Vietnam War Story- my first kill
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 26 ก.ย. 2024
- Vietnam Veteran Rick Hazen of Medford, Oregon shares stories from his time serving in the Army: from his first engagement with the enemy to his witnessing of a mistaken napalm drop on fellow soldiers. To hear his entire story go to www.sopbs.org/...
In my U.S History class we had a substitute teacher who was a "river rat" in the Vietnam War. He told how people wouldn't give them the time of day, calling them "murderers and scum." I remember we thanking him for his service one by one as we left the class that day. You could see the joy in his eyes that people actually respected/understood what he went through.
Keep that lesson in mind as I feel we're upon a new wave of disliked vetrans
Innocent poor Vietnamese men, women and children killed and they recruited 18 yr old farmers to fight with barely any supplies or training.
I'm a cop today and I yearn for a time I'm no longer called these lies
@The Wraith "murderers and scum" but there are plenty of others
@The Wraith Seek the love of Jesus, my friend. He is coming back so let go of your hostility, focus instead on forgiveness and making your heart right. Jesus Christ is all that should matter because He is in control. Trust him!
You should NEVER ask a veteran if they killed someone or to explain what its like to kill someone it so wrong. I remember asking my dad who he first killed then he thought for like 2 seconds then he starts crying, that's the first time and last I have ever seen my dad cry. It brings back traumatizing memories about what they saw and what they had to live through.
michael mccue but killing isnt wrong eh?
@@vargaaz no. There was war. What would you do? Pack your stuff on front and marching home? Let your kamerads back dying alone?
@@generalkayoss7347 calm down
Well is for the record, maybe if veterans start talking about things maybe you should asked about if you can trow questions about kills or casualties.
@Donald Trump's Space Force lol wtf
My grandpa died at 67 in 2016. Heart Attack. He never would talk about Vietnam. In fact when we lived to Singapore and wondered if he would visit, he didn’t want to go anywhere near Asia. I visited Vietnam when to the villages, saw the war hats, Ho Chi Minh, all I could think about was how he wouldn’t even be able to cope at the sight.Too much horror; too heavy of burden for the soul to bear. Miss you grandpa 🙏🏾
Your grandpa was a good man, brave and honourable. He had seen more to life than most of us ever will. May he rest now, no longer burdened by the trials of war.
@The Wraith dude fuck off seriously. War isn't instigated by soldiers, it is fought by them.
@The Wraith Yeah don't blame the vets take it up with the government. They're the ones started the war.
Old men declare war... and make the youth fight
Hey, young men fight better than old men. Its just a matter of who can fight better..
Ok I see your Point but what does age has do to with it? There is a reason they don't let 70 year old men into the Marine Corps. Simple they're not fit to fight i Think the required age was like 18-35 or 40 during nam. And actually many if not the majority of US Presidents is veterans the most obvious example being Eisenhower who was the fucken commander in chief of the allies in europe during ww2.
Eduardo Rarani it’s a quote, means it’s these politicians who wanna fight yet they make young people fight in the wars
uR Wack old men tend have more knowledge fool
Imagine greedy politicians fight their own wars. Now that would be a sight.
My father cooked food for your group and many others. He passed away two weeks ago. I hope you're well brother.
I’m sorry 😢
Your father is in a much much better place. May he rest in peace.
My Great Grandpa Died Last Year He Served In World War Two And Vietnam, Rest In Peace Grandpa.
What did he do during the Korean war?
Liar
Ye hate to say it as well but he’s lying
Both wars are like ten years apart it’s totally possible especially if he was a youngster
I hope that you arent lieing because my grandfather fought in vietnam and the korean, if u arent im sorry for ur loss as i also lost my grandfather in january this year.
as a Vietnamese. thanks for your service and genuine effort of defending us from the Communists. all south Vietnam thank you. it was the crooked politicians which lost the war, not these brave men.
well ur a dumbass the socialists/commies cared about there land and there ppl they didnt want no shit imperialist country to take them over and pay there workers 9 fucking cents a hour.
Dhillon cig reviews77 lol by the way you spell i can tell how intelligent of a guy you are. and no, as a matter of fact, Saigon was the richest city in Southeast Asia at that point. and South Korea/North Korea situation resemble the old Vietnam, I'm guessing those "imperialized" South Koreans don't get paided 9 cents an hour.
But what about when the Americans harmed citizens in Vietnam? The Americans also did bad things over there, and I could prove that to you.
+History Man the Vietnamese did way worse things to their own people dumbass. Just because a handful of American soldiers killed and raped a few civilians doesn't justify the terrible actions of the Vietcong.
+Jason Lee umm agent orange???
The way he's looking off camera and his timing of the story suggests he is actually revisiting that instance in his head. He can tell when he says "the dancing man" he is holding back some sorrow. Tough man right there.
it looked to me like he was reading lines of a screen.
Franky Schlong nice one fat fuck
PTSD isnt any laughing matter for sure, my dad has it bad and it has messed with our family for a long time
Jon Tolar Unthinkable carnage!
