I was an Air Force enlisted aircrew member on recon planes in Vietnam during 1970-71, and we had plenty to fear of being shot down. But I felt so bad for these infantry guys and all the suffering they were going through on the ground. This video brings all of that feeling back, so bad. Infantry vets I’ve met since then have told me how glad they were to see us and other air support overhead. But it still hurts so much to see these guys in the video and to wonder how many of them ever came home. I’ll never get over that.
I cry every time I hear this and yet I play it again and again. I am now the conservator of my brother Oliver James Peters III, USMC. He exists in a LTC facility, 100% service connected, dementia, diabetes, heart disease, etc. My brother did not physically die in Nam, but he sure as Hell lost his life there. These men and women continue to be the casualties of war. NEVER FORGET!!!
Joanne. I'm rated at 100% PTSD. One reason is my crew on our warbird all died one day, without me. That's not supposed to happen. Crews on warbirds and tank crews get as close, if not closer, to each other as family. Another thing that was horrible about PTSD is it didn't let me remember my warbird brothers, nor any other friends in the 1st Infantry Division, or my Assault Helicopter Company that were killed. Over thirty years later I broke my back at work on our Sheriffs Office Patrol Division and had major surgery. While recovering, over approx. 6 months, suddenly I remembered every one of my friends who had died, or been shot up real bad. PTSD had decided that then was the appropriate time for the memories to return. I went outside to my car, got my pistol, put it to my head and pulled the hammer back. Suddenly a voice said to put the gun down, that i would get help. The next day I got a call from our county nurse telling me that an appointment had been made with a psychiatrist, I had been talking to them for awhile about depression and hadn't been getting much help. Now, the day after I was told I would get help and here it was. The psychiatrist I was seeing had been treating Nam vets for 15yrs, understood us and our lingo and saved my life. Thanks Joanne for your kind and understanding words.
Thank you for your service and your sacrifice. It is a sad commentary that still so many years after the end of the Vietnam conflict that so many men ( and women) are suffering from the aftermaths of service connected disabilities. So many enlisted because it was the right thing to do and yet, in my opinion, our gov't abandoned so many, either by design or default. They went away as youngsters, full of hopes and dreams and came back broken physically and emotionally. It wasn't right then and it isn't right now. I look at my brother, sentenced to life without the possibility of parole. Stripped of his mind, his health his very being. An empty shell of the man I used to know. I remember a time when he told me he had the gun to his head, but didn't pull the trigger. I wonder if he had know then what was to happen to him in later life, if it would have changed his course of action. Many will disagree with me, but I believe suicide is the the ultimate choice of controlling one's destiny. It is an act of courage, not weakness. Only those who have walked in those shoes can know the pain and suffering. I wish you well. I know your journey has been and will continue to be difficult. Consider me a friend brought together by common circumstances.
Thanks again Joanne. Thank you Sue. Even this many years after I returned home, hearing you and sue's sincere words, helps tremendously. Hang in there Joanne, I know you're not doing it for any reward, but you are going to get a blessing in heaven for your selfless care for your injured warrior brother. You both have blessed days May God grant you peace and wrap His Loving Arms around you.
Such a sad, poignant and emotional song. 54 yrs ago this week my cousin Pat Diehl 101st AB was killed in Tam KY, RSVN. Everytime i hear this song-100s in the last 40 years-it reminds me of him. Sad..then and now. RIP Patrick you are not forgotten.
Am thinking right now of the 6 guys I knew personally who went over to Nam. Only 2 came back. The question in this song is, "Will you ever remember me?" The answer is, you're goddam right I will. Till the moment I draw my final breath.
Very sorry, on the loss of your 4 friends. You sir are a true Friend to never forget them, your answer is the ultimate show of respect, and i commend you for you loyalty. I know many, many Vietnam Veterans and have the utmost respect for you and them. THANK YOU!
And thank YOU. You're incredibly kind. Actually, I'm female. I married one of the 2 guys who came home, so I got to see firsthand what that war did to its soldiers. So I also have a personal reason for never wanting to forget. And I never will.
This song is a true masterpiece! That stare and look I often see as well in the mirrors reflection and I try to forget war all over again. I'm a retired Marine infantryman with 5 tours in Iraq and Afghanistan. My deepest respect goes to the Vietnam Veterans, the way they were treated was despicable, but I'm honored to call you all my brothers! I'm glad that you all are getting your recognition now. Let's hope someday we can enjoy a world without war.
It's the look on your face after seeing so much death and destruction for the first time in your young life. I was there in 1969 and witnessed it first hand at the tender age of 20. A high school friend came home not long after his tour in Vietnam, and committed suicide by jumping off a bridge. My letters from home were always positive. I made sure to tell my mom that I was in a pretty safe area so she didn't have to worry about me.
My dad was on an aircraft carrier from 1958-1963 lost friends that were pilots flying over Vietnam. My dad never talked about his service except I knew he was in the Navy and was a ham radio operator. He got out in 1963 and I was born in 1964. RIP dad 😢 he died in August 2023.
They all got that look. Only the Nam vets have that look. Their eyes tell the story of the nightmare that was that war. God Bless these men, they never got the respect they deserved.
Yeah. That's in my nightmares. I see very young faces with 90yr old eyes. It's caused by seeing your best friends brains all over the ground, along with your other brothers shot up. In the boonies we were shot at nearly everyday and boobie traps everywhere. The jungle will kill you also. My first tour I was in Infantry for 3 months and armor the other 9. Out of that 12 months we spent only approx. 24 days out of the field. I was supposed to go on R&R the 1st of February 1968. TET hit and we lost too many people and my R&R was cancelled.
The "spitting" on soldier's was a myth. However, that was only surmised by John Milius and Gloria Steinem when Milius was researching for the Apocalypse Now script. "Woman don't spit," (at least not back then) was the folkway they concluded on. There's probably more to it, but the media loved the way this was supposedly happening, of course; keep the myth alive, keep people reacting. :)
It's a bogus story. A journalist researched these allegations and there was a SINGLE incident of that during this whole era. These men were our friends, neighbors, relatives, our friends' relatives...and most of them drafted, put through this Hell against their will. Why would we revile them? We didn't.
