My cousin Ricardo from NYC went to Vietnam, he never came back. He was 22 y.o. He has became our hero without a tomb. Rest in Peace Richie. We keep your spirit alive.
I Served. I spent 24 years in the British Army. This song means a lot to me. I survived all the crap that idiots sent us to. This song is not just for us Vets. But those who did not come back. I miss my brothers. Those who never made it back. It really hurts on Remembrance Day, the lead up to it and after. Or even at anytime. Those are haunting memories. But there were the good times too. Though they were not the same when a buddy isn't there.
Gary Castle, This American is appreciative for your service and sacrifice for those living and lost to your country I've had family serve in the military. I was in chaplaincy for almost 20 years. The visits I had with Vet's and active duty were the most humbling and respected experiences,cI will never forget God Bless from across the pond
Elaine Cragel Hello Elaine. Thank you for your post. Sometimes as a Pardre. You my not always have felt appreciated. But I found there were times. When the Pardre just showed up did his rounds, and it was just so good to have someone different to talk to. Also it didn't have to be about religion. I also remember a number of years ago. I was out of the Army and had lost my right above the knee. At that time I was in a civilian hospital, the military staff come in every now and then. A Chaplin appeared at my door. I was in a private room. The Chaplin was so surprised to see me their, my artificial limb leaning against the chair. I had started to get problems with my amputation, and needed work done on it. The Chaplin had never met a veteran yet alone an amputee. She wanted my life story. She was so interested it my whole military life. My Regiment, and things I had done and where I had been. She sat taking notes. At the end of it. She told me this word be here sermon for Sunday's church service. Before she left sh blessed me. Though I think with some of the jobs I did I was beyond that. All that seems so long ago. 2020 looks like it will be my first year I have not had to go in hospital for 10 years and have my amputation opened and shortened. So now hopefully I my get my life back. Though I am now in my early 60's. Being in a wheelchair takes life away from you. But being back up on my artificial limb makes all the difference.
@@garycastle3709 Hello Gary, thank you for sharing. I am so glad that those chaplain's, when in the military and when you were in hospital with your knee, where there for you. I always"s felt that I was doing my job, where God called me to be. I wanted to work in a VA hospital, yet I retired a few year's ago. I am also in my 60's. You made my morning, in reading that you will be out of your wheelchair. I am very happy for you, and it will be much better for you to get around. Funny thing, I just finished watching a movie with Harrison Ford called "Hanover Street" set in WWII in London. I will keep you in prayer. God Bless from across the pond.
@@elainecragel4647 Elaine, Thank you for your post. I don't know what to say. It's been a long road from my initial injury just prior to leaving the army on my 40th birthday. I really felt useless then. A knackered leg and going from someone in demand to a Mr!.of course things got worse. I spent early 2000 to 2003 in various hospitals in London. Lucky enough my last consultant was a former Colonel in the Royal Army Medical Corp. Who had left the Army after the Falklands War. We used to have a lot of laughs and he still had that Army sense of humour. Which dome people don't under stand. Especially when he told he he would be taking my leg off above the knee, and doing it the next day. I cried but I think I came back to him saying "well you won't be getting bombed by Argue aircraft in Ajax Bay this time Other staff members jaws dropped. As for Hannover Street. I always chose the mission. My pot wife has been through hell with me. We are still together. Though everything I did in the Army and flooding my leg. Finding work after Amputation, and this last 10 years has put a strain on her Mentle Health. I think she is the true hero.
one of my favorite songs - I am 70 years old and many of my friends went to vietnam and not all came back. There was so much division over the war at that time. But I believe that my friends who died were just as the brave as any of our military from the revolutionary war and since! There country called and they answered! Thank you Billy Joel for recognizing these young men and women for their commitments
This song always breaks my heart to think of the sacrifice of these brave men and women. And the fact that Billy Joel always seems to highlight their service to their country is an amazing tribute and way to recognize this sacrifice. Such a decent way to help us remember, lest we forget.
