The Vietnam Soldier's War Life. Why PTSD.

[@DavidHoffmanFilmmaker]

the real Vietnam war he experienced - kzbin.info/www/bejne/q3qWnp2PorNjh5o

[@karlahemphill3414]

My brother Craig Hemphill was killed in Viet Nam. He was in DaNang. He was a Marine. It was 1969. I wish I could find someone who knew him. Thank you for sharing your story. I can't imagine how horrible it must have been. You are in my prayers. 🙏

[@gerry1620]

@@karlahemphill3414Sorry for your loss. I hope you do find someone who served with him still.

[@Rebelliousoul]

So very sorry for your families loss. I hope a Veteran comes across your post who knew your brother so you can get closure. Your brother Is a hero who was brave and courageous. RIP SIR

[@jmorrisey79]

Is there a way to make that a link? It's not working for some reason when I typed it in.

[@jscharleston7963]

My grandfather was killed in WWII and at the 40th anniversary of the 4th Armored division, I took my mom. It was at the Citadel Military College. I went into one of the great halls around the parade ground and shouted out loud," anyone ever heard of Wild Bill Bailey?" As soon as I said that, this man looked at me from across the hall with intense eyes-not the 1000 yard stare but the half century stare so to speak. He came up to me and said-" what did you just say?" He was an aid for my grandfather and was with him when he was killed. I asked him if he would speak to mother as she was only 14 when he was killed. He did without hesitation. I look back on it and I'm not sure I had to right o ask that man to relive that moment. But he didn't give it a second thought.

[@johnmoles4122]

This is why The Vietnam Memorial Wall was so important for veterans. In an era before social media and cell phones, It was the first time many vets could find out if their friends lived or died.

[@Nameentered]

Never thought to look their names up?

[@CrowsNestEntertainment]

​@@Nameenteredwhen do you think this war happened lmao

[@doejon6821]

They must have a computerized database of survivors and the deceased at this point.

[@nate9626]

@@doejon6821holy shit you’re both so stupid😂😂

[@StarryNight007]

​@@NameenteredIt wasn't during the internet era.. sheesh. Do people think before they comment anymore.

[@phil4986]

A friend of mines older brother, Berndie, went to Vietnam. When he came back,he was never the same. He was self medicating himself all the time with drugs and booze. He lasted about five years before an overdose killed him. His parents and his brothers were terrified, but nobody could help him. Everything they tried, failed to reach him. What he saw, had to do to stay alive, stepped in, felt, had splattered on him, and smelled must have been horrendous. Berndie was the most mellow dude I ever met,dealing with just relentless demons. They finally got him. Rest In Peace, Berndie. We miss you.

[@judyedwards7144]

Much respect 🙏🙏🙏

[@O-pm8bb]

This is the sad reality of war. Soldiers will do their best to survive but when they do they will experience hell in their own mind. When you are exposed to suffering and death or you yourself take a life you loose yourself and your sanity. Most people aren't psychopaths, they are human beings with emotions and empathy and exposed to this type of human suffering it's inevitable that they will break. This is why it is important that wars are not fought unless it is to protect your country from an invasion. The price to pay is too high and it is not right to expose people to it without extreme necessity. I keep all the people who suffered in this war in my prayers.

[@sunofpeter2]

Thanks for letting us know about him. His family, for what it’s worth , hope they have peace

[@BigSamWin]

Rip berndie

[@fart9026]

His mind is at ease now respect to all in the field breaking their state of mind for the cause rest in peace🥹

[@charlesray5316]

My father relived the Vietnam war every night while he slept.. i would hear him screaming and talking in his sleep.. i would go into his and hold his hand and immediately he would calm down and be at peace and back to deep sleep

[@RaymondSell]

❤😢

[@WillWize]

Wow that’s so deep, I hurt to know this their experience.

[@charlesray5316]

@@WillWize PTSD is real.. many people suffer from it and it's due to traumatic experiences in their life

[@kanoongooadmi3308]

Shameless cowards Americans, killed millions of innocent women, children and poor peasants, destroyed whole country side in Vietnam with chemicals When kicked in their ass by half their size, starved Vietnamese, they ran like rats, disgusting Americans still not repenting

[@geomundi8333]

my dad had talked about how this happened to him and how he always attended vietnam conferences hoping to meet other vets from same units etc. i remember as small kid going to a few but we never had luck finding anyone. later in life he really needed those people and would have made good friends because they could have understood what he went through

[@mr.smartypants94]

I still can't figure out why people went. America loves communism. That's why we sent all our discoveries and inventions to China to make all our stuff. US government loved communism then and loves it now.

[@JimmyDidItAgain]

​@@mr.smartypants94 tf is wrong with you?

[@mr.smartypants94]

@@JimmyDidItAgain That's a very well thought out sentence. Good job.

[@JimmyDidItAgain]

@mr.smartypants94 no problemo you douchebag 👍

[@kz6713]

You mean cheap labor, you are getting at the wrong thing.​@@mr.smartypants94

[@rose_city-86o51]

That happened to my old man in Vietnam. His war buddy, that he spent almost his whole deployment with, got injured and had to be choppered out. My father never saw him again and it killed him for decades. Once social media came around, he was able to find to him on Facebook, but he never sent him a message or anything. I asked him why and he said “just knowing that he made it and has a loving family, is good enough for me.” I think he was really overthinking it tbh with you. It’s not easy thing to reconnect with someone like that after so much time has passed. I really wish he made that decision before his passing, but if it really made him happy just knowing his buddy was alive, than I’m happy he was able to get some kind of of peace out of it.

[@isaiahthemack8892]

He probably didn’t want to bring those memories back to that man. Of course he still had them but maybe with his family he was able to silence it for the most part and move on. He didn’t want to risk bringing back bad memories to him. Also what I feel like most of it was him just wanting closure. Sometimes closure is all we need/want and we’ll be fine. I understand that 100% about just wanting closure.

[@eeeeee217]

If that person is still alive, tell him your story before he goes.

[@CippiCippiCippi]

Imagine being a human being living your life and one day these white monsters show up and blow everything to smithereens

[@tealeafs3824]

​@@eeeeee217I agree. Is good to let him know his daddy thinks about him and if he agrees can give him a call. Not forcing anything, just suggesting.

[@TyroneJackson313]

My dad got medevaced out and I'm sure there were people that felt the same way about him

[@ilwill5996]

My Dad is a Vietnam Vet. he still has to talk about it to help with life but he said that the nightmares don't happen as often anymore. All Glory and Honor to THE FATHER THE SON & THE COMFORTER!❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤

[@johncitizen3927]

I looked at it as, IT WAS JUST A JOB. army sniper, 1968 pleiku.