How little you Witze know. It's easy for you two, these many years later, to tell us how we weren't treated! For all of my Nam brothers, living and dead, Fuck You!!!
I was the one who uploaded this video 15 years ago ... last week my friend died 81 years old an actual vietnam vet i knew him for seven years i would like to dedicate this video to him RIP Tony Lee.Its been honor knowing you
@@brianvesty91 Thanks greyhelm love you bud. We should talk buddy i missed you. The world turns very fast we would be sorry we would miss eachother!!!!!
Amen to that. The greatest of their generation who fought like tigers and never got the respect they were due. I wonder how many of the men featured in this video made it home to the World. In Arduis Fidelis fom a RAMC combat medic and Balkans veteran.
Guaranteed to make me weep. I heard this in *"Coming Home"* & searched for it. Love his strong, emotive voice..I remember everyone I lost in this life.
I remember all those young men who were drafted, and those who went willingly...they were my brothers and now we are old and many of us gone. I wont forget you - ever.
My late husband was a medic and he two still felt the invisible scars and the echos of artillery fire also. Thank you for your service. You guys were very appreciated. ❤
So unbelievably, heartbreakingly emotionally sad, nearly unbearable to watch and listen without crying for those lives lost or irreversibly physically wounded and mentally damaged in the human carnage and devastation of war.
we japanese fought against the US, and vietnam fought against the US. once I hate the US,but now I feel we are same. we are all victims,so sad no more war
These young men, aging a lifetime in a few years; they would never be the same. Some maybe came back and were better men possibly but many were ruined; for the days when they smiled, and the hours that ran wild, you are remembered.
As an American I watched this documentary in 2003 in (Western) History class and this part of the documentary really struck me. I still visit this song several times a year, now 15 years later. I thank my teacher that year for exposing me and my class to the Vietnam war. It was rarely talked about (along with the Korean War). The vast majority of our time was spent studying WWI and WWII but there is a special place in my heart for Vietnam and Korea vets.
I taught that war and got parents' permission to show documentaries. Every student should know that history but they don't. Do glad you had a teacher that taught you the truth.
I'm so sorry about your brother. My great uncle on my father's side is still alive and he still suffers from side effects of Agent Orange. He was in Vietnam when he was only 17. Ruined his life.
My uncle was a marine during the Tet Offensive. I was borne in 1971 and still feel the effects of this forgotten war. There will never be enough sorrow to express what is in my heart about this travesty of taking young "boys" and turning them into people who hate themselves. My uncle could not stand himself for the things he did over there. I was 4yrs. old when the fall of Saigon happened...my uncle killed himself five days ago. I think it was because of "stuff" he could not shake. Thank you for posting this!!!!!
So very sorry for your loss of someone that meant so much. It hurts my heart dearly to hear of someone who's saddened, haunted, and troubled by their past to the point of taking their own life. So much more could be done to help the men and women that have been stricken with such anguish. May both you and your uncle find ever lasting peace.
I have to hear this every day. He was/could have been the voice of my generation. Vietnam was the tragedy of my generation. I find this both beautiful and horrible, a perfect work of art.
Yes, Walter Carmichael, I still remember you. We would have been married 56 years 09-09-67 right after you came home from Vietnam. The PTSD & that GD war destroyed us, but I still think of you.
Tim Buckley had a wonderful voice and was a great songwriter. Sadly, he didn't live much longer than Lt. Jacques: Died at age 28 from a heroin overdose. He and his song should be remembered, just as we should remember the casualties of that war.
We were empty and the looks on their faces says it all. No hope, no desire, too numb to be afraid, no direction, no way to avoid the next experience. Go here, go there, do this, do that. After a while it really didn't matter. The finest bunch of people I have ever been or will ever be associated with. Those feelings displayed become a part of our makeup and remain so to this day. The Soldiers today have it no easier, when they come home, see if you can help.
21 dislikes? I bet you never knew Tim Buckley had the voice of the angels who died in Vietnam...or the one who died from the demons who served a pointless war.
If you wonder what war does to a man just look in the eyes of all these soldiers in this video that will give you the answer. To all those that made it back home Welcome home brother.
I was asked to go but declined - I had be fighting American wars for 20 years already! Lost three or four cousins over there so I have nothing but the most respectful memories - I salute you!
Look at how young these soldiers are in this video. It is always the old; Kennedy, Johnson, McNamara, and especially Nixon/kissinger(who knew the war was futile) who send the young to fight and die. Never changes. The song is a masterpiece of lyrics, music and voice. 55,000 on the wall
To all the men and women who served who are watching this video, I just wanted to say I'm glad you made it home, and I'm sorry we couldn't get you home sooner. Your lives should be used only as the very last resort. You are too precious to be used as toys by politicians who have never been in harm's way! I'm against any war, and am wary of the military, but I deeply respect your commitment to protect our country. May God/ess keep you all safe, and let us end this crap before any more of our kids gets killed!
How is it possible that yet another year has passed. My heart openly bleeds for all who have gone before, those who continue to suffer to this day and unfortunately those who will experience the horrors of any war. Freedom is not free. All those who serve pay dearly. Thank you is not enough.
I had two brothers & one brother in law over there. They came back in one piece but they were stone cold alcoholics & died in their forties, alcohol related. 😢 The military made sure they kept them well supplied. 😤 I worked in a stateside Vet hospital as a nurse. There were "boys" younger than me, shot up, missing limbs, agent orange contaminated, paraplegics (so many), blind, deaf, PTSD, alcoholics & then came the addicts. 😥 Ya want to know why America lost the war we never should have been involved with??? The NV officials made sure there was plenty of opium & heroin available in the brothels, bars & opium huts. It got so bad, if you were an addict, you couldn't come home until you spent nine months in a hospital (usually in Germany or Okinawa) getting clean. But they came back to a depressed economy & no jobs...especially for African/Americans. Many drifted back to using again. Many became homeless. Many came back with the futures cut short due to agent orange & the VA turned their backs on all of them. 🤬 They wanted to sweep twenty years under the rug.
