California Dreamin - Vietnam War

[@KitsuneMakai]

I almost fell out of my chair when I saw the thumbnail for this video... The man on the right with the mustache is actually my dad (he recognized himself when this documentary first came out and showed the whole family.) He just turned 70 last Monday and I love him to pieces. It's hard to have to wave at him and say happy birthday through a closed glass door because of Covid... I haven't been able to give him a hug in almost a year for fear of getting him sick. My heart goes out to all the Vietnam War veterans and their families who haven't been able to be with each other because of this awful pandemic. I hope it will be over as quickly as possible.

[@hameatsturkey1088]

That's amazing, have you ever asked him what was going on in that clip and why they were recording?

[@soniaanand1278]

Yeah he should ask him that!

[@mczilla8628]

I hope its over soon too, the next time you talk to your dad tell him thank you from the USA were very proud of our veterens! And Happy Birthday and you and your family stay safe

[@prussiankingdom1693]

Tell him thanks for his service, for serving even though the country hated them

[@amiralcookie3221]

I'm happy that I was a soldier of our generation because we have a good gear and we are in better situations. Look I was in mali and Afghanistan and I was not for me, so I don't imagine what lived your dad. Thanks him for me From a fellow veteran. And you should tell him to right a book about his experience in Vietnam.

[@BobbyWhitneySweetmusicman]

I was drafted in 1966 and was sent to Vietnam 1967 - 68 along with my brother, I can't put it in words that you would understand, but if you were there then you know what I mean, how much my life has changed in the past 53 years, this song is a grim reminder that I will never forget, just be glad that you did not have to go and the draft is over, because the agent orange would kill you as well. I am Vietnam veteran Bobby Whitney

[@AJxxxxxxxx]

Thank you for your service, from a U.S Marine

[@hubinoscoper4837]

@Young Pappy that's a dumb idea

[@hentai6582]

Bobby Whitney thank you for you service sir, it’s a pleasure having people like you to tell your stories.

[@BusinessToU]

RESPECT

[@tomsmith6122]

Bobby Whitney thank you!!❤️🇺🇸

[@Demons972]

Too young to vote , but not to die. Too young to love , but too old to cry . Saigon, 68-69.

[@woodscw50]

@trump gaming a father a Marine our walk our tour our fathers tour brothers

[@IvanTre]

Gotta read 'Public Opinion" by Lippmann. A government that depends on what people believe is going to really care about what the people believe in.

[@harrywalker1621]

Thks for your service I was in Helmand 2006-2008 RCR

[@woodscw50]

a marine father to family

[@woodscw50]

@@harrywalker1621 the walk a father our sons a Marine father

[@pvtjoker468]

1:42 Charles Colley 82nd Medical Detachment (Hel Amb) Born: March 22nd, 1944 - Passed: February 25th, 2019

[@blackghost9627]

lemme guess he is in your family tree?

[@29.rayhandevanggai.62]

Lot of respect on his name

[@pvtjoker468]

@@blackghost9627 Nope...

[@misterx1342]

My dad was drafted when he was 17 to fight in Angola (South Africa’s version of Vietnam) my dad still has nightmares to this day. He was forced to fight for a government he hated. My dad told me once he had to walk all the way from Angola to Namibia carrying his dead friend because the army didn’t think he was wroth saving. Respect for all Vietnam vets and those that didn’t make it

[@davesouthwick970]

I'm also an Angolan vet, & looking back, was a total waste of life & resources. I saw a post earlier regarding war being a contest between old bitter men at the expense of young lives, & it is entirely accurate & incontestably accurate. I will be 60 in a few weeks, & my beloved wife, daughters & I are now staring down the barrel of Covid 19. All I have to offer them is sanctuary & sustenance until this latest abomination has passed. God Bless & protect all who read this post

[@Kshahdoo67]

@@davesouthwick970 And my uncle was on a different side there, amongst Soviet military advisors... He didn't like to talk a lot about that.

[@alfaromeofan2475]

God Bless America USA USA in God we trust, and those soldiers are in Gods hands. I’m not from USA

[@Oscar_Armstrong]

@@ZemanTheMighty Um what? Do you know anything about the vietnam war? Not only was it totally unnecessary for the US to get involved but they got completely fucked on their first attempt when they should have been able to totally out gun Vietnam. Not only that but it led in large part to the Khmer Rouge's genocidal reign and the deaths of many innocent Americans and Vietnamese.

[@ZemanTheMighty]

@@Oscar_Armstrong we're talking about the Angolan bushwar. Not Vietnam.

[@popperdeckman125]

“In peace, sons bury their fathers, in war, fathers bury their sons.”

[@colin-campbell]

Is there something about Vietnam that forces people to publish their favourite pretentious anti war quotes?

[@sambassam8685]

Who said this?

[@xxtesticals4863]

Colin Campbell “Is there something about Vietnam that forces people to blah blah” stfu u little geek

[@colin-campbell]

xxtentaction But I’m right.

[@xxtesticals4863]

Colin Campbell No, you’re not.

[@gortus]

I’m not American and nobody in my family ever served in Vietnam but I keep coming back to this video. These kinds of videos invoke a kind of feeling I can’t describe, it’s very bittersweet. This video makes me want to cry, but also smile seeing all of these people smiling and playing around. There is no such thing as harmless power.

[@saints360row]

graham cockroach, There is also no such thing as helpful; powerless.

[@ohnoitshayley8997]

This is sooo true

[@ЕвгенийЦветухин-к6е]

I feel that too

[@rbkfan200]

Cheval de bois ok boomer

[@lancemiller1725]

👍🇺🇸🇺🇸 well said

[@cameronnield9936]

I am 19 now and when my grandfather was my age he was here driving a tank for the Australian army. I can’t imagine anything to what he felt and I’m so proud and thankful for his existence and his service.

[@timurwalles7496]

You should lesson an amazing song Redgum-I was only 19

[@xxxswitchoverxxx4629]

Yeey

[@yyyhh7249]

Proud for what

[@oliverb.8995]

@@yyyhh7249 For his existence and service. Did you not read?

[@yyyhh7249]

@@oliverb.8995 Fighting in a imperialistic war is nothing to be proud of.

[@nightman4142]

When my Grandpa got drafted, He didn't even know where Vietnam was.

[@benlaidlaw5457]

Huge respect to your Grandpa, I remember seeing someone say “The Vietnam war was created to give America geography lessons”;)

[@nikolaerceg224]

America and their geography 👌👌👌

[@myfavoritepointguard446]

Basically vietnam is in middle east

[@spacemanapeinc7202]

Of course, people were way less educated back then than before.

[@cheemsg.i.7130]

Lt. Tom Kazansky No,pretty sure it's in Europe

[@sissybear94]

Men fighting for a country that didn’t fight for them.

[@danielespinolajr1]

Santino Chavez Not exactly

[@emanuelsommar7243]

We actually had to shoot them if we were being overrun . You could never trust them to change sides

[@-unbreakeblecow488]

But they did fight against communism

[@chientranhvoitoi8820]

@Santino Chavez What do you mean?