My brother, James A.Cole, spent too much time in Vietnam during the was, in the 1960s. When he came home, I believe he suffered the effects of the war throughout the rest of his life (50+ years more). He was buried February 2023. He was always my big brother and my hero.
My sincere condolences for your loss from the UK. I turned 72 in February 2023 and although we never got involved in Vietnam, when I walked the Wall in 2003 I reflected that those remembered there were robbed of the chance to live the long and full life that I've enjoyed.
My friend and fellow interpreter lost his wife, Nova, his wife and their son in the fall of Saigon back in 1975. Their daughter was severely injured during the evacuation of orphans. He was one of the last ones off the roof. I don't think many people know what really happened back in the day. Bill Bell and I are still friends after all these years. He co-wrote a book about his experience. He spent 20 more years after we retired on POW/MIA issues.
You should read the comment by ladylestat01. She captures the heart and soul of this song by Billy Joel. It's not about whether our country should be making war, it is about the soldier who finds himself in the middle of it.
Finally, thanks in part to Billy Joel, we confronted our Viet Nam veterans and welcomed them home. My Army time was just a bit before Viet Nam in 1962-64, but my wife and I were in Washington when the Viet Nam Memorial opened, and I was amazed to see the grizzled vets at the Wall....
I still have the POW/MIA bracelet that I got when I was 14. I knew about the Vietnam War then, but not nearly enough at that age. Later on in my teens I realized that all I wanted was to bring our soldiers home and to end that awful war. God Bless our Vietnam veterans and all those that didn't make it home to their families. I love this song so much. Thanks, Billy Joel, for your words and music. LOVE YOU, BILLY
Making me cry is as usual you winning the lottery. My dad did a year in Vietnam, and then Alaska (?). Time and again, he says he lost some friends in absolutely pointless conflict.
My father was a USMC Vietnam Vet. He went in as a kid and it affected him until he died at age 65 in 2016. That war ruined so many young men. Nevertheless, today I was with my son at the zoo and this song came on the loudspeaker. It was my first time hearing it and I felt instantly connected to him. RIP Dad. You were an asshole but you were still my dad.
My uncles were in the. Avy during the war. One delivered supplies on the river to marines. The other was a seabee. Myvaunt was an army nurse at a mash type unit.
They didn’t all go down together. Some feel the pain of still being alive or able to breathe every day. It keeps them awake at night. The ghost of the past. Why did you make it and did they/he/she didn’t return. It’s universal. You don’t have to go to war to know this feeling.
Very intelligent Billy Joel, the late Igor Sikorsky to save our souls for rescue with the rotary blades, positive thinking & words for thee my add. Brothers in arms United, States , Army & Royal Marine Commandos, my intelligent Father.
For Argentina The Malvinas´s war was our Vietnam I was too young to serve (only 16) but I have a brother who was in military age was wasn´t darft, he es surgeon now (thank god) but I know a lot o veternas of that war that suffer a lot now in ourdays like Plato said "Only the dead known the objetive of war" MALVINAS ALGUNA VEZ VOLVEREMOS
on May 23,1982 on a saturday afternoon the aerea fuerza argentina lost many pilots in a large air battle many were the cream of the crop !! with teutonic heritage !!!
4:10 *Once that first bullet goes oast yoir head, politics and all that ISH go straight out the window* -Hoot, Black Hawk Down (now I know what he was saying)
goodnaig forever eternity en donde quiera que no s encontremos por que vamos día adia en el camino por terminarlo o no terminarlo veremos las noches días y los días noches
Women died in Nam maybe not as many as men but rockets and mortars don’t care who they kill. A lot of nurses died because they had to be close enough to help. There were no front lines like you see in movies.