[@paulkersey8626]

It wasn’t until early 2000s and the internet was in our home, did I start finding men my father served with. At the time he just gotten some money from the VA. It was his mission after that to reach out to them, and get those men VA benefits. He helped about 7 of his old comrades get benefits. He passed away from the effects of agent orange. And I miss him everyday.

[@dforsman1000]

May his memory be a blessing to those who loved and knew him . My oldest brother died because of agent Orange in Vietnam. They brought him home and it wasn't long before he passed. I was just a child but was traumatized just seeing what my glen looked like.

[@NashCadden]

Agent orange got my grand pop from Korea bout 30 years later, shits honestly crazy.

[@ncsalveson]

My husband reached out to vets to help them get benefits too. I often say that my husband was murdered by Agent Orange in Vietnam. But he didn’t die until 3 years ago.

[@ludicrous7044]

They didn't disappear - they went home wounded for life!😔😢

[@Bwill11]

they made agent orange a town over from me and the site was next to the Quinnipiac river and is still contaminated to this day ,more people in that area got cancer who didn’t work there just lived within close proximity to the factory that tells you something right there

[@StonedBarbiee]

I interviewed a man named Robert Parker who was in Pearl Harbor. He cried telling me some of the things he witnessed. He was a gentle soul who had seen a LOT. No one knows what soldiers back then truly gave up and left home with … war is a disgusting reality of earth.

[@ConfuciusZ]

In fact Many Do know actually. And to be frank it’s Worse Today than it ever Has been What he just explained Doesn’t get to happen in Ukraine-A Helicopter doesn’t come to save you, You are on your own.

[@freedombro]

​@@ConfuciusZ this guy was lucky to have those helicopters !

[@cap5856]

Do you have record of the interview still? Can we see it please! I’d love to hear more!

[@ReviveChamp]

I'm interested butI'm honestly struggling to find an interview with a Robert Parker who fought in Pearl Harbor, written or otherwise, and could only actually find records for 2 men called Robert Parker stationed at Pearl harbor, one of who was K.I.A, and the other Robert Parker died in 1982

[@sylvaindescoteaux4208]

war is a disgusting reality humans created, not earth!!?! earth could be a living paradise , but WE choose war.

[@kimschelble6732]

Such a great description of the living hell war can be. It’s like losing a family member every day and not knowing what happened to them. That is incredibly tough.

[@JEFFREYSOWELL-lj8tu]

I'm a Marine that never went to war or prepared for war . So my sympathy for any veteran of any war. Around this world we are going to have to do better....if for nothing else than being better people

[@suburbanangler1970]

You signed your life away though. You definitely are a true veteran. I'm Navy. I got out less than two years on a hardship and I've had an ex tell me I'm not a veteran. Never saw combat but didn't avoid it. My ship was in dry dock during the Persian Gulf War. But I signed that paper just like you. We are veterans brother, thank you for your service.

[@kanoongooadmi3308]

Shameless cowards Americans, killed millions of innocent women, children and poor peasants, destroyed whole country side in Vietnam with chemicals When kicked in their ass by half their size, starved Vietnamese, they ran like rats, disgusting Americans still not repenting

[@jonmurphy4889]

This is why my Dad used to tell me you don't have any friends... No real ones cuz they can disappear at a moment's notice like they were never even there. You really have to live through an experience like that to understand it to wrap your head around it.

[@xscorcher9071]

When i was in school i desperately cared about maintaining friendships. Now that I’ve actually lived a while i know that all the effort was practically pointless and am better for it. Rather have 4 quarters than 100 pennies

[@jonmurphy4889]

@@xscorcher9071 I agree I used to say it's good to have at least a handful of people you can depend on but even those people you probably can't... Especially when you find out the hard way that you're the one everyone calls for help for assistance whatever but when you make calls or ask for help no one answers or everyone's busy... Don't get me wrong being alone sucks not saying to do that but use better judgment on who you help out. I can't even begin to name off how many times I've been in that situation and wish I used better judgment and thought will this person ever return the favor?! Life's full of lessons and that's something that was taught to me at a young age but I just didn't listen. Now I know. 👍👍🤙

[@waynefreeman7556]

😢

[@PolarBearPredator]

THANK YOU TO ALL VIETNAM VETS WE LOVE YOU! L&R

[@RaymondSell]

❤❤❤

[@dellyoung7465]

My father is still dealing with this. He's a Vietnam vet. He still has night terrors. Vietnam vets are discarded. They were failed by our country. PERIOD!!!

[@FartInYourFace234]

Hopefully the next generations will be smarter in their decision making, given we have the internet to provide us with the truth, regardless of what the DOD tells us

[@moehaymed9567]

Yeah it’s tragic. I remember I talked to a Vietnam vet and he told me how he was never a fighter and was drafted, forced to fight by the government only to be spat on by the civilians when he came back…

[@georgejoy7635]

@@moehaymed9567could’ve gone prison like hundreds of others, he chose to kill. The government should’ve seen that Vietnam would be unpopular don’t blame the US civilians for taking issue with mass rape and execution of a nation who did NOTHING to America

[@kremepye3613]

All veterans were and are.

[@gradystein657]

@@moehaymed9567”forced” Canada was right there, but your dad would rather kill people than be embarrassed

[@jamesgracey5510]

As the United States, Marine Vietnam combat veteran what he saying is totally true. Some of those men were your close friends to never be seen again then years later you look them up on the Vietnam wall and there’s their name. add the monsoon during the rain season where it rains all day and all night you’re constantly wet cold and you’re out on a patrol and you get ambushed. These are events you never forget and neither does your nervous system PTSD is real. combat veterans are the largest demographic for homelessness, drug addiction, psychiatric medication’s, and mental health hospitals. You never prepared with all your training for that kind of violence. On some level deep in your mind and heart, you know there’s something immoral about it. I’m 80 years old I was in Vietnamin 1965. I was just like yesterday. Semper Fi all my brothers.

[@zanecampbell711]

Welcome home, my grandpa served from 71 to 75. Shrapnel from a grenade got stuck in his back and the past 5 years or so he’s had to walk with cane and sit down often. He refuses to go in a wheelchair because of his pride. Also an AK47 bullet skimmed his head where there’s still a scar to this day, he had to be airlifted out and went back fighting soon after. Never told me anything else about the war really, I tried asking when I was 12 or so and he just couldn’t talk about it. Not like I’d understand anyway he’s just always been my hero and I’ve always wanted to be a marine because of him. Toughest man I’ve ever met by far. He’s 73 now

[@gabrielpollard3400]

Semper Fidelis brother thanks for your service

[@gabrielpollard3400]

James maybe we can set up a time to chat devil dog

[@gabrielpollard3400]

@@zanecampbell711 uhh is this Zane In N.C

[@zanecampbell711]

@@gabrielpollard3400 nah man Zane in Maryland. Pretty close tho

[@anthonysmith778]

Lots of empathy for these guys and the nurses and doctors who had to put these guys back together

[@garnerjoyce606]

Smith, you didn't have time to stop, 👍

[@VedadSmjecanin]

I survive Sarajevo '92-'96 as a kid.. 1425 days of this story... All day everyday...Life with bombs,grandes,snipers..Hell..Hell..