[@coles2688]

Felicity Troncao The US has always fought for for her people and the people have always fought for the US

[@cLaw27]

This really looks like it's from another world, another life.

[@MoreTrenMoreMen69]

Yeah . It’s strange how similar it looks and feels to today

[@AC-og8vs]

True

[@SoloTravelerOffTheBeatenPath]

Back before California became a shithole.

[@sergio-leonpop872]

Ce fericiti erau oamenii inainte avand nimic pur si simplu nimic

[@opticalecho119]

Sunrise Surprise you really get the feeling that their time would’ve looked the same if they all had cameras in their pockets. They’re all getting up to the same sort of antics. They had lives just like ours and they were sent off to a far away country to die in a war that wasn’t theirs.

[@gordonsaye9183]

WHO WILL REMEMBER ME! Today this video popped up on my play list. As I listened to it and watched the video, while recovering from an overdose of food yesterday, I remembered the traveling wall had come to LaPine a few months ago. I went to the wall and was awed by it and what it represents. Being a teenager of the late 60's, I was well aware of what was going on over in Nam and all of the good men and women we had lost. One name stood out to me and I was determined to find him on the wall. With help from the nice lady assistant and the internet I found him. He went to school with my older sister and I was friends with his younger brother. This was as close as I ever got to feel the true loss of someone to the war. James Roland Golz, 3/12/49-1/27/68. Marine Private First Class. KIA after barely a month in country and not even 20 years old. Today, James I remember you. Semper Fi

[@zeroireland]

‘Nam had the best soundtrack.

[@AlejandroP1980s]

What about ww3

[@osamabinladen4769]

@@Nathan-cw7cb If that happens i will shoot myself

[@wiijjdog]

Lol just some 18 year old paratrooper dabbing listening to Every Day Bro as he jumps

[@thema.sosoudid2229]

Ricky Gervais

[@starhawck]

@@osamabinladen4769 You might want to reconsider your odds, Osama, or do you want me to link you a few compilations of modern rap in combination with war footage from Afghanistan.

[@2headedtasman200]

1:42 Charles T. Colley, 82nd Medical Detachment. 1944 - 2019

[@brianmcgowan9044]

Get me 169 subs and I will reveal something rip

[@LazyAndFabulous]

@Adam Beasley Lmao, I've never thought of it, this comment trying to fool us

[@xXsilencXx60]

May he can rest in peace

[@ss-jk8js]

Get me 169 subs and I will reveal something rest in peace legend

[@douglapointe6810]

R.I.P. respect.

[@toraguchitoraguchi9154]

They were kids, and draftees, not professional troops. Draftees were civilians drafted into the military and trained hastily to be sent into war. Professional soldiers sign up voluntarily, get trained during peacetime, to a high standard, and if a war breaks out, they are sent in better prepared and better disciplined.

[@johnskrelnik]

Pushed to do war crimes,disgusting.

[@Gotobar]

John Skrelnik The Vietnamese committed quite a few of them too

[@pro-russianwesterneuropean415]

That is not the reason. There are people who want to do exactly that. To fight. I'm one of those guys. I'm 24, soon 25. I live in Vienna, I have a very well paid job and I enjoy it, a nice car, I have a flat that costs me only 250 euro (that's damn little for Vienna), and had a nice one girlfriend I have left, just as I will leave everything else. To hell with it. Because I will leave Austria on 12.04.2020 and enter the French foreign legion. The reason is quite simple. The civilian life is not for me. I WANT TO BE SOLDIER. I WANT SERVICES. And that VOLUNTARY !!

[@HecyLLLuu_ucTuHy_ykpauHbl]

american occupiers

[@chewbaccamon974]

@@pro-russianwesterneuropean415 Remember to say goodbye to us mate, i hope you the best

[@JamoreOropeza]

1:17 Really makes you feel a certain way for these soldiers. Makes you feel sad knowing the fact, they had dreams in life, only to be sent away to a war they didn’t wanna go into. Especially with the song California dreaming, a song which could relate to the soldiers feelings on missing their home, and dreams of going back one day. Thank you to all the Vietnam war veterans 🇺🇸🙏🪖

[@bighands69]

If they did not go and fight there communism would been attacking their mothers, sisters and wives in America. It was that simple. It was the most evil system ever creating killing more innocent people than WW1 and WW2 combined. It was everywhere from Asia, Eastern Europe, Africa and South America. At some point they had to step up and stop its expansion and that was the first place that they really put an effort into.

[@jhon7602]

Él era Féliz se le nota en su cara

[@Chunkyjalapeno]

Right after a guy with sunglasses giving beer to a dog. Lol

[@Rice-And-Gravy]

Just kids. They were just kids. Edit: The funniest thing about seeing the replies calling me a commie is that I'm in the military myself. Yet, I can still recognize the longstanding effects the senseless war in Vietnam has had.

[@ulrich9114]

They were adult , are you blind?

[@MrJustinUSCM]

@@ulrich9114 Most men in Vietnam were as young as 17

[@luikausvuoon1939]

@@MrJustinUSCM Actually 19. Even Paul Hardcastle knows it!

[@n_y_0_n38]

Elijah Kids with gun but still kids

[@V73-b5n]

@@ulrich9114 adults are kids

[@lieless3396]

So it's June 1965 and the school semester is coming to an end. I look over at this cute guy in our biology class, we smile, and then a month later to the day, I read in our local paper that he had just died in Nam.

[@z1kop540]

sorry for the loss maam

[@Sawyer186]

Where have all the flowers gone when will we learn :(

[@heyitshuttz3705]

@@Brime69 oh hey fellow railfan

[@Brime69]

@@heyitshuttz3705 Hows it going. I See you're a NS fan. Have you Seen any Heritage Units? So Far I've Seen The Lehigh Valley and Illinois Terminal Units.

[@heyitshuttz3705]

@@Brime69 waiting for one right now it’s the Wabash, I’ll tell you if it comes

[@Uchiha_Cat_]

My grandpa was just 18 when he graduated high school. Then his number came up and he was drafted to nam. He said "Jungle warfare is like getting a ticket to see the devil up close.". I took him to Vietnam 2 years ago because he wanted to go and when he saw the jungle become a colonized city, he cried. He was and still is a one hell of a mad lad. He gave me a portrait of himself holding an M60 with on hand while he holds the belt on the other, only wearing a flak jacket with no sleeves. He is scared that war might break out and that I'll be drafted while I'm still a teenager in high school. He also revealed that one of his child hood friends got killed in combat. His body was lying lifeless on the ground, everything in one piece except his head. He said "It scares me up to this day that my best friend got killed...he wasn't any older than me. He had given me a cigarette 3 seconds ago and i look over to see him killed. I didn't even see or hear it happen, that's why it haunts me...why him but not me?! I feel sorry going home in 1970 and having to explain how much of a good man he was to his girlfriend and family." -PVT Daniel Jackson my beautiful grandfather.

[@atomarkanov8201]

Your grandfather sounds like a badass, and I'm glad he's mostly alright. Tell him that I thank him for his service and am sorry he had to go through that hell.

