Vietnam Voices: 'I don't think I was destined to come back from there fully intact'
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- Опубликовано: 28 сен 2015
- Vietnam War veteran Beaver Tallbull talks about his experiences. Tallbull was born in Forsyth, Montana and raised in Lame Deer by his grandmother. He served in the U.S. Army from 1968 to 1971.
The funniest thing about these videos is that all the old guys can't turn their cell phones off when they ring but Beaver was the fastest so far.
Yes ! I noticed that & wondered why they had the phones on them doing interview ! 😲
@Jimmy Jones & the Kool-Aide Crew Probably right ! 😀👍
That's what you take from these men and the stories? Cell phone?
@@missyounorm33 No that's just a side note . I am a Viet-Nam Era Vet myself . I listen to every word these guys say . Very often I am in tears my friend .
Haha I totally noticed he had it the quickest with his high iq🤣
The year he enlisted I was already in Viet Nam. I joined the military 54 years ago today 30 June 1967!
I have great respect for people like you sir, i am from the netherlands so i am no american, but i allways owe you my respect, i myself want to become a KCT member.
My uncle was killed in Vietnam on August 23 1967.
God bless you!
@@boatrvme8478 You have a right to grieve for a lifetime. Our country is in great turmoil and it's like quicksand made by the depraved sociopathic politicians. I wish they would all go in head first! USA dehumanized Vietnamese. Children were orphan's - they were put a n child sex trafficking operations. CIA made the most money in the world in child sex trafficking!
Highest compliment I can give him " He's a Good man"...
All of your guests from the Vietnam Veterans interviews have been wonderful to watch and likely helped some of the Veterans overcome issues they faced. This specific interview is the most interesting and entertaining.
Love these interviews. Thank you for talking to these heros. Wish they did this in every state.
He Walked the Walk, so he gets to Talk the Talk.
Exactly!
Is that you John Wayne? Is this me?
" put the politicians on the battlefield"
Absolutely. Put them there first and lets see how many years we have.
Thank you for your service sir.
In spite of what the Polititians do and say. Thank you for doing What you were asked to do.
Hell no!! You want to screw up a perfectly good war? I mean, they may have started it, but let them fight it too and there goes everything. Come to think of it though, put our politicians and their politicians in a dark room with one door and each one gets a sock of cow shit. Let them slug it out and whoever comes out will be the winner. A better idea.
Great interview however, have one of your grandchildren show you how to shut off your phone.
This interview makes one wonder what is the cost of progress? From Town Crier to Apple iPhone and a 20th century civilization dropping bombs on a Medieval civilization - or less. Just because you can do something doesn’t mean you should.
Save time. Just hang the politicians.
Thank you for your service
Im so sorry the way the Vietnam Vets were treated.
Now that's a real American .make s me proud to have men like him defending our country .thank you an God bless
Maine made he’s full of shit 235 iq an all
Maine outdoorsman I’m not an American but there’s a true American a true American that’s all I’m going to say 👌
Kevin Mckinney, WHY? Do you not think someone can have that high an IQ, or are basing your comment on something else other than your own intelligence, maybe because he is a true Native American, maybe because he was a grunt, whatever the reason for your comment the only person full of Sh1t is you. Do you not think that the interviewer or somebody involved would have done their research about his service record, or do they know the interviewees background by ESP, if Albert Einstein said his IQ was 235 you wouldn’t call BS on him, but despite his intelligence he failed his mathematics at school (I am sure it was mathematics but he certainly did fail one subject at school) sorry but your comment is baseless, or at least a flawed basis, you don’t even attempt to justify your comment, something that politicians and racists always do, why? because they don’t have an IQ high enough to formulate a coherent opinion. I am 100% sure that someone who has seen this interview and knows him personally would call BS if he was lying. Sometimes you need to think before putting fingers to keyboard, or as I prefer to say “engage brain BEFORE opening gob”.
native american
Thank you Mr. Tallbull for your service! You are very well spoken, and I enjoyed hearing your stories.
Thank you sir, I too am a Vietnam vet. U maid my day. God bless u.
Thank you Beaver Tallbull. You are a great American. God bless you and your family.
