April 30, 1975 in Vietnam

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Originally Posted by Ironhorse

Yes I do, I had been home from Vietnam 5 years by then and one of my first thoughts were Bill and Sandy and so many others lost their lives for nothing! Both were friends of mine, one from high school and the other I served with in Germany prior to my stint in Vietnam. I really want to say more as to what my feelings are about the fall of Saigon and our previous exit in March of '73 but to do so would involve a lot of political reference and personal thoughts. That would most likely get me my very first time out on the board after 23 years and then being sent to my corner so I will refrain from doing so. Just suffice to say I have some hard feelings to this day and I don't apologize at all about them.

The Vietnam war experience ripped this country apart and it can still be felt today by those directly involved.

Your service is honorable. I trust you're doing well. You write so smoothly, I'm stumbly, run through brake pads.

Proud of my Vietnam vets, I lost both in 2020. My step dad was Lt. Col.. Communications, PS degree, writer, spoke Chinese fluently. Would have made full Col. perhaps, but married, and consecutively involved with two Vietnamese ladies. Things went south with CIA "training", in China, a difference in principles. Funny, I was his best friend after his school/Vietnam buddy, he never mentioned the CIA nor a second Vietnamese woman. Protocol, and perhaps sins of lust.

He never told me about this Chevy either, where he's pictured. Year truck anyone? In hindsight that was early onset dementia. Funny thing was he liked my trucks so much; and spoke of them often, level dementia. He thought his was a 1975 Chevy, perhaps 78 I don't remember (irony), which he brought up often. Picture with his dad too, who must have been a trip. He spoke English but hid it behind Swedish, just a doll maker. High IQ people, my stepdad's sister the same. Dementia, but he maintained a vocabulary second to few.

The other my sweet uncle. 60-early 70s San Fran hippy, March on Washington, Army Vietnam, Princeton. He finished life as a portfolio manager and conservative. He was so gentle, a fine man and uncle.