Vietnam Voices: 'You knew what fear was. But then, you got hard toward it'
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- Опубликовано: 4 окт 2024
- Vietnam War veteran Jimmie Kerr talks about his experiences. Kerr grew up in Laurel and graduated from Laurel High in 1966. He served in the U.S. Navy on a river boat in Vietnam. He came back and had a successful career with the Postal Service.
I was drafted in 1970. I speak weekly with friends from my army experience. One from Ohio, Tennessee and Indiana. California here.
Welcome home and thanks for your service.
God bless our Vietnam veterans - and all our American veterans - and THANK YOU for serving our country.
From California ,thank you Sir for your service to this country It is a great injustice how our soldiers were treated when they came home , I was to. Young at the time but from what I have learned about the treatment of our brave American soldiers is shamefully and I apologise ....your service is much appreciated and you have my deepest respect . Thank you sir God bless you .
Thanks for such a kind thing to say. I randomly appreciate you going out of your way to say something nice instead of insult or disrupt like most of society today.
May your day be as beautiful as you are!
I'm a Brit and feel for these vets. They were treated badly after all they went through.
Thank you for your service, Jimmie Kerr, and welcome home.
One of the very best, in every sense. The world really would be better off with more people like Mr Kerr.
Thank you Jim Kerr for your touching insight and your service.
God bless this man. Hope he is still around. The most sensible veteran I've listened to so far. Thank you for your service, Sir. I'm a Ukrainian born during the cold war. As an aniti-communist, I cannot thank you enough for your service.
I only wish more Americans today had the true understanding of communism that you do, but it seems that the only way they are willing to learn is to experience it themselves..... By turning the U.S.A. into the U.S.S.A..... It's a damn shame too, glad to see you survived it. ✌️
He died in a drunken bar fight over a young girl in Billings, Montana. He should have stayed with mounting cows.
@@TheMattc999 wish in one hand and shit in the other and see what you feel first
The Vietnamese were victims of Communism too.
There is no god. Think childhood cancer
It's should be an example of how poorly these men were treated after this war to see how such small gestures, such as a Thank You, or a handshake, can mean the world to them. It was a realization that really shook me when I first started studying Vietnam. I hope everyone that went through this war, in any capacity, has found or finds peace.
Hey Jim, it's Bob Cooley EN3 From RAID72. I'm so glad to see this.
Thanks for your service. Welcome home. It ain’t the movies, you had no script to follow.
This man is a bad ass. Thank you for everything you did for us.
To hear these vets who are true Americans With their perspective on United States and their experience shared with us who cannot in no way know what they went through. I have the utmost respect for Vietnam vets and the ones who did not make it back. To help these vets comfortable and respected by interviewer Is excellent thank you to Darrell for letting us listen to these wonderful Americans.
Incredibly insightful man. I am so sorry what our country did to you guys. Thank you for your service
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Government still doing that today... The faces and the places have changed but the slavery remains the same.
Navy Vet ‘71-‘76. Agree that all must serve!!!!
From one Kerr to another: Thank you for your service, sir! Harold Kerr from Missouri
Welcome home soldier! You have made your country proud!
The soldiers did not lose the war in Vietnam. They won every fire fight. The politicians and the media were responsible.😡As long as I am alive I will not let America forget🇺🇸. Welcome home Sir, much respect.
Perfectly stated ! Thank you.
What triumphalist superior Ra-Ra USA rubbish
Another, among all, hero! This man should talk to every American; his expressive capacity would be a lesson to all of us. Thank you.
I don't think the two million murdered Vietnamese men, women and children would agree with you. They might think the men who refused to participate in a political proxy slaughter are the real hero's.
"What if they called for a war and nobody showed up"
And before you get up and ride your high horse, I was in the U.S. Navy from 1972 to 1976 on P-3A's deployed to Subic Bay twice. We were not "heros". Cut the sweet smelling bullshit unless you were there.
