Hamburger Hill

[@claudesledge9102]

Larry Chambers...I would have loved to joined you guys on this trip...incredible! Imagine being"point"in that terrain...at night...during the campaign,damn intimidating.

[@haroldball6603]

I was a helicopter crew chief and flew many trips to Dong Ap Bia during the battle.

[@fifthbeatle]

By far the most interesting/unique war in world history.

[@MunichPatsFan]

Been there March 2017 - in the mist. Greetings from Bavaria

[@galesams4205]

being a tanker i never went to HAMBURGER HILL ther were plenty of NVA enemy soldiers around DAK_TKO the old special forces camp on cambodia border. 4th inf. div. 10th armored.

[@charlie1571]

Been there, done that, but I will be damned if I go back to that God forsaken place where my brethren died!

[@poodlesrock6552]

Looks like well-trodden path now after all the tourists, perhaps? Now, imagine yourself stepping a side and taking a walk on the wild side for never-ending days and nights.

[@simonyip5978]

My comment is not strictly about this battle, but it is amazing how much the whole world has changed since that war, in the 60's China and North Vietnam were allies, China was just trying to recover from a century and half of civil war, invasions, weak government, rebellions, famines and natural disasters etc. 50 years later, Vietnam fears and hates the recovered China, which has now regained it's original status of being a superpower. Europe has changed drastically, so has East Asia and South East Asia, the Middle East etc. The US is still the main economic and military superpower, but China's economy is on the verge of overtaking that of the USA. I wonder what the soldiers who fought in the Vietnam war would have thought if they could see how the world has changed in a fairly short time.

[@gotwa229]

China and North Viet Nam were not "allies" during the Viet Nam War. The North Vietnamese simply obtained weapons from China, but never were an "ally" never mind friend per se. That said, the Chinese and Vietnamese have always been enemies for thousands of years. That North Viet Nam became a kind of client state of the PRC had more to do with pragmatic reasons than sympatico feelings.

[@thanhtc1988]

USA yourself helped China to get strong like today by being ally of them in 80s

[@gotwa229]

U.S. Soldiers are not trained to think like that. They don’t have the training to look at the implications of their actions on a meta scale. For most Vietnam veterans, their thinking about the war and the current staye of world affairs today rarely goes beyond their immediate needs, or when their next apointment with a VA doctor, or when that next disability check is coming in. Vietnam vets - not surprisingly - are still a bunch of bitter old men, many of them still locked in a ca. 1960’s mindset of fighting for the domino theory and more body counts, yet incapable of understanding why the U.S. lost the war, except for the fact that they were stabbed in the back by Jane Fonda and all those draft-dodging hippy protesters. The majority of them still have a huge chip on their shoulder about this, bizzarely hate all Asian males yet fetishize Asian females, and keep on muttering in mantras, “We could’ve won the war if they didn’t tie our hands behind our backs!”

[@dc3189]

Erm..they are still alive..many of them have written books..some of them have run for president!

[@AKAngelKingAK]

@@gotwa229 China did have Chinese soldiers fighting in the war though. But they were disguised as nva specifically so America did not know that China was directly engaged in the war.

[@ther1rida]

RESPECT

[@jenniferwilson7762]

U immortalized yourself saying..."im taking it..f em".....smh...shame on u!... What a legacy....

[@johnwhite5306]

Oh yes, Jennifer, your moral superiority is an inspiration to all. You're so worldly with so much experience how is it anyone could live up to your example?

[@dc3189]

@@johnwhite5306 I know..right.

[@Davidjon1946]

@@johnwhite5306 he's no Fortunate Son take that it is owed to us especially you

[@johnwhite5306]

@@Davidjon1946 I have no idea what you're trying to say.

[@Davidjon1946]

@@johnwhite5306 me neither

[@freakyold]

That's funny that the ex-GI stuck that found money in his pocket without a second thought when the other dude thought it might be a (police?) trap. I was working in the post office as extra help needed for the Christmas season many years ago. I saw an envelope on a conveyor belt with money sticking out of it. I pointed it out to another guy and he said the same thing the dude in this video said - "It's a trap - don't touch it". Not wanting to spend Christmas in federal prison, I just watched the money go by ha ha.