My Brother worked for a Nam Vet and he would go nuts if he ever got his feet wet , he would actually carry xtra pairs of socks in his truck , I met him a few times,he was a really nice guy , he ended having a heart attack and dying , now my Brother knew he was a Nam Vet but his brother told him after he died that he had been a tunnel rat in Nam and had shit loads of medals including a couple Silver Stars and he’d done about 3 or 4 tours of duty , now I’ve heard a lot of Vets say they gave up deer hunting after Nam because deer don’t shoot back ? Or there just wasn’t any thrill in it , well this guy loved to hunt and he was very very good at it and fishing also , I was hoping he’d take me with him but he passed before I got the chance, no matter where he was over the years he always made it a point to come up and say hello , class act ! RIP Frank 🙏🏻🇺🇸
Sounds like a hell of a guy putting up with a hell of a weight. Right on.
Could be a number of reasons a vet would hang that up. Someone on these interviews said he became afraid of going into the forest at night (early morning to get ready to hunt) because his firebase was always attacked at night. I would imagine its mostly flashback and fear related. That or they dont like holding guns due to the killing they may of had to do. Might be a little haunting :/
Thank You for your Vietnam Service Sir.......God Bless and Welcome Home !!
He's the kind of man I could listen too for hours .. highly intelligent , modest and slick as owl shiza !!
I'll be your point man sir, my honor. Thank you for your service. Austin, Tx
Jon James you Americans make me feel proud and I’m I’m a Brit god bless the American armed forces
Sir, you are a great American. Thank you for your sacrifice for us.
I would’ve loved to know this man as a personal friend... of all I’ve watched thus far, I’ve enjoyed this man the most I believe...he is a warrior.
I would love to meet this gentlemen ! God bless him
I love seeing these guys laugh and smile
Welcome home, and thank you.
thank you chiefly haha thanks hahaha 🤣
Thank you for your service Mr. Tallbull. And welcome home.
This interviewer is just terrific, he never interrupts and his questions are spot on. What a great series. Thank you, and thank u to this brave soldier.
J
That by far is the best interview yet that I have heard from your series. What an outstanding human!
he does tell good story LOL!
BSD
I agree
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Thank you 🙏🏻🇺🇸
Another Great interview!
While standing in formation, one of our rank was named Geronimo on his name tag. Our sergeant came up to him and said when you jump out from the plane, instead of yelling Geronimo, you yell Custer! Fort Jackson 1967
Awesome interview all of them , this one was outstanding and I appreciate you doing this.
Thank you for sharing your story and for your service Sir. This was one of the best interviews so far , Please if you read this comment tell your sons thank you for their service as well
I could listen to Beaver all day and never be bored.
Great interview!
I'm also a Viet Era Vet, but never had to go to that war.
Thanks, Beaver for your Vietnam Service!!
Thank you for serving. God bless and keep your wonderful spirit.
I really like the truth in these videos. Raw, unfiltered real life talk. Im learning a lot about how to conduct myself listening to these vets. So much of the media and people are fake nowadays. Its nice to get some realism thrown at me.
Awesome 👏 thank you for sharing your experience we appreciate your service to our country may you continue to live well💕☺️
Thanks for sharing your story 👌
Welcome home Beaver Tallbull! You have made this country proud
Thank you for your service Sir and welcome back.
45 years before somebody thanked them. I heard that and a tear ran down my cheek, actually. I served in the military during the late 1960's, but was never incountry. I salute you and thank you, sir.
Does it matter that the Vietnam war was started on a lie and cost 55k young americans their lives which would qualify it for being called stupid
@@jacobjorgenson9285 some of you people just don't get it and unfortunately for you all you probably never will.
@@edburns8663 we are just not fans of mass murder and imperialism. We are strange like that
@@jacobjorgenson9285 Secondary reasons aside, it's because of your apathy.
@@msshannonigans in this case apathy could've saved about 4 million lives........but America is a terrorist state seams to love loosing wars to guys fighting sandals with old AK's
This guy has an amazing humor and upbeat happiness about him, makes me wonder what he’s not saying though. We know there’s pain in there. But he owes us nothing, he can share his truth in his own way if there is more to his experience. God bless the veterans
He may well owe quite a few Vietnamese families something.