This is a great song but the glorification of War and killing people in their own land who haven't done anything to you there's nothing heroic about it. Not a single soul can tell me why any of these wars have occurred and eliminate Greed from the equation not a single soul the millions of lives that have been taken. For what personal greed the loss of 56000 in Vietnam for what no God sanctions this. I come from a military family third myself 22 years a decorated officer my mother my father grandmother and grandfather retired veterans my four brothers and I served distinguishably but in war nobody wins they're only casualties those are the heroes who gave their lives on both sides but something that they did not even create
Tell me you missed the point of the song, without telling me you missed the point. If you didnt realize this two years later, I hope you have now. "We left in plastic As numbered corpses" "They left their childhood On every acre And who was wrong? And who was right? It didn't matter in the thick of the fight" "And we would all go down together"
What horrible video. For half of the song the camera was pointed into the darkness behind Joel. It's so good that you used expensive pro cameras for this. Yeah I served and it was good to see the Veterans together.
66Freesia His uncle is a hero for believing in America and the rights and freedoms we offer. He is a hero for fighting and believing he was protecting you and your family in Vietnam. His uncle is a hero for being willing to lay down his life so you can enjoy each day in the USA. A soldier does not know the politics and the bullshit....He goes and does his job for you and your freedoms and rights.... and his uncle would have stepped in front of a machine gun barrage for you if you were there... and he fought thinking of all Americans back home!! His uncle is a HERO and you ought to thank him that you can drive down the street or say what you want or have 10 children or do any of what you do each day!! When those kids in Vietnam died for YOU, how dare you think of what could be wrong about it.!!! I am hurt that you do not see this with your own common sense.
66Freesia I don't actually think you get the point of the song. It isn't about the war itself, but those men, mostly drafted boys, who died and fought for each other because when they got home for a very long time that's all they really had. This song is about honoring men who were vilified for their service. Leave the awful unlawfullness of it to history and historians. This song is about the soldiers who fought and some who gave their last full measure of devotion.
My cousin Ricardo from NYC went to Vietnam, he never came back. He was 22 y.o. He has became our hero without a tomb. Rest in Peace Richie. We keep your spirit alive.
Merely a kid. May he live forever in your family's spirit. May he never be forgotten.
RIP Richie, thank you for the ultimate sacrifice. Our country loves you..❤🇺🇸
Please send me a message or an email, I would love to buy a head stone for him.
I’m so sorry for your family’s great loss. I thank Ricardo for giving the ultimate Sacrifice of his life 🙏❤️
Thank you for his service..respect
I can never, EVER, listen to this song without crying.
I Served. I spent 24 years in the British Army. This song means a lot to me. I survived all the crap that idiots sent us to. This song is not just for us Vets. But those who did not come back. I miss my brothers. Those who never made it back. It really hurts on Remembrance Day, the lead up to it and after. Or even at anytime. Those are haunting memories. But there were the good times too. Though they were not the same when a buddy isn't there.
Please excuse spelling on my comment. I get emotional at this
Gary Castle, This American is appreciative for your service and sacrifice for those living and lost to your country I've had family serve in the military. I was in chaplaincy for almost 20 years. The visits I had with Vet's and active duty were the most humbling and respected experiences,cI will never forget God Bless from across the pond
Elaine Cragel Hello Elaine. Thank you for your post. Sometimes as a Pardre. You my not always have felt appreciated. But I found there were times. When the Pardre just showed up did his rounds, and it was just so good to have someone different to talk to. Also it didn't have to be about religion. I also remember a number of years ago. I was out of the Army and had lost my right above the knee. At that time I was in a civilian hospital, the military staff come in every now and then. A Chaplin appeared at my door. I was in a private room. The Chaplin was so surprised to see me their, my artificial limb leaning against the chair. I had started to get problems with my amputation, and needed work done on it. The Chaplin had never met a veteran yet alone an amputee. She wanted my life story. She was so interested it my whole military life. My Regiment, and things I had done and where I had been. She sat taking notes. At the end of it. She told me this word be here sermon for Sunday's church service. Before she left sh blessed me. Though I think with some of the jobs I did I was beyond that. All that seems so long ago. 2020 looks like it will be my first year I have not had to go in hospital for 10 years and have my amputation opened and shortened. So now hopefully I my get my life back. Though I am now in my early 60's. Being in a wheelchair takes life away from you. But being back up on my artificial limb makes all the difference.
