Eric Shelly was drafted into the Army and completed a combat tour with Company A, 3rd Battalion, 12th Infantry Regiment of the 4th Infantry Division from 1968-69.
A true statement about combat veterans of every war. What added to the Vietnam veteran's burden was how terribly so many of them were treated by some civilians when they returned home, blamed for the war and disrespected.
What's bad is even today, the media portrays Vietnam veterans as murderers and rapist. My 23yr old daughter made a comment to me about some research she did on the internet and it portrayed them this way. I told her bad things happen in war, but that doesn't make all veterans bad. Our main stream media is poison.
🥀It was plain outright and terrible for those Men, whom we should’ve been shouting and praising. My God~Father/Uncle just recently passed. Agent Orange was what got him!
it has to do with that he said "you were raised to think life is precious", and his right life is precious, but so is the life of the people you save, but on vietnam soldiers were not saving anyone like in korea or ww2 where people actually wanted to be saved, in vietnam the vietnamese wanted to live under a tyrant communist regime, its like people and religion, some follow destructive cults.
I had a welding partner that was in Vietnam. He told me things that made my heart drop. The best thing I ever did was listen to him. He said it was great to have a partner that would listen and not judge. It helped his entire existence when he had a way to let it all out.
It amazes me that anyone could judge another without having fought. To listen is to honour that person. You're lucky he spoke to you about such things. By doing that you would have helped him so much! Good onya, champion! 🤜🏽🤛🏼
Thank you sir a million x’s over. My brother was a navy seal. And the American flag & all the soldiers who give it meaning have always meant the world to my whole family. My grandpa was also in ww2 though he likely saw little if none direct engagements. He was an engineer laying phone lines, I believe. My bros best friend at about 10yo, our neighbor, his dad was infantry in Vietnam (Mike Hagel). His best friend was on point one mission stepped on a mine & and it basically eviscerated him. Landed all over him, was obviously brutal & he only ever talked about it once. I hope mentioning this doesn’t harm you & I apologize if so. Think this is partly where my brother got the desire for it. But I digress & thanks for your service sir.👍🏼🙏🏼
I was at the VA psychiatrist, with my Dad, a Vietnam vet. It was about 45 years, after the fact. He asked my dad if he still had nightmares. My Dad replied " well, not every night". God bless you, and thank you for your service.
My dad, WW2 vet, suffered from PTSD until he died at age 72. He was a recovering alcoholic for his last 20 years. He died from cancer of the head and neck. I took care of him until his last breath at home. My three brothers who were in Vietnam at the same time all had PTSD. All these brave men at times until the day they passed through the veil to the other side would have that look on their faces where they were back in battle. It is my hope for all of the veterans to finally have peace once they cross over.
@@barneyronnie Hello Barney, Are you asking if my brothers who were in Vietnam triplets? No they were not, but a year apart. There is one left who was on a sub and obviously was exposed to agent orange like the other two brothers.
My dad came back in 69 couldn’t even put his service record on his resume for over 10 years for fear of not being able to secure a job let alone even talk about it
My father was a Nam Vet. Helicopter mechanic. I miss him dearly. Had MS for yrs from agent orange exposure or so it's thought some. We miss you more than ever my father. 53' - 00' SMC.
Of course they were using agent Orange. The terrain was soo thick and you couldn't burn it naturally However. It made the pharmaceutical industry that made the poison... very rich. And it did kill the undergrowth. But it had the same affect on the soldier's..and they were treated absolutely disgustingly when the returned. Governments made sure they were not the villains. The soldier's were. Yer right. Even in the second world war. Soldier's returned here: mad They were put in huge cages that you put big birds in. This came from friends and my dad who did 3 tours in Papua new Guinea 🇵🇬 in ww2 😢
He’s right about the sight picture. There’s a feeling of being hollow afterwards, and at least for me, feeling absolutely nothing. And feeling guilty for feeling nothing.