Jon Tolar yeah that’s probably why there was so many cuts in the video, he probably was having shitty moments all in those unseen moments.
He does sound a bit like a kid reciting a story here, probably the only way he can get through it without breaking down
I'm from South Vietnam and thank you sir for serving both America and South Vietnam.
The worst day of my life was when my deployment was up,walking through Kennedy airport,and having this youngster walk up to me,called me a baby killer,and proceeded to spit on me.Nice welcome home.
This is Barb's husband
@@barbaraschwartz7738 Thank you for your service sir
Dave, did you learn to play guitar in the bush?
@@barbaraschwartz7738 unfortunate, sir, but know now we thank you for your service
Why do you keep cutting, let the man talk.
Nathan B to get you to go to their website
“He ,DANCED”
I visualize this in my head ,and i can only imagine what the surviving veterans go through.
It’s even hard for modern combat vets to imagine what it’s like to see someone being shredded that close. Most of our combat now is done at distances so great you only catch glimpses of the enemy.
im assuming that he was hit by so many rounds the bullets hitting him made it appear as if he was dancing.
Peace to you Rick. May the Lord wipe your brow and kiss that bad memory away. And I know you did it for us. Retired Army myself, and I did a lot of things, I never knew I would or could, but it is good to be out and alive. God Bless you.
God Oh okay God, I believe you. I agree with you that there is no God , God.
Thank you
@God God arguing of His non-existence.... This is golden.
In a foxhole,you pray to anybody, usually your buddy next to you.
God There’s plenty of evidence for God’s existence! For one, over 500 people saw Christ after his death at the same time, Dead Sea Scrolls, House of David inscription, multiple Roman documents confirming not only the existence of Christ, but about how the things said in gospels about his actions are accurate, and the simple fact the life cannot exist without a God, whether you use the Big Bang theory version with the first sub atom or finite energy, neither of which could not occur without a creator to set things in motion. Plus, the evils in this world aren’t his fault, they’re ours. It’s not his fault that people kill each other for no reason, and send their sons to die in wars, we mold this world, we’re responsible for it.
My uncle was in the South Vietnamese artillery unit. He told me the enemy used to try to storm his base using civilians as their meat shield. He had to use smoke rounds to disperse the crowd. One time his unit captured a group of Vietcong, one of them said he'd rather remain captured by the Americans than to be returned to his former side.
Every now and then the enemy would tune into his radio channel and they would start talking shit. Those are the best stories.
Ana Lisajoy America started the war anyways
A lot of Viet Cong reformed to the south Vietnamese Army as information specialist/spies
North Vietnam invaded South Vietnam. The US assisted South Vietnam in the conflict.
what he said is true, i can vouch for him
The ARVN artillery were brave units. They had direct fire support, to their own troops, and were over-run quite often.
They often had to pick up their rifles, and fight, to defend their guns and shells. VC hated them.
Thank you for your service sir.
+Joe TG what did they fight for in vietnam?
+cool cat I believe the idea of the war was to stop communism in asia. They felt that it would affect trade routes. Idgaf what the reason was. I just have the ut most respect for anyone that has served my country. I mayself did not serve but many of my family and friends did
kevin6154 you are right, the overall plan was to stop the spread of communism in asia. america started the war with a false flag operation blaming vietnam for attacking one of their vessels. and stil i dont get it, how you can be proud for all the poor american pawn soldiers who died for a handful leaders, for nothing? how can somebody be proud for all the murdering and brutal mass destruction of millions of innocent civilians? (napalm, agent orange)?
+cool cat gulf of tomkin resolution (most likely spelled wrong)
kevin6154 yep, the fabricated attack by vietnam in the gulf of tonkin was used by the US authorities to legitimize america’s involvement in the war
My uncle died in Vietnam. So many brave souls lost to war. The worst invention of mankind but also necessary sometimes
a vietnam vet sells paintings at a flea market where I live
Not nevessary
Straight og. I would buy this man a drink.
Jaime Zana. OG? No a American hero. Not sum gang banger with a 9mm. A real man not a food stamp warrior slanging drugs.
You're both dumb, neither "hero" or "OG." My Uncle who served in Vietnam would laugh. He always said what every verteran knows: War is hell, it isn't "cool" or "badass." You watch too many movies.
Dark MattR... You must not have served. All Soldiers arewho deploy are heros, the ones who don't make it home are more then hero's
Chris Lesemann The “older guys” as E-40 said in a song once.
Jaime Zana you couldn't be anymore disrespectful with that og bullshit. He was drafted. He probably never thought he would have to kill anybody in his life and was forced to. He didnt ask for those memories. Hes definitely suffered from his time there and probably is not proud of it at all. I guarantee whatever life he wanted to have before that took a complete 180. Have some damn respect man. He was just a regular guy that didnt want anything to do with what hes talking about
"I carried the image of the dancin' man for a long time."
Whats he mean dancing? Never heard that term used in someone being shot...