[@Sharkoon030]

I hope another mayor war breaks out just imagine the mems

[@Uchiha_Cat_]

@@atomarkanov8201 will do!

[@ComradeRosa]

@@Sharkoon030 what the hell? war is hell, don't forget it. you won't enjoy it if your time comes.

[@Sharkoon030]

@@ComradeRosa yeah but just imagine how it would all play out

[@Ab_43336]

55 years later still can't forget Our soldiers young teens then Music helped. Thank you.

[@TheJoker-zo5nr]

Can you appreciate my effort ?).( kzbin.info/www/bejne/nqfCpqeIobyJqpI

[@odin5255]

So much friendship between those boys. Can't imagine the horrors they went through when they came home. (Everyone, I'm not saying that the Vietnam War was any good. Neither am I saying that these soldiers shown in the video were good. All I'm saying is that friendship in a military conflict is the best thing those boys had.)

[@vincentahlgren4183]

Well some People didnt Come home

[@faaaaaabba]

All those people shoukd thanks to US government for PTSD and dead bodies.

[@pigga9878]

J S it also ruined their health they had drinks and drugs and smoking and depression the whole time so some of them didn’t make it home not just from war

[@szymonwrobel6573]

think also about the Vietnamese

[@odin5255]

@@szymonwrobel6573 War is war, and it's terrible. Those things that happened in Vietnam can never be forgiven, but remember. Those who fought it was just kids. Most of them was only 19 or 20.

[@Cavelson]

miss my cousin Dan... chopper pilot. MIA 1969

[@bradleyporter5454]

Mister Sorge MIA, but not forgotten.. sorry about your loss.

[@idontgetlaidbut]

LIEUTENANT DAN!!!!

[@berserk6855]

We shot him down not sorry.

[@veryrarechaddoomer32]

@@berserk6855 Charlie on sight

[@Urmom-dd1mh]

Mister Sorge May he rest in peace, I’m so sorry

[@aladeen8242]

RIP to my grandfather who died in 1966. He was a Master Sergeant and had also served in the Korean War. He got fatally wounded escorting a wounded soldier to a Huey and died on the ride for further medical aid. My father was only 6 at the time. The people within the video and the song itself are basically the only things I can imagine by grandfather through, as even my dad barely even knew him, it hits hard man.

[@mckessa17]

That is sad. He should have went to Canada and lived a full and happy life.

[@georgerobinson349]

@@TheWhale0101 In Nam, we we would refer to you as a sorry sack of shit. Still do today!

[@flufferusgoobus]

@@TheWhale0101 May you go back to worshipping shitheads and saying thiefs n bandits are "people who didn't have an opportunity". Bastard.

[@kekfromkekistan3057]

@@TheWhale0101 ok Muslim.

[@viviansmith2177]

@@TheWhale0101 what the fucks ur deal

[@mikeneidlinger8857]

I lost my best friend who was a Vet not long ago to Cancer. We lived in assisted living together and shared a porch. I practiced martial arts a little bit and showed him some stuff. I am 45 YO. He liked me because the first time I saw him I asked him if he was a Veteran? Then I asked him if he was a Vietnam Veteran? I told him Thank You So Much Sir. I started practicing martial arts when I was 9 YO. Peace. Mike.

[@matthewmurphy6954]

The scariest thing is that these kids don’t look much older than me

[@reversecloak550]

thats cause they werent the youngest they drafted was 16 or 17

[@bigdirty69nj]

The draft

[@mikefrech1123]

@@reversecloak550 The youngest drafted was 18.

[@josephweaver5385]

This country always sends young men and now women to fight the fight...Look at WW1 and WW2...they were always young and vibrant and are now buried on foreign soil...God Bless all of them!!!!!

[@endroholic7161]

@@josephweaver5385 " It's old who declare war and the youth who dies "

[@americansoldier7302]

"No one likes a soldier, till the enemy is at the gates." - Some old saying that I learned.

[@alierk542]

Very stupid saying. Soldiers are representations of the human flaw of fighting your own kind. Saying that people don't like soldiers until the enemy is at the door is meaningless, because people who don't like soldiers are actually saying that they don't like war and the inhumane acts one is forced to commit in it. A more accuraye saying would be; The mouse would never create a mouse trap, but humans created the atomic bomb.

[@americansoldier7302]

@@alierk542 my guy this wasn't supposed to be taken seriously.

[@Sharkoon030]

@@alierk542 you have to fight the aggressor with something

[@jackfrost2146]

@@alierk542 The need to prevent untold thousands of innocent victims created the bomb. Obviously you weren't a soldier in WW2, and you haven't been forced to speak Japanese for some reason....

[@alierk542]

@@jackfrost2146 no. Project manhattan and the efforts of scientist and physician léo szilard and enrico fermi mainly created the bomb. In 1945, the war against japan was basically won. All the USA needed to do was to demonstrate the power of the bomb without actually using it, which would have made japan surrender. The bomb didnt end the war, it was already pretty much over when france was liberated amd the axis forces were trampled in the snows of russia. The atomic bomb was an inhumane creation which never was supposed to be used. Leo szilard and albert einstein themselves, the creators behind the bomb, wishex they didnt participate in ita making after it was done. Get your facts straight.

[@BioTechEntertainment]

"War is where the young and stupid are tricked by the old and bitter into killing each other." - Niko Bellic

[@degenerategambler000]

BioTeck Hey Nikoo my cousin ! Wanna come to play Bowling with me?

[@црниђорђерс]

Russian Man In Balaclava HAHAHAHAHAHAHA

[@jayr178]

I don't they are tricked, they just don't have a choice

[@walamo4796]

It’s crazy so much truth can be said by a fictional video game character

[@ReconstructedYankee1882]

Cabbage that's what I wanted

[@boneytheww1aviator229]

This video really puts Vietnam into perspective. Each servicemen was a individual person who had a family and friends. I remember this old saying that goes “old men see numbers increasing while young men see lives gone” this war was a waste of life and such a waste of a generation.

[@bighands69]

And if they did not serve in Vietnam the communists would have been coming for their families in America.

[@jhon7602]

Fue para contener el comunismo

[@z00p_zyt68]

Just to know that these people can be: Dead, in their 70s dying right now and their bodies still in vietnam

[@z00p_zyt68]

@Dino G It really is My Grandpa served in nam but never came back body buried up near the mekong delta

[@Unknown-lj7kq]

Jis I wish I could find one or those helmets and have them as a memory of those who fought their and gave their lives and I would stand near one of the jungles or mountain and salute those who have fallen

[@caveiroso095]

@@Unknown-lj7kq me too m8, me too...

[@majinmajin4488]

@@z00p_zyt68 rest in peace

[@billmandj0485]

Nam was a hellhole

[@epicmetod]

Imagine you are just finished high school or in college. You never go to gym or gun training. You only have months for training. Then you sent into jungles that full of deadly traps and ghosts who wields ak47. Those are teens you see in this video.

