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In this rare clip, actor Dennis Franz tells a story on his returning home from the Vietnam War to the great Tom Snyder during a late 1990's interview on The Late Late Show with Tom Snyder. A moving story told with sincerity from Franz.
Dennis Franz (b.1944), is a retired American actor best known for his role as Detective Andy Sipowicz in the ABC television series NYPD Blue (1993-2005), a role that earned him a Golden Globe Award, three Screen Actors Guild Awards and four Primetime Emmy Awards. He also portrayed Lt. Norman Buntz in the similar NBC series Hill Street Blues (1985-1987) and its short-lived spinoff, Beverly Hills Buntz (1987-1988).
Tom Snyder (Thomas James Snyder) (1936 -2007) was an American television personality, news anchor, and radio personality best known for his late night talk shows Tomorrow, on the NBC television network in the 1970s and 1980s, and The Late Late Show, on the CBS Television Network in the 1990s. Snyder was also the pioneer anchor of the primetime NBC News Update, in the 1970s and early 1980s, which was a one-minute capsule of news updates in primetime.
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They don't make them like this gentleman anymore. Excellent actor and a very genuine person, who despite fame, has stayed aware of the fact that he is blessed.
See this full interview with Dennis Franz:
th-cam.com/video/brSEeBpk1UM/w-d-xo.html
he is still around
@@advids5572 - Thanks, I'll be sure to give it
a look-see.
Of course they do, don't be stupidly sentimental
Great actor, great American. Great man. I was lucky that my father was very much like him.
Just looked it up. He was 82nd, then 101st. Hardcore man right there!
My father served in WWII; landed on Omaha beach on D-Day. Growing up i always knew my father loved us but it was clear he was a broken man. He was stoic to the extreme. I had never seen him cry. But he still was the strongest man i ever knew...he was my hero. On the day my family gathered at the airport to see me off on the plane that would take me (via the Philippines) to Vietnam I hugged him and he was sobbing. My first thought was “what the hell am I getting myself into?” It didn’t take long to find out as our plane came under attack as we landed on the runway in Danang. It was all downhill from there.
Thank you for sharing that sir. And of course, I thank you, and your father for your service. 🙏🏾
When were you killed?
@@disgruntledpedant2755 You're the second person who tried to get me killed, but I'm still here.
@Gary Jones What is wrong with you? Seriously, what is wrong with you?
Sir, thank you for your service. Truly.
It is moments like this that highlight why Mr. Snyder was a very special Broadcaster: He made his guests feel comfortable which allowed them to share intimate details of their personal lives. I greatly miss this Gentleman who was both a kind Gentleman and World Class Communicator.
Great two minute interview. I spent four years in the Marine Corps. 1965-69. Was a Scout Dog handler and served with many Marine units in the 1st. Marine Div. Had buddies that would lay down their life to save mine, just as I would to save theirs. We told each other things about our lives that we would never tell our relatives,wives,girlfriends and civilian buddies. We promised to keep in touch after coming home and in the years since I’ve been back I can think of just one buddy I have been in touch with, and that was a fifteen minute phone call.
I guess just getting on with post service life just takes over. College,marriage,career,kids etc.. I can barely remember their names and what they looked like.
I just hope they have made a great life for themselves,filled with joy and love and family. We all got a second chance at a new life after surviving Vietnam. God bless them all.
I served in the Nam 71 til the withdrawal in 73. Exactly 20 years later I was an expat working in the Marshall Islands at the U.S. Army Ballistic Missile Test Range. At least twice a week I had to board a helicopter & fly to outer islands in the Kwajalein Atoll. I was a newbie & when I boarded for my very first chopper flight to another island, the pilot jerks his head around to look at me and yells, "Chucker!, is that really you?"
Bout shit my pants. It was Capt. Ben Rogers, now a civilian like me, and the chopper pilot I'd flown with about a hundred times in the Nam. Weird as fuck after all those years meeting that dude on a potato chip of an island tn the middle of the Pacific Ocean.
Thank you for your service
Thank you for serving our country in a thankless war.
Kwaj, been there too many times lol. Beautiful water.
Welcome Home!
