It was the first time I had ever heard of Vietnam. My father, a career U.S. Army combat soldier [23 years], never talked about Korea or Nam. Years later, I learned that he served three tours in Nam, and my mother told me that he decided to retire at 23 when he knew he would be assigned to Germany. She said that after all he had done in both wars, his main concern was serving in Germany in 1972. The rate of fragging and the addiction to drugs made it more dangerous back in garrison than in a combat zone. He never talked about combat and never spoke about the enemies he fought against. An honorable man and a good soldier. My hero. RIP SFC. E.D. Case 5F, SFC. James Lee 75th Rangers, and MSG Charlie L. Baker, 25th Infantry.
@@charleslennon1 WOW thanks for sharing....I did not know that about fragging on base.... Sorry about your loss. But he sounded like he was a TRUE HERO
Poem written by Major Michael Davis O'Donnell 1 January 1970 Dak To, Vietnam. If you are able, save them a place inside of you and save one backward glance when you are leaving for the places they can no longer go. Be not ashamed to say you loved them, though you may or may not have always. Take what they have left and what they have taught you with their dying and keep it with your own. And in that time when men decide and feel safe to call the war insane, take one moment to embrace those gentle heroes you left behind. This is a poem he penned three months before his death.
This show really holds up, unlike so many from that era!
Such a powerful episode
It was the first time I had ever heard of Vietnam. My father, a career U.S. Army combat soldier [23 years], never talked about Korea or Nam. Years later, I learned that he served three tours in Nam, and my mother told me that he decided to retire at 23 when he knew he would be assigned to Germany.
She said that after all he had done in both wars, his main concern was serving in Germany in 1972. The rate of fragging and the addiction to drugs made it more dangerous back in garrison than in a combat zone. He never talked about combat and never spoke about the enemies he fought against. An honorable man and a good soldier.
My hero.
RIP
SFC. E.D. Case 5F, SFC. James Lee 75th Rangers, and MSG Charlie L. Baker, 25th Infantry.
@@charleslennon1 WOW thanks for sharing....I did not know that about fragging on base....
Sorry about your loss.
But he sounded like he was a TRUE HERO
I was 12 years old when I saw this episode, and it really drove home what my dad, uncles, and both of my grandfathers went through in WW2 and Vietnam.
"Who is this guy?"
"My father."
lol
What I love is how Carlson just rolls with it.
People talk about the Turkey drop- and for laughs yeah . But this episode and the payola episode were great
Poem written by Major Michael Davis O'Donnell
1 January 1970
Dak To, Vietnam.
If you are able, save them a place inside of you and save one backward glance when you are leaving for the places they can no longer go.
Be not ashamed to say you loved them, though you may or may not have always. Take what they have left and what they have taught you with their dying and keep it with your own.
And in that time when men decide and feel safe to call the war insane, take one moment to embrace those gentle heroes you left behind.
This is a poem he penned three months before his death.