@@hermbobsquarehead how could he possibly owe the Vietnamese anything?
Good point, very inciteful! His coping mechanism kicked in full speed ahead to overcome the pain.
@@hermbobsquarehead nope he doesn’t owe them anything
Thank you for your distinguished service and information. May God hold you and all your brothers in arms in the palm of His hand. Thank you.
God bless you sir! Thank you for your service! SALUTE!
Great interview
He has a great attitude
Thank you for your service
This is the most impressive intellect I've witnessed in this wonderful series. Such interesting verbal phrasing and delivered with a smooth confident vocal spirit.
Thanks to this man for his service and serving in my stead. I was a college boy who kept his grades up and avoided the draft. I would love to have served with this fellow for the benefit of his wisdom.
I can't imagine living life during that time. I love listening to these interviews
I like watching this ! However you need to turn the volume up VOLUME is low!
same on all videos, the host really likes to turn up the volume on his own voice.
Right!
Thank you for everything you gave and still give.
59:13 ...if u take the politicians and put THEM on the battlefield, wars wouldn't be happening...
So true!! 👍🏾👍🏾
Don't think it's quite true. Coming from a nation which has Royalty, they used to go out in front of their troops & into the battle.But may be, political classes should get fined for each life lost, and when they were paying for going to work, and may be absorbing their family money to pay for it, they may understand the cost of war.
Veterans are always projecting blame and responsibility on politicians. The truth is....every single one of them had a choice regarding Vietnam. I resisted the Draft and Vietnam @ 18. They made a different choice. Regardless, as they say, "you make your bed...you sleep in it". They ultimately must take responsibility for their life choice, and the resulting experiences and consequences.
@@topgeardel so you dodged the draft, how honorable, now my two wars we we a 100 percent voluntary army different times.
@@realityhurts8697 Nothing "honorable" or "dishonorable" about it, Vietnam was a great American FU that people had to do "what they had to do". And for the millionth time....I RESISTED the Draft...I didn't dodge anyone or anything. A huge difference to me. Your "two wars"......isn't it great how every American generation gets their own wars ?. Wars that are never on American soil involving other Americans. President Eisenhower said it best as he was leaving office...."beware of the military/industrial complex". Truly a machine in America that oils itself.
@Jimmy Jones & the Kool-Aide Crew You make good points...but as I tell everyone...we are all responsible for our choices. NO shame on me. At the end of the day, "we make our beds, we sleep in them". A man is an individual, as well as part of the community. He has to do what is right and be true to his conscience. No Government gets to steal that from anyone. There is also an issue of how one values their life and Life itself....and just when is it appropriate to sacrifice that precious life. Vietnam added up to "0" when it came to that question. I'm not accountable for how other people viewed that issue. A man does what he has to do. As far as I'm concerned....the individuals you mentioned and their Government didn't make their lives a priority. I believe that was self-evident for everyone.
And one more thing....people that went to Vietnam...regardless of their beliefs or reasons....enabled that war to continue for 10 years. American Government and foreign policy should have been radically refined and re-designed after Vietnam. Obviously, that didn't happen. If you want to give a Monopoly "get out of jail" card to people, that's your privilege. Give yourself a noble star on your forehead. But again, NO shame on me.
I enjoyed this interview more than any of the rest than you for your service sir
Thanks for sharing your life sir. May God continue to bless you.
WOW! Truly a man's man, I don't think they make them like you sir, Anymore... SALUTE
Byron Lee this guy tallbull is full of bull 235 iq not possible he’s full of shit his iq would be higher than Einstein or Stephen hawking he’s full of shit and puts a stain on truthful veterans everything he said other than his name and being in nam was bs and you know it unless you are a fool
If times were different, another audie murphy. I salute you every way possible.
This guy seems pretty proud of himself. And his way of life. I suppose he has a right to be, but I value humility and humbleness, and I think it Tends to be a sign of sincerity and truthfulness
I think he earned it lol.
@@spuffvermon Either way, the guy served his country in very violent combat. He deserves everyone's respect, no matter how much you don't like bravado.
Justin Akers
What have you done in your life? Been around any Men? Or are you just a keyboard warrior/troll?
Not all are Milk Toast Soy Drinkers.
