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For the Vietnam vets who never dreamed they would be here on Christmas Day 2023
Youtube (CCR Run Through the Jungle) ^

Posted on 12/25/2023 10:04:17 AM PST by ansel12

I think that some of our members were somewhere in Vietnam 50 plus years ago and couldn't imagine where they would be in this 21st century year of 2023, on Christmas Day.

CCR - Run Through The Jungle (Vietnam footage) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i3tvaSSJoyI


TOPICS: History; Military/Veterans; Religion
KEYWORDS: ccr; christmas; veterans; vietnam
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To: mass55th

Thanks for the Merry Christmas and the same to you,

Very sorry about your loss.


21 posted on 12/25/2023 12:59:09 PM PST by laplata (They want each crisis to take the greatest toll possible.)
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To: Colt1851Navy

Thank you.


22 posted on 12/25/2023 1:01:05 PM PST by laplata (They want each crisis to take the greatest toll possible.)
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To: rlmorel

Thank you.


23 posted on 12/25/2023 1:02:18 PM PST by laplata (They want each crisis to take the greatest toll possible.)
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To: EvilCapitalist

Yes!


24 posted on 12/25/2023 1:03:30 PM PST by laplata (They want each crisis to take the greatest toll possible.)
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To: EvilCapitalist

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25 posted on 12/25/2023 1:07:11 PM PST by easternsky
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To: EvilCapitalist

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26 posted on 12/25/2023 1:07:47 PM PST by easternsky
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To: kabar

Thank you for your service.


27 posted on 12/25/2023 1:11:28 PM PST by Jean2
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To: Colt1851Navy

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


28 posted on 12/25/2023 1:15:01 PM PST by Jean2
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To: laplata

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


29 posted on 12/25/2023 1:36:28 PM PST by mass55th (β€œCourage is being scared to death, but saddling up anyway.” ― John Wayne)
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To: laplata

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


30 posted on 12/25/2023 1:37:12 PM PST by itsahoot (Many Republicans are secretly Democrats, no Democrats are secretly Republicans. Dan Bongino.)
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To: mass55th

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


31 posted on 12/25/2023 1:51:06 PM PST by laplata (They want each crisis to take the greatest toll possible.)
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To: ansel12

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


32 posted on 12/25/2023 1:51:21 PM PST by donozark (Even when Paul Pelosi isn't drinking, he's getting hammered.)
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To: itsahoot

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

Merry Christmas.


33 posted on 12/25/2023 1:55:15 PM PST by laplata (They want each crisis to take the greatest toll possible.)
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To: ansel12
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
34 posted on 12/25/2023 2:10:24 PM PST by justme4now (Our Right's are God given and I don't need permission from politicians or courts to exercise them!)
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To: justme4now

https://youtu.be/zUwRlbTDbtg?feature


35 posted on 12/25/2023 2:11:37 PM PST by justme4now (Our Right's are God given and I don't need permission from politicians or courts to exercise them!)
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To: justme4now

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


36 posted on 12/25/2023 2:16:32 PM PST by ansel12 ((NATO warrior under Reagan, and RA under Nixon, bemoaning the pro-Russians from Vietnam to Ukraine.))
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To: ansel12

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


37 posted on 12/25/2023 2:46:02 PM PST by montanajoe ( )
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To: Colt1851Navy

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.


38 posted on 12/25/2023 2:51:05 PM PST by deport
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To: ansel12

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.


39 posted on 12/25/2023 3:00:09 PM PST by justme4now (Our Right's are God given and I don't need permission from politicians or courts to exercise them!)
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To: ansel12

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.


40 posted on 12/25/2023 3:43:05 PM PST by doorgunner69 (When tyranny becomes law, rebellion becomes duty)
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