Men Who Made the Ultimate Sacrifice in Vietnam
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- Опубліковано 7 тра 2024
- A tribute to the fallen.
0:00 - Introduction
1:33 - Private First Class Lewis Albanese
3:44 - Sergeant First Class Matthew Leonard
5:46 - Lieutenant Vincent Robert Capodanno
7:30 - Chief Master Sergeant Richard L Etchberger
9:22 - Specialist Fourth Class Hector Santiago-Colon
11:16 - Private First Class Oscar Palmer Austin
14:26 - Specialist Fourth Class Leonard L Alvarado
16:33 - Major William Edward Adams
19:50 - Memorial Day Invitation
22:35 - Credits w/ Personal Videos
MEMORIAL DAY EVENT DETAILS
Location: All Souls Cemetery, 4400 Cherry Avenue, Long Beach, CA 90807
Time: Approx. 11:00AM (following the Memorial Day mass)
HOW TO FIND US AT THE CEMETERY
1. According to Kathy's instructions, at 11:00AM I will be meeting her family "all the way to the left, toward the stage where the mass happens".
2. I will be wearing a BLACK BALLCAP with the Wartime Stories emblem on it and you should see me or someone carrying all of the small flags for the gravesites.
3. If you can't find us, you might try asking the cemetery staff for directions to Staff Sergeant Lloyd Mousseau's grave plot -- Grave 309, Tier 4, Section D -- and hopefully you will see us somewhere in the vicinity planting flags.
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*MEMORIAL DAY EVENT DETAILS*
*Location:* All Souls Cemetery, 4400 Cherry Avenue, Long Beach, CA 90807
*Time:* Approx. 11:00AM (following the Memorial Day mass)
*HOW TO FIND US AT THE CEMETERY*
1. According to Kathy's instructions, at 11:00AM I will be meeting her family "all the way to the left, toward the stage where the mass happens".
2. I will be wearing a *BLACK BALLCAP* with the Wartime Stories emblem on it and you should see me or someone carrying all of the small flags for the gravesites.
3. If you can't find us, you might try asking the cemetery staff for directions to Staff Sergeant Lloyd Mousseau's grave plot -- *Grave 309, Tier 4, Section D* -- and hopefully you will see us somewhere in the vicinity planting flags.
Thank you for this upload this has made me cry a lot because I know all too well about the one's that didn't come home walking but in boxes my dad told me stories about some of his friends/ buddies that the Nazis got of hold of I leave it up the in what they did to them, he had the horrible task of identifying them even though with the Id tags. He would drink sometimes and I would get some things out of him and he'd tell me about the ugly things but was is ugly.
Thank you for that and all you do! From willmar minnesota
This is beautiful and such a wonderful thing to do.
My whole family were military. I know what they went through.
Currently I work at a war museum in Frankenmuth Michigan, the home of the largest collection of original named Medals of Honour in the world, so Thank you for spreading word of heroes of war.
To any veterans reading this, for whatever it's worth coming from a random UA-cam watcher: thank you.
Yes thank you ❤️❤️❤️
Your thanks is enough for me. 11B/M for 1/5 Cav 2000-2003
Vietnam veterans were despised, treated like scum because of the flower power people. Yet the general public were worse as the USA lost the war so they were treated as scum! Unfortunately the majority have passed before being recognised for their valour. No country has won a war in Afghanistan, yet these veterans are regarded with dignity and rightly so. My grandfather only did one tour in WW2 , 1939 -1945 without ever coming home..... How times change??!
I would do it again!
A thanks indeed, I may be from sweden but I honor the bravery of any soldier who is willing to put upp with this in the line of duty and for country
I personally never had the honor to serve our country. I thank God everyday for the brave men and women who did serve so the rest of us could have our freedom.
I know it’s not much, but my father served in the gulf war and survived, so I just wanted to say that the ones that never made it home are the true heroes.
"Not much"...???
He gave a part of his life. That's huge!
His family worried and suffered, but they preserved.
As the saying goes, "All gave some (that includes your family), some gave all."
Let's not forget that MOST gave up a bit of their sanity serving their country. #IYKYK
Thanks to your dad and you and the entirety of your family.
@@Estes705 they may be talking about the donation amount
"Tagay!" for Jimmy from me in the Philippines. God Bless you, and your family, and your wonderful channel!
Thanks to all our brothers and sisters who didn't make it back..
May their memories never be forgotten.
Sorry this isn't more, but thank you for reminding us what this weekend and Monday are truly about. I'll be raising a glass and making my own toast shortly. My hat is off to you sir, thank you.
I was told that my Grandmother was devastated when she found out that her older brother was killed in Japan during ww2 he was only 19 years old. His name was Alexander Bartock Jr. He was a Marine
Let us not mourn that such men have died, let us rejoice that such men have lived.