[@Fearless1247]

today's teens only care about clout

[@dienomo]

People forget everybody was high also

[@justaguy1878]

Imagine you was live a normal live in your own town, with your family. Then a country come and send their soldier to kill the people, the town, even use the chemical weapon. Those are teens you didnt see in this video

[@Feanor916]

@Fiasco Vietnamies were only commie army to ever put up decent fight.

[@daviddiaz3771]

@@justaguy1878 Vietnam was already on war...

[@JorgeCruz-nx4zb]

“War is young men dying and old men talking”

[@reynewdawn]

Thats why i liked Vikings... old pr young all fought in the front line togather

[@mikeobama69]

and the international lenders count their shekels

[@mariusklos9987]

yep

[@psour33]

And a lot's earning money on their lives.

[@raymondo162]

war: posh cunts telling stoopid cunts to shoot poor cunts. A. Non

[@tanganov]

I myself am from Russia, but watching videos like this, I clearly feel similar feelings to when I look at old front-line photos of loved ones. All the same faces, emotions, feelings. The same young guys who were broken by the war: someone on the battlefield, and the war ruthlessly deprived someone of their minds, and even corrupt and deceitful politicians then simply wiped their feet on them. I would like to express respect and good feelings to the guys who went through the horrors of the war, regardless of the side for which they fought. Unfortunately, in wars, it is always the common people, the soldiers, who suffer first of all, and not the puppeteers who start them.

[@biljajovanovic3764]

Кажеш Рус си,брате где си сада,јел се сада бориш против непријатеља? Знаш на кога мислим?

[@filiptodorovic9752]

@@biljajovanovic3764 Biljo, ne seri

[@jhon7602]

Comunistaaa

[@josipamatic6085]

Ptsd will be huge for once who manage to came back.

[@iamsendwich]

@@biljajovanovic3764 what does it have to do with the fact that he is Russian?

[@bartholomew1096]

The saddest part of this video is that they're all kids. A bunch of 20 year Olds fighting in a horrible war. Rip. Especially today. Nov 11.

[@jameswells-uk6qu]

WW1 AND WW2..CIVIL WAR..ETC...Always the young that are put right up on the front lines while the big wigs sit comfy making all the calls and money!

[@MikoyanGurevichMiG21]

Well at least that's one of the brighter spots of being born in this generation. Sure the music might not be that good as back then but hey, atleast we aren't forced to be dying in some remote jungle with a jammed M16 to fend against the enemy either.

[@s_369]

Many nations are now armed with nukes so it would be suicide to go to war

[@abilawaandamari8366]

I never understand that, why are the soldiers drafted ? Are the US that short on men to fight Vietnam ?

[@hoanglan2510bt]

South Vietnam thanks for all American soldiers! We have 20 years in freedom. They said that was a dirty war but why they didn't live in china, north vietnam, north korea to know what's communist.

[@alejandro60251]

I feel nostalgia for a time i haven’t known

[@DanielOliveira-ig5lt]

Me too

[@tylerleswing]

Anemoia

[@SlicedSlappy]

baezineitor 34 it’s in your genes

[@aerozz8851]

Nostalgia for the fucking Vietnam War?

[@fabriciodutra2117]

cuz u were there in another life

[@ivan-zvonimirkovacevic9075]

2:01 Served in WW1 and WW2 and probably has son or grandson serving in the Vietnam war.

[@doa_824]

That’s what I thought too

[@epicmetod]

That granpa? Nope, most ww2 veteran were still in their 40's - early 50's when vietnam happened. Average ww2 soldier were 17-28 then add 25 years. But you are correct if that granpa probably a WW1 veteran

[@ivan-zvonimirkovacevic9075]

@@epicmetod Hey might be some kind of leader in ww2, most ww1 veterans were commanders in world war 2.

[@brandonmireles3249]

That's how it was back then just got out of high school and healthy okay son your going to war

[@hernandezz4912]

exactly what I was thinking when I saw pops

[@GagariinYang]

Being Russian, I understand both sides of this conflict. During the Vietnam War, I was a child so I don't have many memories of that event, I was born in 1968. But in the 1980s, my brother Tuvia was injured in Afghanistan, which made me very angry. I wrote for the college newspaper, and in 1985 I published one of the first columns criticizing the war. Result? My friends abandoned me, my car was scratched, the landlord in my building dismissed me and I had to spend the night in the KGB building listening to humiliation. They didn't harm me, but they called me unpatriotic and fearful, because when I turned 18 I decided not to go to conflict. Horrible things were happening in Afghanistan, and I was right, but the Russians were too patriotic to take notice of that. However, today, I believe I would not have done that. Not to change my opinion, but I would have respect for the young people who fought there!

[@i_chug_lighter_fluid_yt]

🫡

[@DudeTheGasmask]

Pfc. Little Los 1950-1971 Gone but never forgotten.

[@TheRealRusDaddy]

Big rip

[@OrganicDolphin]

Kreegs damn that’s my age right now. It’s so sad and kind of scary. I feel like a melancholic sense of luck knowing that I was born after a century of violence.

[@TheRealRusDaddy]

Channel thats how long he was alive im pretty sure

[@cavidansevdimli6416]

Respect from Azerbaijan

[@ЭдикУЛЬМАН]

@@cavidansevdimli6416 Гагаш, тебя сюда как занесло?

[@antoniomskr5893]

Born around 1900 Fight in WW1 Born around 1920 Fight in WW2 Born around 1940 Fight in Vietnam

[@shawne02]

Born in 2002 and I'm getting flashbacks from this

[@zlikurac4840]

Born around 2000 Fight in WW3

[@SmokeyGames420]

@@zlikurac4840 God I hope not. I was born in 2002.

[@shawne02]

@@SmokeyGames420 we need something to turn us into men

[@SmokeyGames420]

@@shawne02 We won't get a chance to turn into men, we'll just be disintegrated by nukes if WW3 happens.

[@John-mf6ky]

This video honestly hits a lot harder now that I work at a veterans home.

[@zemo348]

@@mutt5701 you wrote this like a Nikita Hruscev told (do you know any heroes around here🧐)

[@zemo348]

In a film enemy at the Gates youknow if you watch this film

[@bassmaster7874]

Treat them old boys good they are the last of the best

[@klytouch5285]

Yup.. was it worthy.. look like wars are fun isn't it..??

[@SchuetzenBorstelSangenstedt_eV]

I salute to you👌🏼

[@ceevee369]

As a 6 year old, I was watching TV in ‘72, not understanding what was going on , finding it “cool” to see war. I live now for close to 7 years in Saigon, had a direct view from my office on the platform rooftop from which the Hue helicopter evacuated people, having visited ruins of War in different areas in Vietnam and most importantly, having learned why the Vietnamese resilience and persistence must have contributed in “ winning” this senseless war. It’s a good place to live here.

[@protonneutron9046]

you are insane if happy the communists came to power.

[@bighands69]

The Vietcong lost the war with over 2.5 million of them dying. They surrender and then the US decided to pullouts without ensuring that the place was in stable condition.

[@bighands69]

@blv The US got the vietcong to surrender and attend negotiations in Paris. The Vietcong lost 50 times as many fighters as the US did. The US never lost any major battles in the Vietnam conflict but the Vietcong lost nearly every major battle. The Vietcong were communists and were backed by both the USSR and China.

