latinos, and the boys from the rural small towns and farms.
You sir summed up America !
& THOSE BURNING THEIR DRAFT CARDS , LEAVING THE U.S. ONLY ALLOWED BACK IN LATER .
PRESIDENT EISENHOWER WARNED ABOUT THE MILITARY INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX & POLITICS PLAYED A. HUGE PART FOR NAM .
TO. THOSE WHO DID THEIR
" TOUR OF DUTY " IN NAM , WHO SHED THEIR BLOOD , KIA ,
MIA & THOSE HORRIBLY WOUNDED ----- AGENT ORANGE , PTSD. CAUSALTIES AS MY DAD WOULD SAY. ( 22 YR DEVIL DOG , FROZIN CHOSIN / TET SURVIVOR ) ---- " WAR IS HELL"
THANK YOU ALL !!!!!!!!
yes I remember…my ex husband ( now deceased from the effects of Agent Orange) spent 3 tours over there and I lost 3 neighborhood freinds over there
The Democrats love war. The last time Jane Fonda and the Democrats protested any war Nixon was our president. The only time we get anti war songs and movies from Hollywood is when a Republican is president. The Democrats future is war and the Cheney (D) family is on board.
I remember this period of my life as if it was yesterday! US Army Medic 1966-1969
1973 -1974
Mate bloody glad that you made it back Doc.. !!!!!!!
Welcome home Doc--'69-70
Thank for ur service
Me Tooooooooooooooooooooooo.
My era and I miss it so much. 😢😢😢😢
We listened to this beautiful music on our reel to reel players in our hooches when we were able to.
AKAI 🤠🫡
our anthem was "We Gotta Get Out of This Place" the Animals
3rd Batt. 7th Marines ChuLai,RVN 10/65-11/66
Everytime I hear fortunate son it makes me think of this war
I saw the letter to Johnson from McNamera that basically started it all at the National Archives in D. C. years ago. I was surprised they displayed it. Johnson gave the go ahead to get involved beyond just advisors.
You right
One of those afternoons and my mind drifted back to a time and place across the water... Then I found this music and it finished taking me back to thinking about people I knew then who are no longer with us and some that are tying to die from the stuff sprayed on us....
"MAKE 😘 LOVE, NOT 🚫 WAR!!" WHEN WILL WE EVER LEARN? "VENGEANCE
"VENGEANCE IS MINE, SAY THE LORD"
When will we ever learn "I can't change the world, so I'll leave it up to You"
Been There DONE THAT three tours of duty. "Make Love and War!" HooYah !
The fallen so many young men went off to fight a war to never come back no future no longer here for a moment a lonely jungle they where a crack of a bullet they gone I salute all the fallen the living why is there war end of day just the fallen and the living wondering why I survived.
kids today dont know how lucky they are
did 2 tours, 66-70. still don`t know what the heII we were doin there. We got our own crap, here. Sat Cong !
Thank you for your service! 💚🇺🇲💚
The government. Vietnam 71-72.
Songs from my childhood and dad was a Marine drill instructor at MCRD San Diego at the height of this war.
Wow, u must have seen a lot, dad still around?
@@Demy1970 yes. Thanks for asking
LOL. He was probably the DI I picture making my dad's life hell then. My dad's stories of boot camp at MCRD SD summer of '67 would put Full Metal Jacket's portrayal to shame. To this day my dad still can't sleep past 0430-0500 hrs. He can go to bed at 0200 and is still feet on the deck at that hour. He says that's from boot camp. Many, many, many stories of boot camp but the on he likes to always point out was never address the senior DI as "you"...a female sheep (ewe) for there is an ass beating to come even on the last night being at MCRD. As much as my dad had a love-hate relationship with the Marines it transformed him from a knucklehead to a retired MSgt. He still says Vietnam was his best (and worst) times in the Marines. Tell your dad thanks, for my dad and I are here today!
@@corywood171 too funny. I hated boot camp also. Don’t know many that enjoyed it. Funny thing is, my dads recruits still call him today. I’m good friends with one of them. We worked together in the Corps. He became a Di and credits my dad for his style of leadership. I never heard my dad talk about being one of the heavy guys before becoming a Platoon Commander. I’m sure he had his moments. My brother and I actually went to work with him a few times while at MCRD. It was a lot of fun on our end. Tell your dad thanks for his service. BTW. My dad was with 1st Bn, RTR.
Brought back lots of memories. I remember 8 track cartridges in car. Blaring these songs. I enlisted US Army after high school 1972.