-George S Patton
Good work Luke. I had three uncles in Viet Nam. Two were Air Force in Thailand, one hanging telephone lines, the other repairing and maintaining Phantoms et. al. The third, however was a Doggie. He left in '67 at the age of 18. Though his body returned alive, he did not.
Thank you.
Thanks!
Keep doing what you do, brother. USMC 1989-1995.
Thank you Wartime Stories, and Bless you Veterans.
To this day, I still can't sing the third verse ("A Toast To The Host,") of my service's song without choking back tears in remembrance. I still count blessings that my time in didn't scar me as bad as others, though I still need care.
If you see a few of those Brother Men Who Fly around your walk, set one of these by them for me. Spread them around to others as well. As much as we kid each other, we know when things get real, we've got each other's backs.
Rest easy, my friends. Rest easy.
Thank you for your service and bravery
Just wanted to say thank you for all you are doing from Dutch Harbor!
I personally never served but, I had many relatives who did. Memorial day was a day we would reflect and to remember the ones who never made it home. May they never be forgotten.
Rest in peace heroes, a coward dies every minute but a hero dies once
Can’t really put into words how all those who’ve payed the ultimate sacrifice have influenced me. What I can say is I’ll never forget those sacrifices. I hope this helps!
I cannot help but admire all who served. I served in the 1980's. USMC and US Army. GOD bless us all.
For the fallen.
The Chaplain being there surprised me. The amount of courage you have to have to be a conscientious objector; and willingly stream into death. To(in there eyes) make sure your buddy gets a proper path to paradise after death. Thats the one who stood out most to me; respect to all of these heroes.
"Heroes to the End" Thank you for your Service!🌹 UK🇬🇧
Amazing video, well done sir. Thank you to all who served, and continue to serve. Prayers to the families of the fallen or missing.
As an aging military kid, I want to say this freedom isn't free and for those who gives up their personal freedom to put on a uniform of any color and any branch is awesome, and to make sure that others enjoy their own freedom is a act of unselfish kindness. ❤️ Thank you.
Idk what my freedoms r doing in other countries
@@al145 My dad was in WW2 and later he was with the nuclear testing in the Nevada testing this was before he got married.
@@cyankirkpatrick5194I accidentally replied to the wrong comment at least for that comment. Go for regular cancer screenings regardless, but especially if you were in the military.
@@al145 oh okay, I'm concerned about what was my dad was exposed to and what we were as well.
@@cyankirkpatrick5194 are you named after your uncle and did he know a robot and a lobster?
If anyone deserves a place in heaven, it’s men and women like this. Thank you all for your service and God bless.
Rest in peace to all of our men and women in the military that made the ultimate sacrifice and to all of the veterans out there and of course to you the creator of Wartime Stories thank you for you're service.🙏❤️🙏
Thanks! God bless our fallen Heroes.
Romeo 6 here, I just want to let my fellow vets know that you did a good job, and the right people are proud of you.
Thank you for doing this. You have done a great service to the men and women who have served this country. Whether it’s telling the heroic stories of men such as Roy Benavidez or the non combat stories in your campfire series. I have grown to love this channel and where you have taken it. You sir are a true patriot.
Never ever forget their sacrifices. My instinct to self preservation is so strong that I doubt that I could have ever done what they did. I feel so impressed by their stories.
I ask myself “how can Luke make these videos any more impactful and emotional?” and then here he comes with a video like this, I get that knot in my throat everytime. Rest in peace to Jimmy, all the other heroes shown in this video, and every single other soldier who passed on protecting our very country.
I haven't personally lost anyone who serves nor am I from a military background,but I love your channel and have great respect for those who risk their lives so that me and my family can live ours in safety
Thank you for doing this. God bless you and all these brave souls.
As the son of a man who fought in WWII (and yes, he saw combat), thank you for this video.
Thank you for making this video. I'm active duty USAF but can say that I've never been in harm's way in combat. The stories and actions of these brave men are what we should remember this Memorial Day.
Thank you to all who have served, Peace to those whose loved ones have made the ultimate sacrifice.
As they say lest not forget, some gave some but others have all 😢🕊️🙏🙏🏿🙏🏻🙏🏼🙏🏾🌷
Thank you for everything both my grandparents were in the military and I know both of them would be proud of this channel and the work you do.
R.I.P to All the Heroe's 🙏😔🕊️
May God bless these & ALL who Bravely fight 👍
RIP the heroes….. 🇬🇧♥️🇺🇸
No offense but I couldn't listen to anymore stories. My heart was so broken. I salute you all.
Thank you for telling these stories. It allows us civilians to remember and thank those who sacrificed everything to protect the lives of their friends.
Some damn fine men and soldiers.