Great Song...Great Lyrics...The men in this video were so brave. I was born in '89 but my respect for this generation of brave Americans will live forever. #GodBlessTheseBraveSouls
Muchos de su generacion los escupian al volver. Lo mas cruel para un soldado no es su enemigo, si no su compatriota que lo excluye o lo olvida.. Mis respetos a los veteranos de Vietnam y a los de Corea, mucho mas olvidados aun. Saludos desde Argentina
We were (at least I was!) always afraid of being shot down, no matter what we were flying in! You looked down at the jungle and you didn't know who was down there, ours guys or the Vietcong. They didn't have artillery, but they had mortars, rockets, and rifles. Those Huey's were real scary to be in.
The eyes, man..... the eyes. They tell you everything there is to know about combat in Vietnam - without saying a word. God bless the Vietnam Vet... there are fewer and fewer of us with each passing year. Welcome home, soldier! I hope you finally found peace. God knows you spent your time in Hell. 191st MID 1st Air Calvary Division Bien Hoa & Phuoc Vinh 1970 - 1971
Those wonderful men were lied to by their government, spat on when the lucky one's returned, and have been abandoned by the government ever since. I personally thank every one I see.
@@Zeppolino100 Zeppo, Actually, some veterans were no so lucky to have survived the war and returned home. As I have said many times before, so many men (and women) did not die in the war, but it killed them just the same. Such was the case with my friend Jon Holden who served with the 101st Airborne in Vietnam in 1968 - 69. He served with distinction, earning a Silver Star. To his dying day, Jon never considered himself a hero. He said that he was just doing his job - as ordered by an uncaring government for an ungrateful nation. Unfortunately, Jon was in an area that was heavily saturated with Agent Orange and, as a result, suffered an excruciating death due to multiple cancers. His death was a blessing to him and to those of us who watched him suffer. Jon received very little help from the V.A. who denied, for years, that Agent Orange is a carcinogen. Another friend (former Special Forces) suffers from PTSD to this day. Neither of the guys I mention above will ever have their names enscribed on The Wall in Washington D.C. - although they certainly deserve it. That's why I say that many veterans were not so lucky to return home only to suffer a lifetime of ailments. ✌
@@jimw.4161 I couldn't agree with you more. My error in not explicitly saying so added your poignant, personal, and spot on entry. We thank you for doing so.
@@jimw.4161 Not to be disrespectful but having spent much time in Vietnam this century, bless the Vietnamese people too who had this incredible horror of war put on them too by the lying American and French Governments.
My paternal uncle served a tour in Vietnam 1967-1968 Army Corps of Engineers . When I hear this song ...the song is so profound when I see what the looks on the faces of these soldiers or Marines gave everything because of duty and honor to have what American citizen have to this day , Liberty and freedom for a country that fell to a socialist/communist republic that has proven that idealogy will not survive . Thank God Vietnam has realized that Capitalism always prevail . My father served this country USMC 1959-1963 . I come from a military family who served in WW2, Korean War , Vietnam , and the Irag war . As most Vietnam vets has said we won the battles in Vietnam but the politicians at that time lost the Vietnam War.
If you've never seen the film "Dear America: Letters From Vietnam" - it is excellent - and it's available here on TH-cam - but go ahead and get a box of Kleenex before you sit down to watch it. :o(
Bruce Horn I bought it on VHS and then again on DVD. I think every high school should show that movie. Maybe we wouldn't be so quick to go to war. The letters are so poignant. To Imagine that most of them were written by kids barely out of high school.
Well, funny you should say that! I am now two years retired, but I taught high school (history and German) and I always used that film with my history classes. Sometimes it would even make those big ol' football players get all weepy...
That film had a profound impact on me as a kid growing up probably why I'm so adamant about honoring veterans. You see my parents generation were the Vietnam veterans and I was born during it. I grew up seeing the effects of what that war did to them all the while not knowing it. Upon realizing it my heart broke.
The eyes say everything and have seen far, far too much. Three tours over there with the 1st Air Cav and the 101st left all of us with that far,far away blank look of being oh so scared, and oh so tired.
Hearing this song at the conclusion of the film , Coming Home , was haunting, to say the very least. I had friends who never came home, and friends who came home, but were not whole.
Seems like yesterday, I was 19 my first tour and 24 my 2nd tour. I'm 73 now...but remember it all. Tom Boyte Gunnery Sergeant, United States Marine Corps, Retired Vietnam 65/66-70/71
Welcome home soldier. Thank you for serving when it was so unpopular to do so. I shudder to think where this nation would be without men of your caliber thank God for you.
Oh this hurts my heart as I remember lying on my bed in high school playing this record in about 1965. I had the light out and only had a candle lite. My parents where downstairs watching some program on our black and White tv as we didn't have a colored TV yet.. I was feeling my own self, my own person, and how it was separated and different than my parents. Viet Nam was the war we were in and Kennedy had only been kill a couple of year earlier. That was something a young mind couldn't get over. And I enjoyed this sad music because of Viet Nam and killing presidents. Back then I didn't even think about what a future was. Now I've lived all that future and I'm 73 and lived my life. All those young men in Viet Nam were my age and now they are old too.
from the 50 second mark to 1;52 mark look in to their eyes all you see is pain, none of us that never fought in a war will ever have to have in a life time that pain,
First heard this song on tour of duty on TV years ago, I never forgot it, such a beautifully haunting and sad song. So moving, those brave soldiers. 🙏❤️🇬🇧❤️🙏 Nov twenty two
I lost 2 friends while there. A RIO officer on F-4 Phantom ~ he was a butter bar Lt. We graduated high school together in '66 and the next year? ... he was gone. The other? ... never returned.