@@YouDoug: Thanks brother. My deepest regret & the reason I requested the assignment was my big brother...PFC David L. Palmer. Panel 10w, row 30, the memorial wall.
Many of his peers said he never talked about his service more than what we just saw. Years back on the TNT channel he hosted a Memorial Day movie day where they read letters from veterans and family members. It was very moving and you could tell it took a lot for him to do it. He wasn't acting he was just being himself.
Dennis Franz= pure class.
And a great great actor
@@RJ1999x Definitely!
Pat Donnelly - He's one guy that dosen't seem to "blow his own Trumpet" so to speak!!
Why because he killed under our banner? A war Nixon (Republicants) kept going. How many civilians died?
@@stephenbeacham9717 How do you clowns make a GREAT show made nearly 20 yrs. ago about todays petty, divisive miserable bleak stupidity??? Can't you just enjoy ANYTHING anymore?
I came home in 1968 and to this day I think about those I served with . I also feel that we are so into getting on with our lives that we lose touch with those we served with . I just hope they all had good lives .
Welcome Home!
Thank you for your service, sir. Welcome home!
I was born in 1968 and greatly admire your courage. Thank-You for your Service and Sacrifice.
I had three buddies in particular, that I often think about. Even to this day, 53 years later, I think about "Crow", "Bev" and "Ronnie B". However, all I can see are their 18 and 19 year old faces, then I try to imagine what they would look like today. As you stated, I hope they have done well.
Didn't know he was a vet, wow much respect!
See this full interview with Dennis Franz:
th-cam.com/video/brSEeBpk1UM/w-d-xo.html
His nypd blue character is also a Vet. I believe Marine, it's referred to in several key times throughout the series.
Ditto.
Yes, if your chihuahua needs its claws clipping, he's your man. 👍
His Wikipedia page offers literally nothing about his service
Total class act.
My hat goes off to all the Vietnam vets.
@Mason George The people who don't understand that are incapable of understanding any of those crucial details.
Morons are fundamentally handicapped that way.
Met Mr. Franz while officiating grade school basketball with my father in LaGrange, IL back in the late 80's. Awesome guy. Made eye contact with him, he smiled and nodded as if to say, yeah, it's me.
Not 🏀 .., but almost *Ditto experience wry smile., 😊 .,
🕯️ Dennis Franz 🙏
I understand completely. I left RVN on Christmas eve day, 1966. Not only was my tour over, but so was my enlistment......To this day, I only have contact with ONE guy I served with......that was then, and you turn the page. Your life just moves on, nothing more.....C'est la vie.
Thank You , Sir.
@@paulzammataro7185 10-4, OOOOORAH
Sincerely grateful for your (and their) service!! I was a peacetime sailor in the 80s but my Dad was A WW2 veteran and my uncles served in Korea and Vietnam.
Thank you Sir.
Welcome Home!
I forged some strong bonds while in the service to this country. I only made a few, some successful and some not, attempts to contact friends I had served with. And that was it. My dad, also a Vietnam vet, had the very same experience. So, this weird anomaly that Dennis is speaking of...is a very true and real thing.
Such a brilliant man; one of the finest actors of our time. His portrayal of Andy Sipowicz was iconic. I don't give a crap about celebrities in general, but this is one whom I would love to meet and tell him how much I admire his work.
Thank you so much for your service, Dennis Franz.. Knowing you served in Viet Nam, I admire and respect you even more.
When I came through LAX in ‘66 on my way home a group of Hippies shouted “Baby killer” at me. These idiots failed to recognize the Navy Corpsman insignia on my uniform, meaning my job was to save and treat the injured. I also lost touch w/my friends from HS who’d all gone to college b/c like Mr. Franz said, it was just too uncomfortable for us.
These same leftists are invariably pro-abortionists at the same time
@@matthewronsson I wouldn’t doubt that one bit.
Oh BS. You're just recycling an oldie but goodie piece of American mythology from the culture wars. Hell, after this same tripe was inserted into the movie Rambo, American conservatives believe it as gospel whenever they hear it.