@@spuffvermon you seem Triggered Lil man.
I served my 20 years. Retired. Joined when I was 17yrs old. Been around a few old Salts. There is a point that a man reaches where enough is enough. Attitude is what makes a man a man. How you carry yourself in public.
Again lil man what have you done?
Will you kneel or will you fight if they come for your lil sorry a$$?
This guy served. Bravo sir! So did many. Sticking a 45 in man's mouth is not respectable "chief"
That kid buying his dinner had me in tears. ❤
Tanks in Viet Nam, didn't know that! What a brave story and a chance to learn a little more about the Cheyanne culture and Beavers analogy of life, war and religion confirms some of my beliefs. Thank you.
The funny thing is that, the people who protested, the were indifferent towards the soldiers, had that capability because this guy went over there and provided thier rights ,thank you outstanding sir.
They were not protesting the soldiers, they were protesting the politicians who sent them there.
I was just watching a "Viking Wisdom" video where it says, "fight in the field so that you don't have to fight in your village" and this man says it so well, we are preserving our way of life. It's crazy that this guy has family that fought Custer...and even when his brother was wounded, he STILL went in to sign up. That's warrior balls, for real.
Thank you for your service and Welcome Home Good Sir!
Very good interview. I really enjoyed listening to mr Tallbull
Thank you for your service, and welcome home mr. Tallbull. Your absolutely right, to survive something like that you can't dwell on anything or you will be dead.
Thank you for your service
I wish I had parents like his they raised thier boy to turn into one of the very best brave,kind hearted down jto earth ,GOD FEARING
MAN THAT IVE EVER SEEN,IF EVERY MAN IN THIS WORLD WAS LIKE HIM,THER WOULD BE NO WARS,WHERE MEN ARE MADE TO DO DO THE MOST AWLFUL THINGS TO EACH OTHER THANK YOU SAMMY DAVIS HOPE TO BE YOUR FRIEND IN HEAVEN JOHN MARTINEZ FROM EAST LOS ANGELES , CALIFORNIA
He's a warrior that works as a mechanic? As US Army Infantry vet., there's lots of "mechanic warriors" that brag all day just like this in the rear.
Right. I was thinking the same thing. I just don't buy what this guy is selling starting with the IQ. That would be the 5th highest ever tested. he certainly didn't seem to be a genius.
@@glenmccord4994 this guy is a Supreme Bullshitter....the I.Q. thing and the Cheyenne being the most populated in the army in all the inner cities are Cheyenne? Please Dumbass.
Thank you Beaver Tallbull. God bless you
Amazing man and very well spoken. He tells great stories. From the interview and everything he spoke of sounds like he's led a wonderful life and helped many folks. Thanks for your Service.
Howard Fortyfive tallbull is full of bullshit he disgraced all of the honest veterans in this series
@@Tn19895 Well you're welcome to your opinion but I think you're full of it.
Don't listen to the bad comments mr.tallbull. we know the reality. Thanks for the jokes and your service. That must have been a tough service.
It's like Don Shipley says...You did your service,be proud of that.No need to exaggerate or make things up.
right
Why do you doubt his sincerity and truthfulness, is it because he was a grunt? Is it because he is a true Native American? You don’t have to have a average IQ to WANT to serve your country, something that none of you can grasp, I have an IQ of 150 (under United Kingdom testing) and that’s not bad at all, but I spent 24 years in the United Kingdom military as an Aircraft technician, but I started out as a lowly mechanic and worked my way up through the ranks, as did my farther, my grandfathers and most recently my son, and why? Because we wanted to serve our country, again, you can’t grasp that concept, you all need to engage your brains before opening your big fat mouths, you should be ashamed of yourselves for doubting his integrity. Having a huge IQ does NOT automatically mean you want to be an officer or leader, sometimes serving your country is enough. Finally, if he is lying why would he do it in an interview that is being recorded for posterity AND being posted on a worldwide social media platform for ANYONE to see, especially those that served with him, his family, and anyone else who knows him. Shame on you all.