My dad use to yell in his sleep!!!! He was in Vietnam !!! He is still alive today along with my mom. His high school sweetheart.❤❤❤😂 strong minded person !!!😅
I think I know a little of what he is taking about. My father died over 28 years ago. Probably 35 to 45 years ago my dad just happened to mention to me about his troop ship stopping at the Cliffs of Dover to let air force members off before going on to Germany, this was 1952. I never knew my dad had been to the Cliffs of Dover, and not sure what we were even talking about, but I remember his saying that. Just over 2 years ago a coworker mentioned traveling to England and taking a bus to the Cliffs of Dover; those words, "Cliffs of Dover" rang through my mind and I repeated them to myself a few times and tears began to fill my eyes as I remembered my dad. Not too long ago I was at Cabelas and saw a father and son join me in the ammo isle. Unbeknownst to me, the young son walked around and put me in between him and his father; then he called out, "Dad!" And for some reason I thought of my 16 year old son who had passed away 5 years earlier, and I said his name under my breath, half wishing it were my son calling out to me. I know this'll sound crazy but I've realized I suffer a form of ptsd, not from combat, just from life. I hope you can't relate to this, but if you can, Be Strong.
My old 4H leader flew Helicopters in Vietnam 69-70. I’ve never seen a more kind spirit, or more heartbreak in a man’s eyes as he discussed only a fraction of what he saw.
Thank you brother, I’m an army veteran myself and we all love each other as brothers, hang in there and get help if you need it, we all been there, keep fighting and stay strong 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸💯💯💯💕💕
Thank you for your service. My cousin did 3 or 4 tours. The last tour, he was changed from what my Mom told me. He had many issues but he was still a good man, and I did my best to help him, and telling him what he did was appreciated, And he was loved always. I miss our talks since he passed, but he will be in my thoughts always
My father died in 2018 He was a Beechmaster Unit One man.He served during the Tet Offensive,He never spoke about Vietnam.He died and wasn't autopsied.He told my mother he had cancer.I miss him.It affected him in a way it did the same for his family.Thank you for your service.We ❤ You.
I’m a Marine Nam Vet…Chu Lai 68-69 1st MAW… but I was very lucky to be stationed on an air base and not as a grunt. If I have of been, I might not be here today. And to those Nam Vets that were out in the boonies…A HEARTFELT SALUTE and WELCOME HOME. Y’all have my deepest sympathy for going through that. Sometimes I feel guilty but it was just the luck of the draw.
Weather people like it or not veterans change the course of history, often times for the better, thank you for your service, it is truly appreciated 🇺🇸, and on a last note ,war is just a hell bad people create and it always takes good people to put the world back in place. You protected us and made us feel safe even when no one was able to see, thank you and welcome home :-)
@@Cyd98 I’m sorry you feel that way but it’s your choice. But I’m a Vet and proud of it. I’ve got a dozen Marine and Nam Vet caps. And even more shirts saying the same thing and I wear them whenever and wherever I go. I’ve never been questioned about my service or jeered because of it. No, we didn’t “win” in Nam. The politicians screwed us on that. Even so, I’m still proud and always will be.
Veterans don't need and very rarely want anybody's thanks. Much rather a sincere apology by the govt for sending young men (and women) to pointless wars to do their bidding, to either die or become irreversibly damaged.