The ones who treated these guys like garbage should be ashamed of themselves. Cowards.
Respect and thanks to you sir. My uncle served and although he never talked to me, I think he had a lot of empathy for the people of Vietnam.
Welcome home sir, you done good...I still see your pain, God bless...72 yo Navy Veteran
Perhaps the most heart-wrenching interview. Sir, thank you for your service. I am so sorry you were treated so dishonorably upon your return. You deserved so much more respect from your fellow countrymen. God bless you.
Thank you Jimmie!
Thank you both.
You the man. Thank you for your service to our country and theirs.
I wish there were these types of interviews from WW2 vet's.
My grandfather was in the Mediterranean / north Africa in WWII, with the British navy. He told me stories about it, but I was very young and didn't take much notice. That's a regret I have.
American veterans center on RUclips has similar stories for WW2, Korea and Nam.
Tough man. God bless.
This guy`s really a philosopher,a thinking man`s vet......great interview....
Thank you for your service Mr. Kerr.
Thank you Sir for your service God bless you.
Jimmy Thank you for your service
Its sad how Americans treated their follow Americans..God Bless
I am not a veteran. But I want to say How Much I have been enthralled listening to your story and all the other guys who have came in to share their thoughts and stories about there individual VIETNAM experience. You guys r truly Great Men!!!! I very much am captivated by America's people who went to VIETNAM. I could only imagine how it would have felt to b a 18 or 19 yr old young man and go into the service's and then into this situation that was going to change u as a person in so many ways. I sincerely want you to know how much respect I have for each and every one of you guys! I think it's very important for our people and kids to b aware of what these men did and gave for us to have this world to grow up in. We r truly blessed to have guys like you in our community. I find myself hanging on every part of what you guys tell about it over there and in a war. U guys were just like all of my friends and I at that age we grew up playing football and baseball and hunting and fishing and working and then you guys went to war! War in a jungle! On a river! Truly amazing tails. I wish you guys all the best and want you to know that each of you r hero's/superb people who gave a lot for the rest of us. Thanks feels so little compared to what we owe you each. So I will say A BIG THANK YOU 4 BEING THERE!
Thank you for your honesty. Insights. Articulate and no hype.
44:00 'Every one of them should have to serve in the military before they become a congressman'. Score! That is a change that should begin ASAP. And it should be a very strong issue for getting employment as a school teacher, too. Thanks for talking about your experiences.
I can totally relate to him on his experience with getting a job after getting out of the service even though I was in during the 80's. Employers and even colleges don't understand your knowledge level, and the amount of responsibility you had at 18, 19-23 yrs of age, and refuse to give you the credit you've earned. I still can't get the amount of credit at the University that I was told the education and experience I was given in the military. They all say they'll give you the credit at these universities, but once you get there, you get nothing. We have to fight for everything you get, and that's the one very good thing the military service gives you, the fight and be perseverance needed to get through life.
This was outstanding. Thanks for posting ~ from Texas
Thank you for your service.
said the war profiteer
This was before my time and I'm not even American but love these interviews. Absolute maximum respect fot these men who went through so much.
I just had a Christmas Eve dinner with a Vietnam vet. I'm a bit of a military history/weapons nerd so I like to find very obscure and not well known tidbits of info. This guy I just spent time with .. I let him ramble and slowly he said things one at a time that most people are unaware of. The thing is, he's not a nerd. He just actually lived it! These men are incredible and it deeply saddens me that they're running out. I'll always remember you crazy Dave, love you brother
And the man in this video did a tremendous job here. Also he's very in tune with all the different view points on the war and why they are the way they are. Great job and a very emotionally and socially mature man
Jimmie Kerr the way you explain things, makes one think. That is quite an ability to have.