@@ThePetlowany Coservatives don't believe Rambo is Gospel you dope.One thing you believe is that you're intelligent which is the real lie.
thank you for your service
Pure class Mr Tom S. I did not know of Mr D Franz's VNW involvement. My Uncle died at 92yrs. of age, WWll veteran never ever talked of the war, or memories of it. He was army air corp, grd personnel, fighter group lead MEC. ETO. He enlisted 1940, discharged 1946. My first cousin his son was USN. Vietnam War attached US seventh fleet carriers, three tours Tonkin Gulf sixties-seventies. May them and all others who served R.I.P. 🗽🗽🗽🗽🗽🗽
We talked seriously about staying in touch and I'm sure at the time meant to but it just never happened. I think most of us would have been better off if we had, and that's the advice I'd give to today's vets. May they all be brought home safely to us.
Amazing actor, Pure class.... Thank you Sir!
I still remember Tom Snyder in Philly during the sixties at KYW TV News with Marcia Rose.
RIP Tom.
I know what he was talking about. I am retired Navy 1964-1995, and met, probably thousands of people I knew by their first name, enlisted, and officers. But, other than One ship reunion a few years ago...We all are strangers who know other strangers now.
It's almost like those years are on the other side of a chain link fence, I can look back and 'see' them, and I can hear them as an indistinct murmur. But I know I can't go back to them, and I'm hesitant to reach back and to try to touch them for fear they might shatter into a million little shards.
When & Where was ⚓ *ReUnion ?!?
I know the feeling. Me and my brothers in arms shared blood,sweat and tears together. I was actually closer to them than my real brothers. But for some unknown reason, when we came back we lost contact.
wow. never knew he served. New found respect. God bless him and all who do and have served.
Always my favorite actor , God Bless you Denny 🙏❤️ I miss NYPD Blue !!!!!!!!!!! I watched a marathon of it during the pandemic . Thanks for your service Denny ,so I could have the great childhood I had growing up on the outskirts of weedon island in north east st.pete,Fl.❤️🙏😄
I actually didn’t have contact with many of my service friends for 20 plus years. One I had only talked to about 3 times over that 20. Now many of us that served together are in contact with social media. It took some of us 40 years to reach out. It’s something hard to explain.
I don’t get it (because I never served), but I still get it.
Also, thank you for your service.
Mr Franz is a great American! I had the honor of briefly meeting him and he was so nice to me.
ℹ️ *ditto., A very brief 💂⏱️ in 🇬🇧, UK eVent.
I think men who experience what they experienced, while sincerely loving each other just cannot be together because of the painful memories. While they shared those memories, each held them privately.
IDK. In 1933 - I think - a reunion of Civil War vets on both sides was held in Chicago. About nine years before that my ggf had gotten out of telling his grandkids war stories by playing camp tunes on his fiddle - which I now play. But he attended the reunion. I think that what they’ve held in for so long has to finally come out.
Maybe, but doubtful.
It's like trying to commingle friends from different social circles. Usually, there is a fit problem.
Just because you share a common interest/action at one slice of life, does not necessarily carry over to future and all inclusive.
People just move on....the circuitous stroll through the BriarPatch of Life is not without separate chapters.
@@lorenstevens8693 I doubt if many of these vets - or those of any war since - began to see each other. In my ggf’s case, he died shortly after the reunion. But I think meeting with others for a short time gives them a chance to unload some mental baggage. That’s what I got out of reading about meetings between Vietcong and American GIs many years later.
@@jockellis Upon reflection, the American Civil War was a unique situation, where friends, neighbors and relations were often on apposing sides. There was a necessary healing that needed to be reconciled. Various emotions not necessarily the same when fighting on foreign soil, or people with no association with.....just different.
@@jockellis Maybe you are right. It is difficult for a template to cover all.
I had no rancor with the VC, and saw it as duty, i.e., "business" not personal. We got tangled up in another country's civil war. We would dispatch them, before they did the same to us....not a complicated intellectual riddle.
For me, get home to the USA, turn the page, give thanks to the Almighty, and get on with life.
My father told me he could not explain into words how he felt when the plane he was in left the ground in Viet nam taking him home.
John, I will tell you. We left Cam Ranh Bay in September of ‘70 and the entire plane erupted in cheers and screams of joy, guys were hugging each other and high fives all around...a wonderful feeling...