@DJ Phantom because an IQ score of 235 is impossible. The highest IQ ever recorded was 228 and was scrubbed in 1990 because of an antiquated scoring system. The standard IQ test at the time was the Stanford-Binet which doesn’t allow any score at any age to be above 170 and is still considered the standard IQ rating. The other test is called the Mega test which uses a slightly different scoring method and the highest score ever recorded on that was 186 by the same woman Marilyn vos Savant. I love listening to these vets stories and experiences but it’s very disheartening to sit here and listen to a blatant liar. He has enough to be proud of he doesn’t need to lie about himself to us.
@@jasonwaggoner4705 Thank you. No need to lie.
@@allandavis8201 It just goes to show you how much those IQ numbers really don't mean anything ...
An incredible story!!
The detailed memory of these guys amazes me. Did 24 yrs., combat twice and can't remember but few names, but wish I could remember more
Lone Ranger, Did 24 years as well, and exactly same here, can’t remember names, but I do remember virtually all of those years.
Wonderfully done:)
I really enjoyed this interview because I had several connections with Mr. Tallbull. I moved to Ashland in 1979 and lived there for a couple of years, logging on the Northern Cheyenne reservation. Later I was a physician on the Crow Reservation nearby. That, of course, brings up the question. Would you trust a Doctor Who used to be a logger? So I suspect we know some of the same people. And I can guarantee that we have both drunk water from Indian Head Spring. But the other aspect Mr. Tallbull that I was particularly interested in was the fact that he read the encyclopedia Britannica. I grew up reading all kinds of things, including the encyclopedia, and gained a lot of knowledge about a lot of things in the process. So we might be two kindred spirits.
When my parents died and we liquidated their estate, they had two full sets of the encyclopedia Britannica, which I advertised in the paper for two weeks for sale for free! Not one call! Took them to the dump! I got a call about a month later, and I told the older guy they were gone. Sad!!
When my brother in law came back from Iraq, he had a stack of pictures from Desert Storm. He was in charge of two 155mm Howitzers and a cadre of men. The pictures were gruesome!! Every one was a enemy tank with holes in it and dead guys all over or hanging out the portals. I remember thinking, "they don't show this stuff on the news"! The stack was an inch thick!!!!
Why would anyone want outdated paper Encyclopedias? You can just get all that online.
@@spaceghost8995 Because the electronic version can be modified and you would never know.
My son was in England at Heathrow air force base. We would go out and at night the small deer Tallbull was talking about have been brought to England. Over there they are called munt-jacks. A lot of them.
I was a medic in Viet Nam Era we were given
IQ tests mine was not
Close to his though
Thanks for your service
I would have bought your dinner
well they let obama be president with a iq of 85
Another good man!!!
Thanks Mr Tallbull
God bless you and your family for your service
Thanks for your service
Great guy in so many ways. Learning experience to listen to his story.
Great to listen to. A very confident man that has a right to tell us about his service any way he wants.
Good man.
I just watched the video. Mr Tallbull THANK YOU from my heart for your service to this country. That is not enough for what you Veterans have been through
Thank you for protecting our freedom!!
Thank you sir. Sorry you had to wait so long.
A Honorable Man worthy of Respect
warrior mechanic with an attitude. Strange but Thank You for your service. I mean that.
Thank you for your service sir
Over “200” iq and he can’t figure out how to turn off a cell phone call. Lol sure
Thank you for your service sir welcome home
I'll never understand how fighting a war that's not yours in countries that arent threats to the US is considered service. There is something very wrong with you people.
Great heart man
Appreciate your humor (and bravery)
Neils
Sgt
USMC
Viet Nam
65-66
As a wounded combat Vet, I had great empathy for all of the indigenous people we worked around, the Communist exploited them regularly, we were there for one reason, to kill Communists sifting that chaff out was hard, not impossible, they were the one with the weapons trained on the S. Vietnamese and us. I don't know how they slept at night after the atrocities they performed constantly, person to person. We may have done the same inadvertently, but we also did much the same to ourselves, not on purpose, just part of War. This war, like all of our wars, was our government saying its got to be done; individual combatants never want war, just Politicians, we did not have the idea, just the means to kill 2.5 million Communist Combatants, and a few civilians and 54,000 of our Military killed in Vietnam and the survivors in the military who came home, it took a lot not to wade into the demonstrators and murder them off here in the states, this speaks volumes to our Patriotic Military, knowing the difference between being soldiers and citizens of the greatest nation on this Earth.