@@sammyhill69 understand this, I'm just thanking them for there service and sacrifice, I don't agree with every conflict, I'm also a veteran thanking our veterans. I. 'm entitled to my opinion.And I respect your opinion
22 vets take their lives each day.. which is 8030/yr.. 5540+ are ages 50+.... and this is because as you get older time slows down you begin to slow down.. so those memories come back harder because your getting closer to your expire date.. people need to stop trashing on them because freedom is not free... the ones that died paid the ultimate price.. the ones living is paying more than the ones that died in combat... i say this because when you die thats it your known as a hero.. the ones that made it home have to pay a greater price and thats reliving every situtation you were put into
@@MN-br5nb people don't talk respectfully to each other cause back in those days you talk trash you bet you gonna get smacked.. and after that you become best of friends
I read somewhere that Korea and Vietnam were not classified as wars until well after they happened. I firmly believe that if soldiers are being sent to fight and possibly die it's a war😌
@@corabernal6432 yea they were known a political conflict... Which technically is what the Ukraine Russian war is to us as well... It'll become a war when Russia tries to take America.. if this makes any sense.. we also didn't belong in nam either.. only to some extent do we belong more in Ukraine but even then we really don't.. were only protecting them cause their NATO allies and they have 1T worth of resources that we want and dont wat in russian hands
@@choule90Actually at the time Vietnam was being called a 'police action's which was pathetic. The public were being lied to on so many levels, even in name.😡
Praying for you today sir. God Grant us the serenity to accept the things we cannot change, the courage to change the things we can, and the wisdom to know the difference.
My dad was a gunner. He had to have a back surgery yrs ago. For VA to take care of it, he had to perform all the tricks and jump through hoops. Put him counseling for months to help deal with depression and who knows. They totally screwed my dad up for a decade. He was so young he acted like it never came to th3 surface until they made it and made him relive it all over and over.
This is spot on. I was 18 and shipped to Nam three months before my 19th birthday. We trained, both simulated and live fire conditions. There is nothing to prepare us to see our team mates die. Much less the face of the enemy when aiming at them. It wasn’t long before we had to deal with seeing death and destruction around us. It was our job to accomplish whatever mission we had to endure. I brought home a bit of baggage and spent ten years trying to keep from trying to escape my demons. Much of it, guilt. Getting to come home in one piece was the toughest part. I volunteered for funeral duty in my spare time and traveled all over Georgia and South Carolina standing for the fallen in 1971-72. The VA has helped a lot, but it took years. Partly my fault, but also difficult to navigate system was in place up till 2016. War is hell people! We do not want it in our borders, however self defense must be accommodated at our borders and throughout our society.
It's a heavy burden they carry for the rest of us you guy have my greatest respect and gratitude I sincerely thank you for your service also RIP to the ones that didn't make it back we owe the KIA and the wounded men and their families a debt I can not describe with words
My uncle was a door gunner in Vietnam did several tours. Died of cancer from agent orange a couple years ago. Good man, a strong man, but a man like many who got taken advantage of. I served in the marine corps 14-18. Just learning of the history of many marines before me. Smedly, chesty, basilone, and many more. Smedly even wrote a book on it. War is a racket. We the strong manipulated into fighting for “freedom” and against “terror”. The patriots manipulated for monetary gains. I honor all of those men and women.
Im so very glad that I never had to go to war, only because I don't think I'm mentally rapped tight enough to have lived with it. But I appreciate all the men and women who have served for us all. Thank you all for your service. God bless each and every one of them.
It's a disorder because it exceeds a normal reaction to stress, and it needs treatment and legal compensation. There is nothing insulting about the term.
Justifying psique drugs and money to pay for those drugs? What are you, a big pharma partisan? No wonder you don't see anything wrong with it.@@SandfordSmythe
Retired Marine. 1990 - 2010, with 6 combat deployments. Left a large part of my sanity over “there” and have only survived by trying, in own little way, to help others that have suffered way more than I have.
Thank you for your service and you did what you had to do to survive and yes you live with that anybody that has served will understand that 👍🐺🏴🏴
I am in assisted living and I made friends with a Vietnam Vet. I took one look at him and asked if he was a Veteran? He said Yes. Are you a Vietnam Veteran? Yes. Then I said, thank you so much sir. We were fast friends after that. He died of cancer in horrible pain. I have seen so many people die slow in here.
My uncle was a medic assistant in Vietnam. And to this day he has told no one about what he witnessed and experienced over there. Not even his wife of 60 yrs !
Thank you for your service Sir I appreciate VETERANS because of their dedication and bravery for our country! as Americans we can disagree politically but we must always stand together against are enemies foreign and domestic
55 years later. Still see faces
you’ve lived longer than many! it’s a privilege to grow old
I’m sorry hopefully you find peace. Thank you for your service.