[@101soldiergurl44]

I am a ten year US Army female vetera. Air Assault, Desert Storm. I am not the same individual; nor will i ever be. I can remember i always stunk of sweat, sand in my BDU's, and i absolutely wreaked of fear. An RPG hits a hum vee, and everyone's life is changed forever. Holding someone's hand as their entrails are sticking out; or i am trying to find their right arm...the rage; anger; the desire for vengence. The pain. Then comes the day, i am on Guard duty (Sgt. Of the guard) and i hear Allah Akbar, and i am now at Walter Reed Army Hospital and i can't hear out of my right ear.. Weird, because i was at Camp Victory...

[@MoFlow113]

Godbless u & Ty ​@@101soldiergurl44

[@MoFlow113]

Godbless you 💯

[@BAB3O]

Here people, this is a real veteran for me. He survived and was not involved this way like the murderer are. The glory what you want give soldiers is the glory you take away from people like him, the innocent "warriors" without first Intention for fighting

[@AJ-yj7fl]

Brate moj, Yugoslavia je bila najbolja nacija na svjetu dok nisu djavoli zavidili našu srecu. Pas mater jebo glupi nacionalisam. Radi toga sam diaspora, nemam ćevapa, crnog vina od seljaka, I odvojen sam od cijelog svjeta. Neka svima sa imperialističnim ideama odpadnu muda!

[@davidwilliamson4937]

In 2010 I made contact with a guy from my platoon. (C co. 2nd battalion 327th Infantry. 101st Airborne Division) since then 4 more of us have gotten together and have been gathering every year in September. It’s the most important part of my year. Our wives are now friends and as we say…”we owe it to ourselves”. We saw brutal combat, death and sorrow but we all lived although we’ve all got Purple Hearts. Our bond can not be broken.

[@celebratelife865]

I love you dude. Thank you. ❤

[@geraldfordman7474]

'See you in September'

[@davidwilliamson4937]

​@@geraldfordman7474...you bet

[@davidwilliamson4937]

​@@geraldfordman7474...you bet

[@fvez_]

​@@geraldfordman7474wake me up when September ends

[@andreatowne8300]

My dad is a Vietnam vet, nd he was spit on when he came home, has nightmares to this day, the one good thing that actually brings tears to this brave mans eyes is when a random person comes up to him today nd shakes his hand nd says thankyou! ❤ thankyou random people for loving nd honoring these brave soldiers!!!!!!❤

[@spaceman6742]

N says scoreboard 😂.

[@stevefromyellowstone7911]

My grandfather was on one of those small patrol boats going up and down the river seizing arms from the Vietcong , and one day an ambush happened leaving everyone but himself and one of his buddies (they were all best friends) dead. My grandfather described this exact experience of never knowing what happened to a person after a war because his buddy was air lifted off and not seen again until 2004. Dude showed up at my grandparents door and immediately knew who each other were and just embraces and cried for hours over drinks. Tough night. I was 11. My grandmother took me back home that night cause I wasn’t used to seeing my grandfather like that at all. Fuck war . Fuck politicians . Thank you to all that have served .

[@nathandrane6071]

My grandfather did the same exact thing

[@rusure.8102]

Amen

[@johnvandam106]

Exactly! "War Pigs" 🐖💥💨☠️ ~ Black Sabbath

[@RaymondSell]

❤❤❤

[@Alaskan-Armadillo]

It's sad because stories like this hardly get told because people would rather call soldiers heroes then genuinely sit down and listen to them.

[@newby547]

I think that part of the hero thing is to help them feel like what they did was okay. Another part is that they are heroes.

[@KahinAhmed72]

@@newby547 Even though they were invaders, the Americans had opportunities to be heroic and they took that chance and were successful.

[@kermitthefrog2578]

​@@KahinAhmed72 tell me this if someone asks for help fighting their own and they get help, is that help invaders? Do you understand the word invaders? We went to help the SVC who asked for our help, if we wanted to take the country we could, we could have done it after ww2 but we didn't we helped rebuild countries, the Vietnam war was a conflict for the u.s. but a civil war for the Vietnamese

[@dickjohnson9582]

​@@kermitthefrog2578how is more casualties helping? Would we have wanted help during our Civil War?

[@kermitthefrog2578]

@@dickjohnson9582 you can't be an idiot trying to compare civil war USA to 1965 USA, note that the NVC lost 1.1 million because of us and were forced into the Paris accords and it wasn't until we left they took the capital, and we were just helping the southern Vietnamese during their civil war, now we didn't have the technology back then to ask anyone for help and well we didn't need to because it would have taken longer and more complicated, be smart and use your brain and don't try to compare two entirely different wars in different eras of vastly different technologies.

[@itzybitzyspyder]

The clarity of flashbacks cannot be overstated.

[@frogman-152]

I’m an Australian Ex S/F Vietnam veteran, I too suffer PTSD as do many, many of my comrades. It’s had a terrible effect on my life, my family. I’ve been told, I will just have to live with it & I take medication (anti depressant) I saw friends get killed. The military & I did twenty years used to use you up & spit you out at the end, I often wander what I would have become if I never joined the military? To all those who suffer from PTSD my thoughts are with you & I wish you all well.

[@Leftyhanded9]

Thank you brother. Suffer from Complex PTSD. Thoughts of ending it often because it’s so difficult. But im in therapy now

[@ginandcreme]

God bless you both

[@andrewhoyle2669]

"Comrades"????

[@Dushan-o8w]

Long live the Vietcong 🚩🚩🚩

[@zevlove612]

What were you doing over there disturbing pple that had done nothing to you

[@rickpeterson8825]

I was homeless for , literary decades, and i slept near the Vietnam War Memorial in Philly, and every single time i would walk by there, i would walk up and get on 1 knee , bow my head and place my hand upon that monument and thank those who gave their lives so that i was free to have a chance to build a better life! Thank you to the men and women who gave the ultimate sacrifice so i could have even the CHANCE for a better life! #riptothoselostinthevietnamwar

[@Jamie-js3qw]

Wow! That was moving. Sincerely.

[@johnnytoobad2979]

I pray and hope that you got 100% disability and living well. God knows you deserve it and much more.

[@glorysosa9640]

Were u doing tranq?

[@ParasiteEvel]

Were you a vet? If you were thank you for your service. If not thank you for not bothering businesses and other people with your homelessness. I deal with a lot of homeless who act like other people owe them for being homeless but have done nothing for themselves.