[@xv4713]

@@bighands69vietcong didn’t surrender.

[@Eldoradourb]

​@@bighands69🧠🧠🧠

[@fragbuwa8144]

Flashbacks from a time I never was

[@leebaker2588]

flashbacks from a time I was. 19 years old then. Now and old man . . .

[@Aldebaranm777]

this is SAUDADE😎

[@leebaker2588]

@tu tu Yes, 1972 and 73.

[@haileymarie6061]

tu tu you don’t have to be from the us to know the history of the war just research it and look at documentaries is that easy tho and be is a little rude to ask someone “how was it like” you know what i mean?

[@leebaker2588]

@tu tu war is like a nightmare . . . a bad dream that never ends and damages everyone it touches. May you never know war.

[@rossturpin4696]

I feel like the Vietnam war is glamorised by the music and footage so much that it is covering over the cracks for how awful it must have been for those brave men. I can’t imagine how terrifying it must have been, I’ve served in the military myself but my service was NOTHING compared to what these guys must have went through. Keep the good memories brothers!

[@Martin-eh9oo]

I do not blame them when losing the United States wanted to disguise their defeat and make it a little less crude, violent and horrifying

[@bighands69]

@@Martin-eh9oo Defeat? The US crushed the Vietcong. It was so one sided that the US decided to make an unprepared withdrawal that really looked bad. Just like Afghanistan.

[@supernoodles0225]

born to live, sent to die...

[@NB.7-20]

@@OXY187 Well, I guess the choice is yours to make.

[@usersif6493]

@@OXY187 u stupid?

[@der9424]

@@usersif6493 how is that stupid?

[@xan4thepeople]

@@usersif6493 how is he stupid

[@usersif6493]

@@xan4thepeople ay just didnt make sense sorry if i offended anyone

[@Hardrada88]

Found it! This played at work yesterday and brought back some good memories. I enjoyed singing along but my coworkers didn't xD reminded me of my dad. We shared my first beer together after a day of shooting on my birthday and this played on the radio. I wish i were there with him. Vinh long 68-69. Thanks for sharing

[@docibal4684]

I think the 60s had the best music ever

[@elvato667]

80ts

[@fabrizzioperfetti6875]

YES!!

[@fabrizzioperfetti6875]

60 and 80's

[@MrJustinUSCM]

More like we just happen to remember the best music from the 60s

[@estrogueia]

Yeah

[@Noah-jk8go]

My grandpa Freddie Lopez and his brother were drafted to Vietnam. He told me one story about watching his best friend Victor Lopez step on a landmine and blow up in front of him the look of horror and pain in his eyes said enough. We lost him a few years ago due to cancer and I still think about him on the daily and what he must of gone through. Thank you to all the veterans who fought and for those who are fighting right now. God bless

[@bighands69]

They done an amazing job and the media has done a horrible job.

[@theenchanteduniverseoflife1450]

Im not the only one who is listening to this masterpiece in june

[@geralds.9934]

Nope

[@guyaldridge]

Nope

[@isaiahalvarado2884]

Nope all respect for these vets

[@citruss5737]

of courde not

[@adielramos6157]

Nah

[@marlenobohn3889]

When I was a kid in Slovenia in the 1980s, I was fascinated by this war. It was a horrible war, of course, but I don't know how to explain it, but I enjoyed reading all about it. In the 1980s, many films and documentaries from the Vietnam War were on TV, and I watched them all. My brother went to a rock concert in Frankfurt in 1987, and he met a veteran, who signed a paper that my brother gave me as a gift.

[@barnabyg6808]

I don’t think I’ve ever wanted to be involved in something so much, yet be so glad I never was

[@YourMom-jk3gh]

U flat footed fucking hippie

[@oliverpierce5118]

@@YourMom-jk3gh what

[@jackrutledgegoembel5896]

@@YourMom-jk3gh Actually, NOT fighting in this war was definitely the better option.

[@JordanDinstrumentals]

I felt like that whilst watching ww2 in color on netflix.

[@CoolDrifty]

@@jackrutledgegoembel5896 I feel like many of the guys that emerged alive took home important life lessons, and memories they'll never forget. For better or for worse, being a part of one of the oldest, most respected human practices (war) carries with it a special admiration.

[@PedroLabatutt]

I am 44 years old and my father told me about this war when he was younger. It was one of the bloodiest wars since the end of WW2. My respect for Vietnam veterans. Greetings from Brazil!

[@ernestobalatorta]

brabo

[@MelenheadGaming]

Hey, Jefferson I just wanted to say, you did a great job making this video. I showed my Grandpa who served in nam and he loved it. He said it showed so much truth, highlighting the innocence most had. How they were so young and hopeful, yet thrown in a foreign place to fight a battle that wasn’t theirs. Happy Fourth of July everyone.

[@iamdom_720]

Watching this and seeing the soldiers doing their thing mixed with the upbeat pre war footage got me thinking about the idea that its possible young men like myself could be in that very spot, taken away from home to fight somewhere unfamiliar with only our spirits to keep our heads up. This definitely hit. Much love to the Vietnam Veterans.

[@higopr]

i feel a little sad watching this video those guys have my age ( 20 years old), and they are dying for nothing...

[@shirjaykay3836]

higopr Crying right now. Life was good in those days. My life is hell now.

[@HES8YAMBLYA]

Im crying too. Im from Ukraine. And this is shithole. I wish i was in 1960s.

[@swapmeetsheriffdonknottexp3046]

higopr men! No kid today could do that these days! Not with out a phone or x box in hand

[@higopr]

yes i agree they were more MEN, i appreciated it. But i just didn't like the fact that they were going to a war. To die.

[@Dogmeat1950]

average age of a Soldier in Vietnam was 22. 75% of everyone who served in Vietnam Volunteered

[@gabrielfewkes1323]

I remember a girl I knew was talking about war, and romanticizing the hell out it. So, I told her about my great uncle who was drafted into Vietnam and how he was killed the moment he got there. His helicopter was dropping him off into the jungle, and before his boots touched the ground he was shot dead as he took his very first step.

[@nonameman7114]

Sorry for your loss man, no offense to women but they just don’t understand the fear of war that us men face. If a war broke out tomarrow I’d be drafted to that hellhole. Nothing about war is pretty, it’s a nightmare waiting to happen.

[@lemmino1846]

@@nonameman7114 well isn’t it better to be a solider in a garden then a gardener in a war zone.

[@ok-ld8tf]

@@lemmino1846 they are both bad

[@aleksklaby4819]

the government of all countries romanticizes the war, so that their citizens would seek to die in wars for the sake of the interests of the capitalists!

[@gabrielfewkes1323]

@@aleksklaby4819 I would agree that they all do, but they all aren't capitalists. Their are socialists fascists etc. All spreading propaganda to get people to do there dirty work.

[@janetlapworth.li.george5883]

Memories of my dear friend Oscar who I met before his ship USS Glennon DD840 left for Vietnam,always in my 💓

[@Outsider-fu9nw]

life is just memories passing through. today you could have the same feeling like this guys. take photos with your team and save your memories. today is the past to the eternity.

