Hello. I'm a student working on a big research paper on the Vietnam War. Could you answer a few questions about your experiences? I understand if you'd prefer to let sleeping dogs lie. For what it's worth, thank you for your service. Took balls to go, took balls to be against it too.
Thank you! I have a lot of questions. Where you drafted or did you volunteer? (My birthday is Nov. 11 and I checked the lottery results and it got a low number. I often think about what I would've done. Can't imagine what it must've been like to really be in that position.) When were you in country? With which branch and what were you duties? How were relations between solders of different race? (I've read that relations were "cold" outside of combat) Did you feel like we were "winning"? Did you feel like the bombing campaign (Rolling Thunder or Linebacker depending on when you were there) was working? (I want to ask if you felt that "search and destroy"/"winning hearts and minds" strategies were working from your perspective. Assuming you were in a position to see those strategies up close) What made you turn against the war? Thanks again.
The wisest soldiers the country has ever seen. I put them up there on the same level as WWII vets. There's a time to take a stand and cross the line when power becomes abusive. Heroes.
They had every right, and we as a nation should be ashamed for treating them the way we did when they came back home. God bless you guys, and thank you for the sacrifices you have made.
Summer of 2024..I’m here watching this because I’m reading a book called The Women by Kristin Hannah. This protest and March is mentioned and I wanted to see it Live. Also because I was 4 yrs old at this the time this took place. To the nurses and ALL who served~thank you for your service 👊🏼💪🏼🙏🏼
Lives Lost For Political Gain! Shameful! My Husband Fought In Vietnam Nam, Combat Medic, Purple Heart Recipient, Army Commendation Medal, & All..Passed Away In 2012, Complications From Exposure To Agent Orange..A Sad Day, A Sad 8 Years..Honor Our Veterans..Never Forget.🇺🇸🥀🇺🇸
John Kerry got his photo op in Vietnam and got his photo op here. He quietly left VVAW. He then became an ambitious machine politician with the same party that voted to start the war when it was popular and then voted to lose it when it was unpopular.
You go to where the power is and work from there. He ain't going to accomplish much walking around in his cami's. Seriously, we grow up and move up. As a witness to Congress, his impeccable Ivy League diction and social background carried weight.
@@SandfordSmythe And marry a couple of rich women along the way and made a fortune "doing good". He wanted a JFK PT 109 story when he joined the Navy which he got with a sleazy twist in keeping with his times. His hero at that hearing was the racist segregationist Arkansas Democrat Sen. William Fullbright who voted for the war and then did everything he could to lose it. When Saigon fell in 1975 he said "I am no more distressed if Arkansas lost a football game to Texas". A good buddy of our odious current President Biden who kissed up to him at every opportunity.
Kerry's first cousin is Stewart Forbes, former CEO of Colliers International. H's also married into the Heinz ketchup empire. After Clinton lifted the embargo on VIetnam in 1995, the very first multi-billion dollar real estate investment company was Colliers. This was roughly 7 years after the Walking K USAF E&E (Escape & Evasion code) was found in a Laotian rice paddy near the Plain of Jars in 1988. 13 years after Operation Homecoming in 1975. Before Watergate came crashing down, Nixon promised Hanoi $4.25B for post-war reconstruction in release for the remaining POWs. Over 600 POWs. Watergate came crashing down and the POWs were never released. David Hrdlicka, Blair Wrye and Henry Serex all have documented E&E codes picked up by reconnaissance aircraft.@@NewsHistorian
Thank you for doing this. The images are so symbolic of the realities of the war. I read 'The Spitting Image' by Jerry Lembcke and I can't believe this event/act wasn't talked about enough in history classes.
The S#it that these soldiers / men went through , was enough to poke your own eyes out . A generation of ppl that got used as a political football , fighting literally for survival in country , to get home and try and make sense of why they put your ass in the grass . In the end the memory’s get blurred but the feelings are still strong , too many young dreamers gone , don’t forget to listen to that fav song, don’t toke too much or you’ll choke in the field when it matters stay on point , remember the faces of the viet cong? I’d rather write letters , ignore the politician vendettas , try and sleep in a monsoon , that wall of heat that destroys your feet , don’t forget to creep silent , and listen , or it’s curtains for you . I salute you bro 👍 cos you went where I couldn’t go👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
There are countless significant videos of demonstrations against that war. This is by far the most significant. Why? Because it was incontrovertible. NO American could call these fellas out for being “hippies”. NO American could call them out for being “sissies”. Any of the bullshit excuses the older generation at that time had to dismiss those against the war fell flat here, cause these guys were there and they STILL KNEW it was bullshit. That’s why they deserve respect. Not because of the shots they fired.
