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an jes so der aint no confusion, nor mis understandin, ah will say agin...
"with all due respect to those who served in se asia and elsewhere"...
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When I celebrate Vietnam Veteran's Day I always remember two people who were there. One is still with us, Bobby Parris, and the other who was a pool shooting buddy in high school, is Rusty Evans. Rusty's name is on the wall. I am good friends with his nephew, and namesake.
I served in a Naval aviation squadron, but pay much higher respects to Bobby and Rusty, and all those who's served during that war, over there.
May God bless America and those who defend her.
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stan, both my friends, mike and jim are on the wall...
do hope they both went to a better place...
and have both had happy lives there...as i have had here...
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I know much more about Bobby's service than I do Rusty's, mainly because Bobby is still here to be able to relate some of it. Bobby deserves more than just appreciation for generic service. He was a "tunnel rat", partly due to his short stature. I can only imagine what it was like to be dropped down a spider hole with a flashlight and a .45, and hear the footsteps of retreating VC going through the tunnels ahead of him, as he chased them. He talks of it with self defacing humor. But he, and Rusty, and all the others on the wall, have my undying appreciation.
Thank you for your service, all.
May God bless America and those who defend her.
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mike, the platoon leader, was apparently killed by a sniper on one of his first patrols...
an, jim, the chopper pilot , well, he was shot down, while trying to save lives...
god bless them...
and there, except for the grace of god, or good luck, or both, go i...
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I have mentioned him here before, but his service to his country shines so brightly, through the years, that I will honor him again in memory. Major Charles Kelly, my cousin's husband and founding pilot of Operation Dustoff, the chopper medi-vac unit in Vietnam. He was shot through the heart as he landed his chopper in a hot LZ to rescue wounded. Through his efforts, and those of other pilots in his unit, many young men came home, that might have died on the battlefield. I visit his grave annually, in honor. Thank you Major, from a grateful heart.
May God bless America and those who defend her.
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What a public opinion turn-around! In 1971/72 the Army wouldn't let us wear our uniform while traveling as there were hippies getting their asses kicked for spitting on Joes!
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Mike, Maj. Kelly's funeral solidified my appreciation for those who put themselves in harm's way for the cause of freedom. I was 12 yrs. old, and the missing man formation fly by, the gun salute, the taps bugled and echoed by another bugler in the distance, along with all the other trappings of a military funeral changed me forever. I'll never forget it.
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My ETS was November 1, 1969 , so I can't verify or dispute AZMike's statement about not being allowed to wear a uniform while travelling in 1971/1972. I have never heard of such a rule. My experience was much different. I always travelled in a class A Army uniform. Sometimes I didn't have a car or money for public transportation. I hitchhiked up and down Interstate 95 for two years, in uniform, and never experienced any bad treatment. I also spent plenty of time in airports and on planes during that same 1967 to 1969. One of my buddies got pinched in Petersburg, VA for going 120 miles per hour at dawn one Saturday morning. He was locked up in the old Petersburg dungeon and I and another soldier were released to continue our trip home to Washington. We were picked up on an I-95 exit ramp by a Virginia state policeman who said we were violating the law by hitchhiking on the interstate. We thought we were back in jail but the patrolman took us thirty miles north to the north end of Richmond. He let us out on an exit ramp and wished us luck on the rest of our trip north. If we had any money, he would have taken us to the bus station. Travelling in uniform without money was a trying experience, but with no negative political situations. Just my experience. Others may have had different ones.
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eightbore, I believe public opinion changed substantially on May 4th 1970 after the Kent State shooting of students during protests.
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