@@redseaford9426 means getting thrown around by the impulse
Red Seaford The guy most like had an instinctual struggle of trying to survive. His natural instinct is to run from the pain, but with that much pain at once he probably panicked and it resulted in a “dancing” man. Flailing around in agony as he tries to escape the pain
Red Seaford you know how in the movies when someone is riddled with bullets and they kinda flail around before falling?.....that’s what he means
The "dancing" is actually caused by the mass of the bullets throwing your body around from the inside. A shockwave from multiple directions. Similar to punching someone. That much mass at that speed and your body is going in whatever direction the lead wants.
I’m a Marine and come from a long line of men who served our country in my family. Thank you for your story.
Cap
@@Kersomatic dont assume without knowing
@@paradoxandrocker1112 stfu
@@Kersomatic You have some problems
@@AA-bz1pr stfu stop wasting useful air
Being British I am grateful my country stayed out of Vietnam. I have seen that wall in Washington and in 1998 I went to Vietnam. I cannot imagine the hardships that those poor American boys went through, the constant terror, never knowing when danger could come, the heat and the hostility of their own people when returning home. We must also remember the suffering of the Vietnamese and Cambodian people too, always under the constant threat of another air raid..I recall passing through the old DMZ and seeing cemetery after cemetery, all with Communist symbols over the gates, hundreds of young men, many little more than boys buried in each one, and I saw scours of such cemeteries. As I said I saw the wall in Washington, the names etched onto it, like the Vietnamese in the cemeteries I saw in Vietnam, the men behind the names on the wall were mostly young men, with all their lives ahead of them, back during the war these men and the ones buried in the old DMZ cemeteries were enemies, but no longer, now they are united, united in death and I hope in peace. . I remember a woman I met in Vietnam, I complimented her on her excellent English, she told me she had been married to a GI who promised to take her to America but he was killed in the Mekong Delta, so much misery and grief all around, civilians and soldiers from both sides, only time will heal the scars. Though my country stayed out of Vietnam and I know no one who fought in that war I give our American cousins my respect. My own father is dead now,(He died in 1998) he fought in Normandy in WW2, I remember he never talked about the war, most vets don't , they just want to forget, not wanting to be reminded of that terrible times in their lives. Yet I can still see my father with tears in his eyes when he watched on TV as the queen placed a wreath of poppies on the Cenotaph (Memorial) in London. 50 years on and the sight of the Queen laying the wreath still brought tears to his eyes, somethings a person never forgets, no matter how hard he tries. I believe all veterans are deserving of respect, whether they fought in WW2, Vietnam or the Gulf, for people like me who has never been to war we cannot even begin to imagine what the vets went through and with many of them are still going though, the dreams and nightmares that will torment them for the rest of their lives.
Some trivia from a Vet site.
- As of the Census taken during August, 2000, the surviving U.S. Vietnam Veteran population estimate is: 1,002,511. During this Census count, the number of Americans falsely claiming to have served in-country is: 13,853,027. By this census, FOUR OUT OF FIVE WHO CLAIM TO BE Vietnam vets are not.
- Myth: Common Belief is that most Vietnam veterans were drafted.
Fact: 2/3 of the men who served in Vietnam were volunteers. 2/3 of the men who served in World War II were drafted. Approximately 70% of those killed in Vietnam were volunteers.
I'd like to see a source on that cause I'm pretty sure most people didn't want to have anything to do with that war
+John Hersh It shouldn't surprise you at all. It's just a form of Münchausen. The person knows how these Vets were treated when they came back and knows how Vets are treated today and wants some of that attention. It's no different than wearing a hat with the logo of a sports team or racing team on it. Locally we had a fellow who had convinced his friends and neighbors that he served as a SEAL in the early 1960's. He was a Vet and received VA benefits but when he died it became clear he had lied about his age. He would have been in middle school when he claimed to have been incountry.
Today in the US you can buy a hat that says your are a Vet and every checkout person and other worker you meet thanks you for your service.
+MajWMartin sorry, no I know there's so many douche bags out there who walk around pretending they are vets and it pisses me off. But with my source question I was talking about how you said most people enlisted themselves instead of getting drafted, which I thought was the complete opposite
+John Hersh Sorry but at the time of the war the US still had occupation armies in Japan and Germany, as well as several places like Turkey, England, and most US territories. Draftees tended to be sent there because they would have less than 2 years left to serve after training while an enlistee would have at least have at least that time left. Oddly enough many draftees who served in Vietnam would sign on for a second tour because the difference between a combat zone and occupation zone was so great. The spit and polish of an occupation army just wasn't attractive to them. Not a majority mind you but far more than a few.
My father is a vet. He rarely does any more than acknowledge he is a vet to anyone including his family. The only time he ever would share any war stories is at his annual reunion with other vets. As a kid I would listen from the motorhome window as they swapped stories by the fire over beers. I understand why he has never missed a reunion.
The way he talks about his "dancing man" is so heartbreaking. He gave a name to his memory, you can imagine he's been through hundreds of nightmares just to have that close relation. You can be traumatized more by what you experience more than what you do
how did i end up here
cuz jesus is my nigga
+domingo jr cabral you his bitch nigga
That was my first question then the Jesus explanation relieved me.