The main issue with most anti-war critiques is not the critiques themselves, but to whom these critiques target for their origins of rage. The soldiers were just doing what they were told, doing their jobs. The people in Washington who were giving orders to these soldiers should be the ones targeted by any anti-war critique. Those power, money, and war hungry bastards haven't changed much at all to this day - just look at the videos of Iraq & Afghanistan vets returning their medals like the ones at the Dewey Canyon III protest on 4/23/71.
Truth.. People don't need to be commanded or manipulated and controlled in order to defend their home. When defense is needed, people will act on their own willpower to protect their livelihoods. In fact, everybody knows it's dangerous to intrude or attack someone in their own home or soil. They will fight you til their deaths without any orders or hesitation.
It is hard to believe that you knew the right things more than 50 years. Now looking back history proved that you are right. Your serving stays always in people's heart.
I've been sharing this video for years in all my college classes, so moving and so touching and so poignant, no matter what your point of view. Thank you to all our Vietnam Vets, of all stripes, and especially those of you who saved more lives by standing up to challenge the established authority that sent our young people to death inglorious...yet because of your integrity, redeemed. with love and respect.
+Genevieve Jacobs Have you heard this tribute inspired by the David Zeiger film? They took a stand for peace! "Sir, No Sir" soundcloud.com/user660132316/sir-no-sir
There was a large contingent from Walter Reed Army Hospital on day- passes. The commanding general, a physician, got heat for this, and they wanted him to punish them. He said what more should we do to these unfortunate men?
THANK YOU, WHETHER U HAD THE CHOICE, OR NOT, THANK YOU.....i say this, knowing how most of u probably feel, but, i say this, because of all i saw and heard about, when you came home, how people treated you, how so many live and/or lived in fear, for so long......that among other things, was not right..... THANK YOU
@@geezus7833 Revisiting this a year later I misunderstood the original comment. The statue is of 2 soldiers carrying a wounded one but none of protesters.
My dad served and I remember when I was in grade school in the early 80s my dad gave me his old fatigues to wear as a smock in my art class and my hippy teacher use to lecture me about war and shit and I had no idea at the time what she was talking about then found out my dad served and was proud but was very anti war after he got home
There are 2 medals we should have gotten: the Military Industrial Complex Service Medal with royal root devise and The army Chicken-Shit Endurance Medal.
John Musgrave got death threats from "patriotic Americans" after that. I wish more people would see this before they thank servicemen and women for their service.
That guy at 3:27 has been seen in multiple videos (never interviewed) after the war. He has been seen coming back to the Vietnam Memorial Wall crying his eyes out. I don't know if he's still alive or not.
one part of me is angry to see this, another part of me sees hero's taking a stand for their beliefs., but one things for sure, This was a long time ago and I have no business judging any of these great solders. Just as we have no right taking down statues or changing names because it offends someone. History is important to keep intact, for it is the one direct route for us to never forget.
chuck jones wow, you’re angry to see people throw away their “hooray you came back sticker” for going to a pointless war? Please save your conservative undertones for the election History doesn’t need to be forgot SO YOU CAN CHANGE THE FUTURE if you don’t change the wrong from the past then you haven’t benefited man kind in any way.
@@viva9284 For me to give an unbiased opinion (seeing both sides) is what we probably need most right now in these present times. You only see one side, your side.. Your opinion and unless I think like you, I'm the enemy.
@@100chuckjones When one side is a machine making senseless wars, I don't want anything to do with it. Fuck the government and the military industrial complex.
Imagine getting drafted to a war where you'll watch good men die, good friends die, where you'll shoot people, and get shot. You'll watch forests and homes get razed to the ground, and then you'll get rewarded for all of it. Then you will come home and find out that everything you were fighting and dying for was a lie, and that you had no real cause to be there shooting those people. Your friends, your comrades, died for nothing. A wasted cause. A mistake. I suggest you read more into the Vietnam war, you'll come to find that America wasn't exactly the good guy there, not even close. And the rest of the country saw that.