[@markbravo6842]

The kid with the peace signs & Wayfarers is freelance photographer , Sean Flynn

[@spaceboundlad2622]

Just read about him. What a man. What happened to him was unfortunate.

[@mey.3574]

Wonder what happened to him after he disappeared.. really annoys me that I dont know

[@wilhelmvonpreussen]

They lived in the day, as there were no tomorrow, because possibly there wasn't a tomorrow.

[@harrisonsmith9456]

that's dark

[@TheDiverdaleBrothers]

0:16

[@dudeuncool8037]

In thousands of cases they would be having the time of them life And then days and in some cases even hours after that they could meet the end

[@211pirate6]

Drafted, sent to an insanely brutal war, and came back only to be spit on by their fellow Americans. These were the most powerful men of their time, those who retained their sanity.

[@gherkingaming3988]

Politics! am I right?

[@nomad4713]

And the ones who didn’t deserve to be looked on with honor. May we never forget their sacrifice

[@Riptor1998]

“Those who retained their sanity” seems a bit disrespectful don’t you think?

[@oliverb.8995]

@@Riptor1998 Its the truth, no?

[@bighands69]

Americans did not spit in their faces that is just nonsense that the media pushes. A few communist draft dodgers spitting does not account for the whole of America.

[@swithwesson99]

Как же атмосферно) Такое чувство , что сам в тех годах побывал) Оч. круто)

[@apimyfriend]

One of my favorite videos on YT. There's the sense of nostalgia that overwhelms you when you look at the people smiling in this video even though you were born decades later.

[@SophieLovesSunsets]

When watching footage like this I can't help but wonder how many of those young men who we see in this video returned home safely to their families ... and if they did how many of them lived with physical and emotional trauma as a result of the bloodshed they had witnessed. They were just kids. The Vietnam war was a horrific time in history.

[@GeloDianela]

1:48 Col.Benjamin Purcell (1928-2013) and his wife; Col. Purcell was a Vietnam POW and the highest ranking army officer among them.

[@mr.purplepanther856]

Jose Mercado Dianela wow thanks for sharing

[@kelvinbremont1341]

José Mercado Dianela. Thanks for the info! Rip to what I hope was a good and strong veteran. 🙏🙏

[@MsTaco85]

Wow! Amazing you saw your dad in this footage. I hope he is doing well. I actually came to watch this video to see if I would just happen to see my dad. Probably one in a million but you never know.

[@witchyglamfam8358]

1:42 Charles colley. RIP my beautiful angel. I love and miss you more than anything . 1 year today you been gone and I find this . I know you know I needed this.. I love you old man. . Fly high and watch over me please .. . To everyone in the comments mentioning my grandad. Thank you. Thank you so much. Thank you for the respect, and the knowledge on him. Thank you for knowing his name and story . That's all I and him ever wanted . Edit : for yall ignorant fucks im not " clout" chasing. This man hated attentjok. Leave me df alone and letnmy granddad rest man

[@BelieverofLordJesus]

What did he do in Vietnam? He probably killed innocent vietnamese people there! He is not an angel but a devil and now he's in the hell

[@witchyglamfam8358]

@@BelieverofLordJesus lmfao complete opposite. My grandma hated to kill. He believed you only kill it if your going to eat it. He saved many Vietnamese people. He got shot down 62 times and saved everyone on his plane everytime. He was an advocate for agent orange My granddad is a hero

[@rahman94]

I reported that asshole. No matter what the case was he was there. Do you know if he was drafted or enlisted prior? RIP

[@witchyglamfam8358]

@@rahman94 enlisted prior. He was in for 9 years

[@flatsixer]

Can Yiğit Shut up.

[@dave5257]

Crazy how we're just a moment in history. 40 to 50 years from now people will look back on our moment we're having right now and here we are looking back on there moment they were having at the time. Most are gone already. Makes you realize how small are problems are

[@mrtfff]

And how big our concerns are

[@nobody3052]

Me as a Vietnamese, The war most worthless both young Vietnamese and American die for no reason

[@raymondo162]

ZAKKERLY

[@ronnelniefes3812]

exactly!

[@v.7726]

I like to Learn about the Both Sides of The wars to know how everything felt in thier perspective I wonder what the Nationalists thought about the Chinease civil war or how was life like For the Eastern European people in the cold war

[@surfinm16a29]

Big facts

[@brutalhonesttraveller1233]

Stupid politics it was that which caused the war, so many Americans and Vietnamese were killed :(

[@phandanglam9923]

Rest In Piece for those who died during the Nam war on both sides.

[@bravefighters9915]

To die for a useless war is the worst thing that can happen to any man!

[@j3in725]

Fighting ANY war, war is useless since the people participating in it most of the time have less influence and parts in it than the big shots that started it War isn't flighted by rich man on the Frontline, they let the poor and easy manipulative folk fight it for them inventing badges to make them feel like they actually fight for something else than a guy with a big attitude

[@kwerty9671]

Useless? then there’s no point of them fighting in ww2

[@n9oqu]

@@j3in725 "There is no substitute for Victory"- General McArthur. He was right because we haven't won a war since. The war on drugs, poverty and terrorist is a waste of money, time and American lives because we never seems to realize an end game victory.

[@ХозяинПолянки]

​@@kwerty9671 You're an idiot ? The USA was on the good side in World War II. In Vietnam, the United States was already a Nazi. The Vietnamese wanted to create their own country, get rid of the colonialists; dictatorship was sitting in South Vietnam, crazy Catholics mocked the majority of the population (This is what the USA supported). Well, the United States was afraid to attack Vietnam (soviet rockets), and fought with the forest (! Ants !) And pregnant women. (massacres) Like the Essaites. This is a complete failure. The depression, heroin, suicides and the complete decomposition of the army.

[@lasaga9565]

@@ХозяинПолянки ok let the russian talk shit a out the US

[@deathisdeadd]

back in college in 2015 i had an elective specifically about the vietnam war, and at the end of the semester our professor brought in 3 vietnam combat vets for us to just talk to and ask any questions we want. (yes even THAT question) and it was really, really cool. all three of them were the same age and saw combat at 18 yrs old. really good memory from school

[@jhon7602]

Cuál fue esa pregunta?

[@cornflakesandmilk8157]

They're just kids. Sent to the other side of the world, told if they win they go home.

[@leop9199]

just civilians and farmers being killed by some invaders from the other side of the world

[@danielespinolajr1]

leo p that’s a generalization, do some research

[@leop9199]

@@danielespinolajr1 Oh i do, i'm waiting for the mass destruction weapons of sadam. What happen in libya, sirya, iran, iraq, afganistan, corea, vietnam, venezuela now? oh i know they suppose to had a dictatorship and they need democracy.

[@OrganicDolphin]

leo p aka they had oil the Americans wanted

[@danielespinolajr1]

leo p *korea, Commie

[@jahangirlaskar9628]

There's something about this song and this video which brings me back every week.