@Les Ismore, maybe not, but we were
@Les Ismore, i wasn’t denying what you were stating. i will tell you one thing i know. pointing fingers and trying to place blame instead of looking for solutions and taking responsibility is a cop out.
@Les Ismore, next time you talk shit about my country take a deep breath and be thankful for the anonymity of the internet
@Les Ismore, wherever you are in the world, there’s a better than 50/50 chance that you’re alive and taking in oxygen because of the united states stepping in and doing what is sometimes the ugly work. think about that before you shoot your next vapid bs text.
When my "Freedom Bird" became airborne the whole plane broke out into a roaring cheer. I took a whole role of 35mm half frame (72) pictures of clouds and ocean on the flight back. It's a part of life you don't want to forget.
Welcome Home!
"Freedom Bird". Mine was a "Flying Tiger" Airline 747 one time, DC 8 the next. WOW! What a feeling to leave, not so good coming back...
@@lestercoons3962 - "Freedom Bird" was a generic term for any plane bringing you back the "The World."
One of the best actors in one of the best roles on television. I have watched the whole NYPD Blue series from start to finish several times. I have it on dvd & after seeing this I think I will watch it again.
"Lieutenant Norman Buntz" on "Hill Street Blues" was my favorite.
I salute you sir , thank you for your service.🇺🇸
Thank you for your service!
it's like going to prison and having a friend there, he could be your best friend, get along so great, but once you're out, you never really want to see him ever again. Reminds you too much of bad times.
It is a pleasure to see so many warm responses. I was a Marine at Khe Sanh and lived to tell about. Its hard to describe. The Video is right on
for me, 1000 rounds of incoming everyday. When they stopped, we fired back with all we had - it was a 77 day siege. Dennis's remarks are sincere and
accurate. We were at LZ Stud on the base in a 105 unit on the south east part of the base. What a fire show as the B-52s covered the Khe Sanh
valley. The ground shook and what a show of force. To the many Americans that fought there so many years ago, it was service well beyond our
scope. Surrounded by 40,000 north Vietnam harden troops and cut off from reenforcements we were trapped, and were being attacked from all sides.
finally when things came to a head, the US launched the biggest aerial attack in the history of modern warfare - bigger the than Germany. The true
savior of Khe Sanh was President LB Johnson who vowed that base would not be taken. He spent a billion dollars to save it, and us. That a lot
of money in 1968. I am alive because of him. My CO asked me to make a statement - here it is.
3 pilots and a gunner that are still alive communicate with me almost weekly but only after a lucky hit on the internet started it all back when classmates.com had a military part. its the best thing thats happened
@Les Ismore wow man really? You know nothing about this man, being anti war means also understanding that some people join because it's a family of financial thing. Get off your high horse, the war (s) sucked, go after the people who start them and get rich from a war economy.
@Les Ismore You aint from around here are you ismore?
@Les Ismore Lol figured thatd bring you to the surface like a fat bass on a june bug.
@Les Ismore you act like somebody didn't bring cornbread with the collard greens.
@Les Ismore we have fried chicken collard greens mashed potatoes, yall dont. and much better looking women that yall got. and my horses are fatter and faster my dog is bigger and nicer than anything yall got. heck looks like yall are trailing pretty bad in things that matter
Thank you sir.
My brother RIP never the same after coming home
Just looked him up, he's still alive and kicking, that news alone has made my day better.
i did the same thing when I got back, I never made contact with the people I lived a year with and went through so much with.
Knew him personally - a special human being.
His portrayal of any part were so realistic what a great actor and patriot. Awm
Thanks for your service 🙏
As a war vet, I can relate to this.😭
Thank you for serving our country.
It was my honor to serve!
Nostalgia King!!!! 2011 Iraq 2004-2005
A great actor and a great man. Watching this I thought of my Dad - a WWII vet who received the Bronze Star. Serving with a MASH-type unit, he rescued dozens of wounded GIs to safety during the Battle of Anzio, all while under heavy machine gun fire (he caught shrapnel in his back and face, and a bullet in his foot). He very rarely talked about his war experiences, in deference to the many men who were more seriously wounded than he was and those who were killed.