Dear America. There is another video on TH-cam featuring this song and footage from Iraq. Thirty years from now, someone can resurrect this masterpiece for another pointless war. Glad I won't be here for that one. Bien Hoa 1965-66.
They’re all just trying to survive and process what’s happening. You take those experiences and put them in a box in your mind to deal with later. You don’t have time to unpack them at the time. You just drive on. You’ll have plenty of time to think about it later. Trust me. A moment’s decision under pressure and a lifetime to second guess it.
I had to come back to this song especially today. When I see what they are trying to do to our country it saddens me so very much. These young ignorant (not stupid) people today are the very product of our public school system. They only know hate and bigotry. I spent my time in country 71-72 and I honestly feel they don't remember or even know. RIP Tim.
All you ever need to know about the Vietnam war are the words and pictures contained in this video. Look into the eyes of those soldiers - nothing more need be said.
It breaks my heart to see all these men in shambles mentally, so fragile from the hell that is war. I was born in the 70’s and used to pray that I would never get drafted. I used to think it was highly possible that I would be drafted to fight war in WW3 against the Russians. This was the reality in the 80’s, I remember thinking god I just hope there is no war to be drafted to in my time. I’m well into my 40’s and thank god it never came to be a reality. The Cold War was a scary thing as a child.
God bless our Vietnam vets. Both my parents were in the service towards the end of Nam and the draw down. These guys suffered so much after the war. Makes me sad seeing their young faces and thinking about the scars they carried and about the waste. So many of them didn't get to come home. I love you mom and dad and I thank and appreciate those who served during Vietnam. You guys were heroes. Never forget that.
@ Joanne Philbrick......I cry too. Bless you and your brother. I grew up during this dreadful time (had friends who went from here in Australia) and as you so rightly say, these men and women didn't have to physically die there. None that I knew (if lucky enough to have their physical health) were ever the same again. What a dreadful, futile waste. No, I shall NEVER forget! Take care.
Beautiful song! I use to sit with my police friend and watch his live videos of Vietnam. I swear sometimes they looked like young teenagers. Too young to be there. I had plenty of family there though...too young also including two Green Berets. Besides family, doing volunteer work for the Vietnam Veterans Association also ,nobody has to tell me what it was like being there...I saw it in them.
At the start of the song, you see Lt.Don Jaques. He led his squad outside of the base at Khe San to patrol. A death sentence right there. After the ambush, a wounded soldier was left behind for dead. He actually was alive and captured.MIA . I can't remember if he made it out of the Hanoi Hilton or not.
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It hurts even to watch this now . They were so young . I can’t find the right words
I was an Air Force enlisted aircrew member on recon planes in Vietnam during 1970-71, and we had plenty to fear of being shot down. But I felt so bad for these infantry guys and all the suffering they were going through on the ground. This video brings all of that feeling back, so bad. Infantry vets I’ve met since then have told me how glad they were to see us and other air support overhead. But it still hurts so much to see these guys in the video and to wonder how many of them ever came home. I’ll never get over that.
My Dad was one of them...he came home🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
Poor broken young men
Thank you for your service and for reminding us that war can make and break a man. ✌️❤🙏
Thank you! C 1/27th Infantry ( RECON ) 1968
I agree, what a horrible place to die! Have you seen "Coming Home"? This song plays at the end. Very good movie about how the soldiers suffered.
My favorite tune of all time, and it’s importance resonates through eternity
As the son of a Nam vet. And a member of a Gold Star family. Please, see, their eyes. And Lord Bless them.
I cry every time I hear this and yet I play it again and again. I am now the conservator of my brother Oliver James Peters III, USMC. He exists in a LTC facility, 100% service connected, dementia, diabetes, heart disease, etc. My brother did not physically die in Nam, but he sure as Hell lost his life there. These men and women continue to be the casualties of war. NEVER FORGET!!!
+Joanne Philbrick we will never forget ! respect to you and your brother
Joanne. I'm rated at 100% PTSD. One reason is my crew on our warbird all died one day, without me. That's not supposed to happen. Crews on warbirds and tank crews get as close, if not closer, to each other as family. Another thing that was horrible about PTSD is it didn't let me remember my warbird brothers, nor any other friends in the 1st Infantry Division, or my Assault Helicopter Company that were killed. Over thirty years later I broke my back at work on our Sheriffs Office Patrol Division and had major surgery. While recovering, over approx. 6 months, suddenly I remembered every one of my friends who had died, or been shot up real bad. PTSD had decided that then was the appropriate time for the memories to return. I went outside to my car, got my pistol, put it to my head and pulled the hammer back. Suddenly a voice said to put the gun down, that i would get help. The next day I got a call from our county nurse telling me that an appointment had been made with a psychiatrist, I had been talking to them for awhile about depression and hadn't been getting much help. Now, the day after I was told I would get help and here it was. The psychiatrist I was seeing had been treating Nam vets for 15yrs, understood us and our lingo and saved my life. Thanks Joanne for your kind and understanding words.
Thank you for your service and your sacrifice. It is a sad commentary that still so many years after the end of the Vietnam conflict that so many men ( and women) are suffering from the aftermaths of service connected disabilities. So many enlisted because it was the right thing to do and yet, in my opinion, our gov't abandoned so many, either by design or default. They went away as youngsters, full of hopes and dreams and came back broken physically and emotionally. It wasn't right then and it isn't right now. I look at my brother, sentenced to life without the possibility of parole. Stripped of his mind, his health his very being. An empty shell of the man I used to know. I remember a time when he told me he had the gun to his head, but didn't pull the trigger. I wonder if he had know then what was to happen to him in later life, if it would have changed his course of action. Many will disagree with me, but I believe suicide is the the ultimate choice of controlling one's destiny. It is an act of courage, not weakness. Only those who have walked in those shoes can know the pain and suffering. I wish you well. I know your journey has been and will continue to be difficult. Consider me a friend brought together by common circumstances.
Love to you.