[@robothug6688]

Im not a vet, i was going to join the marines but my brother who was allready in iraq told me dont. So i listened and decided not to. We dont fight for freedom. Its a lie. We fight for a pay check and for business. It should never be a insult to call out the truth. But i do respect vets because they put their life on the line for this bullshit.

[@giusepperesponte8077]

This really is a harrowing description. You can tell that he’s considered these things for a long time. In my experience, the worst thing about trauma has to be the isolating loneliness. That loneliness is an inextricably tied to the trauma itself. It’s not about being unable to relate to others, what it’s really about is the inability to relay your struggle to others. It goes deeper than just being unable or unwilling to relate… it’s that the pain of the experience can’t be described with words. Words fall short and nothing you can say feels able to capture all the emotion that came with the event. It leaves you feeling unresolved because nothing you say in an effort to describe what happened ever feels complete. Over time though, with effort you’ll get closer and closer to being able to tell the full story. There’s plenty of others who are completely willing to empathize with you. The more you practice, the closer you get to being able to tell them your pain. It’s the only escape from the loneliness and heartache. The man in this video has clearly made it a long way toward capturing and relaying what exactly traumatized him, it’s very impressive. I wish him peace.

[@ChasingRainbows67]

If you are a Veteran or if you serve, THANK YOU FOR YOUR SERVICE ❤

[@dbailey45th94]

What fucking service? Being sent off by the government? Quit promoting trauma

[@katherineguthrie1558]

My Dad did 3 tours in Vietnam. & Hell yes he had PTSD.

[@elizabethperlman6392]

I read something recently which shook me. When the WW II vets came home they were on ships. It took weeks or months to get back . The soldiers had time to process ,talk , cry and get atleast some of what they had gone through out with their buddies. When the Vietnam vets came home they flew and typically with people or other soldiers they did Not know . They were home the next day . They had no time to process , talk or anything. It helps better understand how difficult coming home was . Vietnam of course was a much longer awful war.

[@jankemjunkie6564]

My grandfather served in Vietnam, I never knew what occupation he had or how long he was on active duty for until a week ago. My mom had all of his military documents filed away this whole time, I finally got the answers to the questions I never got to ask him. Rest in a peace grandpa, you were always as close to me as a father.

[@greghawthorne2439]

When my Grandfather was in Italy with the Canadian Irish Regiment, his buddy was in front of him when he got shot. My Grandfather was going to help but was told to keep going. A year after my Grandfather got home he bump into the wounded soldier and said it was like seeing a ghost.

[@garnerjoyce606]

Cyrenean Creed,so important

[@Pamela_Meckley88]

These men went through unimaginable hell and came home to hostility from the people of their own country. They didn't ask for or deserve any of that. Many were drafted - they didn't sign up for it. They fought so Americans could be free. I offer a sincere thank you to those who served and I pray that they find some semblance of peace in their lives, though they have the memories of all that they endured and survived and bear the scars of what they went through. 🙏🏽❤

[@audreycollins9841]

I served during Vietnam. The stories were horrific. ‘The greetings’ the lads received on their return repulsive and inhumane. They still haven’t been acknowledged as they should have been.

[@RaymondSell]

❤

[@HAGS0999]

That's what they get for going to the other side of the world to terrorize people.

[@astark8061]

My grandfather was a dog handler in the Air Force during Vietnam. I didn’t understand how deeply troubled he was until much later in my life. I was just a kid when he died but I remember a lot about him. The lower half of his body was covered in jungle rot and he had a terrible temper. He drank himself to death and died at the age of 45.

[@judyedwards7144]

I’m so very sorry you lost your grandfather, he was so young. I’m thanking him for his service. RIP

[@RaymondSell]

❤

[@RaymondSell]

​❤@@judyedwards7144

[@greysquirrel3924]

That’s the best description I’ve ever heard to try and help others who have never served in the military try to understand PTSD from combat missions. So descriptive I felt it.

[@AlecMorand]

What was even worse was after coming home wounded I MEDBOARD out and know Ill never see these people ever again Its trauma bonding and then bye bye forever I turn 33 this year Was in Kandahar in 2011 I was 19 when I got hit Turned 20 in the hospital / wounded warrior connex sections on the FOB I miss everyone thats here and gone. 4-4 CAV 1ID. I love and miss yall SPC Morand

[@petrol_prophet]

I was in Wounded Warrion Btn at San Antonio Military Medical Center in 2013 with the Marine unit there for 18 months until I got Med'd out finally. One of the worst parts about that was when one of the guys gave up the fight and took themselves out. I completely understand why they did it, I was horribly injured myself, but dammit, it hurt burying someone after they made it home.

[@phill7507]

I’m dealing with this and I’ve been to Iraq and Afghanistan. Never did I get hit with anything or did it happen right next to me with people I deployed with. But, my problems shoved anyone and everyone out of my life. My whole life feels like a dream as I only get phone calls from solicitors, and I answer them to joke with em, it’s sad but it’s true

[@glendaharris7219]

Thank you for your service sir. Welcome home. God bless you.

[@EliPorterMahn]

What makes me sad is I feel less and less people are as thoughtful as this man is as time goes on

[@ManyLegions88]

Well the way you feel doesn't seem to be very legit.

[@EliPorterMahn]

@@ManyLegions88 you have a good argument to back that up?

[@SquinkyEXE]

thank the internet. The worst and best thing to ever happen to humanity

[@FunUrth4All]

❤

[@BrunoBoy3913]

I went, came back. One year and your whole world is changed forever. I mean everything.

[@RaymondSell]

❤

[@johnakai6975]

Thank you for your unappreciated service

[@Danny-dh2pg]

People don’t realize how lonely it is for older people. They don’t know where half their friends went, and a bunch are passing away

[@elia.s821]

+ the government doesn't care

[@pcostyle11]

Why is not possible to know with who they served?

[@Danny-dh2pg]

@@pcostyle11 A lot of people back then lost contact because they didn’t have social media. I’m not sure how to check who you served with

[@sazure2]

All People don't or some people, lol. I think MOST do. Worked with the elderly later, but as a child visited many on our block (walking history books - most WWII, Korea) - Now elderly and isolated since age 44 due to the type of disability (SSD) - Can't be around any fragrance (toxic petro chemcal products) - Many many people have chemical injury, and live isolated ives.

[@christaylor4477]

I was being in processed at Fort Hood. Guy with a missing arm was in line. They quietly moved him to the front while telling him he lowered moral. This is the US army 😢

[@duncanbedford4765]

War is terrible ,the lovely people of Vietnam suffered so much...❤

[@danynguyen3993]

Thank you Sir for your sympathy. Only a few Veterans know how much we have to suffered for years after the war. We didn't have a single piece of rice on the dinner table. We ate yams from our back yard to survive for years. When we have rice, my mom had to make it as soup instead of steam rice. But God didn't abandon us.