@@garycastle3709 Hello Gary, thank you for sharing. I am so glad that those chaplain's, when in the military and when you were in hospital with your knee, where there for you. I always"s felt that I was doing my job, where God called me to be. I wanted to work in a VA hospital, yet I retired a few year's ago. I am also in my 60's. You made my morning, in reading that you will be out of your wheelchair. I am very happy for you, and it will be much better for you to get around. Funny thing, I just finished watching a movie with Harrison Ford called "Hanover Street" set in WWII in London. I will keep you in prayer. God Bless from across the pond.
@@elainecragel4647 Elaine,
Thank you for your post. I don't know what to say. It's been a long road from my initial injury just prior to leaving the army on my 40th birthday. I really felt useless then. A knackered leg and going from someone in demand to a Mr!.of course things got worse. I spent early 2000 to 2003 in various hospitals in London. Lucky enough my last consultant was a former Colonel in the Royal Army Medical Corp. Who had left the Army after the Falklands War. We used to have a lot of laughs and he still had that Army sense of humour. Which dome people don't under stand. Especially when he told he he would be taking my leg off above the knee, and doing it the next day. I cried but I think I came back to him saying "well you won't be getting bombed by Argue aircraft in Ajax Bay this time Other staff members jaws dropped. As for Hannover Street. I always chose the mission. My pot wife has been through hell with me. We are still together. Though everything I did in the Army and flooding my leg. Finding work after Amputation, and this last 10 years has put a strain on her Mentle Health. I think she is the true hero.
One of the best songs ever written about Vietnam!
one of my favorite songs - I am 70 years old and many of my friends went to vietnam and not all came back. There was so much division over the war at that time. But I believe that my friends who died were just as the brave as any of our military from the revolutionary war and since! There country called and they answered! Thank you Billy Joel for recognizing these young men and women for their commitments
This song always breaks my heart to think of the sacrifice of these brave men and women. And the fact that Billy Joel always seems to highlight their service to their country is an amazing tribute and way to recognize this sacrifice. Such a decent way to help us remember, lest we forget.
My brother, James A.Cole, spent too much time in Vietnam during the was, in the 1960s. When he came home, I believe he suffered the effects of the war throughout the rest of his life (50+ years more). He was buried February 2023. He was always my big brother and my hero.
My sincere condolences for your loss from the UK. I turned 72 in February 2023 and although we never got involved in Vietnam, when I walked the Wall in 2003 I reflected that those remembered there were robbed of the chance to live the long and full life that I've enjoyed.
No matter the years that separate me from my Service, things like this strike deep.
Thank you for your service & sacrifices Sir. My Dad was a Vietnam Vet from Australia, & I have so much respect for you all.
My friend and fellow interpreter lost his wife, Nova, his wife and their son in the fall of Saigon back in 1975. Their daughter was severely injured during the evacuation of orphans. He was one of the last ones off the roof. I don't think many people know what really happened back in the day. Bill Bell and I are still friends after all these years. He co-wrote a book about his experience. He spent 20 more years after we retired on POW/MIA issues.
The love of my life fought in Vietnam. He was on a PBR. What he had to do at age 20 was insane. He came back. A lot of his friends didn’t.
This song sends shivers down my spine. When the vets come into stage I love it. Just wish they mic'd them.
cannot hold my tears...the sadness and true in this song......then the vets who are singing together....
Too all our vets: You are all heroes. Thank you for your service.
thanks mr.joel from upstate n.y. great song!!
You should read the comment by ladylestat01. She captures the heart and soul of this song by Billy Joel. It's not about whether our country should be making war, it is about the soldier who finds himself in the middle of it.
like all soldiers we serve
At 18 I didn’t have a clue what it was about. I was just doing what we had to do and count down the days.
Billy Joel your song is as beautiful as when yo first sang it Thank you so much for this tune it hits me really hard but in a good way.
Finally, thanks in part to Billy Joel, we confronted our Viet Nam veterans and welcomed them home. My Army time was just a bit before Viet Nam in 1962-64, but my wife and I were in Washington when the Viet Nam Memorial opened, and I was amazed to see the grizzled vets at the Wall....