+Victor Goldman you Jesus bitch to nigga
+Daily Scratcher haha
Thank you for your service and sacrifice, Rick.
This American citizen appreciates you.
I wish you long and happy life, brother.
(salute)
Welcome home brother!
The service of murdering?
Kill or get killed. What other option do you have in war? Just walk away?
I answered to the guy who said service for murder
GOD BLESS YOU BROTHER!!! U WILL ALWAYS BE IN MY PRAYERS BROTHER !!! FROM A DAV !!!
Much Respect. I used to think 17-18 if I was drafted I would definitely go, do my duty and become a man through war. Every young man tries to figure out what it means to be a man. I'm 23 now, and within that 5 years I've realized a man doesn't do what he thinks a man should do but does genuinely what he thinks is the right move to make. Being drafted at that young age is a horrible thing.
You're basically fighting for the rich who use the mask that is patriotism. Now I'm awake, I would never die for the bankers or billionaires.
Kyle Binter goin to war doesn't make u a man bro, living through life and it's demons does
Ron Happold You become a man after puberty runs it's course and you grow into adulthood. It's got nothing to do with spirituality or finance, possessions or position.
There's no key to the meaning of existence and there's no set path to 'becoming' an adult male referred to as a 'man'.
You exhibit the exact same romanticism you just criticised.
Jester Head Thank you for saying this. Absolutely perfectly put.
Jester Head basically
THEYRE IN THE TREES MAN
Adolf Hitler
Tremendus work!
I love your work!
Belive me
Adolf Hitler my grandma has an uncle who through her on the ground and yelled " theyre in the trees" its actually pretty crazy
*****
Fuck you, how dare you take him seriusly...
*****
If you are talking to me... i laught, but ***** is taking him way to seriusly
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Well, boy i feel stupid XD
I feel like an american...
I have outmost admiration and respect for my brothers in the military no mater which branch. My son is serving now in the army reserve 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸😎
Alex stfu Karen
@Alex What you said couldn't really be any further from the truth, but i'll still give you the benefit of the doubt. It's not even about the war itself, but the soldiers who fight in it. Based on your comment, it is clear that the men and women that serve have endured more sacrifice and raw pain than you and many others will ever in a life time. Some, even give their life away for the well being of our nation. It's a horrible job, but one that someone has to do.
Now, before you run around saying ignorant, uneducated crap, understand that we are here because of war. Without war, our culture and society would be drastically different in a very negative way... So just appreciate your freedoms
I'd of been pissin and shitting myself the whole time I was on that bus.
Burbing Berries ur not wrong bud
Burbing Berries its normal to have fear ..tis what keeps us alive
al zolez Coming from the brave man sitting behind a keyboard
al zolez truth is you would be dead ..person without fear to say fools rush in
I have military combat experience. Ive fought in WW1,WW2,Vietnam,Afghanistan,Europe,Thailand,The Middle east and Russia. True they were video games but the graphics were extremely realistic and i once suffered a terrible head wound tripping over my dog on my way to the bathroom for a piss break. I was also a pow for a month when my parents grounded me for a month. War is Hell.
I couldn't fucking imagine just living your normal happy life then to be thrust into an abhorrent situation in which you couldn't imagine in your worst dreams. Thank you for your service sir. I'm don't even posses a tenth of the bravery and courage you and many other veterans have.
But why saying thanks, though?
If I live something horrible with little sense to me, made for geopolitical reasons, I wouldn't hear or care about a '' thank you '', especially if I'm not even a volunteer. Actually that would probably piss me off.
I kind of understand that it's probably a matter of respect for what one lived, but what a horrible thing to hear for that. Thank you for ruining your life, thank you for ruining their life...maybe thank you for being there instead of me or my father? ( Not pointing this at you...). I don't know.
the only thing in all that bull shit rambling you got right. is you don't know
So interesting to find that most all of the war vets explain their experiences in incredible detail. They don’t forget a thing.
Thank you for your service
Thank you for your service
And multiculture is awesome,right?Now go fuck yourself!
Timmy, Your comments do not belong here.
well, you have to follow orders. Otherwise you would be courtmartialed.
I was listening to another video earlier by a chap Bill Mcdonald. He said that he was ordered to go and kill a line of marching enemy. He said 'no it doesn't feel right'. His 'gunner' ( he said, i think they were in helicopters) was given the same order. He said 'me neither, I'm with Bill, I trust his instinct. The superior officer got really uppity as you can imagine, but they went to look and found it was a line of children following a priest to the vegetable garden.
I'm sorry you saw that Rick. It's not what a good people, wanting to be married and settled down should experience, especially a teenager. Thank-you for doing what you did and seeing what you saw to protect me.
What was the war in Vietnam protecting you from?
Communist expansion.
Luke Brody it expanded anyways...
as it did in Cuba, but look at both countries now.