He ain’t heavy his my brother !!… I’m not a soldier who fought in NAM but we very busy in PULAU GALANG Indonesia with Thousands and thousands refuges and most of the time we need to pick up the BOAT refugees on China sea !…RIP for many refuges who didn’t make it
THANK YOU OUR WALK OF TEAMS MY TOURS A BROTHER MY LOVE TO MY TEAMS A FATHER SHIPER TO YOU OUR TOURS
1971 in a mud hole heard Charlie jamming and added 2belts of m-60 to the party.
Can't argue with u man...been there done that...Semper Fi.
Thank you to our Defence Firces men and women who served.. And thank you to the man who pulled our troops out, PM Gough Whitlam. Australia.
a guy who worked for me dad was in Vietnam and later a Captin of a submarine. He said his dad always listened to CCR. My thoughts, fortunate son is the obe.
My brother fought in veitnam
paint it black is so underrated fr
Forgot the eve of destruction Barry Mguire
Was in nice sunny warm Viet Nam 71-72. Didn't listen to much music while there but can remember the song " Bye bye American Pie "was very popular when I got back to the world.
I had a friend, named Bill who was drafted in 1967 at the age of 26….who would have guessed it! Thank God he made it! I have always thought that the president should have never sent his men into combat.
Hey!
You forgot WE GOTTA GET OUT OF THIS PLACE by Eric Burdon & the Animals... 😳
When I was in-country from 1970 - 1971 it was by far the most popular song amongst the G.I.s.
It was played by Filipino cover bands in every EM club on a nightly basis (at least once) from the Delta to the DMZ.
Also the most requested song on AFVN Radio.
If one song came to represent the war in Vietnam, WE GOTTA GET OUT OF THIS PLACE is definitely it.
I still play it about once or twice a week just to remind myself how lucky I am to have come home in one piece - so many others were not as fortunate.
My good friend, Jon Holden, who served in the 101st Airborne, was one of them.
Jon didn't die in the war, but it killed him just the same.
RIP Jon
Airborne Ranger
🙏
Good on you mate respect
@@Johnboyboro-up1gs
Thank you, John Boy! ✌
Met some Aussie blokes at the beer pavilion while waiting at the R & R Center in Saigon.
I told them the problem with Aussies is that you boys don't drink enough beer. 🍺
He replied: That's right, mate... that's because they don't make enough!
Clever those Aussies! ✌
🍺🍺🍺🍺🍺🍺🍺
@@jimw.4161 I’m an English man living in Australia but all the same mate wish we had more fellas like you around 💪🏻👍
@@Johnboyboro-up1gs
Hey! Appreciate that JohnBoy! 👍
I'm still here!
Matter of fact, I turned 80 today... 🥂
Alas, ain't many of us left from that era.
@@jimw.4161 sorry for the late reply hope you had a good birthday mate
Fortunate son tells it best
I was drafted June 1969 army this my music 🎶
As Far as Your interpretation by those Songs? I'd personally say they were Very Good Choice's. Thank You.
FROM BRAZIL
Fortunate son
🇧🇷🇺🇸
...swhould have included "We Gotta Get Out of This Place" by the Animals...
Yeah someone already told me Will use it in next part 👍
@@Bright.mj_ ...we had guys in Germany (971 - '74) who used'ta play this s9ng - Germany was a great place to be stationed at that time but they just wanted to go home and didn't care about the travel/sightseeing opportunities in this once in a lifetime chance. I took a friend to the local ''disco' to hear this song after one of the guys in the unit was killed in a Jeep accident ca April 1972.
I was in "Cong country" as a Marine sniper. I got injured in an attempt to rescue some prisoners. We eliminated a few of those @#%%$$ and eventually got 7 prisoners their well deserved freedom back at our base. I felt proud doing that, even though the "hippies" back in the states called us killers, and murder lovers. We used to laugh at those pathetic comments. But "back then" was "back then"...............SEMPER FI to all that served in that wretched country.
you forgot an anthem: We gotta get out of this place, by the Animals
One song I feel that should have been include was We got to get out of this place by the Animals
Agree, enlisted in USAF in 68..
sympathy for the devil what a masterpiece. goes hand to hand with this war
Right on dont you think
"As every cop is a criminal,
And all you sinners, saints.
As heads is tails,
Just call me Lucifer.
Think about these lines and you will see the truth of the song.
Cop,criminal. Sinners,saints. Heads,tails,
Lucifer, ???