[@Emil.Pyyhtia]

The life expectancy of a radioman in firefight was 5 seconds

[@MoreTrenMoreMen69]

That has to be exaggerated

[@Scrump_Can]

@@MoreTrenMoreMen69 the first shots were at the radio man 99 times out of 100

[@noco7243]

@@MoreTrenMoreMen69 To be fair, there are some estimates that put their life expectancy as high as 30 seconds (as if that's better).

[@jerrell1169]

Sunrise Surprise It’s not, radioman would die usually within about 5 seconds of an ambush. They were actually kept away from the rest of the squad to ensure their safety.

[@2ndsunrise_]

Crusader cav scout life span today is 9 seconds

[@Whenseen]

Doesn’t freak people out knowing that most of these people are likely dead? That’s why war footage gets to my feels

[@DimoB8]

This was in the sixties/seventies so quite a few people are still alive

[@albinjohnsson2511]

If you mean because they died in the war: No, the majority of soldiers survive in almost any given modern war. If you mean because it's so long ago: No, it wasn't that long ago, most are probably in their seventies.

[@Whenseen]

Amuro Ray okkkk dude.

[@1234liloc]

@Amuro Ray Not that high of a percentage bro... Jesus

[@_caden_6481]

Amuro Ray the us government did not tell them to kill as many civilians as they could, that would be a war crime

[@Emil.Pyyhtia]

They didnt deserve what they got when they came home

[@Talsedoom]

What about people of Vietnam? Those who was killed in their homes... for nothing!

[@brothersum1359]

No they didn't, young kids that went across the world and everyday had to witness the absolute worst of humanity, of course their minds would break, of course they would become numb to the things that they were doing, killing and pillaging, think about being in a place where you couldn't trust if the civilians around you were scouting you and reporting to the enemy or if they were going about their daily lives, taking a humans life is a lot easier when you develop hatred and anger in your heart for the enemy, but going into battle with a patriotic mindset of "I'm going to do good here, I'm going to be there for my squad and I'm going to make my country proud." That mindset quickly changes into "holy fuck, am I going to survive today? Are any of my friends/squad going to die today? Will I ever make it home?" They followed orders and that's what a soldier does, I'm not gonna go into my personal beliefs about the whole "hero" thing so I'll just leave it at that.

[@daniild.6752]

Семен Мальцев им приказывали хули. Не было выбора

[@michaelcantu6071]

Loki wow, you’re so edgy...

[@prestongarvey7244]

@@SnakeP1tPoetry just watched your channel and you're the definition of an edge lord.

[@nostradamusofgames5508]

Somethimes time flies way too fast- I'm still so used to meeting vietnam vets in their 50's to 70's, sometimes younger.

[@danielpope5490]

Lost my father in September. He was a swamp rat (river boat) in the Navy. Never really talked about his experience, but passed away from cancerous brain tumors caused by agent orange. Now that he’s passed it really hits hard about the sacrifices these men and women made for our country. Love and respect to all those who are serving who have served in the past, and our POW’s!

[@Pandamaster2871]

Agent orange is some nasty shit

[@anncarothers4481]

Every note I play (pianp) dedicated ur

[@anncarothers4481]

Every note I play (piano therapist) dedicated to all of our military and all POWs..those who wait..those forever changed..and those who will serve in future...with deepest appreciation and thanks. 🌹

[@rylle3404]

Always the poor, the working class, the middle class who has to sacrifice themselves in wars. Always has been.

[@chima6291]

That is why i respect McCain, a real royal

[@KLK01]

David Ma the dead guy? The same guy that was against affordable healthcare? Yeah poor bastard.

[@mantle64]

@@gsingh87 McCain & his pappy were two of the biggest shills for Israel

[@jcristero2476]

David Ma McCain ratted out his fellow soldiers

[@mantle64]

@@jcristero2476 that's why they called him Songbird....he was evil

[@pat7785]

Vietnam was like poking a bees nest. Pointless and will only hurt you in the end

[@chima6291]

China failed to conquer vietnam. Mongols failed. Japan failed. French army defeated. And it was not a surprise America failed. Communism sucks but I have to pay my respect to my neighbors down in the South.

[@actualnotsorightguy3]

Fighting for the freedoom of a South Eastern Asian country against Communist Tyranny, well it's NOT POINTLESS.

[@pat7785]

actualnotsorightguy3 if you believe in non interventionism it was pointless

[@ogthwompy2893]

@@pat7785 People hate us Americans when we don't get involved in a war and then they hate us for getting involved in the war.

[@youngdomo9040]

THEYRE IN THE TREES

[@katherinebot]

My grandfather was extremely lucky to have served his time before Vietnam in West Germany, but my heart goes out to everyone who served in this war. Such senseless loss of young life.

[@bighands69]

if they did not serve in Vietnam the communism's would have been coming for their mothers, sisters and wife. No body wants to talk about the truth of the world.

[@Anthony-tf7sr]

My mother’s godfather served in Vietnam in the army. She said that when ever songs like California Dreamin came on he would become very emotional because it reminded him of his friends who died during the war

[@rockfrolic6249]

I remember that for 5th-grade chorus, we had to sing this song. We all thought it was a feel-good tune. Now I’m older, and just knowing the context of the song and the time period of when it was written, it’s just so depressing

[@Geckoo1337]

Beautiful pictures from the past. I don't know anything about these people, but all these smiles gave me today a reason to be happy. You made my day ++

[@supahsupra7058]

“War stops people,so why people don’t stop war?” -Some Lost Zippo Lighter

[@LeotheOrangeCat]

Vietnam is where America said no, at least to their kids dying. If Iraq got worse, it would have stopped that too.

[@trinitrojack]

@@LeotheOrangeCat Not really. Iraq was also a message sent that America can fight a sustained war. There was backing down from that regardless of what it cost. And believe me, all options where on the table.

[@ivanxeneize7]

This is a true smart human being comment, the only one i found, so sad.

[@LeotheOrangeCat]

@@trinitrojack 885 U.S. deaths in 2005 were enough drive the U.S out of Iraq. After 2005, Bush did the surge, declared victory, and left. The U.S. public will no longer allow U.S. deaths at the Vietnam level except in the case of a truly an existential threat. Of course, deaths of non-U.S. nationals count for little in its calculus.

[@trinitrojack]

@@LeotheOrangeCat You have an interesting interpretation of dove out. Yes troops withdrew. Campaign results are certainly questionable. But what exactly would be the alternative here? Permanent occupation?

[@kakashisfan6101]

“The old who start it all, let the young fight it”

[@kakashisfan6101]

@Azzam 111 so your tell me literal fresh high school graduates,they don’t know anything about the world,they were put through torture and had bad thoughts and were driven crazy even when they were back home. Then their life has gone to waste due to the US military using them for Vietnam?

[@kakashisfan6101]

@Azzam 111 You probably don’t have a response cause your thick skull can’t accept the fact their life’s gone to waste. Go serve in a war and come back to people like you who don’t support you.

[@kakashisfan6101]

@Azzam 111 Also,why don’t you care about their life’s going to waste?Did they do something to you or your country or something? There’s really no reason.

