For the Vietnam vets who never dreamed they would be here on Christmas Day 2023

Youtube (CCR Run Through the Jungle) ^

[laplata]

Thanks for the Merry Christmas and the same to you,

Very sorry about your loss.

[laplata]

Thank you.

[laplata]

Thank you.

[laplata]

Yes!

[easternsky]

👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍

[easternsky]

👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍

[Jean2]

Thank you for your service.

[Jean2]

AMEN to that and thank you to you and all of those on this forum who served for your service.

[mass55th]

Thank you, and may you and your family, have a very happy and healthy New Year!!

[itsahoot]

Sixty years ago I was in Tonkin Gulf when Kennedy was assassinated. Left Via Clark Field in June 1965, never looked back.

[laplata]

You’re very welcome and the same to you and yours.

[donozark]

Yellow Brick Road. A Shau Valley. Highway 9. Lovely places. Too not be...

[laplata]

Thanks for your service. You’ve got some seniority here.

Merry Christmas.

[justme4now]

I was, in a rare moment, sitting alone in this half marsh, half jungle thousands of miles away from home when I had never been more than a couple hundred miles away before.
(family reunions)

I had barely graduated highschool!

Anyway my younger brother had sent me a recording of my favorite artist at the time, Gary Puckett and this song was on it!

It will always be special in my life, It gave me the determination to go on, survive and to come home!
(I'd been in a few firefights/skirmishes at the time)



HOME BY GARY PUCKETT

[justme4now]

https://youtu.be/zUwRlbTDbtg?feature

[ansel12]

Home
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap

And every night they lie awake
And dream of mama’s chocolate cake
And wonder if there’ll be a tomorrow
And will they ever see their home and their family
Or will they ever be back home

And boys who never learned to pray
Look to the heavens everyday
And stumble through a simple little prayer
And ask the Lord above
To send them home to the ones they love
Oh, God, I hope they make it home

And every day some young man dies
And in the night some young girl cries
He’ll never hear his baby’s laughter
He’ll never, ever see his home and his family
For what he’s done for you and me
But I guess he’s on his way back home (home)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4J5bj80d0uc

[montanajoe]

Never thought I’d live this long especially back then....Merry Christmas to all...

[deport]

We had about the same time of service. I went in the fall of
‘63 and was discharged in the fall of ‘65. Basic training at
Ft Polk and served my active duty in the Armed Forces Police

Detachment in NYC.

[justme4now]

It made me cry back then, I had lost some buddies but, it gave me the bull-headed determination to get home!😡

I was scared and frightened more than I had ever been, then and now!

I was now awake to the fact that young people can be killed and that I was one of them!😢

So much, in one song!

BTW: I did get in touch with Gary years later and told him my story.

[doorgunner69]

55 years ago I was well into my voluntarily extended tour up at Quang Tri.

Oddly enough, those extra 6 months were some of the most interesting and sometimes fun times I had there.