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This a great story about a 1/7th Cavalry soldier who went to Vietnam as naive as a soldier can be. He was like the rest of us. We didn't know what to do or where to go, or how to get there. It only took a couple times in the bush or on an Air Assault to understand why you were in this war. It only took about a second to know that you might die in an instant, as you look at your buddy, that you were just talking to, with a hole in his head. You learned about body bags and loading them on helicopters, and the war went on.
“HE ALWAYS FELT “SCREWED OVER.”
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Vietnam War
Purple Heart
Medals
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SSG Warren Swan
SGT (Join to see) - To tell you the truth, I'd be interested in how it's done. I know you can write St. Louis and get them that way, but is there a simpler less time intensive way?
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I use the SF-180 form from the VA website. Look up SF-180 on the Internet, print it out, check off what you want, sign it and mail it on. Takes a couple of months to receive what you asked for. You may already know this. This is what I was told, and use. I sent off for all of my orders from induction station to discharge last year. It was interesting reading about the places I was sent and the others who were listed, that went to the same place or got rank at the same time. It's a pretty good tool.
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SSG Warren Swan
SGT (Join to see) - thank you, and no I really didn't. BUT I WILL NOW!!! This is why RP is better than FB in a lot of ways. No one knows it all, but all are willing to share.
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SSG Warren Swan, Great Warren. It's actually two pages but the second page gives you addresses where to send your request. Probably St. Louis for you, like it is for me. Yeah, I be learned a lot since I joined, and met some awesome folks like yourself.
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And then to be labeled baby killer by your peers and accused of atrocities by your so called comrade in arms John Kerry and the war goes on still for many.,welcome home brothers
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How true that was. Many of us went into a shell and never hinted we were Vietnam vets.
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When we first starting going to Vietnam it was like our nation was a virgin nation, with all kinds of corny things going on. Then when we returned it seemed like our nation had been rode hard and put up wet. I was different when I got back, and so was our world. Everything sucked big time.
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SGT Philip Roncari
I find that by me saying welcome home brother to any Vietnam Vet that I meet in my travels gives me a shared sense of the comradely we once all had ,because we alone know how we depended on each other so long ago
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Good story SGT (Join to see). Sad he never received the medals he thought he had earned. I looked through the rest of that site and there are many good stories there. As I was going through them, I saw one about the Post Commander of the VFW I belong to since Vietnam. All I ever did there was drink and dont recall anyone in the post doing much more at that time. Hopefully things have changed. I still maintain my life membership there but have been out of New York for a long time. Here is the link to the story. You might recognize the singer they are talking about. https://medium.com/@SoldiersWhisper/there-was-always-a-strong-sense-of-serving-our-country-e0de6db414ca#.3j7cooab7
THERE WAS ALWAYS A STRONG SENSE OF SERVING OUR COUNTRY
Just before Veterans Day in 2015, I received an e-mail from VFW 107 Commander Jim Brandow. He said there was someone who…
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