[@kakashisfan6101]

@Azzam 111 During the Vietnam war they couldn’t tell who the bad guys and the good guys were the enemies were disguising as normal people then ambush the soldiers.

[@kakashisfan6101]

@Azzam 111 even if it was intentional for them to kill the civilians if they knew they were innocent people doesn’t make all the soldiers during the war bad.They were a lot of hero’s during the war.

[@AldebaranHikari777]

"How many dreams were left behind because of this damn war"...

[@agentrex9004]

Anibal Aldebaran Luz now that’s the real question being asked.

[@federicoimola1771]

La canzone più bella che abbia mai sentito. Grazie Mia Martini per aver partorito questo testo incredibile. Ti amo. Quando è il mio funerale suonate questa all'offertorio della messa dio cane. È troppo bella.

[@heinzerr]

1:24 so wholesome.. i hope these men are still friends

[@luallual8180]

The guy on the left might be an ARVN soldier(South Vietnamese army) so we dont know if they ever got to reconnect later on

[@Paint_Eater]

@@luallual8180 the guy on the right is alive because there’s a comment from his son but I do hope that the Vietnamese guy is still alive

[@PunchGod741]

@@luallual8180 we can hope though, can’t we?

[@Maréchal_John_Gaming]

He’s not south Vietnamese look he’s black

[@Dadouf112]

@@Maréchal_John_Gaming Hmm, to me the eyes, face and skin tone overall just seem like features on a person from southeast Asia

[@mcozpda3392]

I was very young ..a kid ..and my dad was in Vietnam .. my mother and my grand mother sometimes crying and never understand why .. and time gave me the answer .. he return after a long time , but he created his own world ..... and i grew up close to mi mother but I knew that my father was there .. but he come back ..

[@decker4490]

The sad thing is half of the men in this video were probably killed.

[@decker4490]

@@464528 Fuck you. These men didn't start the war. They had their lives taken from them.

[@464528]

@@decker4490 You dont like communism, and that gives you the right to invade a foreign country?

[@decker4490]

@@464528 I could give two shits about diplomacy. Most of these men didn't want to be there in the first place. The fact that you are willing to disrespect people who were forced to suffer and die for a cause they probably didn't believe in is absolutely disgusting. You should be ashamed of yourself.

[@kaiserwilhelmiihohenzolleo1937]

I HAVE a GODAMN Plan

[@assassinosproductions3201]

@@sfsstudios9108 yeah, just following orders, when killing innocent farmers, most of who women and children.

[@brianduran29yearsago52]

y father served with the 3rd and 5th Special Forces Group in Vietnam,Cambodia and Laos 1964 to 1966. I know this song always held a special place in his heart because California is where my mom was living while she was pregnant with me. My pops left the Army after his last tour and attended UC Berkley. I myself served in the Army and have 2 combat deployments under my belt. This song always reminded me of my pops and of my home, Northern California. RIP Dr Levi Duran (pops) SSG B.K. Duran US Army-11B

[@felixmadison5736]

One of the best 'Vietnam Songs' was by Kenny Rogers, called: "Ruby, Don't Take Your Love to Town". It was released in January of 1969, 5 months before I was sent over. A song that hit home for many of the young soldiers who came home disabled, with a young wife or girlfriend waiting for them.

[@felixmadison5736]

@lucas ilievski It was like what your family who fought would say it was: WAR IS HELL! I don't talk about it either. Brings back too much pain and sorrow. If someone ever tells you they have 'good' memories of war, then they have never fought in one.

[@SpongeBobFan-li4qd]

thank you for your service

[@nikhilpant2387]

This is the greatest video on internet

[@epozokatrib]

Vietnam War is one of the most underrated bands ever...

[@fabianw2k]

lol?

[@epozokatrib]

@Sky Boy in its time people literally died to see it

[@deliahalko2147]

FEELING THE UNKNOWN COMING TOWARDS THEM. ENJOYING LIFE AT THEIR MOMENTS IN LIFE ❤️

[@samuelpeirone6215]

For some reason this was really nostalgic even though I was born in 2004

[@AudieHolland]

It's the general human subconcious thingamabob.

[@juliusvogel4834]

Same

[@aapotolonen3357]

2005

[@garinzina2082]

reincarnation

[@tahaemad5809]

Same 2004

[@wolfen337]

That war was not necessary. So many people died for nothing.

[@thile6742]

Don Tango if it like German where the communism collapsed itseft, then then the war would be something

[@sirludwig6195]

@@thile6742 The Communism is not like what happened in German....

[@thile6742]

Ricardo ludwig and i said "if" IF, that small word make the whole sentence

[@laisla1024]

I'm from roc...so I know how the communism hurt to my country... You guys live a wonderful life. And we are suffer from communism's activity... Do you know how many people were dead because of the communism??? You guys are more luckier than us... Maybe you don't care about our fate...I don't know...but the soldiers who died in Vietnam are very brave...and they shouldn't participate the war...

[@laisla1024]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/pXfOeXiciauJnrs Do American eat human being??? Eat human's lung...heart....in 20 century?????

[@bugrahanibicek8799]

This is the place America lost. Lost its prestige, respect, ideals and so many innocent young men for make some old guys rich.

[@MicahNstuff]

Yeah and in the middle of this all they decided to flood us with a bunch of 3rd world socialists

[@THX-bz8bi]

America never lost.

[@vvventure]

Im not american, but is true, everybody hates or thinks the US is a threat to world peace, starting with Vietnam. Before that, the US was really admirable country and I still love the american revolution ideals and philosophy (much much better than french revolution), but now the country appears as the bully of the world. In addition, everyone is crazy about Trump, but I realize Obama make more damage (lybia, shady stuff in Syria) FOR NOW.

[@swagmoneyrespect]

It wasn’t to make old guys rich it was an effort to stop the spread of communism

[@copywriternj]

@@swagmoneyrespect Well, that was the lie, wasn't it.

[@ブレードランナー2049]

that was the saddest and the most powerful thing I've seen in my life.

[@lagoonguy]

also, that scene at 1:25, where he's trying to show that south vietnamese soldier how to throw a punch.. and he's all 'umm, ok, like this maybe?' --- yeh they're just hanging out in front of a camera, but, it's also a symbol of how the South Vietnamese Army was. Once we left, the NVA steamrolled them.

[@ek7404]

History repeats itself. Look at the state of the Afghan National Army, when we inevitably leave they’re going to get demolished by the Taliban.

[@Mick-oi3wy]

usa ha ima let you see the stupidity in your comment before you delete it bud

[@TheSadbuttrue13]

Really? The guy at 0:15 was looking through the gun sight with the wrong eye...

[@Mick-oi3wy]

usa ha the US and Nato did not destroy the whole world. That’s just overkill to say the least. They are both responsible for their fair share of atrocities but they aren’t the whole problem. Iran, Israel, and Saudi Arabia are some just to name a few. Trust me, I am much more “awake” than you, as well much more fair.

[@Mick-oi3wy]

usa ha for our retarded governments stupid interests. You think the people wanted to head into most of those wars? The people here have brains and don’t want wars (believe it or not)