I still have the POW/MIA bracelet that I got when I was 14. I knew about the Vietnam War then, but not nearly enough at that age. Later on in my teens I realized that all I wanted was to bring our soldiers home and to end that awful war. God Bless our Vietnam veterans and all those that didn't make it home to their families. I love this song so much. Thanks, Billy Joel, for your words and music. LOVE YOU, BILLY
He did this same thing when I saw him in Chicago in 2015. One of the best parts of the show.
The song explains it all. Think of my lost friends every time I hear it. Over 50 years and it feels like yesterday.
It’s unreal. They’re all heroes.
Me too.
Moving, stirring all of those patriotic emotions, especially now, as we express our solidarity with Paris.
This song gives me chills every time I hear it.
I'm an only 47 year old man who never had to fight in any war, but I just can't hear this song without crying ... I just can't.
I have always loved this song, but this brought me to tears. God Bless our service men and women forever😬💙
Making me cry is as usual you winning the lottery. My dad did a year in Vietnam, and then Alaska (?). Time and again, he says he lost some friends in absolutely pointless conflict.
I'm not sure who feels more honored -- the veterans for singing with Billy, or Billy for singing with the veterans.
Good to see the women in there. I don’t know how long he’s been including them, but they’ve always deserved to be up there too.
how many were conscripted
Hanoi Tripper No need to be rude. Women served.
@@Katie2986 They did but they were not in the thick of the fight
If this video doesn't make you choke up and shed a couple tears, then you have no heart or soul.
Thank you Billy Joel for this song.
22 yr's the memories are haunting
My father was a USMC Vietnam Vet. He went in as a kid and it affected him until he died at age 65 in 2016. That war ruined so many young men. Nevertheless, today I was with my son at the zoo and this song came on the loudspeaker. It was my first time hearing it and I felt instantly connected to him. RIP Dad. You were an asshole but you were still my dad.
That one hit home brother.
in a major way.
9th Infantry
7th Grp
RVN 1972-1975
God Bless your dad.
I was there!!
My uncles were in the. Avy during the war. One delivered supplies on the river to marines. The other was a seabee. Myvaunt was an army nurse at a mash type unit.
What a legend Billy Joel is the BEST
It hits me like a thunder ⚡ every time.
Listening To Billy. A Brat. Butt. I Can’t Thank You Enough. Mark Ft Lauderdale. Hope U & Yours Well. 💜
Wounds so deep, continues to require to heal. If ever 😪
They didn’t all go down together. Some feel the pain of still being alive or able to breathe every day. It keeps them awake at night. The ghost of the past.
Why did you make it and did they/he/she didn’t return.
It’s universal. You don’t have to go to war to know this feeling.
I have only one word for this: RESPECT! ✌
One of the most poignant songs ever written. Nobody could do this better.
Very intelligent Billy Joel, the late Igor Sikorsky to save our souls for rescue with the rotary blades, positive thinking & words for thee my add. Brothers in arms United, States , Army & Royal Marine Commandos, my intelligent Father.
God, the "chik-chik-chik" sounds SO much like the main rotor of a UH-1 Huey....
+CaesarInVa Rather, it was.
That was intended.
I was there!
Me also.
God Bless xxx
up do date again??, couldn't have imagined to feel this way, when hearing this song
Parris Island SC, Sept-Nov 1982. Semper Fi
For Argentina The Malvinas´s war was our Vietnam I was too young to serve (only 16) but I have a brother who was in military age was wasn´t darft, he es surgeon now (thank god) but I know a lot o veternas of that war that suffer a lot now in ourdays like Plato said "Only the dead known the objetive of war" MALVINAS ALGUNA VEZ VOLVEREMOS
He didnt fight, he is lucky
on May 23,1982 on a saturday afternoon the aerea fuerza argentina lost many pilots in a large air battle many were the cream of the crop !! with teutonic heritage !!!
4:10 *Once that first bullet goes oast yoir head, politics and all that ISH go straight out the window* -Hoot, Black Hawk Down (now I know what he was saying)
Agreed! That one line says it all
Thinking of you Richie.
