Powerful. Thank you for sharing honestly and thank you for your service and sacrifices you gave for you fellow servicemen and your country. This thank you is no way legitimizing that I can comprehend what you men went through but unparalleled respect and thankfulness.

Husker du is Norwegian for "Do you remember". Hi from Norway 👋 Remember Norway? 🧑‍🎄🎄 Anyway, merry x-mas

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Michael ran away from home at 16 and joined the corps during he did four tours in Vietnam and I love him dearly he almost tried to adopt me wish I wish he had when I was 16 I ran away from home tried to join the car and the NCIS met me at Ontario and sent me home I joined the Air Force a year later after forcing my mom to sign the papers

MY STORY IS ALMOST EXACTLY LIKE HIS EXCEPT I WAS IN THE AIR FORCE

God bless you, feller.

Still a BABY KILLER after all these years !😢

I was Army, a medic in the 173rd Abn. Probably a year earlier in country and way south. My 20 months were so similar it’s chilling. I guess some things are pretty constant.

Intelligent people stayed home ( & 4 became President ) . How many women , children & men did Bowes murder ?

Thank You Craig . You are a GREAT MAN In my eyes

Jude/ Luke

The blue again - back to the muddy water...

After a lifetime, water flowing underground/ David- didn't you have a brother? 😂

That was one of the most powerful and moving testimonies I've ever listened to. I am buying Craig's book.

The summer of 67 I lost a pro baseball game to NolanRyan 2-1, 9 mos later I had been drafted and later wounded during a rocket attack while serving with 1st Air Cal while carring the 60Cal. After hospitals in VN, Phillippines, Japan and SF I was sent to Texas to be release from the Army. With my pro baseball career over I went to college

The summer of 67 I was a pro baseball player. Life was good. By March of 68 I was laying in an Army hospital in Japan with a chest wound from a rocket attack while serving with 1st Air Cav. Later I was sent to Lettermen General in SF because they said the wound was serious enough to be ship back to the US. After the GI Bill and college I help develope a new company called SBCoffee. But bad people do bad things and I was fired for no reason. Am sure a jury of my honorable peers would agree. Bad people like SBC will ignore responsibility. Life is what it is

The summer of 67 I was a pro baseball player. Life was good. By March of 68 I was laying in an Army hospital in Japan with a chest wound from a rocket attack while serving with 1st Air Cav. Later I was sent to Lettermen General in SF because they said the wound was serious enough to be ship back to the US. After the GI Bill and college I help develope a new company called SBCoffee. But bad people do bad things and I was fired for no reason. Am sure a jury of my honorable peers would agree. Bad people like SBC will ignore responsibility. Life is what it is

Thanks!

THANK YOU!!!! This was a gripping, absorbing interview! I could not stop listening!

Hi thanks for sharing this artist indigenous artist i understand what gos into his art i myself are indigenous beadwork artist thanks for Lakota language its good and good luck to everyone who speaks there own language

I'm sick of all the war stories and bragging along with the bashing like bitches at a mark k fucking party. Back when men came home if they did at all the got a real fucking job. They didn't write books and brag about every freaking step to the eagles nest. Now, I know about body language and I believe after seeing Kennedy on this show that he did turn a story into a unbelievable story. I believe he had a story but he just got to far out and made some shit up. His hands constantly moving and rubbing and eyes so a sort of deception or maybe " I'm fucking cought". I watched him previously and he had some outlandish stories. He just over plays everything like he may be unstable from what I can't say but everything is just 1000 miles an hour shit. The eyes are a dead give away he isnt 100 percent truthful and knows. I don't believe other sf would back stab him regardless. These other guys frick a frack are assholes like real assholes. Cops and whatever they say they are out to ruin anyone they can to make a buck. Like my dad never told me anything about Manheim Germany until he was 80 years old and that he was one of the companies in town when Patton got injured. And he never told me he was inducted and served as a negro when we're not black but that's what they said he was so that's what he was. A story the guy to left and right hit by a sniper and head coming half off and other in the leg. 80 years old and I had no idea my uncle was a top sgt in the bulge and stood watch bastogne being "shell like hell" those boys really got hit hard". Now he was 84 when he told me this while visiting from Kansas. This bragging and ragging basically for money is bullshit. Kennedy was in the shit but the fish keeps growing. That's it. The swat cop and whatever those guys did it do are out to make anyone they can find to call out and get a fight going are straight jerkoff. I believe Kennedy taking some shit but it's a book and I'm sure he wanted it to be a big seller. Man this shit has gone to far. The fucking corpman they said raised the flag on suribachi wasn't tought the flag at all. They made a movie about him. He waltzed around his whole life and never said a word. His son ragged on the handsome marine I believe was a runner was there and ira was there. The story was based on this man that wasn't even touching the flag. Flags of our father? Not accurate. Really fucking bad man. I believe Kennedy will always be a bad ass. I grew up with the kind. Chewed faces of one that would have killed me if I let him. But yes I did take his face off and swallowed it. People probably call me a lier and I was in witsec and a retired hitman. Maybe I should start talking shit to make a buck about some sorry asses. Lastly , those fuck heads just fucking with this man don't give a shit about you or anyone but the mighty dollar. Fuckers shouldn't be allowed to sell stories. I'm sick of this fucking bullshit slinging. And by the way. I broke my fucking back in a accident slammed into a tree in a m113 with a 60 in my hands. I never doped my weapon and never got treatment. My Sargent wanted to medivac me out and I said no I'm good. Now my dad 214 doesn't have a mention of anything regarding injury period..I am disabled and don't get a freaking dime for serving. I never expected anything other then serving. That's why we called it the "service" not military of SF sniper ECT. Now I'm rambling and it's because I'm getting pissed about hearing this fuckheads talk shit about everything or everyone they can find leaning back in there chairs big belly fat fucks. I'm going to write a book. I was the baddest mother fucker I ever knew". War has become a feasting ground for gold diggers. What did mut and Jeff ever say positive. I doubt it. Read the book" the luckiest man in the world". 100 years old telling his story. Real shit. Not for fame and fortune. If I didn't break my back in the SERVICE I WOULDN'T NE TALKING ABOUT THESE ASSHOLES. I would be sleeping without pain. .I do appreciate this show.. I knew Kennedy would have to speak up. I would never do an autobiography. I would fuck something up and get a jail sentence for lying . Don't write books. HANDS AND EYES. take a good look. Now can I go to sleep and dream about killing people lol???