[@Stogienator]

Growing up, my mother told me stories about my uncle who was a helicopter crew chief in Vietnam. She said that sometimes the choppers would get loaded with too many bodies and my uncle would have to dump some of the dead into the jungle. I guess that's where some of those who are MIA come from. I was told not to share this story with anyone but here it is.

[@bbongwaterr3854]

Keep these stories to the grave. I have a few too, but I have the respect to keep them to myself.

[@r1s1nggodz1lla]

@@bbongwaterr3854they are to be shared with collective consciousness

[@WACkZerden]

Freedom ​@@bbongwaterr3854

[@feistyfrosty]

@@bbongwaterr3854your “respect” is at the cost of their sons, daughters, father, mother, brother, and sisters unease

[@manny7289]

@@bbongwaterr3854explain

[@fnafplayer6447]

My grandfather was in vietnam and has 2 purple hearts, originally he didn't like talking about it but he realized I just like learning about it being thr nerd I am. He even showed me some of the things he brought back including a bayonet.

[@KahinAhmed72]

I’m glad your grandpa was willing to share his experience.

[@CommunityDefenseGroup]

One thing that was hard for me was hearing that a guy i deployed with killed himself when he got home. That messed with me for a while.

[@mickey875]

Im an iraq war veteran and poeple always ask what it was like and i tell them but they JUST DONT GET IT. This guy describes it perfectly

[@lordeagle100]

Living with that darkness ....... I always try to explain but they just can't understand. Always forward... Stay well

[@charliefyb]

Welcome home and thank you for your service!

[@turnoff7572]

​@@charliefybwhat service? He was in another country fighting for war lords, what did Americans get from him being in Iraq that they didn't have before he went there? What did all mothers, fathers, kids gained from the service their family member died in that they didn't have before they went there? Oh but guess who did gain some good 🤑🤑🤑 Americans are delusional and so fed up with their "patriotic" propaganda that they don't see what's obvious in front of their eyes, even if it means losing lives of their family members.

[@DialogDontArgue]

War dog doesn't know what's happening to him. He only knows that bad things happen, and as long as nobody punishes him, he has permission to be happy.

[@thethrill6921]

Don't even compare that to Vietnam. Iraq was a war where young men thought they wanted some then found out they didn't. Lowest casualties, vastly outgunned the enemy, still comparing it to Vietnam and other conflicts. Not even in the same league.

[@TapRiot]

As a veteran that never deployed or served in a combat situation, I have the upmost respect for combat veterans. For some of us, the military was just a job. For others, it was a literal nightmare. 😢

[@joevanhoozer]

Imagine having violated your deeply held beliefs about the war you served 2 tours in and were one of the casualties that had survived and then to continue your service for a total of 21 years in the nightmare reality of being a Combat Engineer too damaged so that only sedentary duty could be assigned to a pacifist turned Warrior. It sucked. PTSD doesn’t even BEGIN to cover it or describe it (usually covered bukkake-style in the spittle of Vietnam war protestors!). At age 75, I have to stop writing these things in this format and apply myself to a memoir of sorts…

[@weplayatnight3913]

​@joevanhoozer I'm sorry for what you went through and had to sacrifice but I am grateful to you for being the kind of person I can look to when I need strength in my life.

[@DonaldMaclean-y4e]

Then do your best to stop others from going . It's all for corporate profits .

[@rothed16]

​@joevanhoozer thank you for your service. Sorry about you having to go against what you believed in. My father served at the end of WW2 for 2 yrs in occupied Japan and 4yrs in Korea as an MP. He never talked about anything except a tough Sob interpreter/guide in Korea that wasn't over 5'5 but who could "whip all our asses." Wish he'd been able to find out about the guy. He often wondered. All I ever saw of him was a pic with him and my father who passed Oct of 2016

[@gradystein657]

@@joevanhoozerwouldn’t have been spit on if you resisted the draft, fucking coward

[@jenniferjoaquin4717]

My heart aches for every soldier who came home to nothing and no one. How lonely and sad is that?!? But my heart also swells with pride that I live in a country where these soldiers do not have to be alone anymore. THANK YOU, SOLDIERS🙏🏻❤️🙏🏻🇱🇷🙏🏻

[@patrickmcdaniel2048]

My grandfather was a combat engineer in ww2 and was wounded the night of D-Day after storming Omaha Beach. He was in a coma for 6 months and the Army had no idea who he was. He couldn't remember who he was either when he woke up, but his memory came back. He passed away in 2000, never received his pension, never received a purple heart despite being hit with a mortar shell (still had shrapnel in his arm when he died), and never saw another man from his unit again. He never talked about the war or what he went through, except to tell us about the time he met Winston Churchill.

[@patrickmcdaniel2048]

@@G_v._Losinj2_ImportantPlaylistI don't know what unit he was in, although I've tried to get mom to get that information. I think he came later in the day at Omaha Beach, but I'm not sure. What I do know for certain was that he was in his foxhole that night with another soldier. That other soldier lit a cigarette and the Germans were able to zero in on it. The shell landed directly on the man smoking. PawPaw's feet were badly injured, he had shrapnel in his left arm, and he was unconscious. He woke up 6 months later in Scotland. He suffered from really bad PTSD, which was likely worsened by the rudimentary means of treatment like electroshock therapy and sensory deprivation. It got to the point that he told the VA doctors he wasn't coming back. He had a large family to support and every time they wanted to do these tests he had to quit working for a while abd it made things hard. The VA told him he could do the treatment or he could lose his pension. He told them to kiss his ass and walked away. PawPaw was a great man though. He fought in Northern Africa and D-Day, was a crane operator who helped build Hoover Dam, and built bridges in South America.

[@johnwright9372]

Wasn't he wearing dog tags?

[@johnwright9372]

Wasn't he wearing dog tags?

[@droidnick]

OEF-X RC-E vet here. As a turret gunner, 9 out of 10 times i didn't even know what I was shooting at. No BDA's no AAR's, just shoot and scoot. Occasionally a COB would be brought to our COP all fucked up or dead and as a gunner, I knew I was envolved, if not directly responsible. This haunts me 😢

[@westofthewicky2960]

❤

[@judyedwards7144]

🙏🙏🙏

[@MrBumpy2013]

I don't have to imagine. I served 3 tours in Iraq as an infantryman. I received the purple heart as well. I can apply everything this man says to my past situation. Thank you for your service.

[@1tarawho]

Our veterans and elderly should always come first in our country!! Its disgusting how we have homeless vets and elderly on our streets!!

[@deege.]

??????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????? in like what world should we prioritize retired old people that do nothing but swallow tax dollars and ideologically bent imperialist death troopers that did nothing but serve the interest of the elite. is the average american just completely incapable of critically thinking for 1 minute?