It's called a proxy war. Like the one with the Soviets in Afghanistan.
haha dont be daft, the vietnam war was useless.. if america didnt attack nothing would of happened and you know it
Always support the soldier, even when the mission is insupportable.
Germans
Delete this comment 🤦♂️
@@John.T. He means most soldiers dumbass, I wouldn’t give a shred of respect for war criminals.
@@ADrunkCrayfish
What the hell makes me a dumbass, I didn’t create the initial comment?
Don’t always support the soldier - especially if the mission is unsupportable.
The comment is the mentality that starts wars.
Amen 🙏🏼
I can't believe people disrespect these veterans who put their lives on the line to save civilians who are complete strangers
Thank you for sharing your experiences, Rick.
Yo - check out his story on the link above.
It's the fourth video down.
EvaBongoria Its Mr. Hazen to you bitch
No.
Why is it blurred?
“When he looked up he got hit with 6 M16 and a M60 machine gun and he just danced” I felt that
me too, i got shot 34 times back in Iraq in 1994.
@@core4119 we weren't in Iraq in 1994. Unless you're joking
@@joeswansonthesimphunter2612 i was there man
@@core4119 well I call bs. We did go to Iraq in 1990, but that was for something else
@@joeswansonthesimphunter2612 i was on vacation there, not on service
I clicked on the link to watch Rick Hazen's full story. This TH-cam video is good, but it is just a fraction of this Vietnam vet's experience. Watch the complete video & come away with a new found appreciation of what these brave men lived through, and how that experience lives on inside of them in the form of Post Traumatic Stress Syndrome.
You will find the full versions here www.soptv.org/my-story-of-service/#popup1
there is no glory in war just death and destruction and i wish we as a species would stop trying to kill each other it makes no sense.....if u think about it u never survive war you either die in it or it haunts u for the rest of your life....some men are able to bury the feelings and move on and have a "normal" life while others are never the same again
I'm gnna go ahead and call bullshit on this guy. This dancing man is straight out of a movie he watched.
My uncle was a medic in Vietnam and was injured by shrapnel from a grenade. He made it home by the grace of god! The horrors he and his men must have seen. Thank you for your service sir.
I like the way this vet presents his story. You know he was the real deal and he’s not bullshitting. Good job!
Thank you for your story vet 👍🏻 I support our military and your service
Thats something you can never forget, the job is easy, cleaning up the mess is hard.
Thank you for your service.
thank you for your service it must have been a living hell
It wasn't his fault he got put into Vietnam, it was the US government policy to prevent communism from spreading so the leaders of the US thought it was a good idea to invade Vietnam. Don't blame shit on people that were in this war.
Bless that guy. My gramp served in the 101st. He jumped out of planes. He saved a man and was a sergeant. You don’t have to support your troops. Sometimes they are fighting an American war, other times they’re liberating an oppressed country. Thank you for your service rick.
Thank YOU for YOUR service. Thanks for sharing...
The Vietnam War was predicated on the lie of the Gulf of Tonkin Incident, used as justification for U.S intervention into Vietnam it was a complete fabrication, it simply did not happen. I dont blame this guy exactly, the U.S instituted a draft, essentialy making it illegal not to fight in this criminal war. Having said that however I would not thank someone for invading another people nations and contributing to one of the worst war crimes of the 20th Centuary. And would not encourage this blind hero worship for veterans of illegal wars, but the U.S propaganda machine is efficient at what it does, so to some extent many cant really be blamed for being the victims of government targeted brainwashing.
fuckin service... these cunts were all tricked into going to fight a war based on a lie.... poor bastards
Bob Cotter thank you God bless you
Enabler + The VC murdering and forcing the citizens into commieism was fabricated? The endless stream of NVA into the south, warring to conquer and enslave was fabricated? Your understanding was fabricated by the same commies. The US won the war quickly. The occupation was costly. Russia, China and N. Vietnam won the propaganda war in N. America. And your understanding is another proof.
Commenter Five Vietnam never attached us. We had no right. The war was started on a lie.
Thank you for your service sir. My dad was in Da Nang and that's all we know. He will not talk about it, ever. We grew up always letting him know when we walked into a room. My son is now a Marine. I'm grateful to all our military both past and present. Semper Fi.
Same here with my dad never talks about it and also.had.to let him know I was entering a room. I never successfully snuck out of the house to go party in my young teenage years it was always met with someone in the dark kitchen go who the fuck are you or something else that always frighten me and I'd just say it's just me dad.
i have nothing but extreme respect for these men. My uncle was in vietnam but i've never asked him about his time, he has that look in his eyes that tell you he's seen some stuff, or maybe im just looking too far into it. thank you for your service, rick.
Thank you for you service
You mean thank you for being used as a pawn in chess for the politicians, bankers and war profiteers*
ScoobyJew11 the only ones who are getting killed here are our soldiers and that's only because of your ignorance.