What an amazing interview. Incredibly important lesson on not keeping everythig to one's self and talking about life's difficulties. As a result we hear the interpretations of a man who analysed and dealt with his internal demons, which has ultimately made him aware of these. This advice holds true for generations past, and the generations to come. Speak your truths, and process your trauma, big or small. Thank you sir, you have my utmost respect.
I've been looking for a place to hear from the men of this era .. Lost my uncle to the effects of coming home to the same place and not being the same person...I know that he served with a honorable discharge in the end and hold his memory dear to my heart being three when he passed... their only faint and few.. but mean so much.. thanks so much for the effort and time to produce this documentation for the future to hear first hand of the front lines..
Sorry for the loss of him from your family .
I hate to ask, but by the sounds of your comment it sounds like your Uncle took his own life, due too not being able to fit back into society and not being able to find his own place in this world, is this right? And that really is a huge problem with our vets, old & new, that we need to help work on. They are pulled right off the battlefields sometimes, slapped on a plane, and dumped right back in the US and are told “Thanks for your service Soldier, we are done with you now” and expect them to just go back to normal life immediately like they never went to war...When they come back, they have been through, seen & done so many hard things and they need help adjusting and help by talking to them to get them re-adjusted back into society. We need to make sure they get all the help they need before we just dump them back into society. If we had a better plan & better care for our returning Vets then we will see a much healthier group of returning vets...
@@aj200415 As a VietNam vet I feel that I should respond to the suicide aspect of this statement. Taking ones own life is taken more easily by witnessing how quickly life can be ended in war. There are centainly barriers encountered as one plods through life and overcoming them seems impossible, but suicide seems a way out of them. Yes, I have encountered this choice and found that time and God helps.
Thank You!
Best interview yet. Thank you sir.
If I could go back in time, I wish I could help give these guys the welcome home they truly deserved. It is just unimaginable the things some of them had to deal with back here.
Thank you 😊
AN EXCELLENT INTERVIEW AND VETERAN…..THANK YOU FOR YOUR SERVICE SIR 🇺🇸🇺🇸
May God bless this man
Good man right there.
Jimmie knew the VN'se really well, an appointment for anything in VN even these days is a rarity, the kids are usually on time for the 7 am school start, ( usually 6 days a week, and sometimes Sunday ), but a different story when it comes to Language Center classes, also I've come to the conclusion that the favorite hobby of most VN'se, is watching some one one else working.
Thank you for your service Jimmie!
I spent a year on the Basac River in 69 and would bet he was there. I wish the interviewer would let him get into a little more detail. Watch "Apocalypse Now" Where the PBR boats (Patrol Boat, River) were taking the Army SF Captain up the river to drop him off and you will get a good idea what he was doing.
Only 30 k views on this in 5 years ! These guys need heard ! I like that this fellow was able to know the people & interact in a positive way ! ! Truth is all of the North & South wanted independence from France ! Rightfully so because the French treated them like slaves . If the western world had listened to Uncle Ho after WWII this war never would have happened !
He's completely right. If we don't finish things then the war goes on and on.
You are a very strong person good on yah
A lot of American Legion lodges vanished because of what Mr. Kerr states.
My one regret in life was not doing service . Im now 44 . Ive searched my whole life for comradeship, in the workplace etc...
I often wonder , would i have been brave or a coward . I will never know i guess!
All my respect to any man that fights for his country . Right or Wrong!
I dont mean to be rude ...but American soldiers are not brave ... USA picks fights with 3rd world nations ... countries that are smaller ..weaker ...poorer ... Korea ...Vietnam ...Iraq...Afghanistan .... all smaller and weaker .... the USA is a BULLY ... u better of not having been a bully ...
Serving this country (US Army Vietnam Era) was the best thing I did early in life, it put me on a path to 41 year career retiring as an SVP, I had the privilege of leading both veterans and non-veterans, both brought skills, strong work ethic, professionalism and integrity, a "good man" always makes a positive impact
@@sectortech12b8 250,000 minimum Vietnamese dead ...1 MILLION Iraqi dead ....80,000 Pakistani dead ....241,000 Afghani dead ... 77,000 of these are civilians ..... Positive impact ?