To any veterans reading this, whether or not you served in war time, thank you for you service and sacrifice.
My dad was a U.S. Army sargent during the Vietnam War. Possibly a staff sargent, I'm not sure.
When I was a kid he never talked about what he did while in Vietnam, I just knew he was there and in the army. My mother told us not to ask him about it so that's pretty much all I knew growing up. I do remember him talking a little about boot camp and short stays in Australia and Germany. As he's gotten older he's started to make the very very occasional off hand comment like the "sounds of ricochets while in the back of a truck" and about how "the jungle sucks" during random conversations with him.
He still has his dress uniform in his closet and I remember him wearing his army issue jacket on occasion during the winter. He is proud of his time in the army.
I don't know why I felt that I needed to share this, I just felt that I did. Maybe it's because I'm getting sentimental in my old age too. Lol
I'm proud of you Dad. Love you.
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Great tribute to these heroes. Thank you for putting this together.
Thank you for serving- it is a privilege to know your dedication to duty and to country, at the expense of so much sacrifice, personal and otherwise. You are an inspiration and humbling reminder of what a man or woman is like when they are absolutely dedicated to being the person they need to be. Especially when under fire.
How interesting the last minutes of all the videos.... Thanks to all veterans and active members....💯❗❗❗
Place a pin upon their chest let the world know their America's best 😢❣️💔🌹🥺🙏🙏🏿🙏🏻🙏🏼🙏🏾
Great Men like these are why America is the Greatest country in the world and always will be the Greatest country in the world. To these Great men I Decorate a piece of my heart and my soul to, to them I salute and thank them to the highest of the heavens. Again, THANK YOU!!! FOR YOUR SERVICES, AND REST IN PEACE! Signed, Greg the egg.
Wow! Thank you to all of the Veterans and their families who gave the ultimate sacrifice. Thank you, Luke, for this poignant tribute to these Heroes.
Soldiers give so much and ask so little - heartfelt thanks to you all 👏👏👏👏
RIP SPC Michael D. Elm and 1LT Demetrius M. Frison. Thank you gentlemen for your sacrifice.
I appreciate these stories, as well as your mysterious stories. You are an amazing storyteller and I wish you much success. Thank you for your service, sir!
Thank you so much Jackie. Kathy reached out recently about raising some funds for this year’s Memorial Day flags and I will make sure this is included!
We will remember them🕊️💐
What a masterpiece of an episode, I cried all the way through impossible to hold back tears! Thank you for your service heroes and the channel for covering them, heroic on its own!
These are brave and fine Men - and worthy of respect for their sacrifices on our behalf.
God bless from the UK. X
I am a fifth generation serviceman (Marine Corps). My grandfather hit Utah beach during D-Day and lost his right leg at the knee during the Battle of Saint Lo, France. RIP Grandpa.
Respect for your service from Australia. After deployment soldiers need more services and supports. Kind words are not enough.
Thanks to all the brave men, and women, that served our country, and kept us free. May God bless you all.
Love and miss you Cliff, my Marine
I intentionally waited to watch this video until the evening of Memorial Day. I knew it would be a thoughtful remembrance of those who have fallen in the service of our country. Thank you for not letting us forget the sacrifice of these men.
From a vet who wasn't in combat, Thank you Heros!!!
Thank you for this wonderful tribute to these true heroes. Thank you for your service,Sir.
I have the greatest respect for military personal. I almost lost my job over showing this many years ago. A viet vet had both his legs amputated in the war and of course was wheelchair bound. I was working at a fast food place and I seen he was struggling with the tray on his lap while moving his wheels. So being the person I am, I went and took up his tray and told him to go to a place of his choice. My manager went ballistic on me! She screamed he didn't deserve to be shown kindness over those horrible stories that came out about certain soldiers in that war. I lost it now! I spun on her eyes blazing and said that I was taking this vets tray to a table and she could take my job and shove it if she meant what she said, but that man's tray was going to a table regardless! I also enlightened her that not ALL soldiers participated in heinous crimes so you can't group them all in that basket! I felt so very sorry for the man, he was so upset and begged me not to. He never came in the store again but would wait to see if I was on the drive-thru. I told him he was welcome in anytime as I would jump to be the one to serve him, but he never did.
Before the problem, I used to give out hugs in the airport as I fly for Christmas and I pay in advance of any person in uniform at a restaurant I'm in. I love seeing the looks on their faces as I insist it be anonymous! LOL Priceless.
She was most likely from those hippies that tore this country apart and started bombing the campus across the country and started those protests across the world etc, I saw that on television when I was a kid and was horrified by this and later I learned about the bombing of the college campuses etc how they were peacefully protesting 🙄🤦🏻♀️ yeah peaceful alright, then you wonder why things are the way now 😢 and let me say this during WW2 there was a serial killer called the brown out killer and he was a American soldier and he was caught and executed. Yes they tried to baby him but that didn't work back then it would have now. So also we're not perfect and war crimes are committed by everyone, and not just by American soldiers.