I pray God comforts you with love and peace brother
God bless you. And thank you for your service. Welcome home!!
I’m so sorry.
Daddy never forgot what he saw, and heard during his experiences. I hate war
A true statement about combat veterans of every war. What added to the Vietnam veteran's burden was how terribly so many of them were treated by some civilians when they returned home, blamed for the war and disrespected.
True. Even in Australia 🇦🇺 😢
What's bad is even today, the media portrays Vietnam veterans as murderers and rapist. My 23yr old daughter made a comment to me about some research she did on the internet and it portrayed them this way. I told her bad things happen in war, but that doesn't make all veterans bad. Our main stream media is poison.
I won't forget what you guys did for me
🥀It was plain outright and terrible for those Men, whom we should’ve been shouting and praising.
My God~Father/Uncle just recently passed. Agent Orange was what got him!
@@CherieLynne2452 My condolences. My next-door neighbor was a combat engineer in Vietnam and also suffers from Agent Orange.
I was 18 years old I turned 19 I'm 74 now i still suffer from pTSD ever day you never forget any of it.
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it has to do with that he said "you were raised to think life is precious", and his right life is precious, but so is the life of the people you save, but on vietnam soldiers were not saving anyone like in korea or ww2 where people actually wanted to be saved, in vietnam the vietnamese wanted to live under a tyrant communist regime, its like people and religion, some follow destructive cults.
I had a welding partner that was in Vietnam. He told me things that made my heart drop. The best thing I ever did was listen to him. He said it was great to have a partner that would listen and not judge. It helped his entire existence when he had a way to let it all out.
It amazes me that anyone could judge another without having fought.
To listen is to honour that person.
You're lucky he spoke to you about such things. By doing that you would have helped him so much!
Good onya, champion!
🤜🏽🤛🏼
@@dustinshadle732 thank you for being a good listener and thus a good friend to your job partner.
They didn't call it PTSD back then, it was still called Battle Fatigue. . .USMC '68 to '72
Thank you sir a million x’s over. My brother was a navy seal. And the American flag & all the soldiers who give it meaning have always meant the world to my whole family. My grandpa was also in ww2 though he likely saw little if none direct engagements. He was an engineer laying phone lines, I believe. My bros best friend at about 10yo, our neighbor, his dad was infantry in Vietnam (Mike Hagel). His best friend was on point one mission stepped on a mine & and it basically eviscerated him. Landed all over him, was obviously brutal & he only ever talked about it once. I hope mentioning this doesn’t harm you & I apologize if so. Think this is partly where my brother got the desire for it. But I digress & thanks for your service sir.👍🏼🙏🏼
Welcome Home Brother.
Thank you for your service, and Welcome Home.
Also shell shock before that during world war 1
'Rah Big Brother !! Welcome Home, Semper Fi Tueffel ❤
Vietnam Vets you are heroes in our book. Thank you for your service and sacrifice.
👍♥️🇺🇲 Don't Let your bastard terrors win Brothers!
I was at the VA psychiatrist, with my Dad, a Vietnam vet. It was about 45 years, after the fact. He asked my dad if he still had nightmares. My Dad replied " well, not every night". God bless you, and thank you for your service.
The face stays with you forever..frozen image...Vietnam 69-70
😳 Damn.
Welcome home, friend.
My father said the same thing about Korea 50 - 52
My dad, WW2 vet, suffered from PTSD until he died at age 72. He was a recovering alcoholic for his last 20 years. He died from cancer of the head and neck. I took care of him until his last breath at home.
My three brothers who were in Vietnam at the same time all had PTSD. All these brave men at times until the day they passed through the veil to the other side would have that look on their faces where they were back in battle.
It is my hope for all of the veterans to finally have peace once they cross over.
May they all find peace in the arms of Jesus.
