I’m a retired Marine GySgt who also had 3 tours in Vietnam 🇻🇳 and will be 80 years old in February. I’m also a double amputee. But I would do it all over again and again. Very soon now I will be joining all of My Military Brothers and Sisters. No Regrets.❤
Same here. Only regret I have is how our politicians made a complete mess of the whole thing, and really never allowed us to win the war. We soldiers fought the Vietnam War with one hand always tied behind our back.
I worked on the project for the Vietnam Veterans Memorial's "Faces On the Wall" finding photos to match the names. Then I wrote tributes in Facebook to the 28 locals KIA or MIA. It is up to us to mature sure that these heroes are not forgotten.
My father served in the Pacific as a Marine during WW2, I served with the Marines in Desert Shield / Storm , and my oldest brother also a Marine in Vietnam, died in a crash of his resupply flight in Dec. 66. We didnt get him home til 1992. But hes home, and my mother needed that. I never really knew him, but i feel his presence in some form each and every day. If you will, please say a prayer for those brothers, sons, and families of those still missing. Thank you and pray for over 70,000 POW/MIA from all wars that havnt made it home.❤
I served my tour of duty in Vietnam in 1967. Vietnam was my war. I volunteered to go there from Germany. God bless all my brothers and sisters who served in Vietnam. And especially my brothers and sisters who never returned.
I can't watch this. Bring back too many memories. Corpsman (detached to the Army)/OR tech/ 3rd field hospital/Saigon, South Viet Nam. Our guys were/are the best!
Beautifully done. I was 10 when we lost a dear family friend in 1968 and 14 when another friend was KIA. Significant impression on a young boy. I spent 22 years in the military thinking I would pay something back. Then came my time in the sandbox; sent 19 men home with a flag over the caskets, I escaped the same fate by mere inches. War is just another level of diplomacy. When diplomats stop talking, they send young people to die. Plato said something to the effect of "the only people that do not have to worry about war are the ones who were killed". War sucks
Every soldier when reconnected to a brother in arms whether they are still alive or passed on is a ritual that no civilian will ever know. A piece of your soul that is restored. All political nonsense stops and what is left is a pure human great experience. Tropic Lightning! No Fear on Earth!
So sad. It was sad when I was there in 1969, and it's sad now. I was wounded by a mortar round on December 14, 1969, and spent the next 8 months in army hospitals having surgeries until I was well enough to come home. At the age of 20, I came so very close to having my name on that black wall in Washington, D.C.
my high school classmates Elmwood Park ILL.......RIP 1LT. Paul Charles Bertolozzi USMC KIA 8-2-67 Col. Richard Clark Abbate USMC KIA 5-18-68 i was 3rd Batt. 7th Marines ChuLai,RVN 10/65-11/66
@@robertisham5279 US Army. First tour was 101st, second tour couple years apart 1st Cavalry. I might have that backwards, Oh I’m sorry. That was my dad. I also served in the Army.
Wow one of the most beautiful and saddest things I have ever watched just outstanding we look to pay our respects and to never ever forget our fallen brothers and sisters IRON COFFIN Corky West Alabama
I remember when I was 7 years old my brother went in the Marines to Vietnam my whole family dreaded for a year that there was going to be a knock on the door and 2 Marines standing there telling us that my brother was killed there thank God it didn't happen.
One of the first men I worked for when I came back from Vietnam was a former Marine Helicopter pilot. He never served in 'Nam, but his job was to inform families that their Marine was killed in Vietnam. He said it was the toughest thing he ever had to do. He told me of one story that brought tears to his eyes, and he never spoke about it again.
@@davidlindgren7605 He told me of one case where the mother of a marine who had been killed in Vietnam went absolutely berserk, and starting slapping and punching the hell out of him when she received the bad news. She kept yelling at him and telling him he was a liar, and that it wasn't her son who died. He finally had to grab her arms to restrain her, and she started crying so hard over the loss of her son, that he still had nightmares about it years later. He told me there were many incidents (which he expected) like that, but this one woman absolutely lost it.😢
@@felixmadison5736 How terrible. I'm sorry that mother and your boss had to go through that, but I'm sure similar things happen every time a soldier loses his life. Just absolutely horrible.