I was Marine Vietnam and I want to thank You for your service and letting me face up to the fact that i;mm not the only one with bad memories and still at the age of 81 have to stuggle with PTSP

Vietnam was a money maker for war weapons Companies! I had rather pay them for not making too many weapons we don't need than waste our young men's lives!

Most interesting.Fascinating account of meeting former NVA.Thank you for the better understanding.I feel better off for listening to your experience and analysis.The amnesty on the draft dodgers......a bitter pill for sure.

Sir, you and I very much ‘mirror’ one another…. In many, many ways…..

I’m not sure how you could be in the ‘mortuary’ ( I don’t know what word to use to call it) …. I couldn’t ever do it. I don’t hunt, fish, or camp. After Vietnam, I couldn’t do any of those things. I can’t even kill a bug….. I just can’t hurt anything. Many many times I have had to ‘walk’ away from situations with humans because I was afraid of what knew I might do. I was afraid of myself. Im still afraid of what I could do.

I brought my old worn out busted up jungle boots home also. You couldn’t tell that there was leather on the heal or the main body of the boot. They were the color of cardboard. No sole left on them. I had the big black safety pin that came on our ammo ( I’m old and can’t remember the source of that big black safety pin. It was like a big diaper pin, only it was black.) I think it was in our ammunition bandoliers? Anyhow, I took several of those pins and ran them through the upper canvas ( was once olive green) and through the the old worn out leather. It worked. Held them together. Somewhere in my life moving around, I lost those boots. Those boots meant the world to me. Those boots showed & told the story of the ‘hell’ I went through. SEMPER Fi.

Thank you for everything you have done👍❤️

Although I was never in the marine corp , I was in college During the same time. And I have always Deeply cared as much as possible For our veterans. I really identify With this Sergeant. I pray for him And thank him From the bottom of my heart.

Thanks for your service brother 🙏

I have watched this interview before and I just watched it again and someday I will watch it for the third time. So glad this man's life did not end in suicide or so many horrible paths that would have ruined his life and marriage, anyhow sir God bless you and thank you for your service. Cannot wait to read your book.

Did you get a purple heart 💜

It is well war is so terrible; we would grow too fond of it" by General Robert E. Lee

Ah, funeral director. That explains the rate, decreased inflection, and cadence of speech. You have done well. Glad you made it home, and overcoming the mental trauma thereafter.

thank you sir

My name is Viola . I'm honored.

thank you sir

thank you sir

Come to Rollag

Welcome home Marine !

I WAS IN THE FIRST INFANTRY DIVISION AT LAIKHE 1966. MARCH 5 AND JUNE 11 WE HAD TWO LARGE BATTLES. 1966. PTSD 100 PERCENT DISABILITY. POINT WAS SCARY. I WAS RTO UNTIL THE PLATOON LEADER FIRED ME....THANKS LT.

I am so touched with witnessing your experience and your life and to Simply say thank you for your service it's not enough God bless you sir I am 69 years old and I was a teenager during Vietnam a teenager a teenager through the Vietnam years and I feel terrible to admit that I participated in protests to end the war but I've always appreciated the soldiers I wish I could meet you in person and provide you the hugs that you so richly deserve at the very least but God bless you and thank you thank you thank you

Thank you for your service sorry for your painful experience. Thank you for sharing your PTSD moments, eye opening.

Vets Never forget

Vets never forget!

Thank you for this documentary! God Bless Our Troops under todays military command!

Good to know you're doing well now. I can only imagine what it must have been like for you. Please take care of yourself.

Every high school student should watch this

A very hard story and we can see he know what he is talking about..

Thanks Bird, you're a true American hero. I especially liked the recruiting story. I'm retired Air Force and 4 of my 24 years were in recruiting. It's always amazed me how many people based their decision on which branch they joined by which office was open or some other odd reason. Personally, I hated school, repeated the 5th & 7th grade, and dropped out at 16 in the 9th. I had one brother in the Navy, and another in the Army. The reason I joined the Air Force was they had a billboard by the high school that said, "Guaranteed Jobs in the Air Force." I didn't even know what that meant, so I asked my smart buddy. He said they would promise you the type of training and job you'd received. I called the 800 number and received some material in the mail. A week later the recruiter called, I did the testing and paperwork, my parents signed the parental consent and then they scheduled me to do the physical/induction on my 17th B-day a few months later. No diploma or GED required, back in 72. Sadly, when I did my recruiting assignment 82-86, I couldn't get anyone in with a GED, but the other services could. Thanks for a truly amazing video. I'll look you up in Heaven. We both seem to know we're going. I came to know the Lord through the pocket New Testament they gave everyone at the induction center the day we left. God Bless you and your family.