Home movies? Unreal. We were not allowed to have a camera on OPS or outside our main HQ unless given a Pen EE by the S-3 for that OP. On occasion our recon teams were also given a Pen EE for a specific OP. The only pictures I have of myself are one taken as a joke by a friend when I came back for the night plus one was taken of me by my company’s sign. I had a photo of an elephant taken that I took with the Pen EE when we ran into an old yard riding it the night before we took a bunker complex as planned. I doubt I had 8-9 total pictures from RVN. Only one did not get torn up or pilfered.
Are you sure you fought in the same war? I don’t know, did you throw your medals over the fence too? Oh wait those weren’t his. Maybe he realized his three purple hearts were bs and that’s why he tossed them.