@@kevanwillis4571 exactly I like that phrase just like every cop is a criminal. Because all cops are criminals behind an uniform
this are some songs vietnam years the last time by the stones light my fire the doors bad moon rising ccr. time has come today chamber brothers on the road again who stop the rain ccr. yellow river leaving on jet plane
THE LETTER TO MY BROTHER 54 YEARS THE SONG THE WALK OUR TEAM BROTHERS
Dude you left out I Gotta Get out of this place & Running through the Jungle
When I would come in for stand down I remember hearing these songs,
USN 1966 to 1975. 2 v coms. Still love the music
What kinda boat/ship was you on? When I was in middle school about 10-15 years ago our resource officer was on PBRs 67/68
I thought Eswin Star's War would be #1 here! I was stationed at the U.S. Army's Personnel Center, Oakland Army Base from 1969 to 1971. There was a cafeteria there with a jukebox. Every time I went in there that song was playing. I never went to Vietnam, thank God.
Better us than you, 'eh pup?
They went voluntary the same year i turned 18 i didn't have to go i was so lucky i feel for all the guys that had to.
Buffalo Springfield, for what's it's worth.
Can't argue with any of these comments 2 tours river rat I corp. we all saw different things,then again we all saw the SAME THING.
Aint nothin but A THANG.
B-1/7 1CAVAM RVN 1972
"GARRY OWEN"
Thank ye..thank ye...thank ye
Smoke'em IF you got'em
IM A LIMEY !!!And 67 soon I GET It !!!GREAT Music SHIT TIMES To Be a YOUGE man in AMERICA ???The ARMS DEALERS Win Win !!!😳😳😳😳ITS ALWAYS ABOUT MONEY 😣😣😣😣g
Detroit City. Sticks in my mind!
Wow No..."Country Joe & the Fish"..." Gimme Shelter" in country 70-71
Hopefully CCR makes an appearance on this
CCR Fortunate son and who will stop the rain
Army 67/68, Tet. There are too many of my brothers' names on The Wall. 🫡
This is amaizing
A DOG TO TEAM A BROTHERS ( A MY FAMILY RESPECT A BROTHER )
Memories.
The only war in history everybody liked enough to sing about!
Army ,16 months 71/72, 19D 2A, 57th Tigers ARVN advisor, shot twice, then 23 years Air Force 431 .
This is still my favorite song by the stones😊
I was there best music ever. HM3 USN
my letter to my team a brother use
This list is not complete without, “Run Through the Jungle.”
Man , thats the on I remember
Seems like yesterday
What about purple haze and machine gun but not finished yet with songs, Hendrix
What about "I wanna get out of this place?"
Its good i use it in next part thanks!
Oh yes. yes, yes, yes. Jul '67 to Jul '68 DaNang
This song Makes You Ready for War
What about “leaving on a jet plane?” By Peter Paul and Mary?
These wen't professional soldiers. They were Joe from the corner store. Bless 'em.
I salute you. I was fuckin around in Carnaby Street.
Thank God I never had too Choose wether or Not, we should of been There? IT like Korea was a Police Action apparently. As for the Vietnamese People? I Fully understand that they were always Stuck in the Middle of Two, Global Controlling Ideologies, at that Time. Trying too determine Thier Future. Wether it was the Eastern Power Communist Bloc. Countries, or the Western Democracies? Neither of them should of gotten involved, as much as they Did.
With Thier involvement, that Conflict drug on for a Quarter of a Century. Before it was Finally. Ended by the North. This I am thinking 🤔🤔 is how it should of been from the Very Beginning 😌🙂😃.
The most Tragic thing about it was? The Human Suffering, & the Loss of so Many people, from all Parties involved. The Wound's finally seem to be Disappearing now after so Many Year's later. May we always Remember the Fallen, & the Maimed for what they Did & Gave, of themselves Over there, so long Ago. May God Bless US All, Now and in The Future. 🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏
yep, USN 515th Riverine Squadron 69/70
TEAMS HOME MY BROTHERS
In another life, a lifetime ago. I Corp. '71 101 Abn Div '72 196 Inf Bde
Did the same, Nov 71
what gets me is that all the recent Presidents have no idea what the military was to serve in and yet they become the leader for the military…does not make sense
GFR is always great!
Nyyyyce
ROLING STONES-USA-VIETNAM! KRASNA SKLADBA POCAS VOJNY VO VIETNAME! 1964-1973!
Seems like several lives ago,....
Vietnam. a third world country that taught us that you can beat the greats with little
I thought that was Korea. But then again we were really fighting the Chinese at the end.
lol! They didn't beat us (the military)! They infiltrated the Democrat Party..who helped them overrun the South...and they're still there! (i.e. South Vietnam AND the American Congress!)
