Vietnam Veteran Marine Charlie Hettling Extended Interview

[@soxbearshwks8988]

3rd Batt. 7th Marines ChuLai,RVN 10/65-11/66

[@garyluck8502]

Thanks for your service! I was there all of 67 ,, everyone please remember the ones that didn’t make it back home!! Thanks

[@SuzyGarcia324]

Thank you for your service! Welcome home! You explained everything so well and I really appreciate this interview!

[@joewarren3n1]

Thank you sir for your service

[@stommyboy]

Thank you sir for your service!

[@Allen-m5k]

Thank You Marine!

[@pm7579]

Fascinating discussion, fascinating man.

[@knifelore1647]

Thank you sir! God bless you and yours! 1/503 ...1984

[@kennethprice5628]

Welcome home Marine, you done good, Semper Fi....72 yo Navy Veteran, never in country, thank God

[@DavidHamros]

THANK YOU FOR SHARING. AMAZING VIDEO. THANK YOU SIR, GOD BLESS YOU ALL 🙏🏼

[@solocajun3047]

Thank you

[@dennisevans4739]

Thanks for sharing... hand salute...

[@carlpresley9097]

Great interview but should panned in on the pictures. Good man.

[@JuanGomez-hc4ou]

A beautiful Vietnamese lady, her story: She grew up in Hanoi after the war, her mother died at child birth and her evil step-mother demanded that she was not to be a part of her new family and sent her to be raised by her old Grandmother (her father was somewhat of a broken man having fought in the NVA for years, his quote, “I’d die than live thru that again”). So, in her very early childhood she was “adopted” by her - beyond poor - Grandmother. Nothing to eat, never any new clothes, lived in a broken down shack but she did have 2 prized possessions, a small, black & white picture of herself at 6 (?) yrs old in front of her decrepit shack and a single pair of shoes, as in only one pair. These shoes she treasured to the point of preserving them by only wearing them to prevent being the object of ridicule thus, everyday she’d make the long walk to school barefoot, with her shoes tucked under her arm but when she got near enough and before any of her class-mates could see her, she’d put her shoes on and walk into school.

[@elainemathews3008]

Welcome home

[@kennethprice5628]

Welcome home Marine, you done good...72 yo Navy Veteran

[@nelsonsavinon605]

What a noble man, respect to you sir!!!!!

[@prestenbuford9068]

Did you get a purple heart 💜

[@britgerus1956Glenn]

Welcome home , Navy Retired

[@Buce-ku9vx]

What'd she have a press Corp documenting het life journey? 😳 suspect.

[@DZB666]

This interview could've been half the length 😂

[@topgeardel]

Extended interview....for what? I'm a proud Vietnam/Draft resistor. Here's a 2 minute summary of his time in Vietnam. He was a chump and pawn allowing his Government to send him to Vietnam. He went where he didn't belong. It was not his fight. It was an Asian civil war for independence after an era of colonialism. Being in Vietnam did absolutely NOTHING for the safety, security and freedom of the American people....win or lose. He was an invader and aggressor in someone else's country that did nothing to Americans or the US. He went to a war that the US did not have the integrity or courage to declare war. He is not a hero or someone's victim. He is simply a survivor of an American disaster that he allowed himself to participate in. The rest his "story" is war story BS.

[@floydbaker2240]

This isnt the place for this, brother.

[@topgeardel]

@@floydbaker2240 On the contrary...it is very much the place for it. We're talking about Life/Death here. I care about all the younger generations that I know watch these videos. I care about them. It's not all about this guy or me. Ir's absolutely pathetic that I still have to stand for the truth about Vietnam 50 years after the fact. I hold these guys and videos like this responsible.

[@brucejudge3197]

You don’t get it and you never will. It has nothing to do with war-rather his serving his country and putting his life on the line. You didn’t. Regardless of how you try to explain it, you will always be looked down on while this guy is celebrated. USMC 1970-98.

[@floydbaker2240]

@@brucejudge3197 Semper fuckin Fi, amen.