There is an episode of NYPD Blue, where a guy claims that he was a Vietnam Vet, and he's boasting fake stories at a bar. Dennis Franz' acting in that scene, where he "destroys" the guy's credibility, was amazing. Even though he was acting, you could tell it really brought out "real" emotions from the war.
That's one of my favorite scenes from the entire series. Also the one with him and Bobby Simone sitting in the car listening to the radio while watching a building. An oldie comes on the air and Sipowicz starts singing along and eventually Bobby joins in. They both glance at each other and smile as they sing along.
My Dad served in the Marines in WWII. He never talked about his service with anyone. He could be in a room full of blowhards talking about the war and he would politely sit and not say a word. Would never admit he served or at the most would say "I did my part like everyone else" That's it. When he died Mom showed us his cigar box full of medals he never displayed. He was invited to Washington DC for the unveiling of the WWII Memorial all expenses paid and he declined.
He always told us when you hear someone talking about a war it's a sure sign they have never been in one.
@@wb6162 My wife and I had a neighbor who was an aircraft mechanic in the US Air Corps in the Pacific in WWII. Once, he and I got to talking about my time in the USAF and I asked what it was like working on planes in WWII. He got very emotional and wouldn't say much, either. He saw a lot of of friends come back to their base shot up or dead and then he had to clean up and repair their aircraft for the next mission.
Im rewatching the show again and just saw this episode a few days ago. Amazing
@@infectedvector I watched that over and over! Loved it
Dennis,
Though I doubt you'll ever read this,you've had my resepct for some time now.
I didn't always follow your work after you made it big but I have listened to what you've had to offer us.
I wish you could see as I know you sometimes do, what some of us still feel.
I'd like to thank you for this moment of your time and to extend to you, full
Eyes Right.
With deepest appreciation and respect.
my older friend went to Nam. he got shot up, had a scar over 2 feet long, I think he was hit 3 times. . when he got back home he could not stay around people much more than an half hour. because I was so young that has stuck with me all my life. he passed just 2 years ago.
Great actor...great American
You go through a sustained, shared, horrific experience with others. You survive. You and those who live through it and survive. You get back to civilization, your safe, normal lives.... You ever see those individuals again, even if you like them and consider them friends. Seeing them each time is just an instant reminder of that horrific experience you had in the past. No one wants to be reminded of that.
Yup, 1st thing off the Freedom Bird...in Alaska...kiss the ground...”I’m home”....never, ever forget that.
Home from Iraq and arrived at Ft Hood, TX for me. Stepped off and kissed the ground.
I miss Tom Snyder. Great interviewer.
"A very uncomfortable return". My thought exactly. Did all of us feel that way?
That reply is to les ismore, because he certainly is less.
- Thanks for your service.
@Les Ismore Watch the documentary about the Vietnam War directed by Ken Burns, narrated by Peter Coyote and listen to the testimonies of soldiers, American and Vietnamese, North and South, and the families of soldiers who were killed in combat, and members of the anti-war movement and it all amounts to a bigger picture that is not as straightforward as your comment reveals you would like it to be.
Nothing personal but to be in the other man's company brought back thoughts and feelings both had put behind them and hoped to forget.
Lovely lovely man , great actor
Dennis mentions how he and the other soldier changed units, Dennis served with the 82 and 101 Airborne in Vietnam. He was probably transferred as one unit either arrived and needed experienced soldiers to fill the ranks or was relieved and left their troops with a long time left on their stay behind.
82nd was one of the first to be redeployed in Fall 69. If you didn’t have 10 months in country, you were reassigned. I went from 1st Infantry to 1st Air Cav.
Thank you to every single person reading this who wore the uniform of the United States armed forces. Everyone else owes you a debt of gratitude that can never be paid. All I can say is thank you thank you thank you you are the true heroes. God bless everyone.
And let it be said one more time: Served with honor.
invading another country that did nothing to you?
