Ford Oval of Honor: Gary Wombles interview
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- Опубликовано: 6 фев 2017
- Ford Oval of Honor interview with Gary Wombles, a Vietnam War veteran who served in the United States Marine Corps.
This collection contains oral history videos and transcripts for interviews with local World War II, Vietnam War, Persian Gulf War, and Iraq War veterans between 2013 and 2016. The interviews were conducted by Chris Reidy of WIPB-TV as part of its Oval of Honor award series sponsored by the Ford Motor Company. Also included are annual Ford Oval of Honor programs about the award recipients for 2013-2015.
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Thank you all for your service 🙏🇺🇲👍⚔️❤️
Welcome Home Sir!! You are far from a coward!! Thank you for sharing!!
Thank you for your service to our country. A fellow Vietnam Veteran I Corp. Phu Bai/Hue/Khe Sanh 1967-1969
Thank You for your service SIR!
You seem to be a great guy. Thanks
SIR.......YOU are no coward.......it's human nature to wanna get the hell outta that mess......YOU SIR.....are an American HERO !!
And a proven coward
Good interview
Thank you Mr Wombles. God Bless you and welcome home. Mat 19:26 But Jesus looked at them and said, “With man this is impossible, but with God all things are possible.”
Great interviewer. Thank you.
@33:20 - Not remembering names. I'm the same age as this guy, and I look back at my youth, and I do not remember names. A little advice from a duffer: Keep a nightly journal, and make brief notes of the people you interacted with during that day. It's would be a quick thing to do, and priceless in your waning years. Taking a pic of the people you interact with during your day, would also be a something that will pay dividends later in life. When you get old, you'll have lots of memories, and you'll review your life because memories pop up, and names and dates will be lost to some extent. Some memories become fuzzy, too, because we dream and mix stuff up in our minds.
a coward is one who runs off to canada sir....
that's affirmative.
Let me offer another perspective that may be difficult for your Neanderthal mind to accept. Those who resisted the Draft were courageous men who didn't think like sheep. It was actually cowardly of many of those veterans to go to Vietnam b/c they didn't have the brains and/or the guts to stand up to their wrong bully Government and stand up for themselves. Nothing courageous about men who are sheep.
I may have been on one of your floats. I was with India 3/6 in ‘69 when Allen Kellogg was a SSgt prior to MOH. I think my ship was #36 the Cambria.
PTSD in Cincinnati, 7 week Course Plus a lot of Therapy.
Attack the ambush....Just damm! But it works.
when does the curse of delayed onset PTS end.
never for me
Awful interviewer. Scripted leading questions followed by mind numbing scripted responses. journalism students beware. This is what you don't do.
if you think the interview was so awful, you go to war, then come back and do your own interview
I did "Vietnam" simple...I resisted the Draft and Vietnam. Any accusations of cowardice, lack of duty, "manliness" etc etc. will fall on deaf ears. Real men stand up for themselves and their conscience. The ones who resisted used their brains. A lot of these "heroes" were not the brightest lightbulbs in America. It was the Vietnam Draft resistor that helped force the quicker end of the war which was an American nightmare ...in Vietnam and at home. We were patriots...nothing this man or any others have to say will change that. The Vietnam war was wrong. Participating in it was wrong. Period.
You made some hard accusations there. Those guys flying helicopters other aircraft support people and ground pounders Very likely it’s just high and I Q as you. Many of them went on To have very successful careers.
@@paulprigge1209 As I have had to say to many Vietnam veterans that don't like what I say....."Truth is a bitch". I'm sure many of them went unto successful careers....AFTER they survived the totally dumbass choice of going to Vietnam. They are not heroes...they are survivors.
BTW....having a high IQ and having wisdom are 2 different things
To each its own. We tend to look at ourselves. What kind of legacy do we leave behind. Our kids, our family, our society. Did I contribute anything? Did the world gain from me living in it, or it was a waste of oxygen? As far as deaf ears, go to see a doc, if you cannot hear your own judgement.
@@tombats6428 Nice speech. Not sure what you're saying at the end. But, for the record, I have a very clear conscience and am proud of my decision of Vietnam. My legacy is very simple. My children and grandchildren are glad they are alive...and know they are alive b/c of me...being alive.
A lot of them didn’t exactly have a choice. Lots of them were guys at the end of the line, poor, with little to no chance of going to college, etc. Must be nice to sit in judgement and look down your nose at those less fortunate or those that you think are flat-out stupid.
Go to Hell.