Thanks again Joanne. Thank you Sue. Even this many years after I returned home, hearing you and sue's sincere words, helps tremendously. Hang in there Joanne, I know you're not doing it for any reward, but you are going to get a blessing in heaven for your selfless care for your injured warrior brother. You both have blessed days
May God grant you peace and wrap His Loving Arms around you.
Such a sad, poignant and emotional song. 54 yrs ago this week my cousin Pat Diehl 101st AB was killed in Tam KY, RSVN. Everytime i hear this song-100s in the last 40 years-it reminds me of him. Sad..then and now. RIP Patrick you are not forgotten.
Am thinking right now of the 6 guys I knew personally who went over to Nam. Only 2 came back. The question in this song is, "Will you ever remember me?" The answer is, you're goddam right I will. Till the moment I draw my final breath.
My Heart goes out to your Buddies, friend. To those who died and those who came home. RESPECT, and R.I.P
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I remember our Kiwi (New Zealand) mates lost in that war too, R.I.P to the guys from Nelson who signed up
Very sorry, on the loss of your 4 friends. You sir are a true Friend to never forget them, your answer is the ultimate show of respect, and i commend you for you loyalty. I know many, many Vietnam Veterans and have the utmost respect for you and them. THANK YOU!
And thank YOU. You're incredibly kind. Actually, I'm female. I married one of the 2 guys who came home, so I got to see firsthand what that war did to its soldiers. So I also have a personal reason for never wanting to forget. And I never will.
I literally cry each time I lwatch this video and see those beautiful young men's faces who fought in this, among many, senseless wars.
This song is a true masterpiece! That stare and look I often see as well in the mirrors reflection and I try to forget war all over again. I'm a retired Marine infantryman with 5 tours in Iraq and Afghanistan. My deepest respect goes to the Vietnam Veterans, the way they were treated was despicable, but I'm honored to call you all my brothers! I'm glad that you all are getting your recognition now. Let's hope someday we can enjoy a world without war.
Thank you for your service.
Thanks for your service brother.
The mind is simply overloaded as you stare into nothingness.
Semper Fi, Brother. 1/7 Sep 69 -Aug 70
@@jackwilson8933 Semper Fi Brother!
It's the look on your face after seeing so much death and destruction for the first time in your young life. I was there in 1969 and witnessed it first hand at the tender age of 20. A high school friend came home not long after his tour in Vietnam, and committed suicide by jumping off a bridge. My letters from home were always positive. I made sure to tell my mom that I was in a pretty safe area so she didn't have to worry about me.
Cry every time I watch this. The eyes on those grunts. Gut wrenching.
My dad was on an aircraft carrier from 1958-1963 lost friends that were pilots flying over Vietnam. My dad never talked about his service except I knew he was in the Navy and was a ham radio operator. He got out in 1963 and I was born in 1964. RIP dad 😢 he died in August 2023.
This needs to be played every Memorial Day and every November 11.
My favourite Tim Buckley song.
They all got that look. Only the Nam vets have that look. Their eyes tell the story of the nightmare that was that war. God Bless these men, they never got the respect they deserved.
Most of us just wanted our boys home and an end to that shitty war. Can't recall people spitting on vets, but it makes a good story.
Yeah. That's in my nightmares. I see very young faces with 90yr old eyes. It's caused by seeing your best friends brains all over the ground, along with your other brothers shot up. In the boonies we were shot at nearly everyday and boobie traps everywhere. The jungle will kill you also. My first tour I was in Infantry for 3 months and armor the other 9. Out of that 12 months we spent only approx. 24 days out of the field. I was supposed to go on R&R the 1st of February 1968. TET hit and we lost too many people and my R&R was cancelled.
The "spitting" on soldier's was a myth. However, that was only surmised by John Milius and Gloria Steinem when Milius was researching for the Apocalypse Now script.
"Woman don't spit," (at least not back then) was the folkway they concluded on. There's probably more to it, but the media loved the way this was supposedly happening, of course; keep the myth alive, keep people reacting. :)
It's a bogus story. A journalist researched these allegations and there was a SINGLE incident of that during this whole era. These men were our friends, neighbors, relatives, our friends' relatives...and most of them drafted, put through this Hell against their will. Why would we revile them? We didn't.
How little you Witze know. It's easy for you two, these many years later, to tell us how we weren't treated! For all of my Nam brothers, living and dead, Fuck You!!!
There’s a lot of deep rooted pain left over from the Vietnam war, this song expresses that pain so well
I was the one who uploaded this video 15 years ago ... last week my friend died 81 years old an actual vietnam vet i knew him for seven years i would like to dedicate this video to him RIP Tony Lee.Its been honor knowing you
R.I.P. Tony.
@@brianvesty91 Thanks greyhelm love you bud. We should talk buddy i missed you. The world turns very fast we would be sorry we would miss eachother!!!!!
Thanks for the upload
Thank you so much for uploading that precious film and music here! 😢❤!!!
Respect to all the Vietnam vets.
Amen to that. The greatest of their generation who fought like tigers and never got the respect they were due.
I wonder how many of the men featured in this video made it home to the World.
In Arduis Fidelis fom a RAMC combat medic and Balkans veteran.
God watch over them all
Guaranteed to make me weep. I heard this in *"Coming Home"* & searched for it. Love his strong, emotive voice..I remember everyone I lost in this life.
Ohh man tears for sure.
I remember all those young men who were drafted, and those who went willingly...they were my brothers and now we are old and many of us gone. I wont forget you - ever.
Wow. Very powerful song. Here's to all the war vets out there. You are appreciated ❤❤❤❤
Our Wonderful, Beautiful, Unselfish young Brother's.
55 years ago i returned home and lucky enough to walk in my front door upright. The invisible scars and echos of artillery fire remain.
My late husband was a medic and he two still felt the invisible scars and the echos of artillery fire also. Thank you for your service. You guys were very appreciated. ❤
Hope ur doing better man love you
So glad you made it home Sir. God bless and keep you.
I left the war...... but it has never left me.
I live with it evert day of my life !
Welcome home
Thank you so much. Hugs.
