God bless every one of them.
They were all so young. Then my monitor didn’t work right. The images got all blurry.
But according to liberals, democrats and professors...
All the American dead in Vietnam were poor, black and 19...
May be cool (to some) today, but was hardly cool to anyone then. It was a very controversial move by Life, taken by many as support of a growing anti-war movment that was beginning to incorporate targeting men (kids) such as thse in their protests on college campuses.
I do not know a young person today that knows well the story of Vietnam nor perhaps even cares nor would begin to understand the society that sent them there and their sense of duty to each other in going and dying there. An “in between” generation that burns very bright against the much darker majority of that group that has given us the sorry governent and culture we have today.
Three fourths of all Afghanistan War deaths have occurred on Obama’s watch.
William C. Gearing Jr., 20, Army, SP5, Rochester, N.Y.
From Carl's Virtual Wall webpage:
William Carl Gearing, Jr
Specialist Five
DET 3, B CO, 7TH PSYOPS BN, 4TH PSYOPS GROUP, USARV
Army of the United States
Rochester, New York
July 24, 1948 to May 19, 1969
WILLIAM C GEARING Jr is on the Wall at Panel W24, Line 54
See the full profile or name rubbing for William Gearing
MILITARY DATA:
Service: Army of the United States
Grade at loss: E5
Rank/Rate: Specialist Five
ID No: 51778892
MOS/RATING: 96B20: Intelligence Analyst
Length Service: 00
Unit: DET 3, B CO, 7TH PSYOPS BN, 4TH PSYOPS GROUP, USARV
CASUALTY DATA:
Start Tour: 12/06/1968
Incident Date: 05/19/1969
Casualty Date: 05/19/1969
Age at Loss: 20
Location: Quang Tin Province, South Vietnam
Remains: Body recovered
Casualty Type: Hostile, died outright
Casualty Reason: Ground casualty
Casualty Detail: Artillery, rocket, or mortar
URL: www.VirtualWall.org/dg/GearingWC01a.htm
I hope MacNamara is rotting in hell and Melvin Laird joins him soon.
To think most of those boys were only deployed once. Not like today’s Army with the multiple deployments subjecting them to higher risk that they may not return, and if they do, you won’t be guaranteed to come back in one piece. Flame away if you wish, but I’m sick of this “New Military”, I especially feel bad for boots of the Army and the USMC, both of whom pull the weight in combat. I would not recommend it to my grand children. Multiple deployments is a killer. It kills our families who end up on the receiving end of the bad news with broken marriages, broken homes and an endless stream both physical and mental hardships. Sorry if I offended anyone, I’m just another person with a different opinion. If anyone should be multiple deployed it should be the members of Congress, put them in field gear and send them to the fighting front with the Osama Killer and the Beech of Benghazi.
Andrew Daniel Chowka
Private First Class
H&S CO, 1ST AMTRAC BN, 3RD MARDIV, III MAF
United States Marine Corps
Stamford, Connecticut
August 10, 1948 to March 14, 1968
ANDREW D CHOWKA is on the Wall at Panel 44E, Line 45
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He was my best friend and my neighbor.
He died fighting Communism.
I remember Walter Cronkite used to start the evening news each night by saying “Today in Vietnam 47 servicemen where killed”...or whatever the number was.
Day in day out week after week.
Never forget Uncle Walter in the Viet Nam fiasco he helped creat:
http://www.americanthinker.com/2008/02/walter_cronkite_vietnam_and_th.html
To think that during that entire period I had to worry from elementary school through high school if I were going to have to fight in that damned war.the war ended in 1973 and I graduated from high school in 1974.
I joined the U.S.A.F. That fall.
Sad not cool..All so young,reminded me of a high school year book.
No deferments no politically connected parents or connections......
I note with bitter irony that this issue of Life Magazine was published in the same month that Bill Clinton got drafted, received his notice of induction, while attending Oxford in England.
He used his political contacts from working in a Senators office when he attended Georgetown University in Washington DC, to defy the draft and never serve when millions of his peers who were drafted dropped everything and served, many of them paying with their lives for obeying the law.
Yet Clinton becomes Commander in Chief thanks to a Corrupt Liberal Media which censors his being drafted from the American public and spins it as if he only avoided the war.
There is nothing “mainstream” about the the “Mainstream Media”. The accurate term should be “The Corrupt Liberal Media” with the operative word being “Corrupt”
Liberalism has killed journalism.
Viet Nam Mai Mai! RVN,68,69,70.
If the Iraq war or the Afghan war claimed 250 deaths per week how long do you thing people would have put up with them?
He wrote back saying what we were hearing about US casualties was a lie, as his small station was processing around 500 US combat deaths a month, which was near the total of all deaths reported for all the stations.
He believed that all soldiers killed with no next of kin listed were simplify omitted from the US body count as a political move lessening the impact at home.