The Vietnam Wall in Washington is THE most significant and heart-breaking memorial to those who died in war - that I have ever encountered. Showing the first and last series of deaths. So many. So young. Reflecting the faces of the living back at them, over the those names. Haunting.
What that young lady, Maya Lin did with The Wall was to help heal this nation over Vietnam. I've read on the internet where people have called her a gook or an Asian when in fact that young lady was and is a great American.
I can’t watch! I’m not old enough to remember much of Nam, but do remember the first gulf war on…and this just TEARS me up! The youths who gave for a higher cause! Thank you all!
A neighborhood friend William Charles Sheldon was killed in Da Nang Vietnam in 1968, only 19 years old, that brought the reality of the war, my brother ken was in the army in 1967, my twin brother larry joined in 1969, in 1970, i was fortunate to join the Illinois national guard, it was a miracle i didn't get drafted, i did 6 years 33MP Battalion 833 MP company, 234 e Chicago Ave, Chicago Illinois.
I was very pleased to see an old friend in this vid, the Marine with the "We Try Harder" button on his helmet is CPL Douglas Mcpherson, I am still in touch with Doug and see him often, he is alive and well living in the Colorado Rockies. He is very active and is on the Honor Guard for VFW Post 11411 in Florissant CO. Can't wait to show this to him soon.
Served on the carrier Forrestal CVA 59 Westpac in the Tonkin Gulf July 29 1967 lost 134 shipmates that day Nam was a statement of youth cut short of life ahead Wish I could .bring all the guys whose names are on the Wall back to continue on to pursue thier dreams Love and rememberance from Enola Pennsylvania.
The sad part of the Vietnam War is that Vietnam is no different today than if we had never been there. I have three dear friends on the wall. Platoon leader in the1st Cav 70-71.
A Ukrainian friend from UK visited that memorial and found his surname is on it some 12000 American Ukrainians served in Vietnam and over thousand died Major general Myron Diddoryk second in command with General Moar is on that memorial.
William L Purcell CSM 101st Airborne United States Army. Career Army. Two tours in Viet Nam. CIA attachment Viet Nam 66-69. Awarded Silver Star w/clusters, Purple Heart and a slew of other medals, ribbons and unit citations. My hero and my uncle. Died in 2021.
The traveling wall came to Bennett's Creek Park and i took my Soldiers. I got there late because we walked from the Richard Shea(Medal of Honor Korean War) Reserve center 1 mile to the park. I specifically remember seeing my Soldiers not move from a distance, they was stuck in place frozen so i walked up behind them and looked at what they was seeing. I saw why they froze. The panels have so many names that it crushes your soul realizing how men died in 1 month. That was 1 month we was stuck at.
truly a very sobering moment.i am not a veteran.the wall came to pasadena tx.. i went.i had to fight back the tears knowing so many young men not much older than i gave their last full measure for their brothers in arms and their country.so that we can be free.anytime i see a veteran i let them know they have my heartfelt thanks.i turned 18 in 75 .i remember the choppers evacing off the embassy.to be honest i wasnt very smart at the time.i wanted to go.i feel guilty that i didnt serve.i do try to be a decent and kind law abiding citizen to honor their service and sacrifice.God Bless all those who serve!....im almost 67 now.i guess being born in 57 instead of 47 possibly saved my butt.like i said i wasnt too bright when i was 18.did some pretty crazy things back then . i didnt have a lick of sense.is it destiny or just a crapshoot .i cant answer that.i do know this god looks out for little babies and fools!Thank you Lord!
MY. FOUR OLDER BROTHER SERVED IN 😢NAME FROM 1967 U.S ARMY VERNON 173RD- KIA DAK TO - TONY 1967-68 9 NUI DAT SPOOKY GUNNER U.SAF- BILL 1969 29TH INFANTRY HI WAY 1 AND DAVID T. 1971 -72 1ST CAV I CORP…THANKS TO THE MEDICS AND NURSES AND DOC’S. 3 CAME HOME.