[@mumbles215]

Illegal aliens do now

[@joaokowalski9736]

that will always be the end result of capitalists and their eternal war.. keep choosing their side

[@keyser021]

Don't you get the game yet? Americans have families they love and want to protect, MIC demons seek $ through blood and need constant feeding, brave men sacrifice not only their lives but their eternal souls by making a deal with the Devil to convince themselves that they are 'defending' their country by invading someone else's country and committing blasphemy against God and then taking the word of some human meat sack in a General's suit telling them it was for God and country and good luck in the afterlife. God sees all and has Commandments. PTSD is the fight to never come to that realization, and it destroys all.

[@timburr4453]

we as a country still have not confronted...still have not come to terms with Vietnam. Especially with how these soldiers were treated upon their return home...the mental health issue, the insults and abuse they had to endure. We as a country were absolutely not ready, not equipped to help them integrate back into society. We failed them in so many ways, for their entire tenure...from start to finish. We send people(kids really) into a brutal unwinnable war and then cast them aside and insult them upon their return. What was wrong with us and how did we let this happen? unforgivable

[@misterpotato427]

mentally ill, frustrated and ridiculed by many people ... Perfect police material 😅

[@Ronald-k6s]

I went in the Navy 1977-1990 and a lot of the same People still treated Military People like S@$T! But I cant imagine how NAM VET's felt. I have talked to a few who came back and told me how they were treated. I cant Imagine what I would have done if that was me. After I got out I still have no friends (Tired of being Stabbed in the Back) and miss being in where I could rely on you and they can rely on me.

[@shanejones578]

Think about this, an entire virtue signaling population, how few people really care… that’s what allows it…

[@timburr4453]

@@Ronald-k6s my dad knew people who performed outright miracles in getting people very badly injured to the 95th Evac. soldiers, babies, catastrophic wounds. injuries due to booby traps that have never really been encountered in combat before. Later back home they were accused of doing horrific things. Saw it with my own eyes

[@williammcginley6543]

Well said my friend

[@MuhammedMuhammed-xd7qo]

US soldiers sure like to complain about going to war a lot, but here's what they had: 1) A meal every day. 2) Limited time at the front. 3) A safe, warm, and comfortable rear area. 4) A steady paycheque. 5) Incredible combine arms support. 6) A home to go back to that was under zero threat of enemy attack or invasion. 7) The knowledge that if they were wounded, they were almost certainly going to be airlifted out of the combat zone and possibly be within a sterile and clean hospital staffed by well equipped and professional doctors and surgeons possibly within 15 minutes of being wounded, but a few hours at most. Meanwhile, what did the Vietnamese have? A bowl of rice a day if they were lucky. Having to live under the earth in pitch black tunnels infested with disease and animals. A mortar or rocket launcher for support, if they were lucky, but usually just their rifles and some grenades. Constantly on the front line. Homes that were constantly being bombarded in the rear with friends and family being decimated by air power. Field hospitals that had to be hidden in tunnels where there might be one doctor that was a first year university student armed with 19th century medical gear. Sorry, but compared to what the soldiers of the the peoples they've fought throughout the entire existence of their nation, American soldiers have had it pretty damn good on the battlefield. A US "veteran" with 6 tours in Iraq/Afghanistan didn't have to face a fraction of what a soldier in the Ukraine has to endure every single day.

[@ghb1967]

Beautifully put, thank you.

[@mauriciokrebs2913]

Oh, shut it

[@WilliamSullivan-e5s]

Oh I can imagine.!!! They referred to us as amgrunts,cau Viet 67 68 , Search and destroy BLT 2/4. Yeah, it leaves an indelible Memory. The smell, The Total darkness, The total destruction of everything, The constant sound. Of explosions All day and night. Sometimes the intense silence. And other times The overwhelming Cacophony Of artillery, Bombs, Rockets , Weapons, Napalm, Mortars, Everything Exploding around you, And the most devastating Of it all Is the violent deaths Of your buddies. And certainly everybody involved . Intense fear was punctuated By high Anxiety And adrenaline, But you realize You have to face it In order to survive to be able to go home!!!

[@shanejones578]

Society sends its most capable men to fight the battle that needs to be fought here at home to take away their willingness to do so…

[@maryjohammons8905]

My father was so traumatized by his war experiences. I was just a little girl but I couldn’t make my daddy stop crying, as he was rolled up in fetal position! I HATE WAR

[@failingsystemdeeplore9636]

​@shanejones578 The viet cong were fighting the fight US citizens should fight in the US. Poor people fighting against socialism overseas. The irony, if only the worker had more class consciousness

[@shanejones578]

@@failingsystemdeeplore9636 rally round the family… 🎶

[@russkunz3949]

​.What a masterful true statement. A nd no matter what side of the aisle you sit on. WE ARE ALL USED TO LINE THE POCKETS OF THE POLITICIANS.

[@Alpha_Q_up.]

Salute to those who served and the one's currently serving.

[@fredflintstone8048]

I can't imagine this. It's why I never judge them in any way.

[@lisaabramovich7656]

If it wasn't for the Vietnam veterans the phycologist would never have known the horror of Post Traumatic Stress disorder and how it can affect a person. My counselor didn't want to tell me what this nightmare was called because she didn't want to label me. If it wasn't for a veteran talking about his nightmare I would not have come as far as I have. Thank you for sharing and explaining your trauma.

[@circleinforthecube5170]

not to mention how many others it helped too, everyone with trauma has better access to the tools they need from their sacrifice, now if only we didint have to ship out a entire generation of men to go die while the people who started it sit and drink wine

[@johnrandall125]

Post Traumatic Stress Disorder was recognised, certainly by the British Army, as Shell Shock during World War One.

[@rhunter762i]

George Carlin did a very interesting stand-up commentary on words, and the addition of syllables to BS people. First, it was called 'shell-shock' [2-sylabbles], then it was called 'battle-fatigue''[4-sylabbles]; then it became[ 'Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder' [8-syllables]. This has been known EVER SINCE THERE HAS BEEN WAR; don't let the gov't, or anyone else BS you....

[@mumbles215]

And surely they knew about it from cannons prior. Like boxers and punch drunk. They know.

[@David-uy4jz]

Shout out and RIP to Jeff Black. Fellow airdrewman and great buddy i served with in the Navy. After we graduated our FRAC school in Norfolk VA, i was sent to HM-14 there in Norfolk and he was sent to HM-15 in California. About a month later we got word that he list his life in a helicopter crash. A tail rotor disconnect failed in flight. Hope to see you in Valhalla one day Black...UHRAH

[@serpentines6356]

That's cool you posted about your buddy here. I do think his knows you think of him, and he will be there for you in the great Valhalla... Thanks for sharing your little story.