Politicians did not seem to want the USA to try to 'Win the War', some seemed to want the War to keep going to buy War Company Stocks cheap (Tell the World that the War was close to an end, stocks in Military Manufacturing Companies would drop in price). They would buy stocks, then get the war going again, stocks would then jump up as more bombs and weapons would need to be made. War kept going as weapons were wasted, also 'Hills' captured after a few days of fighting were often abandoned the next day, just to let the enemy just take the 'Hill' over again. Then the USA would take the 'Hill' over again instead of keeping the 'Hill' and pushing the Front all the way back to Hanoi, (and taking over the Country).
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That’s because of the “war of attrition” strategy being employed. Taking and holding territory was thought to be undesirable by the Kennedy and Johnson administrations. Instead, killing as many Vietnam Cong, and especially North Vietnamese regular army soldiers was the goal. STUPID battle philosophy if you gave a rat’s behind for the morale of your own troops fighting in a guerrilla-style war. Official estimates of the average age of North Vietnamese troops being deployed into South Vietnam at the time of the US withdrawal was 16yo. Not counting the Chinese and Russian “advisers”.
The Liberals in the USA caused the results. US military never lost a major battle.
I dot get why "Some kind of Wonderful" was in this collection.
Yep, I was mostly looking for content for this video on RUclips and in some of the videos I came across this song because I didn't think it would be a big success so I didn't check the release date that much
Isn't Sunshine Of Your Love the quintessential Vietnam song? Its in every movie ever made about it.
No Huey door gunners?
I got 2 friends both were door gunners 1 pulled I tour the other one liked it so much he done two. God bless them both glad there now retired and enjoying there life with there family. That took a pair for that job the one that pulled 1 tour said his Sergeant when he told him what his job was his life expection was 3 days what a slap in the face at 19.
We can thank our politicans blood thirst for war. And young men getting killed
McNamara admitted later in his book that THEY knew two years into the squander of OUR blood and tax$$$$$
it was a no-win for the military as it was never meant to be
more than a political chess game
All the while Kissinger demeaned with: "Military men are just dumb, stupid animals to be used as pawns in foreign policy."
@@rosaleeadams1160 so true today. Our military as stupid as they are dont realize they are expendable.
Have your will written up and plot grave.
GREAT TRACK But IM A PAINTER 😳😂g
It was a war that should never have happened and the protesters need to be acknowledged and praised for their determination to have the truth known. That to me is freedom. Honour the ones who wouldn’t say yes.
Am I the only one who thinks there is Indian music in this song. The Beatles did this too.
bEST vIETNAM MOVIE????
What about the 1973 hit, at wars end, Tie that Yellow Ribbon??? Or Marvin Gaye’s What’s Going on??
@Some kind of wonderful doesn’t seem to fit
I don't understand what made a song a song from the Vietnam war?
And, what was the method used to rank the songs?
I didn't rank it
@@Bright.mj_ Saying that these songs or those songs are the best IS ranking them.
California Dreaming?????????????/ ahhhhh, helloooooo? never heard it. to weak.
Listened to this song for many years….Mummas and Pappas ?.
Google It. Perfect Harmony ! The great American myth, was that California was the place to be.
What was once a little piece of Paradise, is now an overrun with the homeless and fentanyl addicts.
Taxes have driven so many in the business sector…out of state.
Oh and then there is the water crisis, where agriculture receives the lion’s share and that is that.
So no dreamers want to move to California anymore and it is all about Californication.
@@judyduckett1225 mammas...
I was in the Navy and I made several deployments to Viet Nam. As I recall Nancy Sinatra and “These Boots” was very popular. CCR with “Senators Son” was a biggie.
I remember listening to AFRTS and DJs like Charlie Tuna.
@@gelubatir9794 ease up, Karen! This is not Comp 101. And, if you don't possess a DD 214, keep it to yourself.
I can think of a hell of a lot of songs better than your choices like Riding with Private Malone and I wonder if they think about me!
I am making next part and i will try to find better songs
spirit in the sky
I was there....none fit the top 5, sorry. Fortunate Son would be #5.....try again
No s--t! There I was! I was interrogated...almost DAILY...by FULL BIRD, North Vietnamese colonels. They wanted to know only TWO things: What I knew about troop movements....AND....would I buy them a drink!
Yeah, right! I call Bull Shite!
@@donoberloh Yeah...but they ain't HALF of it. Those FULL BIRD North Vietnamese colonels had very SHORT SKIRTS. I mean 'VERY"! What the HELL was I gonna DO???
Must be the top bottom 5!
gIVE ME AN f
No no no ！you forget the best song ''reflection of my life '' man ？
Caiifornia Dreaming, bs. 8:07
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