I only did one tour as a blue water sailor we had it infinately easier tha the common grunt in nam i can never express my gratitude to those men/ women that "were" in harms way !
In my. Neighborhood. Back in the late 69,s. We. Lost 65 or 75. Youngmen. In. Lake. Charles. La. Marion. High. School. Damn. Shame. What a. Shame. Go. Chargers. Bob13
I’m a retired Marine GySgt who also had 3 tours in Vietnam 🇻🇳 and will be 80 years old in February. I’m also a double amputee. But I would do it all over again and again. Very soon now I will be joining all of My Military Brothers and Sisters. No Regrets.❤
Thank you for serving our country. God bless you,
Same here. Only regret I have is how our politicians made a complete mess of the whole thing, and really never allowed us to win the war. We soldiers fought the Vietnam War with one hand always tied behind our back.
Semper Fi.
My father did three tours in Vietnam, it's a shame how many people have forgotten about all the sacrifices THANK YOU ALL
I didn’t forget
I worked on the project for the Vietnam Veterans Memorial's "Faces On the Wall" finding photos to match the names. Then I wrote tributes in Facebook to the 28 locals KIA or MIA. It is up to us to mature sure that these heroes are not forgotten.
Respect
I remember some of them. They're not forgotten. God Bless them all.
Very beautiful and respectfully done. I was there in '68, we were all so young. Prayers for all my struggling veteran buddies.
My father served in the Pacific as a Marine during WW2, I served with the Marines in Desert Shield / Storm , and my oldest brother also a Marine in Vietnam, died in a crash of his resupply flight in Dec. 66. We didnt get him home til 1992. But hes home, and my mother needed that. I never really knew him, but i feel his presence in some form each and every day. If you will, please say a prayer for those brothers, sons, and families of those still missing. Thank you and pray for over 70,000 POW/MIA from all wars that havnt made it home.❤
RIP my Friend
I served my tour of duty in Vietnam in 1967. Vietnam was my war. I volunteered to go there from Germany. God bless all my brothers and sisters who served in Vietnam. And especially my brothers and sisters who never returned.
@@VietnamGreg Outstanding Performance My Brother 😇
We must never forget what these men went through, or how the Country treated them when they came home
I can't watch this. Bring back too many memories. Corpsman (detached to the Army)/OR tech/ 3rd field hospital/Saigon, South Viet Nam. Our guys were/are the best!
Beautifully done. I was 10 when we lost a dear family friend in 1968 and 14 when another friend was KIA. Significant impression on a young boy. I spent 22 years in the military thinking I would pay something back. Then came my time in the sandbox; sent 19 men home with a flag over the caskets, I escaped the same fate by mere inches. War is just another level of diplomacy. When diplomats stop talking, they send young people to die. Plato said something to the effect of "the only people that do not have to worry about war are the ones who were killed". War sucks
My generation. Thank you and God bless
God bless all our Veterans
Thank you
Every soldier when reconnected to a brother in arms whether they are still alive or passed on is a ritual that no civilian will ever know. A piece of your soul that is restored. All political nonsense stops and what is left is a pure human great experience. Tropic Lightning! No Fear on Earth!
Those who have seen war never stop seeing it.
So sad. It was sad when I was there in 1969, and it's sad now. I was wounded by a mortar round on December 14, 1969, and spent the next 8 months in army hospitals having surgeries until I was well enough to come home. At the age of 20, I came so very close to having my name on that black wall in Washington, D.C.
Glad you made it home and thank you and all the veterans from all the wars for your service.
@@johndavis9432 Thank you John.
Welcome Home!
@@Rocketman88002 Thank you.
my high school classmates Elmwood Park ILL.......RIP
1LT. Paul Charles Bertolozzi USMC KIA 8-2-67
Col. Richard Clark Abbate USMC KIA 5-18-68
i was 3rd Batt. 7th Marines ChuLai,RVN 10/65-11/66
My dad did 2 tours. He fought in the AShau Valley. Mentally, he’s still there.