@@jwclau1 Correct. There are two correct observations. You are correct in that we did invade a country that did nothing to us. And I believe he served with honor. He received an honorable discharge. I don't know your age, but in that time period, in the earliest stage of the war, American public was consumed with the idea that communism was spreading like wildfire and if America didn't stop it, the communist government of North Vietnam would take over a "free" South Vietnam for no other reason than world domination efforts. And our generation, for many, had not known of a reason to question our own government and suspect that its intentions were anything but virtuous. From a historical understanding, our generation had parents who served in WWII and killed forces bent on world tyranny. Then communist North Korea attacked "free" South Korea. America tried to defend South Korea against a tyrannical government. Now, usher in the beginnings of Vietnam. It sounds overly simplified, but that is it in nutshell. And when America sensed that Vietnam was a tipping domino, the American patriots loyal to the US, went without questioning. And those men and women served with honor.
In 2021, that may sound incredibly naive of the American public. But that is what it was. The hidden political backdrop that we know today should not desecrate our veterans who went and served 50 years ago.
I am grateful to them for their service. But I am also grateful for people like yourself that question the actions and motivations of our government and desire a reasonable explanation of our involvement anywhere outside or inside of our borders.
I'm still friends with some men and women I served with in the gulf War we all keep in touch .Thanks for having the internet
Most likely it is the trauma of war, that made Mr. Franz not to make a new contact with his military buddy.
I think if one gets out of a war like Vietnam was alive, they subconsciously do not want to go back memory lane in any way.
Much respect for the man, much respect! ✊✊✊
I met Mr. Franz when NYPD Blue was filming in an an alley in Downtown LA. He was sitting outside his trailer with his shoes and socks off reading his script and memorizing his lines (a big piece of Astroturf had been placed on the ground so he could walk safely). I simply wandered by and ran into him. Being a fan of the show, and his character particularly, I greeted him, gave him a thumbs up, and kept moving. He smiled (genuinely), waved, and kept reading. As my co-worker and I walked away, he got up and went to a cooler for a bottle of water or soda. He asks the lady coming to touch up his make up does she want one. She declines and he calls out to me and my friend if we wanted some water. Thought that was cool. He seems like a regular guy (no doubt because he was a grunt and knows what hardship is). It was also funny because he had really loosened up the laces on his shoes and draped his socks on top of the shoes to air or dry in the sun just like a GI.
This man is one of the best humans alive today
This is a veteran/military phenomenon. I served 20 years and made countless friends. When I was transferred, or retired, I didn't keep in contact with the men who were as close as brothers to me. However, when I have had a chance to reunite with those brothers it's been like I just saw them just yesterday. I wish some psychologist/journalist/ whoever, would investigate this phenomenon.
It's a very common story. Dennis expressed it very eloquently.
Good man.
I returned from Vietnam, got out of the Army, 50 years later, the only friends I have live in different states, have followed different lives, have both retained the same wife as I have, our wives talk weekly, we grunt at each other every so often, when we are in each other’s state we eat together and have a beer. We never talk about that place.
Welcome Home!
I've had the same experience seeing a vet I served with in Vietnam 20 years later. Having been close in-country depending on one another through some horrific times created a bond. The problem is our experiences together were in a place that changed us forever and we only had that time together. We had no other history. Neither one of us wanted to rehash the experiences we had during that time..we never made an effort to keep close after that meeting.
I had no idea he served, I have a new found respect for Mr Franz.
Call me old...I remember seeing that when it first aired. That story has stuck with me for 2 decades.
You are only "old", if you can't do the math: 37-24-36, Semper Fi Smedley.
Interesting story from one of my favorite actors. The growing apart must be something built into people. I have heard that story with some variations from different veterans over the years. Mabe the memories are too emotional to have at the surface on a daily basis? My father was in Vietnam, but he did not stay tight with anyone, aside from a childhood friend who served in Vietnam, at a different year and area, so maybe that separation made it ok. Thank God I will never know, although I served, but no war experience. RIP to my Father (He died years after the War, but was a victim of the War in terms of drugs, alcohol and memories)
Some memories are just too painful. Even if they are joined to good ones.
we gave this guy a ride home from the ski hill at Purgatory Durango Colorado one day...nicest most down to earth guy in the world...
Thanking you for *Assist. 👍🏾👍.,
Fascinating.
Used to ❤ his tv show
I had been overseas for two years and made some great friends, after about 50years I made some connection with 2 of them all threw the internet.
He's a one note actor, and I don't say that as a criticism, because most one note actors are not nearly as compelling as this guy is... great actor
Too much emphasis is placed on "versatility". Sincerity is most important and someone like Spencer Tracy had it in spades.