Triplets
@@barneyronnie Hello Barney, Are you asking if my brothers who were in Vietnam triplets? No they were not, but a year apart. There is one left who was on a sub and obviously was exposed to agent orange like the other two brothers.
My dad came back in 69 couldn’t even put his service record on his resume for over 10 years for fear of not being able to secure a job let alone even talk about it
My father was a Nam Vet. Helicopter mechanic. I miss him dearly. Had MS for yrs from agent orange exposure or so it's thought some. We miss you more than ever my father. 53' - 00' SMC.
Of course they were using agent Orange. The terrain was soo thick and you couldn't burn it naturally
However. It made the pharmaceutical industry that made the poison... very rich. And it did kill the undergrowth. But it had the same affect on the soldier's..and they were treated absolutely disgustingly when the returned. Governments made sure they were not the villains. The soldier's were. Yer right. Even in the second world war. Soldier's returned here: mad
They were put in huge cages that you put big birds in. This came from friends and my dad who did 3 tours in Papua new Guinea 🇵🇬 in ww2 😢
He’s right about the sight picture. There’s a feeling of being hollow afterwards, and at least for me, feeling absolutely nothing. And feeling guilty for feeling nothing.
My dad use to yell in his sleep!!!! He was in Vietnam !!! He is still alive today along with my mom. His high school sweetheart.❤❤❤😂 strong minded person !!!😅
Wishing them all the best, and thanks to your Dad for his service.
I think I know a little of what he is taking about. My father died over 28 years ago. Probably 35 to 45 years ago my dad just happened to mention to me about his troop ship stopping at the Cliffs of Dover to let air force members off before going on to Germany, this was 1952. I never knew my dad had been to the Cliffs of Dover, and not sure what we were even talking about, but I remember his saying that. Just over 2 years ago a coworker mentioned traveling to England and taking a bus to the Cliffs of Dover; those words, "Cliffs of Dover" rang through my mind and I repeated them to myself a few times and tears began to fill my eyes as I remembered my dad.
Not too long ago I was at Cabelas and saw a father and son join me in the ammo isle. Unbeknownst to me, the young son walked around and put me in between him and his father; then he called out, "Dad!" And for some reason I thought of my 16 year old son who had passed away 5 years earlier, and I said his name under my breath, half wishing it were my son calling out to me. I know this'll sound crazy but I've realized I suffer a form of ptsd, not from combat, just from life. I hope you can't relate to this, but if you can, Be Strong.
My old 4H leader flew Helicopters in Vietnam 69-70. I’ve never seen a more kind spirit, or more heartbreak in a man’s eyes as he discussed only a fraction of what he saw.
You explained it in the rawest way that people might finally understand a bit if they try.
Thank you brother, I’m an army veteran myself and we all love each other as brothers, hang in there and get help if you need it, we all been there, keep fighting and stay strong 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸💯💯💯💕💕
This man is TRUTH!!!
I hate when people say that to me.
@@MitchellRoberts-dk2mb What's the matter? You don't really think that they know what they are saying, has no meaning to you what so ever?
Thank You For Your Service and Sacrifice
Very well put-thank you
100% True Vietnam veteran 1967/68/69
Welcome home and thank you for your sacrifice
I love you! We all do. Thank you for everything sir welcome home❤️🇺🇸
Welcome Home Brother.
Thank you for your service
Thank you for your service. My cousin did 3 or 4 tours. The last tour, he was changed from what my Mom told me. He had many issues but he was still a good man, and I did my best to help him, and telling him what he did was appreciated,
And he was loved always. I miss our talks since he passed, but he will be in my thoughts always
My father died in 2018 He was a Beechmaster Unit One man.He served during the Tet Offensive,He never spoke about Vietnam.He died and wasn't autopsied.He told my mother he had cancer.I miss him.It affected him in a way it did the same for his family.Thank you for your service.We ❤ You.
Your dad sounds like a bad motherfucker. Much respect
LEST WE FORGET HAND SALUTE FOR ALL WHO SERVED IN THE WAR.
