My family and I fled from Laos in 1979, and I am very proud to be an American. Thanks to all our vets who risks their lives to fight for our freedom. I used this site to do my report and got a 100. Thank you again.

Navy Corpsman- Operating Room Technician, original nucleus crew out of New Orleans, on USS Sanctuary,AH-17, 1967,left dec.1967 thank God.God bless all those that defend their families and country honorably, and rest the souls of those that paid the ultimate.

I SERVED AS AN OPERATING ROOM TECH AT THE 29TH EVAC/3RD SURG HOSPITAL IN BINH THUY FROM 6/69-7/70...I ALSO SERVED IN THE 346TH DISPENSARY IN CAN THO FOR A FEW MONTHS...I RETURNED THERE IN 1996 AND WAS STUNNED AT THE POVERTY AND LACK OF PROGRESS. OUR GUIDE WAS A WOMAN NAMED NU WHOSE HUSBAND WAS SENT TO A 'RELOCATION' CAMP AFTER THE WAR FOR 3 YRS. SHE WAS STILL WARY ABOUT TELLING US SOME THINGS THAT HAPPENED BUT IT WAS CLEAR THE THE PEOPLE WERE STILL INITMIDATED BY THE GOVERNMEMNT AT THAT TIME...WOULD LOVE TO GO BACK SOMETIME, MAYBE EVEN HOOK UP WITH
THIS ORGANIZATION AND DO SOME GOOD....RWS

With Alpha Co. 1/1 Marine Div. 1969 - 1970 0311 Dodge City
Semper Fi where are you guys don't you remember what we said about staying in touch but i know how it got, no more guilt is needed. We did what we were told was right and how could it be up to us to know.

member Naval Mobile Construction Battalion Sixty-Two,in support of Thrid Marine Division, northen I corps, Dong Ha combat base, worked on "Dong Ha bridge" 1969.
Worked Detail Albany , down south near Can Tho 1970, May God forgive our sins , restore our honor, and bless America. harry marshall

hello all.. i was wondering if any of you vietnam veterans would do me a huge favor and volunteer at my school for a small lecture while you were in the war. please contact me if you have any questions. i would really appreciate it if you came. we are in the beginning stages of learning about the war.

My dad died in Vietnam 9/7/65. CMSgt Earl Willoughby, USAF, Det 1 619th TCS. I was 11 at the time. He will as all vets are my hero.

Hello all,

My name is Brenda and I am writing to you because I am fascinated with the Vietnam War. Not because of the obvious atrocities, but rather I am intrigued by the political web that many, many young men were caught up in. I have some memories of the Vietnam war (they are vague memories as I was only 5 years old at the height of the war) but there is one thing that has always struck me...and that is the attitude of the public when these men returned home from battle.

I can remember walking across a bridge in Melbourne with my father (who was a military man) and witnessing a lot of potestors and hippies on motorbikes. In my child's mind at the time, I thought to myself...but they were told to go by the prime minister.

I can't understand why they were shunned by so many people. I am nearly 40 and it still bothers me. When I was a child, I watched the 1972 olympics and vietnam footage and then I watched the 1976 olympics after the war was over and it was not until I was older that I could talk about it. A lot of people didn't seem to give a sh*t, but deep down, I always wondered why?

I have much respect for a vietnam war soldier and I believe there will never be another war like vietnam. Thank God!

Cheers

Brenda

Australia

I want to thank you first of all for your service to our country, and then because I'm a writer and your Web Site is plum full of important information for me. I'm working on a book based in Vietnam so your site is wonderful. Great Site! Take care, Gini

Great web site.Its brings lot of memories. I served with B co 2d Battalion 2d Infantry 1st Inf Div from 1964,65,66,67 and with Hq co 1st Avn Bde, 120th Avn Co. Gunships Razorbacks/ Snoopy Plt, and Command Aircraft Co, 1967,68,69,70. Let not forget those that gave all. Juan Santiago Sfc (Ret) Decoy Out.

I am high school student who is doing a big project on the Vietnam war and this website was very helpful.

i have learned more about war in these past couple of hours than I have in my lifetime. I have been enlightened, moved, hurt, and left to ponder the signifigence of the very fiber of war. The words shared here are so powerful that one can relate so much of this to the battles we all face in relation to everyday individual battles. We as a society have to learn to do the right thing in life, and to choice that which would provide for the greatest good. Life, love, change sacrifice, and lies are as old as time, and who is to say when we will ever learn to embrace the right for all individuals to have what they need, and be willing to share in the riches of our planet, where love rules, and peace prevails. I wonder if indeed we are capable of ever really walking away from the attration of war. I salute the writers that have shared from there soul, all that was lived, seen, and survived. Hell, does come in all shapes and sizes, and there is surely a hell for history has repeatly demonstrated this with the atrocities of war. Let us hope and pray that as surely as there is war, that this means that there too is a heaven!

Served with 1st Field Forces, 6th Battalion
14th Artillery Viet Nam '68 to '69...Plei Dejereng,
Plieku, Kontum, Dakto and Ben Het.
For some people, in some lands there is no
burning desire for democracy. For those who
try and install it...the battle shall be long and
very costly. And...they may fail.

viet nam 1968-69 quang tri 842 quartermaster