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I’ve been going through my FILs old memorabilia from Vietnam. He was plucked out of Alaska flying bush planes and thrown into the jungles of SEA flying fixed and rotary wing aircraft for Air America. He spent 5 years in Laos from about 1965-70 and then from 1970-75 he was based throughout Vietnam. He flew Kissinger as well as other delegations and is mentioned in the book. The Vietnamese guy (Chattarong sp?) at the beginning of the movie pushing freight is my wife’s godfather and was an actual employee of “The Company” for the entire war.

If you knew my FIL you’d know that he was a good man and one that never wanted to cause conflict, he just wanted to get along with everyone. He wasn’t an “educated man” but he was very intelligent and talented and he was a RULE FOLLOWER. I don’t think anything made him more upset than the allegations and assumptions about Air America’s cargo. He told me countless times that he NEVER transported drugs and that the guys he knew didn’t either. He didn’t want every Air America pilot painted with the brush of a drug runner and I don’t blame him. Those guys did some incredible things that few will ever know about. He told me stories about getting shot down (5 times total…1 in N. Vietnam, 1 in Laos and 3 in Mexico) and being surrounded by NVA as he was pulling survivors from the wreckage. Turns out that his cargo was North and South Vietnamese children of all ages from infants to pre-teens orphaned by the war. My FIL said he left his Swedish K behind the seat because he wasn’t going to shoot his way out of that one and kept unloading survivors expecting to be shot any second. He told the NVA in his broken Vietnamese that he was either going to save those children or die trying. The next thing he knew the NVA set their rifles in a pile and started helping them move the children into the aircraft dispatched to the scene. He did some extraordinary things and he never talked about 90% of it.

He was fighting alongside Phil/Gay Ghost, the defender of our great nation!

Nothing but talk, and willingness to have other people to do what they are too chikenshidt to do themselves..

No [bleep].

Gay G, I think you must have meant "Election Fraud".

The dumbfughks didnt believe it happened, did you?

You refer to, of course, the 8100 people who really voted for Beijing Bribem.

Then there was Joe Namath. Classified 4-F (physically unfit for any military duty) the same year he quarterbacked the Jets to a Superbowl victory.

Nice to have influential employers.

Just the opposite was John F. Kennedy. He tried to enlist but flunked the physical, so he worked out six hours a day for several months. But he flunked it again. He told his dad, who was the richest man in America, "You'll just have to find me a better doctor." They did.

There was a big difference between WWII and Viet Nam.

That’s the first thing I thought when I read it too.





Nice

I wonder where ghaygager is today? surely he has answers to all the questions posed here...