[@A55-X01]

Like UniqueLifter205#, I also read those books about 25 years ago. I specifically remember the lightning strike. Those books inspired me to join the Army, and 22 years later, I’m still doing it. I, however, chose a career as a Crewchief/Door Gunner. The vast majority of my career has been in direct support of Special Operators like you. Thanks for what you have done and continue to do.

[@Russellsagecline]

Hi, Lurch. I read all of your and your LRRP team mates' books over 20 years ago. Still have them. So glad to see you are well, amigo!

[@sdkfz250b]

Made the very same journey back in 1996 up hill 937.

[@kentpayne3947]

I've read lots of your books Larry and this was very interesting to me to see the sounds and the sites from where you were back then

[@nealfry2230]

" Welcome Home Bro. back to the States." Gonna bury your litter like a good Soldier? " Take Care Brother "

[@Jonas-Namwartravel]

Thank you for posting this Larry. I really wanted to see more from your visit there. It seems that you walked the same path as I did in 2012 when I shot my video that's also on here. It also seems you had the same guide. Do you remember if your guide was called Mr Diu? I have read your book and at Gary Linderer's from the Six Silent Men series and remember well the incident when you got hit by the lightning. It was mentioned I think in the video that you were walking down to an LZ and as I said it seems you walked to the same place we did. Our guide told us it was an LZ during the battle in 69. However, I got it confirmed from Frank Boccia who was a platoon leader during the battle and wrote the book The crouching beast that they never landed chopper that far up during the battle. But that big clearing was right where they advanced up to the summit in the latter stages of the battle.

[@jameshatchett5589]

Hello Larry, I have read a couple of your books and came across your name in Linderer’s books. Enjoyed them thoroughly. Is there a specific travel tour a person can take to see all of the major war sites?

[@fredcarlson7295]

50 years on and time has changed everything including those that were actually there in 69. Back then when we were all young we never dreamed that someday, those of us who've made it this far, would be this old, senile and decrepit. Best regards to all on both sides who were just doing their duty.

[@chloekit4861]

You were in the war?

[@afonsoneto1407]

I got here on ''937 Hamburger Hill '' for the movie '' The Vietnam War '' A Film by Ken Burns and Lynn Novick / Netflix. I am from sao paulo Brazil. Thank you very much for giving us this experience in a very real way. God bless you

[@jimsurfnfish8089]

So many lives lost , for a position they just left for the v.c. to reclaim. War is hell.

[@unknownuser2737]

I deer hunt here in northern Indiana in the woods up here is really thick it's hard to get a shot through looking at the pictures of Vietnam in this video makes me wonder how in the hell did you guys shoot through that stuff at the enemy that had to be very frustrating not to mention scarier than hell my hat is off to all of you that served in Vietnam welcome home

[@StormLaker]

Reading Recondo right now....great book, thank you for your service to our country!

[@oldman9843]

Thank you .

[@nazliesyahzeer3317]

Good job sir!! respect from Malaysia...

[@brasco96wired67]

Did you have to get a permit to go there?

[@jimmycakes7158]

LOL at that money on the leaf. I walked up alone in 2017, it was claustrophobic. You made it to the clearing though, that's the place you can see in old pics with the APCs guarding the perimeter.

[@johngilder9650]

I read the lightning story in one of the Six Silent Men books

[@afonsoneto1407]

Unfortunately the 18-hour documentary: The Vietnam War, Ken Burns and Lynn Novick, although it did elect the brave American soldiers and the bravery of the Vietnamese, but criticizes that the orders to attack the hills 937, 875 and 1338, that produced many americas casualties , were conflicting, for soon after, the soldiers were ordered to retreat after the 'conquered' of the Hills. The Documentary induces the error in this part, because these Hills were places of intention presence of the enemy, what is denied in the documentary, unfortunately.

[@JayKhwaja]

WAR AT IT'S WORST, FOUGHT BY MEN AT THEIR BEST - HAMBURGER HILL (MAY 1969)

[@keithTCU]

There is no freeeekin way you'd get me to go hiking though that jungle.

[@michaeldineenSG2018]

Why didn't they show the summit of Dong Ap Bia??

[@paulogle4417]

Who did your tour?