Welcome home soldier. My God ease your pain.
G M thank you for your service❤️
May Peace be with you and Thank You.
So unbelievably, heartbreakingly emotionally sad, nearly unbearable to watch and listen without crying for those lives lost or irreversibly physically wounded and mentally damaged in the human carnage and devastation of war.
Coming Home brought me here. What a wonderful film.
Love that movie!!! ❤❤❤
Yeah sure - the smiling bitch Jane Fonda makes her famous visit in support of the north vietnamese.....
we japanese fought against the US, and vietnam fought against the US.
once I hate the US,but now I feel we are same.
we are all victims,so sad
no more war
NO MORE WAR!!!!
@@joshualennox3599 19.05.2023 sadly the war goes on and on we will never learn
These young men, aging a lifetime in a few years; they would never be the same. Some maybe came back and were better men possibly but many were ruined; for the days when they smiled, and the hours that ran wild, you are remembered.
As an American I watched this documentary in 2003 in (Western) History class and this part of the documentary really struck me. I still visit this song several times a year, now 15 years later. I thank my teacher that year for exposing me and my class to the Vietnam war. It was rarely talked about (along with the Korean War). The vast majority of our time was spent studying WWI and WWII but there is a special place in my heart for Vietnam and Korea vets.
I taught that war and got parents' permission to show documentaries. Every student should know that history but they don't. Do glad you had a teacher that taught you the truth.
@@SuperMcabral Thank you for teaching students about this! Like me I bet many students remember it.
Tears every time I watch this video. I think of the young soldiers who are now in their sixties and older if they survived, God Bless them all.
I still listen and I still cry. My brother Oliver James "Jim" Peters USMC died on July 2, 2018 from exposure to Agent Orange. He was 71. War is Hell.
Sorry for your loss, Joanne
I'm so sorry about your brother. My great uncle on my father's side is still alive and he still suffers from side effects of Agent Orange. He was in Vietnam when he was only 17. Ruined his life.
RIP Jim and my condolences for your loss, Joanne. I'm so sorry.
- wife of a Vietnam veteran
All of them same expression. I know that expression. I see it in the mirror sometimes.
God Bless you David
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In our hearts in our minds 👍
Welcome home
The thousand yard stare.
My uncle was a marine during the Tet Offensive. I was borne in 1971 and still feel the effects of this forgotten war. There will never be enough sorrow to express what is in my heart about this travesty of taking young "boys" and turning them into people who hate themselves. My uncle could not stand himself for the things he did over there. I was 4yrs. old when the fall of Saigon happened...my uncle killed himself five days ago.
I think it was because of "stuff" he could not shake.
Thank you for posting this!!!!!
Love to you, God bless you and your family. What was your uncle's name? I'll remember him, and I promise you that.
agree with you 110%...really am sorry for your lossxxx
So very sorry for your loss of someone that meant so much. It hurts my heart dearly to hear of someone who's saddened, haunted, and troubled by their past to the point of taking their own life. So much more could be done to help the men and women that have been stricken with such anguish. May both you and your uncle find ever lasting peace.
All our hearts go out to you.
I am so sorry for you loss and pain.
Fantastic documentary "Letters Home From Vietnam"
I have to hear this every day. He was/could have been the voice of my generation. Vietnam was the tragedy of my generation. I find this both beautiful and horrible, a perfect work of art.
We once had leaders who survived bloody wars and poverty, where are they now.
Yes, Walter Carmichael, I still remember you. We would have been married 56 years 09-09-67 right after you came home from Vietnam. The PTSD & that GD war destroyed us, but I still think of you.
Devastatingly powerful song.
Tim Buckley had a wonderful voice and was a great songwriter. Sadly, he didn't live much longer than Lt. Jacques: Died at age 28 from a heroin overdose. He and his song should be remembered, just as we should remember the casualties of that war.
The GI on the 1.30 mark. His eyes and face looked absolutely haunted. I hope these guys made it home and could find some peace.
It's known as the thousand yard stare, Stephen. Bien Hoa, 1965-66.
We were empty and the looks on their faces says it all. No hope, no desire, too numb to be afraid, no direction, no way to avoid the next experience. Go here, go there, do this, do that. After a while it really didn't matter. The finest bunch of people I have ever been or will ever be associated with. Those feelings displayed become a part of our makeup and remain so to this day. The Soldiers today have it no easier, when they come home, see if you can help.
21 dislikes? I bet you never knew Tim Buckley had the voice of the angels who died in Vietnam...or the one who died from the demons who served a pointless war.
Respect to all Vietnam veterans thank you for your service
If you wonder what war does to a man just look in the eyes of all these soldiers in this video that will give you the answer. To all those that made it back home Welcome home brother.
We don’t owe the Vietnam vets a thank you, we owe those poor guys an apology!
I demonstrated against the war, but never against the men who had to fight it.
we owe them both…thank god for the us military
We are sorry. Welcome home, guys. It must be hollow to say anything to them.
both
Vietnam Vets didn't want an apology. They wanted a welcome home...
I was asked to go but declined - I had be fighting American wars for 20 years already! Lost three or four cousins over there so I have nothing but the most respectful memories - I salute you!
Look at how young these soldiers are in this video. It is always the old; Kennedy, Johnson, McNamara, and especially Nixon/kissinger(who knew the war was futile) who send the young to fight and die. Never changes. The song is a masterpiece of lyrics, music and voice. 55,000 on the wall
I demonstrated against the war, but never against the men who had to fight it, but against the politicians who caused it.
especially Nixon? He got us out
Johnson is the one that sent so many and Mcnamara, what fucking assholes...............there in 1969
To all the men and women who served who are watching this video, I just wanted to say I'm glad you made it home, and I'm sorry we couldn't get you home sooner. Your lives should be used only as the very last resort. You are too precious to be used as toys by politicians who have never been in harm's way! I'm against any war, and am wary of the military, but I deeply respect your commitment to protect our country. May God/ess keep you all safe, and let us end this crap before any more of our kids gets killed!