I was there with the Florida delegation, that's where my medals went, honor the warrior not necessarily the war...thank you for posting
Hello. I'm a student working on a big research paper on the Vietnam War. Could you answer a few questions about your experiences? I understand if you'd prefer to let sleeping dogs lie. For what it's worth, thank you for your service. Took balls to go, took balls to be against it too.
I would be glad to answer as best I can
Thank you! I have a lot of questions.
Where you drafted or did you volunteer? (My birthday is Nov. 11 and I checked the lottery results and it got a low number. I often think about what I would've done. Can't imagine what it must've been like to really be in that position.) When were you in country? With which branch and what were you duties? How were relations between solders of different race? (I've read that relations were "cold" outside of combat) Did you feel like we were "winning"? Did you feel like the bombing campaign (Rolling Thunder or Linebacker depending on when you were there) was working? (I want to ask if you felt that "search and destroy"/"winning hearts and minds" strategies were working from your perspective. Assuming you were in a position to see those strategies up close) What made you turn against the war?
Thanks again.
God bless you and i hope you will find peace and way in to the paradise
You weren't warriors, you were imperialist troops and invaders. The vietcong were the true warriors and heroes.
The wisest soldiers the country has ever seen. I put them up there on the same level as WWII vets. There's a time to take a stand and cross the line when power becomes abusive. Heroes.
Many of the war's earliest protesters were WWII vets. The Hells Angels that Hunter S. Thompson rode with were anti-war WWII Vets.
They had every right, and we as a nation should be ashamed for treating them the way we did when they came back home. God bless you guys, and thank you for the sacrifices you have made.
This was not at all about their welcome home. This was a protest against the war.
Summer of 2024..I’m here watching this because I’m reading a book called The Women by Kristin Hannah.
This protest and March is mentioned and I wanted to see it Live.
Also because I was 4 yrs old at this the time this took place.
To the nurses and ALL who served~thank you for your service 👊🏼💪🏼🙏🏼
These guys are awesome. Brave doesn't even begin to define it.
Lives Lost For Political Gain! Shameful! My Husband Fought In Vietnam Nam, Combat Medic, Purple Heart Recipient, Army Commendation Medal, & All..Passed Away In 2012, Complications From Exposure To Agent Orange..A Sad Day, A Sad 8 Years..Honor Our Veterans..Never Forget.🇺🇸🥀🇺🇸
John Kerry got his photo op in Vietnam and got his photo op here. He quietly left VVAW.
He then became an ambitious machine politician with the same party that voted to start the war when it was popular and then voted to lose it when it was unpopular.
You go to where the power is and work from there. He ain't going to accomplish much walking around in his cami's. Seriously, we grow up and move up. As a witness to Congress, his impeccable Ivy League diction and social background carried weight.
@@SandfordSmythe And marry a couple of rich women along the way and made a fortune "doing good".
He wanted a JFK PT 109 story when he joined the Navy which he got with a sleazy twist in keeping with his times. His hero at that hearing was the racist segregationist Arkansas Democrat Sen. William Fullbright who voted for the war and then did everything he could to lose it. When Saigon fell in 1975 he said "I am no more distressed if Arkansas lost a football game to Texas". A good buddy of our odious current President Biden who kissed up to him at every opportunity.
Kerry's first cousin is Stewart Forbes, former CEO of Colliers International. H's also married into the Heinz ketchup empire. After Clinton lifted the embargo on VIetnam in 1995, the very first multi-billion dollar real estate investment company was Colliers. This was roughly 7 years after the Walking K USAF E&E (Escape & Evasion code) was found in a Laotian rice paddy near the Plain of Jars in 1988. 13 years after Operation Homecoming in 1975. Before Watergate came crashing down, Nixon promised Hanoi $4.25B for post-war reconstruction in release for the remaining POWs. Over 600 POWs. Watergate came crashing down and the POWs were never released. David Hrdlicka, Blair Wrye and Henry Serex all have documented E&E codes picked up by reconnaissance aircraft.@@NewsHistorian
John Kerry is most definitely a two-faced pos and always has been, every Nam vet i know despises him
What you did there was an heroic act. You are great people.
Hell yeah ron Ferizzi.
Got that right
I want to give these guys a hug.