Godbless you veterans of Nam lord forgive us for how you ware treated
K, I'm not crying ... You're crying ...
Brilliant they have my respect as an old SADF bush war veteran.
Anthony Salgado whats sadf
@@hanoitripper1809 South African Defense Force.
Anthony Salgado ah i see. Did you participate in Rhodesian conflict of the 1970s?
@@hanoitripper1809 No only in the then South West Africa and Angola.
We dont learn much about history of that area in schools. Do you still live in SA?
Shocking........ let from now on all these politicians fight their own wars,
Never again.......................
goodnaig forever eternity en donde quiera que no s encontremos por que vamos día adia en el camino por terminarlo o no terminarlo veremos las noches días y los días noches
Jadore
Are those Women Vietnam Vets?
While they didn’t fight they were nurses and chefs for veterans which was a huge help and is why they deserve a spot up there
Of course not
Women died in Nam maybe not as many as men but rockets and mortars don’t care who they kill. A lot of nurses died because they had to be close enough to help. There were no front lines like you see in movies.
PRIVACY 411 EVERYTIME YOU WATCH.
Best Nam song ever. Thanks Billy.
Z Rich Man's War,Poor Man's Blood !
This is a great song but the glorification of War and killing people in their own land who haven't done anything to you there's nothing heroic about it. Not a single soul can tell me why any of these wars have occurred and eliminate Greed from the equation not a single soul the millions of lives that have been taken. For what personal greed the loss of 56000 in Vietnam for what no God sanctions this. I come from a military family third myself 22 years a decorated officer my mother my father grandmother and grandfather retired veterans my four brothers and I served distinguishably but in war nobody wins they're only casualties those are the heroes who gave their lives on both sides but something that they did not even create
Tell me you missed the point of the song, without telling me you missed the point.
If you didnt realize this two years later, I hope you have now.
"We left in plastic
As numbered corpses"
"They left their childhood
On every acre
And who was wrong?
And who was right?
It didn't matter in the thick of the fight"
"And we would all go down together"
What horrible video. For half of the song the camera was pointed into the darkness behind Joel. It's so good that you used expensive pro cameras for this. Yeah I served and it was good to see the Veterans together.
Billys left eye looks swollen here.
NASA AIR FORCE AGNES MOORHEAD.
Hard to believe 45 called all people "losers".
LOUNGES USS NIMITZ
Ok
6 dislikes from Vietnamese troops
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Wow, bold, but still young Billi! Nice voice, but nothing to be proud about - awful unlawful war in Vietnam.
66Freesia fuck you! my uncle died in that war he's a Hero!
Hero for what? Iraq, Afganistan, Vietnam - what the US is doing all over the world?
66Freesia
His uncle is a hero for believing in America and the rights and freedoms we offer. He is a hero for fighting and believing he was protecting you and your family in Vietnam. His uncle is a hero for being willing to lay down his life so you can enjoy each day in the USA. A soldier does not know the politics and the bullshit....He goes and does his job for you and your freedoms and rights.... and his uncle would have stepped in front of a machine gun barrage for you if you were there... and he fought thinking of all Americans back home!! His uncle is a HERO and you ought to thank him that you can drive down the street or say what you want or have 10 children or do any of what you do each day!! When those kids in Vietnam died for YOU, how dare you think of what could be wrong about it.!!! I am hurt that you do not see this with your own common sense.
America offers freedoms? You are all watched by the government and Snowden proved it. There is no democracy or freedom in America.
66Freesia I don't actually think you get the point of the song. It isn't about the war itself, but those men, mostly drafted boys, who died and fought for each other because when they got home for a very long time that's all they really had. This song is about honoring men who were vilified for their service. Leave the awful unlawfullness of it to history and historians. This song is about the soldiers who fought and some who gave their last full measure of devotion.
fake veterans hahah
What do you know? Nothing. Fucktard ! You jelous because your a coward?
Save us your scorn, unwashed idiot.
if this doesn't get to you, you should be very worried. 🥲🥲🥲🥲🥲🥲