[@mumbles215]

RIP Jeff Black

[@Houndini]

Very close cousin of mine was there for 1 year. He told myself best day of that experience he had ever was finally getting on plane home & getting some sleep after a whole year without hardly any sleep at all. Told myself some spooky stories such as he had to go to the rear due to a bad infection from pack straps & got proper treatment started to search for a ride back to his unit only to find out his whole unit got hit & all of them was gone.

[@OldSchoolRemixer2024]

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[@mikesrandomanimations2870]

The Vietnam war was a horror story. The typical encounter with the Vietcong was usually sudden gunfire, sudden explosions, 1-3 US soldiers dead, Vietcong retreat, and then silence. The fights would be 30 secs but traumatic and the Us troops wouldn’t even see any enemies. Early in the war Vietcong’s were called phantoms because you would never see them when they fought.

[@zakutskov]

you know, that is what's called true horror. your men are suddenly down and you don't even have the slightest idea of what you just encountered, just like in those alien vs predators film

[@zakutskov]

it was a horror story on the ground warfare aerial warfare? imagine you have all those fancy F4, F111, F104, praised to be the best pieces of military weapon, to be undefeatable... only for them to lose against those tiny, so called "obsolete" MiG17, MiG21 even sent those B52, AC130 and couldn't even destroy a road, or convoys of vietcong to supply the vietcong in south vietnam funniest shit i've ever seen. they thought it was an easy war, we never had the slightest idea of how strong vietnam can and will be

[@PhilipPlace]

Hi from Britland; I was in the RAF in the mid 70s, a few years ago I was talking to a Vietnam veteran. We were generations apart but even he said that we had a common thread... he reminisced for a while and we both got something out of it. But to never have tbat connection ever again is horrendous... a shamefully treated military generation!

[@teetoo3790]

Wow very heartbreaking.

[@Brian-uy2tj]

My father was a medic in Burma during WWII which had the most vicious guerilla warfare anywhere in the war. He never talked about it, not once, ever. He was emotionally distant and physically abusive. I don't know it the two were connected, but going through what he went through couldn't have been anything but difficult.

[@shanejones578]

Your father told a lot of his friends things were gonna be ok when he knew they weren’t. That’s a tough pill to live with… especially when it’s your job/mos…

[@shanejones578]

People have done that to “protect” themselves. The truth is nothing could be more harmful to the human race; and the masters know this. Thus war has been perpetrated ever since…

[@gustavvader2207]

That was a great way to explain it. Better than almost anything I’ve heard.

[@jsldj]

🎵"Thirteen months and fifteen days, the last ones were the worst. One minute I kneel down and pray And the next I stand and curse. No place to run to where I did not feel that war. When I got home I stayed alone and checked behind each door."🎵 Still in Saigon

[@walrustusk007]

When you bump into a Veteran or notice one, pay for his lunch, buy him a cup of coffee, or offer a beer…you have no idea what these men and women went through to keeping the USA safe and free!! You will never know the pain inside a Vet, they are experts of hiding pain, by you offering to buy coffee or lunch you help the Vet to relax and blend in…Veterans have earned our love and admiration, they endured the pain and sorrow so you wouldn’t have too! Show our Veterans that they matter, invite them over to watch football, or a baseball game! You never know when an emergency will overtake you or your in danger, I guarantee that Veteran will be the one to step up and pull you from the danger!!!

[@Londonbridge88]

You do realize most vets aren’t actually fighting for our safety and freedom but rather for oil, politics, and benefiting a very tiny circle of powerful people?

[@3197JLH-MST]

God Bless the MEN and WOMEN that fight to preserve our way of life as Americans. ❤

[@mikaeljonsson5096]

So you can continue to be among the fattest, most uneducated, most stupid and less critical people in the world???

[@philchurch1115]

I found a buddy after looking for him for 35 years and his wife would let me talk to him because he has mental issues .. my heart sank ..that day sucked.

[@AmericafromthegrindWolfe]

Don't ever admit to PTSD. Just tell your friends and family and never government

[@emmaaustin123]

Why not?

[@amanuelalelegn]

@@emmaaustin123Nobody will hire you

[@Drod5]

I’ve been slowly getting into the Vietnam war more and more, reading about it, watching documentaries and stuff.. It’s truly horrific what these people went through, people now a days (including me) have no clue what it was like to live through those times.. but what shocks me even more is that people rarely talk about it now a days, or just bring it up like it was another event that happened in history. Thank you to ALL the vets that served, my hats off to you.

[@dragonmartijn]

Whatever US soldiers went through, the Vietnamese had it 100 x worse. You almost never hear their story. But they didn’t became resentful. This war was completely unnecessary. Repent and ask God for forgiveness.

[@iokona]

Vietnam veterans have ALL my respect as an 82nd ABN veteran, that’s been to war in the Middle East, but I know it is nothing compared to what they went through. 🤙🏼

[@stevet8121]

And then one day they come and get you and within days you're back home and expected to act like nothing happened. Get on with your life, kid.

[@ghaven1929]

Thank you for highlighting our veterans. Especially the Vietnam vets. They were so poorly treated, and have suffered in the decades since their return. I enjoy hearing their stories.

[@carymorgan9743]

Thank you for your service, sir. I know that’s not much but I do appreciate your service and I’m glad you made it back. Tell your story.

[@matthewfarmer2520]

Thanks for your service David Bowman, and for joining the police department in the late 1960s. I bet he wore a mustache as a police officer. Thanks David. Another history of Vietnam War .

[@DrSpooglemon]

What's with all the "thank you for your service" nonsense? "Thank you for going to someone else's country to shoot at them and drop chemical weapons on them."

[@lach8960]

@@DrSpooglemonclearly you don’t know what Vietnam war was, There was a civil war going on in Vietnam between capitalist ideologists and the VC (communists) who were oppressive and in favour of authoritarianism. Being the 60s and having been that the world was heading in a specific direction, the USA wanted to stop the spread of communism and decided to help the oppressed population trying to fight for their freedom. It wasn’t USA vs Vietnam, it was USA + Vietnam vs VietCong and it failed somewhat..I have Vietnamese friends from Saigon which is the American ally side…they hate the communist party and the dictatorship that comes with it.

[@alyssasco]

@@lach8960everyone knows the basic story of vietnam. It’s only when you dig deeper (which you clearly have not looked more than a text book or the internet) that you learn how fucked up the situation was and how wrong the US was to intervene. The united states had other motivations

[@lach8960]

@@alyssasco you need to elaborate, I just explained what their motive was, why don’t you? And before you start convincing yourself this is an argument, re-read what I said..I didn’t say the USA was right to interfere, but If you take a look at Vietnam now… it’s not great for living standards because of the politics.