I always feel like crying when I listen to Ron.
Thank you for doing this. The images are so symbolic of the realities of the war. I read 'The Spitting Image' by Jerry Lembcke and I can't believe this event/act wasn't talked about enough in history classes.
The S#it that these soldiers / men went through , was enough to poke your own eyes out . A generation of ppl that got used as a political football , fighting literally for survival in country , to get home and try and make sense of why they put your ass in the grass . In the end the memory’s get blurred but the feelings are still strong , too many young dreamers gone , don’t forget to listen to that fav song, don’t toke too much or you’ll choke in the field when it matters stay on point , remember the faces of the viet cong? I’d rather write letters , ignore the politician vendettas , try and sleep in a monsoon , that wall of heat that destroys your feet , don’t forget to creep silent , and listen , or it’s curtains for you . I salute you bro 👍 cos you went where I couldn’t go👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
There are countless significant videos of demonstrations against that war. This is by far the most significant. Why? Because it was incontrovertible. NO American could call these fellas out for being “hippies”. NO American could call them out for being “sissies”. Any of the bullshit excuses the older generation at that time had to dismiss those against the war fell flat here, cause these guys were there and they STILL KNEW it was bullshit. That’s why they deserve respect. Not because of the shots they fired.
The main issue with most anti-war critiques is not the critiques themselves, but to whom these critiques target for their origins of rage. The soldiers were just doing what they were told, doing their jobs.
The people in Washington who were giving orders to these soldiers should be the ones targeted by any anti-war critique.
Those power, money, and war hungry bastards haven't changed much at all to this day - just look at the videos of Iraq & Afghanistan vets returning their medals like the ones at the Dewey Canyon III protest on 4/23/71.
Truth.. People don't need to be commanded or manipulated and controlled in order to defend their home. When defense is needed, people will act on their own willpower to protect their livelihoods. In fact, everybody knows it's dangerous to intrude or attack someone in their own home or soil. They will fight you til their deaths without any orders or hesitation.
It is hard to believe that you knew the right things more than 50 years. Now looking back history proved that you are right. Your serving stays always in people's heart.
The mother at 1:25 made me cry. Unbelievable.
I've been sharing this video for years in all my college classes, so moving and so touching and so poignant, no matter what your point of view. Thank you to all our Vietnam Vets, of all stripes, and especially those of you who saved more lives by standing up to challenge the established authority that sent our young people to death inglorious...yet because of your integrity, redeemed. with love and respect.
+Genevieve Jacobs Have you heard this tribute inspired by the David Zeiger film? They took a stand for peace! "Sir, No Sir" soundcloud.com/user660132316/sir-no-sir
+Joe DeFilippo yes indeed I have the DVD on my shelf as we speak.
+Genevieve Jacobs Take a listen to the song inspired by the film soundcloud.com/user660132316/sir-no-sir
You're welcome.
A senseless war, Bravo to these brave soldiers!
There was a large contingent from Walter Reed Army Hospital on day- passes. The commanding general, a physician, got heat for this, and they wanted him to punish them. He said what more should we do to these unfortunate men?
Never trust the American government.
THANK YOU, WHETHER U HAD THE CHOICE, OR NOT, THANK YOU.....i say this, knowing how most of u probably feel, but, i say this, because of all i saw and heard about, when you came home, how people treated you, how so many live and/or lived in fear, for so long......that among other things, was not right..... THANK YOU
This has nothing to do with their welcome home.
If it aint worth winning, it aint worth dying for.
Until there IS a statue of these brave American Veterans next to D.C.'s Vietnam Memorial the memorial will NEVER BE complete .
Late comment but there is a statue of 3 soldiers as part of the Vietnam war memorial on it's west side, it's been there for decades
@@user-zy8cy6hn6o the ones in this video?
@@geezus7833 Revisiting this a year later I misunderstood the original comment. The statue is of 2 soldiers carrying a wounded one but none of protesters.
young people died for old politician's greedy goals.
My dad served and I remember when I was in grade school in the early 80s my dad gave me his old fatigues to wear as a smock in my art class and my hippy teacher use to lecture me about war and shit and I had no idea at the time what she was talking about then found out my dad served and was proud but was very anti war after he got home
The purpose of the Viet Nam War: so Nike could set up a tennis shoe factory there!