Send Congress!!! Yes. That is the only way to stop our involvements in other countries..
My dad served on the front lines in the army. He’s passed away now but it breaks my heart to have witnessed how it changed him! His Heath was ruined by agent orange and even though he didn’t whine about it he had many horrors in his head for the rest of his life! All for a political war that should not have happened
I like the comment on Miskito dope. I worked in a military ware house. The WIMIS label on the box was ( toxic use eye protection, gloves, when handing) now put it on your skin. It was good as a penetrating oil, and removing leaches. ( Canadian Veteran)
It wasnt tii my college years did my studies include vietnam and it was a course i chose for that reason.
Perfect description
That’s one I really never ever understood; why didn’t people hire/give jobs to Vietnam vets? I don’t get that at all, back then & these days it’s hard to find anyone experienced at anything...These Vietnam vets were experienced in all kinds of stuff, most of them had a field they learned in, Electronics, radio repair, Helicopter pilots, communications, etc...Bunches of these guys had plenty of experience, and most of all they just got back from the war and they want to settle down back into life and sustain “normalcy”, so they will work and work hard. And after all they went through, I am sure they will be tickled to death to have the job they are interviewing for, so they will be hard workers. With all the crap they dealt with, to have a “normal” job, a 9-5 job that after they can see their families, they will be hard workers for them. So I just don’t get why they turned Vietnam vets away, like the example he made in this video where he and one other guy applying at a job were Vietnam vets and the guy came out and called those two guys only over and just bluntly told them that they can’t hire them, so it was obvious that they weren’t going to hire them specifically because they were vets. I just don’t get it why they would be turned away solely because they were vets. I guarantee that if I was an employer, and if I had a room of people that were average interviewees and I saw that one was a Vietnam vet, then I am going to hire the vet first before I hire any of those other ‘Joe Blows’...
We were viewed as drug addicts, and mentally unstable, ticking time bombs. Killers of women and children. I learned to leave out my service record on job applications. Lied, sadly.
Jimmy Kerr served during my time there 1969 to 1971. What I'm surprised as a mud water river boat he never mention the usn seawolves helicopter squadron
We protected the nbr boats as well as ground troops cia ops, seals, green berets rangers.
Don't forget the OV-10 Bronco, Black Pony Squadron. I was in the Delta and saw those guys work out. They were some bad hombres who were devastating in action.
It was nice.
Mine was like too..Do your time
Hello Sir and what a pleasure listening to your commentary . Some very good points made all around . what an inspiring and well balanced individual .
Politicians did have an affect on the war. I can't count the number of cease fires we had due to Vietnamese holiday's. War as Jimmie says is war, lets get it done.
USAF, 9/70-9/71
Vietnam soldiers, on average, fought far more than WWII soldiers. I can't imagine the Iraq and Afghanistan soldiers fought any less than the Vietnam soldiers.
I think that like in Korea and Viet Nam people didnt care or want to deal with it because we as the US were not attacked..In WW2 we were attacked in Hawaii and Alaska so it builds up the population to want to repel the invaders mentality. Because if your country is attacked I guarantee you want the invaders gone. In Viet Nam we werejust in another country that didnt effect life in the US, to a point.
Well said
I'm sorry your fellow citizens and government abandoned and betrayed you.
The part I can’t understand is why the World War II vets turned the Vietnam vets away. Very sad. 🇨🇦🇺🇸
I've never understood that either. My oldest brother told me that I didn't know what war was. If I had been in WW2 than I would have known. It sure seemed like war to me. I was there 1970.
My mum fought in nam. Semper fi marines
I had no problem with a job. I made my career in the navy.
I had a teacher who was a vietnam vet. Talking to another teacher who lived in the neighborhood years later I said it amazing he was able to stay sane. She said when drinking with him he would go off the deep end about the nam.. she said he was nuts...not all could put it behind them.
