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March 29, 2024 - National Vietnam War Veterans Day
Vietnam took its toll during and after the war.
KIA: 58,220 – 8 were female (Killed in Action)
WIA: 304,704 (Wounded in Action)
MIA: 2,338 (Missing in Action)
After the war, it was the psychological effects of the U.S. civilian population, combat events, and the gift that keeps on giving called Agent Orange.
To all the men and women who made it back - Welcome Home!
Photo Credit: Medals of America (MedalsOfAmerica.com)
Vietnam took its toll during and after the war.
KIA: 58,220 – 8 were female (Killed in Action)
WIA: 304,704 (Wounded in Action)
MIA: 2,338 (Missing in Action)
After the war, it was the psychological effects of the U.S. civilian population, combat events, and the gift that keeps on giving called Agent Orange.
To all the men and women who made it back - Welcome Home!
Photo Credit: Medals of America (MedalsOfAmerica.com)
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To the RP Vietnam vets;
I and a few Vietnam Vet friends started a forum back in 2001. We had over 400 members but it has slowly died out to where there are only a few of us left now. The board is open to anyone. Stop by and say hello.
https://www.tapatalk.com/groups/vietnamvetsandfriends/
To the RP Vietnam vets;
I and a few Vietnam Vet friends started a forum back in 2001. We had over 400 members but it has slowly died out to where there are only a few of us left now. The board is open to anyone. Stop by and say hello.
https://www.tapatalk.com/groups/vietnamvetsandfriends/
A meeting place for ANY Vietnam vet, friend, supporter, or anyone who cares to read or say anything about the military, Vietnam,
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MSG Stan Hutchison - thanks for the offer... RP is the only social media site I participate in... occasionally... :-)
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SMSgt Lawrence McCarter
LtCol Robert Quinter - Not only those that didn't come back but others now passing for Agent Orange effects which caught up with them. I'm still ok I think but some of the others I served with have died in the past few years due to AO.
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MSG Stan Hutchison
SMSgt Lawrence McCarter - Welcome home, brothers and sisters.
I was one of the lucky ones. My VA doctor caught the signs of Prostate cancer, an Agent Orange presumptive, early, and we were able to treat it with radiation seeds and eliminated the cancer. I owe the VA my life.
If there is no objections, here is a bit of poetry I wrote some years back.
VIETNAM VETS
Floating down a muddy river
On a night so dark and grim
Or sloshing through a rice patty
As the sunlight begins to dim
Setting at a remote fire base
Waiting for an incoming round
Or walking along Highway One
In the dusty, blood-soaked ground
Driving an armored carrier
Through the deserted streets of Hue
Returning from a long patrol
Happy to survive another day
In a hanger at Ton Son Nhut
Working on an old worn-out Fox Four
The pilot waiting patiently
To fly his plane once more
Handing out bullets and beans
Hauling the supplies down the road
Or on a cargo ship moving up the coast
Carrying its heavy load
Assigning the new replacements
Getting the troops where they were needed
Seeing that each person got their pay
Helping the injured to get treated
These troops have one thing in common
We owe them all a tremendous debt
Different jobs, different Ranks, different Services
But they all are called Vietnam Vet.
Stan H
I was one of the lucky ones. My VA doctor caught the signs of Prostate cancer, an Agent Orange presumptive, early, and we were able to treat it with radiation seeds and eliminated the cancer. I owe the VA my life.
If there is no objections, here is a bit of poetry I wrote some years back.
VIETNAM VETS
Floating down a muddy river
On a night so dark and grim
Or sloshing through a rice patty
As the sunlight begins to dim
Setting at a remote fire base
Waiting for an incoming round
Or walking along Highway One
In the dusty, blood-soaked ground
Driving an armored carrier
Through the deserted streets of Hue
Returning from a long patrol
Happy to survive another day
In a hanger at Ton Son Nhut
Working on an old worn-out Fox Four
The pilot waiting patiently
To fly his plane once more
Handing out bullets and beans
Hauling the supplies down the road
Or on a cargo ship moving up the coast
Carrying its heavy load
Assigning the new replacements
Getting the troops where they were needed
Seeing that each person got their pay
Helping the injured to get treated
These troops have one thing in common
We owe them all a tremendous debt
Different jobs, different Ranks, different Services
But they all are called Vietnam Vet.
Stan H
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LtCol Robert Quinter
SMSgt Lawrence McCarter - Now have cancer for the second time as well as a good number of the AO maladies, but I left VN in 70.
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My brother was in the Marines, in country and has had Cancer twice from AO, thankfully he is now Cancer Free as far as we know. I was in Thailand at Udorn RTAFB, when Saigon fell. I have two close friends who are on the Wall, miss those guys still.
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