Vietnam Veterans against the war organization bailed us out of jail in Austin 1971 after getting arrested at a demonstration on Lamar.
Heroes.
Is the whole world watching yet.
3:52 Wolverine was in every war
January 6th, 2021, answer's that ! They will never learn, sacrifice
These guys managed to what student protestors and radical protestors couldn’t do for years, effectively change public opinion on the war in Vietnam
That’s the power of moral authority
Did Nixon rake all those medals off the lawn? I wish he was forced to do that
There are 2 medals we should have gotten: the Military Industrial Complex Service Medal with royal root devise and The army Chicken-Shit Endurance Medal.
The fuck you said
@@tangocharliedd-2146 - Ninja
4:26
Ron Ferizzi?
John Musgrave got death threats from "patriotic Americans" after that. I wish more people would see this before they thank servicemen and women for their service.
That guy at 3:27 has been seen in multiple videos (never interviewed) after the war. He has been seen coming back to the Vietnam Memorial Wall crying his eyes out. I don't know if he's still alive or not.
I was there, metals still there!
Lokey I cried
and now my generation comes home from the same shit in the middle east wars based on lies
anyone want more of this its all on ken burns vietnam
And where are thy today?
Were is the drill sergeant a now
What are the songs used?
Every time I see John Kerry I think about this video.
John Kerry was a sellout
@@robertisham5279 No, he put himself where the power was.
I was told vietnam was fought for drugs what do you think?
You were told wrong.
Yes. Look up YT channel Al Profit.
@@youwanagethiNo he wasn't
What does Category: Comedy mean? How funny is this?
Hope you never bought a copy of your silver star.
only the german knights Cross was a real Medal anyways
Wehraboo.
@@gobanito we who what? don't understand this response, sorry guy!
Horror the war and the warriors we fail to stop communism
one part of me is angry to see this, another part of me sees hero's taking a stand for their beliefs., but one things for sure, This was a long time ago and I have no business judging any of these great solders. Just as we have no right taking down statues or changing names because it offends someone. History is important to keep intact, for it is the one direct route for us to never forget.
chuck jones wow, you’re angry to see people throw away their “hooray you came back sticker” for going to a pointless war?
Please save your conservative undertones for the election
History doesn’t need to be forgot SO YOU CAN CHANGE THE FUTURE if you don’t change the wrong from the past then you haven’t benefited man kind in any way.
There is no equivalency between the two.
@@viva9284 For me to give an unbiased opinion (seeing both sides) is what we probably need most right now in these present times.
You only see one side, your side.. Your opinion and unless I think like you, I'm the enemy.
@@100chuckjones
When one side is a machine making senseless wars, I don't want anything to do with it. Fuck the government and the military industrial complex.
If they are against the war why are they still wearing their uniforms?
Their uniforms. Their country.
More media manipulation
Vote Bernie Sanders
Genevieve Jacobs Bernie2020
No
David Duke or Ron Paul
They thru the boxes that the medals came in but kept the medal Lol
No, we threw the medals. Why would you post this BS?
very foolish of them
You can always buy medals again, they are replaceable. 🤷🏿♂️
Imagine getting drafted to a war where you'll watch good men die, good friends die, where you'll shoot people, and get shot. You'll watch forests and homes get razed to the ground, and then you'll get rewarded for all of it.
Then you will come home and find out that everything you were fighting and dying for was a lie, and that you had no real cause to be there shooting those people. Your friends, your comrades, died for nothing. A wasted cause. A mistake.
I suggest you read more into the Vietnam war, you'll come to find that America wasn't exactly the good guy there, not even close. And the rest of the country saw that.
Medals are replaceable. People are not.
Very foolish comment
says the keyboard warrior for whom the closest he'll see of combat is playing CoD.
Looking for attention by being edgy. Yawn.
I think attention was the goal.
Traitors !!!!
Patriots. Brave men who served their country and came back to tell the American people what they witnessed. When did you serve?
1993- 2001 with the 1st RANGER BATTALION !! You ?!!
1966-70, 2 tours of Vietnam, wounded.@@larrypowers1264
Larry Powers
People still defend the war in Vietnam?
Troll !!!!
Dewey Canyon III, la importante protesta de los ex combatientes que ocurrió hace 50 años contra la guerra de Estados Unidos en Vietnam.