Unfortunately many of us never really left.
70-71 Vietnam vet
@@cecilchristopher5092 God bless you sir! I fought in Panama, Desert Storm, Iraq (in the initial invasion) and 3 tours of Afghanisuck!!
@@sharkman5735 Army or Marines?
@@robertisham5279 US Army. First tour was 101st, second tour couple years apart 1st Cavalry. I might have that backwards,
Oh I’m sorry. That was my dad. I also served in the Army.
Wow one of the most beautiful and saddest things I have ever watched just outstanding we look to pay our respects and to never ever forget our fallen brothers and sisters IRON COFFIN Corky West Alabama
Beautifully done....Nam 70-71
I remember when I was 7 years old my brother went in the Marines to Vietnam my whole family dreaded for a year that there was going to be a knock on the door and 2 Marines standing there telling us that my brother was killed there thank God it didn't happen.
One of the first men I worked for when I came back from Vietnam was a former Marine Helicopter pilot. He never served in 'Nam, but his job was to inform families that their Marine was killed in Vietnam. He said it was the toughest thing he ever had to do. He told me of one story that brought tears to his eyes, and he never spoke about it again.
@@felixmadison5736 would you mind sharing the story he told you? thanks
@@davidlindgren7605 He told me of one case where the mother of a marine who had been killed in Vietnam went absolutely berserk, and starting slapping and punching the hell out of him when she received the bad news. She kept yelling at him and telling him he was a liar, and that it wasn't her son who died. He finally had to grab her arms to restrain her, and she started crying so hard over the loss of her son, that he still had nightmares about it years later. He told me there were many incidents (which he expected) like that, but this one woman absolutely lost it.😢
@@felixmadison5736 How terrible. I'm sorry that mother and your boss had to go through that, but I'm sure similar things happen every time a soldier loses his life. Just absolutely horrible.
The Vietnam Wall in Washington is THE most significant and heart-breaking memorial to those who died in war - that I have ever encountered. Showing the first and last series of deaths. So many. So young. Reflecting the faces of the living back at them, over the those names. Haunting.
What that young lady, Maya Lin did with The Wall was to help heal this nation over Vietnam. I've read on the internet where people have called her a gook or an Asian when in fact that young lady was and is a great American.
I can’t watch! I’m not old enough to remember much of Nam, but do remember the first gulf war on…and this just TEARS me up! The youths who gave for a higher cause! Thank you all!
Marines life forever❤😂🎉😇🙏
God Bless you, Marine! My friend SSgt Samuel L. Reed was KIA 15 July 1966; we served together in B/1/1/1 during the Cuban Missle Crisis, 1962.
thank you for the video, i never made it to Nam, but when stationed at Ft Ord, Cali hospital took care of some returnees
That counts! Thank you!! You have Served!!!
A neighborhood friend William Charles Sheldon was killed in Da Nang Vietnam in 1968, only 19 years old, that brought the reality of the war, my brother ken was in the army in 1967, my twin brother larry joined in 1969, in 1970, i was fortunate to join the Illinois national guard, it was a miracle i didn't get drafted, i did 6 years 33MP Battalion 833 MP company, 234 e Chicago Ave, Chicago Illinois.
I was very pleased to see an old friend in this vid, the Marine with the "We Try Harder" button on his helmet is CPL Douglas Mcpherson, I am still in touch with Doug and see him often, he is alive and well living in the Colorado Rockies. He is very active and is on the Honor Guard for VFW Post 11411 in Florissant CO. Can't wait to show this to him soon.
That made my day!!Stay Strong My Friend!!
Served on the carrier Forrestal CVA 59 Westpac in the Tonkin Gulf July 29 1967 lost 134 shipmates that day Nam was a statement of youth cut short of life ahead Wish I could .bring all the guys whose names are on the Wall back to continue on to pursue thier dreams Love and rememberance from Enola Pennsylvania.
Gosh that hurts…
Sad..Hope never to repeat...
