I’m a Vietnam vet myself...Next time you are thinking and praying to him, tell him I said thank you for his service...
I will, and thank you for yours.
I remember when he came home from his first year in ‘Nam ... 1968 or 69, and didn’t recognize my mother, my brother, and me.
Is 1949 your birth year? Dad was born in 1936 - he was much older than many Navy Vietnam vets we knew, or Army/Marines people.