Dovahkiin Part of this is true, America didn’t need to insert them selves in the Vietnam war. But nonetheless we still thanks him for his service
The Vietnam War was predicated on the lie of the Gulf of Tonkin Incident, used as justification for U.S intervention into Vietnam it was a complete fabrication, it simply did not happen. I dont blame this guy exactly, the U.S instituted a draft, essentialy making it illegal not to fight in this criminal war. Having said that however I would not thank someone for invading another people nations and contributing to one of the worst war crimes of the 20th Centuary. And would not encourage this blind hero worship for veterans of illegal wars, but the U.S propaganda machine is efficient at what it does, so to some extent many cant really be blamed for being the victims of government targeted brainwashing.
Poor man , they should never have been over there
My respect to this Man.
I am also a Vet.
But...that war...(no comment)
But...every war...(no comment)
U JUST A SHEEPS.... THAT WAR... NO COMMENT???? REALLY???? U HAVE A CHOICE ALWAYS SONS OF A BITCH! U KILLING PPL FOR NOTHING!!!!
Never quite heard a war death put that way........"He danced"......One word.....
CHILLING.
Amen Brother, thank you Sir!!🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
For what?
@@SilencedButNotForgotten for His Sactrifice and Service to this Country...
@@rrussell8403 for a few old man u mean
My dad was an OV10 Pilot in the USMC after the war. He graduated High School in 1976, and it's scary to think that if he was just two or three years older he would've been drafted (especially with his economic situation). My point is though, he was in a mall in '79 and was spat at and called a baby killer. It still shocks me that our Vets were treated that way. Thank you for your service Rick.
Four years after the end of the Viet Nam war, 8 years after the draft ended and we started pulling out, your Dad was spat at in a mall?
@@terrywaters6186 Yeah I figured that by 1979 people had stopped calling troops baby killers.
Thank you bro for all you did, all you suffered through, I salute you and bless you !!!
Support our Vets!
but not our unjust wars.
I can only imagine how many times that man has danced in his dreams smh
One of my best childhood friends was half Vietnamese and his mom was saved from Vietnam by his father during/after the war. His dad also adopted a child from Vietnam. His mom made the best rice everyday.
thank you sir for your service.
Thank you for your service, Rick Hazen.
My dad was a medic in the big red one and he had the same look as this man when he would tell stories.. But he never really spoke of the bad stuff without crying his eyes out.. My hat is off to all the Vietnam vets and nothing but respect for the Hell they saw and went thru over there and the Hell they went thru when they came home
💪🏼 #RESPECT thank you to all the current and retired people who served
You did what you had to do and made it home thank God Thank you for your service
William Fotey r u anominous?
Emo Lord Jude hahaha^^^
I was born in Sept of 1960. These are the men I knew growing up. Some lived, Some died! I heard Vietnam stories my whole life. I am 60 years old now. They served so I didn't have too. My buddies brother died in Vietnam. At 17 he signed up. Went threw bootcamp went to Vietnam died two weeks after arriving. He was a Marine! Some gave All! My older Brother - in law. Is 75 now he was in the Army as a Lt. He still gets chills when a Helicopteris flying over him now days. Thank you for your Service. All who serve! Shawn.
It ain't me
I ain't no fortunate son
+Sir Patrick Damn right.
so folk were made to raise the flag
+Sir Patrick some folks are born, stared-spangled eyes, ohh they send down to war!
I ain't fortunate, either. But it is me.
Thank you very much for your service, I recall being very young watching the news about Vietnam as it was happening. I was so proud we were over there kicking a** but also very worried about our soldiers safety. I recall going to bed scared for our soldiers so really A BIG THANK YOU TO ALL VIETNAM VETERANS WE LOVE YOU GUYS AND GOD BLESS!!
thank you so much for your sacrifice and service
+Tiger Tank (Heather) There was no treath until americans stand on vietnam.
My grandpa is the most badass dude I ever met. He fought in country for 19 months as a door gunner and miraculously only got shot 3 times on different occasions. In case you're unaware, the average life expectancy for a door gunner is 5 minutes. 300 seconds. He owned a Harley Davidson for 25 years and has 50 or so trophies from competitions. He has a 1932 Ford Model T in his garage he restored himself and used to have a 1970s Dodge Challenger. I saw him cry once in my entire life and never again. He watched the opening scene to We Were Soldiers. To this day I can't imagine what these men went through.
Edit: I worded it like he had died. He's still alive and is 72 years old. He suffered a bad stroke in November 2019 but has recovered very well.
The thought of taking someone's life is absurd to me. I could never do that, yet war fascinates me.
Oh yes you can the will to survive kicks in.
@@allenelswick6961 2 years later, I still stand by the fact that religion forbids me to kill
@@chefstojko9693 Yet many men kill for their religion. You would never murder a man, but you're saying you wouldn't defend yourself against someone trying to murder you? (Edit: This isn't meant to be rude, just a question my friend.)
@@CormJ In defense, aye. I would never kill if I wasn't in danger is what I'm trying to say. I would never attack first. There's a proverb in my religion that says that if "the sword that you kill someone with is the sword of God", he will forgive you for your killing. I hope you understand me.