That poor man. If i had owned the restaurant i would have loved on him! I feel bad that he got embarrassed
@@EphemeralProductionsyes, and I would fired that hippie on the spot and embarrassed it as well.
@@EphemeralProductions Thank you for your reply and caring nature. It was heartbreaking for me to see this on his face as well. As the only one that should of been embarrassed, was her!
@@cyankirkpatrick5194 I am in full agreement with you on all countries participating in war crimes! History has backed this up several times. As I said, you can't put all soldiers in one basket, as doing this! Thank God, I learned from an early age. That is why I never grew up with any racial biases. Mom showed us this with actual baskets of food so we'd get it. LOL She would say now here is a rotten one, should I dump this basket into the garbage because of this? After letting us reason this out, she would explain it just to make sure. LOL When my smart assed sister challenged her about having two, we got a much deeper lesson! Smart ass got perishing eyes not to open her mouth again! LOL
Dad's spin on teaching us this lesson. A person walking up to you, stops to punch you in the face before walking on. Are you going to hit the person of the same kind that is running to offer you comfort and a tissue to clean yourself up with? No two people are the same natured just because they look alike.
Remembering those whose blood still speaks.
My stepdad served in the Army during WW2. Two purple hearts, bronze star with five clusters, and more. Saw combat in the Kasserine Pass. More overall daily wounded than at Iwo Jima. Lost much of his mind there. Carried those memories the rest of his life. He finally shared a few of those with me years later. Perhaps Luke might want to make them into a video. One was how he and his company were dug in to shallow hastily made trenches and the Nazi tanks rolled over them. The tanks rolled onto the trenches, then stopped, then pivoted in place on the dug-in men, grinding many into pulp. He said he still heard the screams of his fellow soldiers, and still heard his own screams inside his head at night.
The Man’s a Saint and his Fallen Brothers are Angels !
Thank you so much for honoring these men
Very well done video tribute. Much respect and thank you.
God bless America and her heroic fallen sons and daughters, especially the ones who's story will never be told because they died completing a secret mission or because no friendly forces were there or survived to record it. You are not forgotten. On behalf of a grateful citizen of a grateful nation. 🇺🇲🇺🇲🇺🇲🇺🇲
By saying their names aloud, they will live forever. 🇺🇸
Hopefully I'm not too late--or it can go to next year's flags. Listening to the citations of these brave men is a perfect way to spend this most somber of days. And ending on the happy times spent with them--no better way to end the video.
I wouldn't hesitate not for a second if someone was in trouble.
Thank you for the respect and gratitude you show for the Vietnam war veterans. ❤
Inclosing, I would like to think all the GREAT men and the GREAT women who are in the services defending this wonderful country of ours. Love you all, keep safe. Signed, Greg the egg.
Thank you wartimestories.
I as a vet. Never been in a fire fight. I Thank ALL VETERANS for giving me that . There's no way to ever thank you enough. You given me everything.
For those who aren't home yet you're aren't forgotten we'll get you home yet and thank you for your service We know you're out there some where be patient it's not easy in try to find you all but we will and bring you home.
Thanks for your efforts, brother. Wish I could make it to California to help out, but I'll be doing the same here in Florida.
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Rip to all heroes 🙏🙏
Thank you, Luke and everyone retired or active for your service
Thank you to who served. Those that fell, You are not forgotten.
It makes me so sad that the men who got to come home were treated so poorly. I don't come from a military family so I'll never understand what any of these people went through but your video touches me just the same. Thank you for all you've done!
I spend a lot of time crying listening to your channel. I cant help but think its well deserved empathy for the ppl in the tales
Truly inspiring young men. Words don't do these warriors justice.
God Bless our Veterans we love and Honor you all 🇺🇸
This is a real treat...Wartime & Bedtime Stories both uploaded an hour apart!
🤘😁 Hell yeah!!
These 8 men are now sitting on a cloud, drinking a beer, watching from above and celebrating your Video.
Thank you for everything you have given to all personnel in the military.
So much respect for this.
Thank you to all who are currently serving, or who have served, as well as their loved ones.
Thank you for all those who have served and continue to do so.
Thank you ever so much for the videos of Jimmy and your team having such fun. I couldn't help but smile, which I think he would have liked. So sad for the loss of someone that had so much life and fun in them.
Brave people. Thank you.
Such a moving tribute. So personal. Leaves me with no words. Just immeasurable thanks and respect.
Master Piece !!! Well Done 🇺🇸🇺🇸
Excellent video as always and Happy memorial day to the men and women in the service.
Incredible video. Absolutely incredible.