CPT Aaron Kletzing 6816130 <div class="images-v2-count-0"></div>This question comes to mind for me, especially considering that Vietnam veterans generally did not receive a warm welcome home back to the US when they finished up. So I wonder if Vietnam vets would go back and do it all over again if they had the chance, particularly for people whose units in Vietnam got torn up pretty bad. 2021-03-11T22:53:37-05:00 CPT Aaron Kletzing 6816130

<div class="images-v2-count-0"></div>This question comes to mind for me, especially considering that Vietnam veterans generally did not receive a warm welcome home back to the US when they finished up. So I wonder if Vietnam vets would go back and do it all over again if they had the chance, particularly for people whose units in Vietnam got torn up pretty bad.

2021-03-11T22:53:37-05:00 2021-03-11T22:53:37-05:00 SSG Thomas Simpson 6816146

<div class="images-v2-count-0"></div>Yes, if I had to do it over again I would. That experience made me the man I am today. I served in the Army for eight and a half years. As a combat infantry soldier I served with the 101st Airborne and the 1st Air Cavalry in Vietnam. I’m proud of my service.

2021-03-11T23:02:22-05:00 2021-03-11T23:02:22-05:00 Sgt Private RallyPoint Member 6816154

<div class="images-v2-count-0"></div><a class="dark-link bold-link" role="profile-hover" data-qtip-container="body" data-id="605" data-source-page-controller="question_response_contents" href="/profiles/605-cpt-aaron-kletzing">CPT Aaron Kletzing</a> I made the choice to enlist because I thought that supporting South Vietnam was a just cause. I would do it again. I always try to make the best decisions that I can, and move on. My best friend was killed the day after I left country. I do regret brothers lost.

2021-03-11T23:06:33-05:00 2021-03-11T23:06:33-05:00 MAJ Ken Landgren 6816175

<div class="images-v2-count-0"></div>I have heard good things about Americans going back to Vietnam. A good reason why the trips are good is because the Vietnamese welcome the veterans. I also heard some of the veterans decided to live in Vietnam. <br /><br />An old widow went to Vietnam to find the helicopter crash site of her young husband to get closure. Her guide was none other than than an old VC who witnessed the crash.<br /><br />I read an account of a veteran and an old VC at a bar. The veteran bought beers for the old VC. Something triggered his heart as the old VC cried. I would have loved to crawl into his head. Did he find closure? Did he forgive Americans? Did he stop the hate? I don&#39;t know.

2021-03-11T23:15:32-05:00 2021-03-11T23:15:32-05:00 SCPO Morris Ramsey 6816218

<div class="images-v2-count-0"></div>Yes!

2021-03-11T23:53:28-05:00 2021-03-11T23:53:28-05:00 PO3 Aaron Hassay 6816267

<div class="images-v2-count-0"></div>I am going to answer for my dad ...rip in national cemetery north Las Vegas Michael Hassay...66-68 the early years 18 20 years of age Army 11 lib... the brigade named in the Mai Lai massacre the first public documented event of its type in the news and don’t forget the tet offensive ... well he had me when he was 28... my mom 18... he held it together until he could not and by my 10th birthday me and my mom were in homeless woman’s shelters a very young woman ... no va support recognition..... and it is possible she never knew he had that history... no one talked about it...I joined the navy first recruiter I met no questions asked 18 to take the place in the family of a missing father... I lived I. San Diego a big military town... and away with my dreams and by 26 a complete f....cling wreck ... and my mom would watch her son change from a you g meritoriously advanced bootcamp recruit to a complete lunatic in fighting clubs and in the streets threatening those who wanted some...and then 30 years of age approximately my younger sister with a disability same father and mother got curious and dam it due the internet or whatever in approximately 2005 called me and said dad is alive in Virginia va housing ... and we all learned dad was a real in the jungle Vietnam jungle warrior with hand to hand combat wounds and he told me that agent Orange stun...and that whenever he would talk about it through a some damn fuckking alchohol he could not stop drinking how he was in Cambodia and loas and secret cia bases and he would shut up and I would go to YouTube documentaries that confirmed openly such cia operations that he was still hidden and secretive at 19 years old.. but some stuff no longer 18 years old can not be forgotten and always there when older me get a young man In such a position of such mental weight they put it away ...and well so my dad became super duper depressed when my mom and him were. Breaking up.. and he was all alone a tragic warrior an orphan of ww2 combat vet Navy lifer Mm1 Albert hasssay who had my father while still in service and deployed, born 1948 ...

2021-03-12T00:42:52-05:00 2021-03-12T00:42:52-05:00 SPC Michael Oles SR 6816371

<div class="images-v2-count-0"></div>Yes I would. I made the choice when I was 14 and at 18 I was in country. And I find it strange when you ask “particularly for people whose units Vietnam got torn up pretty bad.