@@chefstojko9693 Yea, I understand, that makes sense to me. I'm unversed in religion, which do you follow if you don't mind me asking?
Thank you for your service. You've done good for our country.
My step dad served in Vietnam. First time I met him i thanked him for his service. He respected me for that and we've been close friends and family ever since then.
God damn that's so sad. War is just a giant murder fest...
Duh?
Milesamanjaro rofl
Huzi37709 what a deep, profound philosophical statement. That's Nobel Prize material
Edgar t Is that sarcasm?
Milesamanjaro It's not my fault people are actually liking this pointless comment. I just left my thoughts on this vid and left! Sheeple these days... Lol
Hi Rick, I'm a retired Firefighter U.S. Navy "Cold War " Vet. 1977- 1981, If I could afford it; I would buy you a solid gold Rolex, your service will NEVER, be forgotten by me! I hope all is well with you, and all of your family, Thank you for your service, and God Bless!
that's nuts... I did over a year in Iraq and still could not imagine what those guys went through during AND after their war....
"He gave me a box of 200 m60 bullets and said these are urs, carry em wherever you go"
Incredible. Couldn't even fathom being in that kind of scenario. Just, "here's ur shit, go kill something"
It is better to hear a veteran's story than to google stories of war because a vet experienced it
Thank you for your service! God Bless!!
Nice flag traitor
@@hectorcumba5703 nice h bitch
“Build a house” now in days we buy those things, things have changed a lot
They bought those then too and people still build houses today… 🤦♂️
@@ham7357 it’s was a joke 😂” sarcasm “
My father was a Vietnam veteran. He did two tours and was seriously injured 6 months into his second tour and almost did not survive. He was sent to a Walter Reed hospital and was able to recover from his injuries. He made friends there and decided to stay and live in DC with fellow veterans he met while recovering. My mother worked for Chase Bank in DC. It was there my parents met .
I do not know a whole lot more about my fathers time in Vietnam. He rarely spoke about it. When I was about 15-16, he fell into a deep depression that doctors attributed to “a life-long struggle with Post traumatic Stress Disorder.” I would ask questions and he would answer as best he could, but very short and to the point answers. He never elobotated. And that was fine. I understood it was hard for him to talk about. I always just tried to be there.
Thank you for sharing your story. I will be thinking of you and what you had to sacrifice in Vietnam.
1/10 editing.
100/10 respect for the guy.
I might be tripping, but this dude sounded like a Fallout NPC.
Which one tho?
@@stummstefan9735He sounds more like belathor from Skyrim now that I'm hearing it again. Lmao
@@sir7689" Everything's for sale!"
Thanks Rick for sharing that with all of us. I was with the 101st Airborne Infantry. I was either in the rice patties, the triply canopy or the graveyards. We were never safe. I had dreams of running my beagles on rabbits in South Calif. Catching a good 7ft wave in Redondo Beach. Racing my 360 Husky in the Mohave Desert. But here I am. In deep shit with hardly anybody I know. Thanks rick for doing your thing.
And though the men returned stateside, they're still not home, for the war wages on in there head, consuming the mind as loud as the gunfire that haunts it, from the hell they've endured and continue to battle, the war wages on forevermore...
damn thank you for your service.
Thank you for your service. My father Mr. Dunham was born Nov. 9, 1941, in Klamath Falls, Ore., and was a high school graduate Rouge River High. Mr. Dunham served in the U.S. Army from August 1967 to August 1970. He was stationed in Vietnam in 1968-1969 in the 1st Calvary. He was awarded the Good Conduct Medal, National Defense Service Medal with two O/S Bars, Vietnam Service Medal with two Bronze Stars, and the Vietnam Campaign Medal with device 1960. He was an expert with the M-16 and a sharpshooter with the M-14. He served in the Alaska Army National Guard from 1971 until his retirement in July 2000. A life member of VFW Post 9785 in Eagle River, Mr. Dunham had served as a past commander of that post and served as the VFW State Surgeon in 2003-2004. He was also president of the Alaska Veterans Memorial Museum, a member of the American Legion and a member of Elks Lodge 2682.
My uncle is nearly 70 and he still has the scars from his chest to his belly where he was shot a total of 7 times with a 7.62 during an ambush in Vietnam.
Unk said he didn't know what to do when the shooting started until a round knocked his knee completely backwards then another grazed his neck, slinging blood all over the big bananas leaves. He said if not for his guys he would have died there. He got better but he also developed a heroin addiction that he said "eased the pain". He's still an addict to this day.
ray hanes He'd die no matter what. I call bullshit. If a round shot him anywhere on the neck it would have either completely paralyzed him, made it impossible to breath and he would have died from asphyxiation, or he would have bled out from one of the huge arteries/veins being hit. Even if it just skimmed his neck. Also with all of the other shots on top of that he definitely wouldn't survive that. Someone barely survived when taking much less damage than that in the war. He also would especially die from getting a HEROIN addiction after all of that and still continuing taking heroin to this day (where it's extremely easy to get arrested) and you wouldn't be talking about it because of how illegal it is.