My friend Ambers Andrew "Pete" Hamilton, RIP my brother.....
Freedom is not free it has a flavor the protected will never taste!!! Veteran Paratrooper 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸82nd Airborne Division!!
"War Is a Racket." ~ Major General Smedley D. Butler (two-time Medal of Honor recipient.)
Very moving.
The sad part of the Vietnam War is that Vietnam is no different today than if we had never been there. I have three dear friends on the wall. Platoon leader in the1st Cav 70-71.
A Ukrainian friend from UK visited that memorial and found his surname is on it some 12000 American Ukrainians served in Vietnam and over thousand died Major general Myron Diddoryk second in command with General Moar is on that memorial.
RIP Heroes.
May they all Rest In Peace. So sad & so young.🥲🙏🏽
William L Purcell CSM 101st Airborne United States Army. Career Army. Two tours in Viet Nam. CIA attachment Viet Nam 66-69. Awarded Silver Star w/clusters, Purple Heart and a slew of other medals, ribbons and unit citations. My hero and my uncle. Died in 2021.
The traveling wall came to Bennett's Creek Park and i took my Soldiers. I got there late because we walked from the Richard Shea(Medal of Honor Korean War) Reserve center 1 mile to the park. I specifically remember seeing my Soldiers not move from a distance, they was stuck in place frozen so i walked up behind them and looked at what they was seeing. I saw why they froze. The panels have so many names that it crushes your soul realizing how men died in 1 month. That was 1 month we was stuck at.
truly a very sobering moment.i am not a veteran.the wall came to pasadena tx.. i went.i had to fight back the tears knowing so many young men not much older than i gave their last full measure for their brothers in arms and their country.so that we can be free.anytime i see a veteran i let them know they have my heartfelt thanks.i turned 18 in 75 .i remember the choppers evacing off the embassy.to be honest i wasnt very smart at the time.i wanted to go.i feel guilty that i didnt serve.i do try to be a decent and kind law abiding citizen to honor their service and sacrifice.God Bless all those who serve!....im almost 67 now.i guess being born in 57 instead of 47 possibly saved my butt.like i said i wasnt too bright when i was 18.did some pretty crazy things back then . i didnt have a lick of sense.is it destiny or just a crapshoot .i cant answer that.i do know this god looks out for little babies and fools!Thank you Lord!
Edwin Grey,Richard Verbeck,Jim Fernandez,Viet Nam,Old men send young men to die!Thomas A.Filipiak Viet Nam 1967 1968,I made it!
Welcome Home!
MY. FOUR OLDER BROTHER SERVED IN 😢NAME FROM 1967 U.S ARMY VERNON 173RD- KIA DAK TO - TONY 1967-68 9 NUI DAT SPOOKY GUNNER U.SAF- BILL 1969 29TH INFANTRY HI WAY 1 AND DAVID T. 1971 -72 1ST CAV I CORP…THANKS TO THE MEDICS AND NURSES AND DOC’S. 3 CAME HOME.
God Bless you and your family sir! May your long lost brother rest in eternal peace!
Semper Fi
God bless the vietnam veterans
I only did one tour as a blue water sailor we had it infinately easier tha the common grunt in nam i can never express my gratitude to those men/ women that "were" in harms way !
Vietnam should never have been fought. Thank Eisenhower for that. We left anyhow. All is lost.
I know that feeling.I fought in the Rhodesian War for 3 years. Then the perfidious British and South Africans sold us out. Anthony Husher
69-70 Bien Hoa
Nicely done. Very sobering
In my. Neighborhood. Back in the late 69,s. We. Lost 65 or 75. Youngmen. In. Lake. Charles. La. Marion. High. School. Damn. Shame. What a. Shame. Go. Chargers. Bob13
Too many young faces.
Should have dodged the draft
Russell Monroe Amoss, Jan.31,1968 Tete offensive,kia, my cousin, 21 years old
God Bless these men always . Just kids . It’s heartbreaking the price these young men pay for others . ❤️🙏🫡