@@jacobsladder6715 i think the girl exaggerated her story knowing he's a vietnam vet only to paint us as all crazy.
I've watched a lot of these interviews, and have really enjoyed most of them. However, this guy was likely the most 'on point' person that I have watched you interview. If you could bottle his wisdom and force feed all Americans with it our country would be much better off.
Well stated Jimmie. Like you and many vets say it was a political war a chess match if you will and not one of taking valuable land or even for positions and holding it cause it was a gorilla terrorist warfare with small groups of enemy. Of course, hindsight being 20/20 we never should have set one American boot in Nam.
vietnam was tremendously profitable to a certain group. It was party time
All of these interviews display the fact that the war was based upon lies for the benefit of the financiers. The politicians are liars paid by the financiers. The solders are merely pawns to be used and lied to. Sadly, they continue to struggle to make sense of it all - meanwhile, the financiers continue upon the exact same path, lying all the way to the bank.
Is this the first of the series Vietnam Voices?
No ruclips.net/video/GRYcP0G6DLI/видео.html
("...a boat captain WHO was from China.")
Hoa were ethnic Chinese who lived in Vietnam.
They hardly ever mention the many massacres by the ROK soldiers as well.
Walter Beery
I would never blame any individual soldier. It's important to be on the right side. In Viet Nam, we were the wrong side. For reasons unknown to this day, we went into another peoples' homeland and murdered several million of them, and maimed or rendered homeless many more. The people that carried it out, boots on the ground, like the Germans of WWII, must bear some responsibility for what happened. Ultimately, all wars are banker's wars. It never changes.
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A-dmit that you're a sinner, and need a Savior.
As it is written: There is none righteous, no, not one. Romans 3:10
For all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God. Romans 3:23
B-elieve that Jesus Christ died paying the penalty for your sins, and rose from the grave.
He Himself bore our sins in His body on the cross. 1 Peter 2:24
For I delivered to you as of first importance what I also received, that Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures, and that He was buried, and that He was raised on the third day according to the Scriptures... 1 Corinthians 15:3-4
C-all on the Lord Jesus Christ to save you, and trust only in Him for your salvation.
If you confess with your mouth Jesus as Lord, and believe in your heart that God raised Him from the dead, you will be saved. Romans 10:9
For whoever calls on the name of the Lord shall be saved. Romans 10:13
The moment you "believe," or, put your trust in what Jesus has done for you, God saves you and your eternal destiny in Heaven is assured. You go from spiritual death to eternal life the moment you believe.
Jesus said it this way: Most assuredly, I say to you, he who hears My word and believes in Him who sent Me has everlasting life, and shall not come into judgment, but has passed from death into life. John 5:24😀
you were never in viet nam you jive turkey
He's worried about protecting Christmas plays and I'm worried about children being taught that evolution is just a "theory" like it's some kind of guess about how we came to be as human beings.
Which is more dangerous to society?
Freeyourmind evolution IS just theory. please take your political correctness elsewhere. Thanks!
I watched the entire video and no where did he infer he was protecting plays. You cant seem to spell the word theory, so that tells me your lack of education. Trail blazing question you have, did you just smoke pot or meth?
I see that the retards here don't know that a hypothesis is a guess - and a theory is a hypothesis supported by FACTS. Maybe some of us should learn the meaning of words.
a supposition or a system of ideas intended to explain something, especially one based on general principles independent of the thing to be explained.
He was talking about them having freedom of thought, including freedom of religion, speech, etc. That was an oversimplification, what you said about the plays, but I understand because understanding the lives of Viet people at that time is difficult for average folks like us, 50 years later. These soldiers lived among them, knew the villagers, and could see how they lived under the govt at the time. I think that's how guys/gals who went over there with an apolitical mindset, came back political.
He kept his integrity in an ugly war...
Thank you for your service
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