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As a former Vietnam Veteran {67-68} I want to thank all those who served. Let's all remember those who didn't return, as well as those who serve now. They answered our great nations call, let's keep them in our prayers! Karl ![[Linked Image from jpgbox.com]](https://www.jpgbox.com/jpg/70926_600x400.jpg) ![[Linked Image from jpgbox.com]](https://www.jpgbox.com/jpg/70927_600x400.jpg)
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Karl,
Welcome home brother, I want to second your thoughts. We did what our nation told us they needed us to do.
Mike Ford, 36th Engineer Battalion (Const.), 34th Engineer Group, 20th Engineer Brigade, US Army Engineer Command, Republic of Viet Nam, 1970, and proud of it.
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55 years since I arrived for my second tour and VN is still on my mind. Tracing the routes on google earth I once knew so well, the highway from Ban Me Thout to Ban Don and the back country trails for 40 km around that camp on the Dar Lac Plateau, Ban Don (Trang Phuc) ![[Linked Image from i.imgur.com]](https://i.imgur.com/5szl9Zo.jpg) the road from Kontum to Pleiku and out to Ben Het and on to the tri-border, Highway 14 from FOB-2 down to Pleiku, Highway 14 from Kontum up to Dak Pek - show a different country. I won't go back until the regime changes. ![[Linked Image from i.imgur.com]](https://i.imgur.com/0dfzJCll.png)
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Baluch are not Brahui, Brahui are Baluch
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Thank you for your service. I have been to the wall and found too many names for friends and classmates who went but never returned. And a few who ought to be on the wall because they were much diminished in their return and short lives afterwards. Thanks for all who serve and served
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Gene,
I've heard that Vietnam has become a tourist destination, I can't even imagine that. Upon my return, I was spit on in San Francisco and couldn't even get a cab. I'm glad some of those things have changed. For some time after I was ashamed, no more! I always remember those I knew who didn't make it back.
Bless us all!
Karl
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Thank you to all Vietnam vets, and all other vets, too. I served during the Vietnam War, but not in a combat zone. My hat's off especially, to all who "saw the elephant".
I will pray a special prayer tomorrow morning for all Vietnam vets.
May God bless America and those who defend her.
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kind thoughts and admiration to all who did their duty and served, suffered and sacrificed in all wars...
keep it simple and keep it safe...
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From a Vietnam era vet who was never in country: I salute all vets who were. Spending significant time in uniform in a college town in the late Vietnam years, I witnessed way too much disrespect for vets and for those in uniform. About the only place in town one could feel comfortable going to have a drink in uniform was the American Legion post. What a breath of fresh air it is to hear people say "Thank you for your service" when I'm wearing something that identifies me as a vet.
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U.S. Army, 1 November 1967 to 31 October 1969. As a young guy trying to live on $131 to $145 a month with no quarters or rations allowance, I spent some time hitching rides and riding buses to and from stateside posts and home. I have to admit that I never experienced any disrespectful behavior from civilians, young or old. Maybe it was a West Coast thing.
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