Some people do survive some horrific injuries just through sheer luck if you can call it luck getting shot in the neck in the first place.
Djrocks Gaming
Really??? Cause I know I said grazed him. Why the fuck would I spend time telling a story that was made up. As sure as the sky is blue, my uncle has a scar on his chest and stomach from his emergency surgery after that firefight. He should have died long ago from his heroin abuse but he's strong, I guess
you weren't there man.....
ray hanes As I said "even if it only grazed him." No one would be able to survive that long wth a heroin addiction and being so old with it at the same time. That's not even mentioning the other risk that isn't health related with consuming illegal drugs. He's probably lying about what he got those scars from. There are a shit ton of things that can cause scars in combat besides getting shot. The sky isn't blue, it's clear but the nitrogen and other gases make it appear blue.
Thank you for your service!
oh please
I recently returned to America after teaching English in Ho Chi Minh City. I am grateful for every day. All the best for you and your family.
"The Question" in veterans' circles.
Honestly, a rude question. I'd never ask them that.
I wonder if he was in the same platoon as forest gump
I hope so
I work part-time in a shop and I happened to stumble upon a Vietnam War veteran. He ordered some food and he started talking about his travelling life in the 80's to me and. The conversation flowed into his service in the Vietnam War. He served for 1 year. It was a good talk.
170,000 Chinese served on the Communist side in the war. Just as Chinese from Taiwan served on the south. And there were advisors everywhere. Sometimes it sounds far fetched but so does South Africa fighting Cuba in Angola
Bless this man
Hi Mr. Rick Hazen. Thank you for your noble service in Vietnam. I also would like to thank ALL those who served in that war. From a former boat people and a proud American now.
I never forgave charlie for putting me ion wheelchair
Don, you're a hero. My dad is a disabled Nam vet, too. Trust me when people see you guys with your Vietnam hats, with all the ribbons and medals on them, they know they're looking at real hardcore men. It took a while but now you can wear that hat proudly because people finally have a better understanding of the hell you guys faced. Wear yours proud and thanks for serving... hopefully I can shake your hand one day and tell you how much I hate Vietnam too.
Kyle x
Thanks pussyboi
Toxic Haze
Your name is toxic haze and you have a fucking dragon as your banner, and you are calling me a nerd? the irony is dripping off that one you silly little fuck.
Toxic Haze
You see, I don't have fur so that's stupid. Since you said something that stupid, you must be stupid as well.
Liam Timmerman
War is hell. As a species we should really move past it. On top of that im taking a bunch of idiots for a ride.
We wont soon forget their sacrifices.
what i find hardest to forget are the 2 million vietnamese civilians, mostly women and children, who died in the carpet bombing.
+Anthony Gomes It happens in every war collateral damage is a part of War.
+Joe Perracchio those weren't collateral. We killed on purpose. It was a war of attrition.
leroyjenkins140 Still though it probably would have happened anyways since its war. Not saying its right just think it would have happened regardless.
+Anthony Gomes Ill not forget them either. War is always a fucked up game but the American-Veitnam had a special level of fucked up.
I have a mountain of respect for all veterans but vietnam vets hold a special spot in my heart and mind.
Good. Keep it up; your're 3 off a UAV!
noob is running support package. :P
Trust YouMe hey can you show some respect FFS.
Roby Miller exactly what I'm thinking...
xFrostshots x yeah i mean cmon if you where to endure what he did would you want somebody to jokes out of it.
Roby Miller The guy you replied to thinks he's being funny. No respect, oblivious in the safety bubble where the only knowledge of war they have is playing call of duty. But hey people bring out their inner most stupidity when they type things on the internet with no repercussions. I still hope they don't have to go through what war vets like Rick Hazen in this video did, they wouldn't make it out alive.
the dead man boogie
No... break dance
The Charleston.
The Harlem shake
Mark Mark welcome to the internet.
My Dad was drafted in 1963 he did what he had to do. I was thought by and veterans if you have to talk about it publicly you are lying.
Thank you for your service.my Father Died November 11 1969in Vietnam he was a medic His Name was Clark Douglas
My father in law was Viet Cong, when I am in Vietnam I hear their war stories too.
David Ray I think both Sides dont have the right to say that one another deserved what happened.
Lord Monokelhans mostly the Vietnamese that I know and that are my father in laws generation say all they wanted was independance from France, once they won that America stepped in to tell them how they will run thier country thus the Vietnam War. Vietnam teaches the war from the other side of the coin point of view.
What a pointless war the American offensive to Vietnam was. In my opinion your father in law is a hero for defending the independence of your country
Communism was rapidly spreading every year prior to the Vietnam war. Hundreds of thousands of people were absorbed each year. The US stood up to communist expansion and communism began to recede. Our Vietnam vets kept millions of people from being enslaved.
Vietnamese people wanted to be communist so US had no busines forcing anybody to their ideals.
0:07 wish life was like this today