The beauty of this song coupled with the endless sadness of the eyes - what on earth were they put through, and for what...
How is it possible that yet another year has passed. My heart openly bleeds for all who have gone before, those who continue to suffer to this day and unfortunately those who will experience the horrors of any war. Freedom is not free. All those who serve pay dearly. Thank you is not enough.
We can cry with this song and these images. Respect for US veterans
I had two brothers & one brother in law over there. They came back in one piece but they were stone cold alcoholics & died in their forties, alcohol related. 😢 The military made sure they kept them well supplied. 😤 I worked in a stateside Vet hospital as a nurse. There were "boys" younger than me, shot up, missing limbs, agent orange contaminated, paraplegics (so many), blind, deaf, PTSD, alcoholics & then came the addicts. 😥 Ya want to know why America lost the war we never should have been involved with??? The NV officials made sure there was plenty of opium & heroin available in the brothels, bars & opium huts. It got so bad, if you were an addict, you couldn't come home until you spent nine months in a hospital (usually in Germany or Okinawa) getting clean. But they came back to a depressed economy & no jobs...especially for African/Americans. Many drifted back to using again. Many became homeless. Many came back with the futures cut short due to agent orange & the VA turned their backs on all of them. 🤬 They wanted to sweep twenty years under the rug.
You have the truth and it was one of the most horrific things done to our young boys sacrificed in that war.
Great Song...Great Lyrics...The men in this video were so brave. I was born in '89 but my respect for this generation of brave Americans will live forever. #GodBlessTheseBraveSouls
Muchos de su generacion los escupian al volver. Lo mas cruel para un soldado no es su enemigo, si no su compatriota que lo excluye o lo olvida..
Mis respetos a los veteranos de Vietnam y a los de Corea, mucho mas olvidados aun.
Saludos desde Argentina
May God bless them all...no more wars, no more violence...no more soldiers!
Respect to our vets who served our nation. ❤🙏🇺🇲
We were (at least I was!) always afraid of being shot down, no matter what we were flying in! You looked down at the jungle and you didn't know who was down there, ours guys or the Vietcong. They didn't have artillery, but they had mortars, rockets, and rifles. Those Huey's were real scary to be in.
The eyes, man.....
the eyes.
They tell you everything there is to know about combat in Vietnam - without saying a word.
God bless the Vietnam Vet...
there are fewer and fewer of us with each passing year.
Welcome home, soldier!
I hope you finally found peace.
God knows you spent your time in Hell.
191st MID
1st Air Calvary Division
Bien Hoa & Phuoc Vinh
1970 - 1971
Those wonderful men were lied to by their government, spat on when the lucky one's returned, and have been abandoned by the government ever since. I personally thank every one I see.
@@Zeppolino100
Zeppo,
Actually, some veterans were no so lucky to have survived the war and returned home.
As I have said many times before, so many men (and women) did not die in the war, but it killed them just the same.
Such was the case with my friend Jon Holden who served with the 101st Airborne in Vietnam in 1968 - 69.
He served with distinction, earning a Silver Star.
To his dying day, Jon never considered himself a hero.
He said that he was just doing his job - as ordered by an uncaring government for an ungrateful nation.
Unfortunately, Jon was in an area that was heavily saturated with Agent Orange and, as a result, suffered an excruciating death due to multiple cancers. His death was a blessing to him and to those of us who watched him suffer.
Jon received very little help from the V.A. who denied, for years, that Agent Orange is a carcinogen.
Another friend (former Special Forces) suffers from PTSD to this day.
Neither of the guys I mention above will ever have their names enscribed on The Wall in Washington D.C. - although they certainly deserve it.
That's why I say that many veterans were not so lucky to return home only to suffer a lifetime of ailments. ✌
@@jimw.4161 I couldn't agree with you more. My error in not explicitly saying so added your poignant, personal, and spot on entry. We thank you for doing so.
@@Zeppolino100
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@@jimw.4161 Not to be disrespectful but having spent much time in Vietnam this century, bless the Vietnamese people too who had this incredible horror of war put on them too by the lying American and French Governments.
My paternal uncle served a tour in Vietnam 1967-1968 Army Corps of Engineers . When I hear this song ...the song is so profound when I see what the looks on the faces of these soldiers or Marines
gave everything because of duty and honor to have what American citizen have to this day , Liberty and freedom for a country that fell to a socialist/communist republic that has proven that idealogy will not survive . Thank God Vietnam has realized that Capitalism always prevail . My father served this country USMC 1959-1963 . I come from a military family who served in WW2, Korean War , Vietnam , and the Irag war . As most Vietnam vets has said we won the battles in Vietnam but the politicians at that time lost the Vietnam War.
If you've never seen the film "Dear America: Letters From Vietnam" - it is excellent - and it's available here on TH-cam - but go ahead and get a box of Kleenex before you sit down to watch it. :o(
Bruce Horn I bought it on VHS and then again on DVD. I think every high school should show that movie. Maybe we wouldn't be so quick to go to war. The letters are so poignant. To Imagine that most of them were written by kids barely out of high school.
Well, funny you should say that! I am now two years retired, but I taught high school (history and German) and I always used that film with my history classes. Sometimes it would even make those big ol' football players get all weepy...
Football is just a game.
@71SgtMom Obviously you've never been to war. Stick with what you know, btw what do you know anyway?
That film had a profound impact on me as a kid growing up probably why I'm so adamant about honoring veterans. You see my parents generation were the Vietnam veterans and I was born during it. I grew up seeing the effects of what that war did to them all the while not knowing it. Upon realizing it my heart broke.
The eyes say everything and have seen far, far too much. Three tours over there with the 1st Air Cav and the 101st left all of us with that far,far away blank look of being oh so scared, and oh so tired.
Hearing this song at the conclusion of the film , Coming Home ,
was haunting, to say the very least. I had friends who never came home, and friends who came home, but were not whole.
Seems like yesterday, I was 19 my first tour and 24 my 2nd tour. I'm 73 now...but remember it all.
