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  • War Stories From Vietnam

    02/25/2004 10:47:47 AM PST · by MarcoPolo · 64 replies · 2,402+ views
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    Since the Vietnam War is so much in the news these days, I thought it might be good to start a thread in which Vietnam Vets or, as in my case, children of Vietnam Vets can swap war stories about their or their parent's experiences in Vietnam. I guess I'll go first. My father was a Sgt. in the Air Force during Vietnam. In April of 1969, he was flying along with 220 other troops from the Air Force, Army and Marines over to Vietnam on a super DC-8 or a "stretch 8" belonging to Seaboard World chartered by the...