Very clear summary of war and its impact forever.
I’m a Marine Nam Vet…Chu Lai 68-69 1st MAW… but I was very lucky to be stationed on an air base and not as a grunt. If I have of been, I might not be here today. And to those Nam Vets that were out in the boonies…A HEARTFELT SALUTE and WELCOME HOME. Y’all have my deepest sympathy for going through that. Sometimes I feel guilty but it was just the luck of the draw.
Thank you for your service, and Welcome Home.
I feel the same way about my service, I don’t tell people I’m a vet
Weather people like it or not veterans change the course of history, often times for the better, thank you for your service, it is truly appreciated 🇺🇸, and on a last note ,war is just a hell bad people create and it always takes good people to put the world back in place. You protected us and made us feel safe even when no one was able to see, thank you and welcome home :-)
@@Cyd98
I’m sorry you feel that way but it’s your choice. But I’m a Vet and proud of it. I’ve got a dozen Marine and Nam Vet caps. And even more shirts saying the same thing and I wear them whenever and wherever I go. I’ve never been questioned about my service or jeered because of it. No, we didn’t “win” in Nam. The politicians screwed us on that. Even so, I’m still proud and always will be.
As a Vietnam veteran who went through hell!! You know what I tell guys like you? You didn't miss anything! Take care and God bless 🙏
You are spot on! Well stated and a clear message. Thank you!
Welcome home brother! Hang in there!!!
Thank you for your service ❤️🇺🇸🏆
I know exactly what you're saying
You think he wanted to go to Vietnam?
To all the Vietnam veterans “THANK YOU” for your service! Bless you and your families too! I appreciate you!🇺🇸
Whom exactly did those murderers served? Stock holders of arms?
What did they do other than filling Johnson's pockets?
Thank you Sir for your service and welcome home
Veterans don't need and very rarely want anybody's thanks. Much rather a sincere apology by the govt for sending young men (and women) to pointless wars to do their bidding, to either die or become irreversibly damaged.
@@sammyhill69 understand this, I'm just thanking them for there service and sacrifice, I don't agree with every conflict, I'm also a veteran thanking our veterans. I.
'm entitled to my opinion.And I respect your opinion
This is perhaps the absolute best description of what post war is like. So we'll said! ❤
Vietnam veterans are remembered for their hard sacrifices and what they endured and continue to endure. Bless you all sleep you.🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🙏🙏🙏
Welcome home, brother. Please stay. All of you who've served are loved and appreciated. ❤️🙏🇺🇲🦅🗽
Please stay, YOU MATTER!
Man that’s a deep edit
22 vets take their lives each day.. which is 8030/yr.. 5540+ are ages 50+.... and this is because as you get older time slows down you begin to slow down.. so those memories come back harder because your getting closer to your expire date.. people need to stop trashing on them because freedom is not free... the ones that died paid the ultimate price.. the ones living is paying more than the ones that died in combat... i say this because when you die thats it your known as a hero.. the ones that made it home have to pay a greater price and thats reliving every situtation you were put into
That’s terrible. American society with all its ideals is still a lonely place to be. ppl don’t even talk to each other.
@@MN-br5nb people don't talk respectfully to each other cause back in those days you talk trash you bet you gonna get smacked.. and after that you become best of friends
I read somewhere that Korea and Vietnam were not classified as wars until well after they happened. I firmly believe that if soldiers are being sent to fight and possibly die it's a war😌
@@corabernal6432 yea they were known a political conflict... Which technically is what the Ukraine Russian war is to us as well... It'll become a war when Russia tries to take America.. if this makes any sense.. we also didn't belong in nam either.. only to some extent do we belong more in Ukraine but even then we really don't.. were only protecting them cause their NATO allies and they have 1T worth of resources that we want and dont wat in russian hands
@@choule90Actually at the time Vietnam was being called a 'police action's which was pathetic. The public were being lied to on so many levels, even in name.😡
You men shaped the world it is today, think about it. My parents never would have met if it wasn't for you courageous men
U guys we,re never ever given recognition or help u needed.
🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼👏🏻🙏🏼👏🏻🙏🏼🎖🎖🎖🎖
Great Words, truly. I never served but, everyone that went to serve , has my Greatest Respect. Thank you Sir.
Thank you for sharing, thank you for your service
GOD BLESS You Sir Thank You for your Service 🙏♥️🙌✌️
Praying for you today sir. God Grant us the serenity to accept the things we cannot change, the courage to change the things we can, and the wisdom to know the difference.
@@Ashley.Hunt.
Thank you for the ❤️💪
I'll drink to that. 🥴🥃
@@normturner4849
Seriously?
My dad was a gunner. He had to have a back surgery yrs ago. For VA to take care of it, he had to perform all the tricks and jump through hoops. Put him counseling for months to help deal with depression and who knows. They totally screwed my dad up for a decade. He was so young he acted like it never came to th3 surface until they made it and made him relive it all over and over.
Thank you so very much for your sacrifice and service Sir! Your story is important for all of us to hear. I honor you Sir
This is spot on. I was 18 and shipped to Nam three months before my 19th birthday.
We trained, both simulated and live fire conditions. There is nothing to prepare us to see our team mates die. Much less the face of the enemy when aiming at them.
It wasn’t long before we had to deal with seeing death and destruction around us. It was our job to accomplish whatever mission we had to endure.
I brought home a bit of baggage and spent ten years trying to keep from trying to escape my demons. Much of it, guilt. Getting to come home in one piece was the toughest part.
I volunteered for funeral duty in my spare time and traveled all over Georgia and South Carolina standing for the fallen in 1971-72.
The VA has helped a lot, but it took years. Partly my fault, but also difficult to navigate system was in place up till 2016.
War is hell people! We do not want it in our borders, however self defense must be accommodated at our borders and throughout our society.
Thank you Sir, for your time and sacrifice.❤🇺🇸🙏
@@chrislee176 Please seek professional help...
@@heatherbenson1663can you tell me what he said😂
It was hell on earth, period!
I can't imagine that. Thank you for your service!
Thank you all for everything you do and did God bless you ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤
It's a heavy burden they carry for the rest of us you guy have my greatest respect and gratitude I sincerely thank you for your service also RIP to the ones that didn't make it back we owe the KIA and the wounded men and their families a debt I can not describe with words
My uncle was a door gunner in Vietnam did several tours. Died of cancer from agent orange a couple years ago. Good man, a strong man, but a man like many who got taken advantage of. I served in the marine corps 14-18. Just learning of the history of many marines before me. Smedly, chesty, basilone, and many more. Smedly even wrote a book on it. War is a racket. We the strong manipulated into fighting for “freedom” and against “terror”. The patriots manipulated for monetary gains. I honor all of those men and women.
Thanks to all the who served especially those who gave all ❤
This was very articulate and well spoken. God bless you sir and welcome home. Thank you for your service.
Im so very glad that I never had to go to war, only because I don't think I'm mentally rapped tight enough to have lived with it. But I appreciate all the men and women who have served for us all. Thank you all for your service. God bless each and every one of them.
Such truth spoken by this man!
54 years later, not so much the enemy, but my buddies, always in my head. May God keep them always!
Take notes boys, this is truth. This man is telling you that which nobody else will.
Thank you for your service and honesty!
PTSD is poorly named. It's not a disorder, it's the normal reaction of normal people to horrible events and situations.
It keeps you alive for another day and another day and another day and then you have to pretend you're still normal.
It's a disorder because it exceeds a normal reaction to stress, and it needs treatment and legal compensation. There is nothing insulting about the term.
Justifying psique drugs and money to pay for those drugs? What are you, a big pharma partisan? No wonder you don't see anything wrong with it.@@SandfordSmythe
Perhaps its you who doesn't see anything@jlcasjlcas518
PTS makes more sense imo
Thank you for your service Sir. Everyday. Thank you for your service.