Tom Boyte
Gunnery Sergeant, United States Marine Corps, Retired
Vietnam 65/66-70/71
The upmost respect to you and all who served and died in the Vietnam war . SEMPER FI
Welcome home soldier. Thank you for serving when it was so unpopular to do so. I shudder to think where this nation would be without men of your caliber thank God for you.
Welcome home Gunny..thanks for your service.
Every time i watch this it breaks my heart. Their eyes. How many of the boys in this clip survived i wonder?
To my Brother two comments ago. Thank you for caring for my dad, and uncle Jimmy. 5 years ago. It hurts.
Oh this hurts my heart as I remember lying on my bed in high school playing this record in about 1965. I had the light out and only had a candle lite. My parents where downstairs watching some program on our black and White tv as we didn't have a colored TV yet.. I was feeling my own self, my own person, and how it was separated and different than my parents. Viet Nam was the war we were in and Kennedy had only been kill a couple of year earlier. That was something a young mind couldn't get over. And I enjoyed this sad music because of Viet Nam and killing presidents. Back then I didn't even think about what a future was. Now I've lived all that future and I'm 73 and lived my life. All those young men in Viet Nam were my age and now they are old too.
A powerful song and an amazing film, “Letters Home From Vietnam.” All these boys who lost their youth.
from the 50 second mark to 1;52 mark look in to their eyes all you see is pain, none of us that never fought in a war will ever have to have in a life time that pain,
+harry schnepp I guess you're not a married man
+Jimmy Mags ha! nail it
Every time I watch this I feel as if my heart is being ripped out. The boys eyes are heartbreaking.
First heard this song on tour of duty on TV years ago, I never forgot it, such a beautifully haunting and sad song. So moving, those brave soldiers. 🙏❤️🇬🇧❤️🙏 Nov twenty two
I lost 2 friends while there. A RIO officer on F-4 Phantom ~ he was a butter bar Lt. We graduated high school together in '66 and the next year? ... he was gone. The other? ... never returned.
Dear America. There is another video on TH-cam featuring this song and footage from Iraq. Thirty years from now, someone can resurrect this masterpiece for another pointless war. Glad I won't be here for that one. Bien Hoa 1965-66.
God bless all those brave men who fought in Vietnam. I will always remember them.
So much coming through this video
Welcome Home Brothers, We will Never Forget Our Fallen Brothers & Sisters....4.ever young. All Gave Some, Some Gave All
Roger that... 198th Light Inf. Brigade 68'
They’re all just trying to survive and process what’s happening. You take those experiences and put them in a box in your mind to deal with later. You don’t have time to unpack them at the time. You just drive on.
You’ll have plenty of time to think about it later. Trust me. A moment’s decision under pressure and a lifetime to second guess it.
when i first saw that movie back in 1988, that scene did me in. 😪
39 years ago today 29th June he died (aged 28).
Beautiful
Never Ever forget about our Vietnam Veterans... 🇺🇸
The best soldiers the country ever produced. Welcome home and thank you. Until Valhalla
Wow. Might cry
I had to come back to this song especially today. When I see what they are trying to do to our country it saddens me so very much. These young ignorant (not stupid) people today are the very product of our public school system. They only know hate and bigotry. I spent my time in country 71-72 and I honestly feel they don't remember or even know.
RIP Tim.
Welcome home! This song and video always bring tears to my eyes. Never Forget. 🇺🇲🇺🇲🇺🇲🇺🇲🇺🇲
I visited The Nam in 1997. Tragic. Tragic.
I'll NEVER forget.
All you ever need to know about the Vietnam war are the words and pictures contained in this video.
Look into the eyes of those soldiers - nothing more need be said.
It breaks my heart to see all these men in shambles mentally, so fragile from the hell that is war. I was born in the 70’s and used to pray that I would never get drafted. I used to think it was highly possible that I would be drafted to fight war in WW3 against the Russians. This was the reality in the 80’s, I remember thinking god I just hope there is no war to be drafted to in my time. I’m well into my 40’s and thank god it never came to be a reality. The Cold War was a scary thing as a child.
You guys are the heroes never will be forgotten🙏🙏🙏
...but that flower will always live on in the memory of a tired wet Marine...
Beautiful soldiers - beautiful song.
Such an amazing fucking song about something so sad and depressing.
Great song, great video...it really deserves more views. Thank-you for uploading.
Yup 👍. Semper Fi brother brothers. I love 💗 all of you. Thank you.
Such an unforgettable artist !
God bless our Vietnam vets. Both my parents were in the service towards the end of Nam and the draw down. These guys suffered so much after the war. Makes me sad seeing their young faces and thinking about the scars they carried and about the waste. So many of them didn't get to come home. I love you mom and dad and I thank and appreciate those who served during Vietnam. You guys were heroes. Never forget that.
@ Joanne Philbrick......I cry too. Bless you and your brother. I grew up during this dreadful time (had friends who went from here in Australia) and as you so rightly say, these men and women didn't have to physically die there. None that I knew (if lucky enough to have their physical health) were ever the same again. What a dreadful, futile waste. No, I shall NEVER forget! Take care.
Beautiful song! I use to sit with my police friend and watch his live videos of Vietnam. I swear sometimes they looked like young teenagers. Too young to be there. I had plenty of family there though...too young also including two Green Berets. Besides family, doing volunteer work for the Vietnam Veterans Association also ,nobody has to tell me what it was like being there...I saw it in them.
the most wonderful young men. so dear, so brave, we love you.
At the start of the song, you see Lt.Don Jaques. He led his squad outside of the base at Khe San to patrol. A death sentence right there. After the ambush, a wounded soldier was left behind for dead. He actually was alive and captured.MIA . I can't remember if he made it out of the Hanoi Hilton or not.
Tim Buckley died in 1975 of a heroin overdose.His son,also a singer died young in a swimming accident.
Around 2:05 in the video is The Rockpile with the razorback in the left background. Those who were "Up There" will remember.
So achingly beautiful