[@jamesdelcol3701]

It was the worst place to fight a war. Terrain was impossible, the commands and control were sending the patrol into the VC by accident. Sometimes they were on patrol to see if they could find a downed airman. An aircraft goes down somewhere and they would send patrol out to the area. A loose warning that the VC are in the area. No real intel.

[@zaberfang]

The fact that the soldiers didn't even consider themselves as the version of redcoats on NVs fight for independence show how brainwashed they were.

[@alanroberts6663]

I've thought many times about these things. My Father was a Vietnam Veteran. I ALWAYS, and will FOREVER, approach those Men and Thank them. Welcome them Home. I've got a soft spot for Vietnam Vets. Semper Semper. ❤❤❤❤ 🇺🇸

[@max-cs9ko]

If you read any PTSD psychology based books, you will find that vietnam war played a major role in understanding PTSD, research regarding it and its the first time psychologists find a lot patient with similar PTSD symptoms coinciding with available research facilities and funding from different organisations. Even though its sad but Vietnam war has a special place in development of psychology as a medical field.

[@roberthuber7031]

The same thing goes for the war on terror after 9-11. I was diagnosed with bone cancer back in '99 at the age of 15, and the only treatment is chemotherapy and surgery. Back then you had either the option of amputation or a radical limb sparring procedure. I was one of the first to receive an internal titanium prosthetic instead of cadaver bone which was the common go to at the time with the limb sparring procedure. An above the knee amputation basically gave you no mobility due to the prosthetics available for amputees at the time. Now due to the horrific injuries our soldiers have suffered, major advancements have been made in technology and prosthetic artificial limbs. Thanks to these advancements a child who is diagnosed with bone cancer today would be better off physically opting for the amputation. Good things can often be created during times of war. Also please thank our soldiers and veterans for their service and sacrifice to our country. These men and women should be honored and welcomed home with respect and gratitude for the freedoms they fight to protect on our behalf. Always remember that if you have a problem with our armed forces it should be with those at the top of power and not at those on the ground.

[@patricklangdon1115]

They say that war is hell, but it is hell in 100 ways that most of us probably never thought of. This is one of those ways. Thanks to all who served our country in any way.

[@kiloRR1]

Persian gulf vet here and i salute 🫡 all the men and women that served, but especially those that experienced combat bcus its something you will never forget and everyone has their own stories...🙏🏾

[@Tracey-zr5do]

I hope those who created the wars are listening, for they are never interested or concerned for the real value of a persons life that they are only too happy to sacrifice in their "games" and land grabbing, evil exercise. God bless all good, honest and decent people 🙏 👍 😊

[@RyanCampbell-d4f]

My cousin died in Hue the Citadel city and even though he didn't have to go to Vietnam he went, Kenneth Campbell, PFC wounded Feb 1 - died Feb 9 1968 THUA THIEN PROVINCE South Vietnam Bravo Company 1st BN. 5th Marines 1st Mar. Div. The Campbell family has put in work for the U.S.A.

[@RyanCampbell-d4f]

Thank you sir for the hell you survived, so you can tell the story 🙏, I salute you ❤️

[@JoeOverleas]

my grandpa was born in 55, his dad was a vietnam vet. Grandpa always told me about the stories and what made him join up, said if i ever saw a vietnam vet not to say thank you for your service but welcome home, because many of them were never welcomed back home.

[@Amp5150]

totally worth it tho just think how much money the politicians and weapon manufacturers made

[@soulthriver-oz6470]

Ah! We got one who can see!

[@barbaramcmillen4204]

I can’t even in my wildest imagination, picture what soldiers endured, especially when they are fighting for a government that treats them as unless now.

[@DonaldColley-pq5rd]

My brother was in Vietnam served 3 tiurs after first time came home tried to make it could not get job so went back him He soent over 20 yrs in service had shrapnel in him when he died at 50 yrs old.This service not only affected him but mother me and his brother.God bless these men. My brother was 18 and went in when he could not even buy beer.Where is the compassion for these men.

[@josephkeres4604]

Much older Coworker of mine was a vet. Talked about hearing draftees cry in the middle of the night while at boot camp. Some knew they would never see their families again. Traumatic in so many ways.

[@stevenbaer5999]

I was actually a little kid in the early 1970s my heart go out to the Vietnam vets 🇺🇲🪖⚔️🇺🇲

[@a.johnson4291]

I too. I knew TV shows were pretend but the news was real. They showed clips of people being shot, explosions... real pain and gore 💔 every night on the TV news. My step dad was a navy commander. The treatment those YOUNG men received was disgusting 😢 Sending ❤️ &🍀 to all of the veterans of wars

[@brians7901]

Now imagine you went through all that for absolutely no reason.

[@sandraolson1022]

So very sorry!! Have a family member living with ptsd/alzhimers double whammy. Very dissapointed in the VA.

[@Sunil1768]

I met a vietnam vet, horrific stories he had to tell, ptsd to the max: his wife and daughter raped as well as all those of the village neighbours. And then the whole village bombed with napalm... and up until today he still doesnt know why a western world country invaded his land and why they would do this to his people..could not begin to imagine his pain... lets respect ALL VIETNAM VETS..

[@metallica19966]

Growing up with my grandparents, my grandpa would tell me stories of Vietnam. The one story I always and I mean always think about is a quick story of his good friend. Basically, what happened is they got ambushed. After the crazy battle, they were assessing who was dead and alive. They found the top of someone's head and could not identify the who it was. My grandpa walked up to them and instantly recognized the haircut. He told them who it was, and to this day it kills me that I don't remember the brave man's name. After all the health problems my grandpa has had, he sadly can't remember his name either.

[@themarketm8382]

Good, you're no different than the Russians today. You had no business being in Vietnam or anywhere else for that matter in the last few decades. The world hates America for a reason.

[@Smokeyon3thr33]

Man I can’t imagine what my grandpa went thru doing what he did. Rest up grandpa, you were an amazing soldier.

[@MaBigFatEgo]

murderer

[@StevenJong-rn7yw]

Imagine how many Vietnamese that never see their love one again, their home, their livelihood.

[@angelodavidabate5049]

God Bless our Vets!!!!!!! They deserve everything tax free for their bravery

[@ManyLegions88]

Yeah you are right on this one but instead they allow churches to continue on tax-free while so many pastors/priests are fu***** kids while preaching about rightousness.

[@2bleavin]

I couldn't imagine this kind of torture, its heartbreaking 💔

[@youtubeuser3182]

Now imagine if our elite dictators didn’t send our dads, uncles, cousins and sons over to experience these things and commit crimes against other nations

[@perma45ACP]

As a 24 year old man I hope I never have to pay the price you did Sir. God bless you sir and Thank you

[@Jimbo-og6ei]

His eyes say it all! Thank you for ur service

[@codyj1162]

That's what I was thinking. There were a couple 1000 yard stare moments. 😕