Posted on 10/16/2025 1:53:10 PM PDT by DallasBiff
Twenty-one-year-old Steven A. Wowwk arrived as an infantryman in the Army’s First Cavalry Division in Cam Ranh Bay, Vietnam in early January 1969 to fight in an escalating and increasingly unwinnable war. By June, Wowwk had been wounded twice—the second time seriously—and was sent back to the United States for treatment at Boston’s Chelsea Naval Hospital.
It was after returning to the U.S. and while en route to the hospital that Wowwk first encountered hostility as a veteran.
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I was there in 68-69 and back and forth from Kadena in 69-70. The spookies were a whole different gang. I flew on recon planes. I watched the spookies and then Buffs from the 8000 feet at night. It was awesome.
PREACH IT!
I feel the same way.
Just ask Walter Duranty ...
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I always got him confused with Jimmy Duranty, aka The Snoze. “Dink-a-do, Dink-a-do,” he would play.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jimmy_Durante
VVDS same as TDS Brainwashed kids
1877th Communications Squadron, Bien Hoa Air Baee, Republic of Vietnam.
We used to sit up on top of the revetments at night and watch the Spookies working out. All we could see, was a stream of tracers pouring down from a point in space.
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