Thank you Sir.
As someone else has already said, the story about the steak dinner in Texas brought a tear to my eye, and not because I am vegetarian :-) May you and your people live long, fulfilling lives.
Excellent.. God Bless you Sir!
I served in the Rhodesian Bush war we had Vietnam veterans with us great bunch of guys we did not lose the war Britain and America stabbed us in the back Think about that folks..I'm a proud Rhodesian.....we will never die
Amazing video and man! 😮
Awesome series, well done... listening to many veterans or service personal stories brings a lump to my throat at the things they went through... I hope we never let ourselves forget.
70 percent of the video is about him being Indian and the other percent about Vietnam. Kind of full of him too.
Thank you, Sir,
Class human being. Thank you Mr. Tallbull.
“We would have marched into Hanoi in a week and the war would have been over. But they wouldn’t let us.” Kind of says it all.
About twenty-five minutes into the interview with Mr. Tall bull was all I could take. He claims a 235 IQ, which is ridiculous. An IQ over 200 has only been recorded five or six times in history, and those people are incredibly talented across multiple fields like math, science and physics and languages. Mr. Tallbull seems to be of average intelligence, but he doesn't always match his tenses, he doesn't always use adverbs when required, and he doesn't form expansive thoughts and sentences like a high IQ person. He says things like “it wasn’t no big surprise” and “He had already came home.”
Mr. Tallbull said he was one generation away from fighting General George Custer, an event which happened seventy-five years before his birth, so he is at least three generations removed from an adult alive in Custer’s death in 1875. He said he was given advice to miss on his sharp shooting test or he’d get put in the sniper corps, and he claimed he did just that; miss on his test. He said his ancestors were commonly over seven feet tall.
He said he was offered the rare opportunity of attending officer’s candidate school upon entering the service and he turned it down, but later asked for the opportunity after being in the military awhile, but was turned down because of racism. He claimed that while on duty in a war zone, a superior officer called him “chief,” (Mr Tallbull is native American) and in response he shoved the officer head first into a fifty-five gallon drum half full of motor oil.
Never mind that Mr. Tallbull is reporting an incident of racism and admitting he responded to it with an assault, but the assault never happened because a fifty-five drum is twenty-two inches wide and thirty-three inches high, so the action is impossible physically to accomplish with a healthy young man who would be fighting back, and to be placed head first in oil could cause serious health consequences to a human being for which the assailant would certainly be court marshalled.
Mr. Tallbull said he ended up driving a jeep after this assault, so he appears he concocted the story to cover for some an incompetence that got him demoted. He does a disservice to the process of recording the Vietnam era when he fakes his resume this way, and the Billings Gazatte likewise should never have allowed such a spinner of yarns to be included in the Vietnam project.
Perhaps his name should be spelled Tall-bull. Tall tales, full of bull -- Maybe, in fact, that's a kinda clue..
You are absolutely correct. Everything he says should be fact checked.
Hugh Whitmore - Author hey I might get a lot of flak off this comment BUT Native American and Canadian aboriginals “legends” all have quite outlandish undertones. These elders always have really out there tales, You can look a lot of them up.
This guy is no different, it’s probably just part of the culture not to let the truth get in the middle of a good story.
I myself don’t have a problem if they want to tell/believe in impossible things every culture does in there own way.
This guys is just to hard to listen to though.
@@Luke-rt9bx I hear you, but the entire purpose of this series is posterity. That means as factual as possible, at a minimum. Great story; shoddy history.
Absolutely agree, as soon as I heard him say 235IQ I knew he was full of it.
Love these interviews! I wish they’d get more hits. I can see assigning them as middle or high school history assignments. Kids need to learn history, not CRT, not social engineering! How many kids even heard of Gen. Custer?
You can tell this man is a blessing to his people. Need more men of the warrior spirit.
Warriors spirit taking other people life u don’t know but because they from different countries u have to kill them that warrior a warrior is someone who stands up for what right not shoot someone for no reason cuz someone told u so
Freaking Hero! Brother, thank You!
Thank you for your service and representing the USA with honor.
I knew it was hard over there but had no idea...