Godspeed, Vietnam Veterans. Rest Easy, and know that we love and appreciate you and everything you went through.
I Am Sorry For Your Night Mears , Thank You For Your Survice , We Appreciate Your Survice , Des From NZ 🇳🇿
God bless the ones who stand up for us. Thank you.
Explained in a way that everyone should be able to understand.
Raw emotion.
These vets are my generation.
Thank you brother ❤
Retired Marine. 1990 - 2010, with 6 combat deployments. Left a large part of my sanity over “there” and have only survived by trying, in own little way, to help others that have suffered way more than I have.
Very wise man. Thank you for your service sir. God bless you 🙏
Thank you for this and your Service, Sir 🇺🇸
My grandpa Charlie Ochs also has ptsd he is a Purple Heart he was a radioman
Radioman was a main target for snipers: Officer, radioman, medic.
You are so right. Thank you for your service SIR 🙏
So well said .
God bless our combat veterans
A GREAT book on this subject, written by a spec ops psychiatrist entitled “On Killing” is VERY eye opening on this subject…
❤ thank you all u.s veterans for your service and God bless America ❤🇺🇸💪🦅❤🔥🌹
Thank you for you service, brave men like you are the real hero’s in this world.
The poor men and women that have to face war… my heart goes out to them ❤
My dad was a 4 tour Vietnam vet and he suffered with the nightmares of war until the day he died.
God Bless these Vietnam War Veterans, remember when you see one of them go up to them shake their hand and thank them for their service 🇺🇲🇺🇲🇺🇲🇺🇲
Thank you for your service, and sacrifices. God Bless.
Vietnam Veterans. My childhood friends. God bless them all. 🇺🇸
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Many of our fathers served in WW2. I saw my father reliving memories, he seemed to be there. I couldn’t comfort him, I was 3
He’s not wrong. We owe them a debt of gratitude.
I am so so sorry. Too young to die. Every Soldier that went to war, deserves the highest Medal of Honor.
❤❤❤Hero's ❤❤❤
“And you have to deal with them, or you will go away, if you know what I mean.” So sad.
Thank you for your service and you did what you had to do to survive and yes you live with that anybody that has served will understand that 👍🐺🏴🏴
Salute,
Thank you for your service
American heroes🇺🇸
I am in assisted living and I made friends with a Vietnam Vet. I took one look at him and asked if he was a Veteran? He said Yes. Are you a Vietnam Veteran? Yes.
Then I said, thank you so much sir. We were fast friends after that. He died of cancer in horrible pain. I have seen so many people die slow in here.
This dude just laid out the reality of war in under 1 minute.
God bless these honorable and brave men that shoulder this weight!
I'm so sorry that such young people went through that, and their family members who love them.❤🎗🇺🇲
God bless you 🙏
I agree with him my Grandfather always said my father never came back the same after WW2 he was very sad about that I sure miss them both RIP
Nobody can be the same again after seeing what you guys seen its a life long battle
God Bless My Vietnam Vets!!!
My uncle was a medic assistant in Vietnam. And to this day he has told no one about what he witnessed and experienced over there. Not even his wife of 60 yrs !
Thank you for youer service sir and youer story sir God bless you sir
Thank you sir with all our hearts .
U are our heroes !
56 years and still fighting in the middle of the night 😢
Prayers for all that have been there and still are !
💘🌟🇺🇲💮 Thank you for your service!! 💮🇺🇲🌟💘
My prayers and condolences thank you for your service
Thank you for your service Sir I appreciate VETERANS because of their dedication and bravery for our country! as Americans we can disagree politically but we must always stand together against are enemies foreign and domestic
Yep. Raised by Vietnam vets. Some of that had an effect on their children and grandchildren too.💞
God bless you guys that served.
Sir, thank you for your service.
It is a very very rare man that can do those things without remorse.
My dad is 75, drafted at 19, turned 21 in Naum still living it!