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Crisp salute to all my brothers here on the 'Fire - and everywhere. (And yet another reason to thank President Trump)

Amen.

Fish Camp! 😂

This was a good friend of mine in Los Angeles. He "came home" from Vietnam, but Agent Orange killed him three years ago, no matter how he fought it. SEAL Team One.



L.W.

I lost a shipmate during the 'Nam war in '68.. One of the strongest men I ever sailed with..


Thanks for posting that...

I Salute , and Thank All That Served.

I salute all of my peers with a very few exceptions. One is the dude that stole my camera when I was on the way home from Tour 1. Can't think of #2 at the moment.

I would like to send a gift to LBJ, but don't know how to ship things to Hell. It's only a dozen sticks of dynamite.

God Bless all Vietnam veterans

#2. John Kerry?

Dan, ditto to the guy who stole my honorary Green Beret during the bag inspection prior to boarding the Freedom Bird. I had been awarded it the night before, so it was right on top.

Ballad of the Green Beret?

Anyone know a good place to get a decent RSVN flag?

Thanks for posting....

and a great deal of respect for Rocky and Dan, for their service over there....

Rocky, have enjoyed reading your two books I purchased several times or more.

A salute of Respect Gentlemen for your service to our nation....

And the same goes for all the other campfire members who served there and in Korea putting their "buns" on the line for our nation.

God Bless each one of you!

Good friend Ted is a Vit Nom vet.

by Sgt Barry Sadler:





Got to meet him as a 14 year old at Ft Bragg. Mom was the Personal Secretary for the Commander of the Green Berets from 1966 to 1968, when my dad was stationed at Pope AFB, before going to Vietnam in June 1968.

he served 49 months over there.

Thank you.

It was a horrible war -- but it was the only one we had at the time. If you wanted to go to one, that was it.

Actually it was some 3.4 million wars - one for every single person who fought it. And that's just our side.

Thanks to all you Vietnam vets.
My brother in law dead from agent orange.
And a couple high school buddies that came back in good physical condition, but never the same mentally.

Dale, in my books, I wrote that if you went to 'Nam sane you probably came home sane. That was almost correct. Because no matter how you went there, you did not come home unchanged.

PTSD has many shades of grey, and nobody is immune.

Don't know that I was sane or not upon return, that is for others to decide. What I came home with was little or no fear and a cold heart. It served me well in my following career as an enroute air traffic controller.

In the early years of that career I lived in the Miami area and Key Largo. Had occasion to pull a handgun 5 times and I don't recall that my heart skipped a beat. Fact of it is that two of those events had humorous conclusions. One jerk got out of my car while it was still rolling. Another drove into a phone pole. No, I didn't ask them if they felt lucky.