Wow this hit home for me.
Coming Home - it was a movie, it had a lot to say, watch it.
Respect.
I kept in touch with one person from Vietnam after I got back. He was killed in a motorcycle accident about a year after we came home. He was riding my motorcycle.
I miss Dennis. I really miss Tom.
I so wish I had stayed in touch with my friends from the navy, they were some of the finest men I've ever known, .........keep on......wiley coyote
Deep guy. I like him more now.
Franz was drafted into the United States Army. He served eleven months with the 82nd Airborne Division and the 101st Airborne Division in Vietnam.
In short he was a Paratrooper.
And your point is.......?
@@ytubepuppy If you'd been one you'd know. Those who were one would want to know. Is that a bad thing........?
That so sad. War kills more than human life it kills souls and compassion and the ability to heal
This is a great actor
American hero. I think a lot of men looked up to Dennis Frank.
the guy returned from Vietnam to San Francisco? this couldn't of gone well. Thanks for goin over there Mr. Franz.
This happened to me in high school which i hated. I never saw my good friend again after graduation.
Snyder did one show where he interviewed two brothers that served in the Navy on the same ship but both became alcoholics. The show was about the Navy's program to rehab people with drug and alcohol problems.
Yes we all felt ," just let it go, move on..."
I understand brother. I really do.
Our mind and body has a way of subconsciously keeping us safe and away from harm. Unfortunately, being friends and reliving that horror is beyond harmful. He did get a lot off of him in that hour he spent w his friend outside the 7-11. May have saved his life. The pain will never leave his soul and was very apparent in this video. May God Bless all who served.
When I got out in 1971 they warned us not to travel in uniform once we reached Travis AFB and got off the MAC flight or GOD forbid a Commercial flight into San Francisco. We landed in San Francisco and they put us on a Gray government Bus that had expanded metal on all the windows for the short trip to Treasure Island then a USN/Marine debarcation site. I spent 2 days there before my paperwork caught up to me. They gave me my final pay, back leave pay, and travel pay and said see ya. I found my way to a Grayhound Bus station in Oakland and rode that bus all the way to Florida. No pomp and circumstance, no thanks, nothing. Got home at 2am, and slept in the bus station until about 7am because I didn't want to wake up my Mom and Dad on a Tuesday night. Believe me, it sure as hell wasn't like you see in the old ww2 movies. I couldn't wait until my hair grew out so I didn't look so military.
Welcome Home!
@@YouDoug I appreciate it Doug. But it was "long ago in a country far far away". What is kind of unnerving now though is, how similar the attitudes are to what it was like back then, only much worse and dangerous now. The problem now stems from the fact that the anti war movement then all graduated to the leadership of most things today, education, governnent, industry etc.
The problem, and the fundamental truth of it probably is that, no matter how much you think of those people, those are not days that you broadly want to remember OR relive, and reliving the experience that brought the two of you together (and that so few people understand BUT the two of you and the rest of those who were there) is imminent when interacting with those people - so you keep them in your heart - but for the most part, the door to that experience, you want to stay closed. It’s not personal.
A guy who worked in the same building as I , let some workers into the building after hours to work on something. Saw a guy that looked familiar and was asking where they may have met. The guy was very evasive and agitated.
He left without starting whatever work he was there to do. Later, my acquaintance recalled the man had been a Lt. in Vietnam, who had a mental breakdown and was taken to hospital in restraints. Really bothered him that he triggered this guy’s emotions
It’s very uncomfortable when you see someone on the street that you served overseas with. For a moment you lose your bearing and you just aren’t sure where you are. It’s a feeling of having no control because physically you are here but your mind is there. Not a fun 14 seconds.
I remember when they would sometime film NYPD Blues on location in New York and the off duty cops that were hired to provide security on the set would always want to get their pictures take with him wearing the badge and put it up in their lockers at work.
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Though not Nam but more recent, Ironically, I sometimes remember what I want to forget-the who, the where and the what; the closeness, the reliance and the pride; then I remember to keep it inside.; that one more day there was one less day there; and the nights...then THE flight - the paradox now, I’m back here...but I’m still there.
Every time I see him I like him more.