2021-03-12T02:19:10-05:00 2021-03-12T02:19:10-05:00 SGT Lorenzo Nieto 6816561

<div class="images-v2-count-0"></div>I was treated pretty bad when I came back, no one would give me a job, my first wife took my kids,my home found a new man that did not have anything to do with the military/Vietnam, make no mistake I’m not not nuts, yes I would do it all over again.

2021-03-12T06:07:50-05:00 2021-03-12T06:07:50-05:00 LCpl Laurence Puco 6816629

<div class="images-v2-count-0"></div>Hoorah and Hell Yes, I would not change a thing and YES I would do it all over again, just maybe a little smarter............

2021-03-12T06:51:11-05:00 2021-03-12T06:51:11-05:00 LtCol Robert Quinter 6817978

<div class="images-v2-count-0"></div>In a heartbeat. Just wish all of the Vietnamese I came to know hadn&#39;t had to go through all they experienced since we abandoned them.

2021-03-12T14:47:38-05:00 2021-03-12T14:47:38-05:00 Cpl Vic Burk 6818705

<div class="images-v2-count-0"></div>Yes, in a heartbeat. I am thankful I came back alive and kicking. Too many didn&#39;t.

2021-03-12T19:51:59-05:00 2021-03-12T19:51:59-05:00 SPC Michael Duricko, Ph.D 6818735

<div class="images-v2-count-0"></div>No !

2021-03-12T20:00:25-05:00 2021-03-12T20:00:25-05:00 GySgt William Hardy 6820500

<div class="images-v2-count-0"></div>Given the same circumstances yes. If you are saying if I knew then what I know now . . . who among us would do it again? Going to the past with prior knowledge would change the lives of millions. I do not think the politicians would do it again knowing how things turned out. <br /><br />Knowing the history of the USA and a new war comes around, would I sign up and go? Yes, as a matter of fact I did just that and came out of retirement to served in Iraq in 2006.

2021-03-13T13:14:25-05:00 2021-03-13T13:14:25-05:00 SSG Joe Lopez 6822411

<div class="images-v2-count-0"></div>Yes, I would make a change in some of my decisions . I live with some every Day.

2021-03-14T11:07:28-04:00 2021-03-14T11:07:28-04:00 SP5 Wally Estes 6823953

<div class="images-v2-count-0"></div>Yes I would go back, I got the privilege of supervising Vietnamese people, and I learned a lot from it!!

2021-03-14T21:45:13-04:00 2021-03-14T21:45:13-04:00 SP5 Dennis Dorsey 6849857

<div class="images-v2-count-0"></div>I enlisted at 17 with the intentions of going to VN. I had to do a year in Germany first until I was 18. I was sent there a week after turning 18 and don&#39;t regret it. It was a wake up call to better myself. Would I do it again? Yes I would.

2021-03-24T13:55:57-04:00 2021-03-24T13:55:57-04:00 Sgt Joseph Picone 6925548

<div class="images-v2-count-0"></div>No question about it. Just because Viet Nam became a political war latter on did not mean we helped the South Vietnamese people. Marines don&#39;t worry...we have a job to do and we take care of it. Semper Fi

2021-04-24T14:58:24-04:00 2021-04-24T14:58:24-04:00 SP5 Charles Willoughby 6926329

<div class="images-v2-count-0"></div>Of course I would After SF certification I went to the Pentagon to see Mrs A to get an assignment to SOG.

2021-04-24T23:08:35-04:00 2021-04-24T23:08:35-04:00 CPL Larry Frias Jr 7865848

<div class="images-v2-count-0"></div>Yes I absolutely would do it again …I served in the early 70s with the 25th Infantry Division and those lessons learned there and then have served me well here and now ….

2022-09-07T18:44:27-04:00 2022-09-07T18:44:27-04:00 CPL Larry Frias Jr 7902950

<div class="images-v2-count-0"></div>I volunteered in the early seventies for the combat arms units for a $1000 bonus and ended up 25th Infantry Division outside of Cu Chi ….to this day I regret every minute of every hour of what I did but I guess if asked if I would do it again my answer would be yes all over again bc I’m an American and that’s what we do .

2022-09-29T12:11:59-04:00 2022-09-29T12:11:59-04:00 CPL Larry Frias Jr 7902954

<div class="images-v2-count-0"></div>And I’m still waiting for my $1000 bonus

2022-09-29T12:12:59-04:00 2022-09-29T12:12:59-04:00 CPL Larry Frias Jr 7902958

<div class="images-v2-count-0"></div>Does anyone out there think I’ll ever see it ?????

2022-09-29T12:13:55-04:00 2022-09-29T12:13:55-04:00 2021-03-11T22:53:37-05:00