I almost fell out of my chair when I saw the thumbnail for this video... The man on the right with the mustache is actually my dad (he recognized himself when this documentary first came out and showed the whole family.) He just turned 70 last Monday and I love him to pieces. It's hard to have to wave at him and say happy birthday through a closed glass door because of Covid... I haven't been able to give him a hug in almost a year for fear of getting him sick. My heart goes out to all the Vietnam War veterans and their families who haven't been able to be with each other because of this awful pandemic. I hope it will be over as quickly as possible.
I hope its over soon too, the next time you talk to your dad tell him thank you from the USA were very proud of our veterens! And Happy Birthday and you and your family stay safe
I'm happy that I was a soldier of our generation because we have a good gear and we are in better situations. Look I was in mali and Afghanistan and I was not for me, so I don't imagine what lived your dad. Thanks him for me From a fellow veteran. And you should tell him to right a book about his experience in Vietnam.
I was drafted in 1966 and was sent to Vietnam 1967 - 68 along with my brother, I can't put it in words that you would understand, but if you were there then you know what I mean, how much my life has changed in the past 53 years, this song is a grim reminder that I will never forget, just be glad that you did not have to go and the draft is over, because the agent orange would kill you as well. I am Vietnam veteran Bobby Whitney
@@osamabinladen4769 You might want to reconsider your odds, Osama, or do you want me to link you a few compilations of modern rap in combination with war footage from Afghanistan.
I am 19 now and when my grandfather was my age he was here driving a tank for the Australian army. I can’t imagine anything to what he felt and I’m so proud and thankful for his existence and his service.
Sunrise Surprise you really get the feeling that their time would’ve looked the same if they all had cameras in their pockets. They’re all getting up to the same sort of antics. They had lives just like ours and they were sent off to a far away country to die in a war that wasn’t theirs.
I’m not American and nobody in my family ever served in Vietnam but I keep coming back to this video. These kinds of videos invoke a kind of feeling I can’t describe, it’s very bittersweet. This video makes me want to cry, but also smile seeing all of these people smiling and playing around. There is no such thing as harmless power.
My dad was drafted when he was 17 to fight in Angola (South Africa’s version of Vietnam) my dad still has nightmares to this day. He was forced to fight for a government he hated. My dad told me once he had to walk all the way from Angola to Namibia carrying his dead friend because the army didn’t think he was wroth saving. Respect for all Vietnam vets and those that didn’t make it
I'm also an Angolan vet, & looking back, was a total waste of life & resources. I saw a post earlier regarding war being a contest between old bitter men at the expense of young lives, & it is entirely accurate & incontestably accurate. I will be 60 in a few weeks, & my beloved wife, daughters & I are now staring down the barrel of Covid 19. All I have to offer them is sanctuary & sustenance until this latest abomination has passed. God Bless & protect all who read this post
@@ZemanTheMighty Um what? Do you know anything about the vietnam war? Not only was it totally unnecessary for the US to get involved but they got completely fucked on their first attempt when they should have been able to totally out gun Vietnam. Not only that but it led in large part to the Khmer Rouge's genocidal reign and the deaths of many innocent Americans and Vietnamese.
WHO WILL REMEMBER ME! Today this video popped up on my play list. As I listened to it and watched the video, while recovering from an overdose of food yesterday, I remembered the traveling wall had come to LaPine a few months ago. I went to the wall and was awed by it and what it represents. Being a teenager of the late 60's, I was well aware of what was going on over in Nam and all of the good men and women we had lost. One name stood out to me and I was determined to find him on the wall. With help from the nice lady assistant and the internet I found him. He went to school with my older sister and I was friends with his younger brother. This was as close as I ever got to feel the true loss of someone to the war. James Roland Golz, 3/12/49-1/27/68. Marine Private First Class. KIA after barely a month in country and not even 20 years old. Today, James I remember you. Semper Fi
They were kids, and draftees, not professional troops. Draftees were civilians drafted into the military and trained hastily to be sent into war. Professional soldiers sign up voluntarily, get trained during peacetime, to a high standard, and if a war breaks out, they are sent in better prepared and better disciplined.
That is not the reason. There are people who want to do exactly that. To fight. I'm one of those guys. I'm 24, soon 25. I live in Vienna, I have a very well paid job and I enjoy it, a nice car, I have a flat that costs me only 250 euro (that's damn little for Vienna), and had a nice one girlfriend I have left, just as I will leave everything else. To hell with it. Because I will leave Austria on 12.04.2020 and enter the French foreign legion. The reason is quite simple. The civilian life is not for me. I WANT TO BE SOLDIER. I WANT SERVICES. And that VOLUNTARY !!
Very stupid saying. Soldiers are representations of the human flaw of fighting your own kind. Saying that people don't like soldiers until the enemy is at the door is meaningless, because people who don't like soldiers are actually saying that they don't like war and the inhumane acts one is forced to commit in it. A more accuraye saying would be; The mouse would never create a mouse trap, but humans created the atomic bomb.
@@alierk542 The need to prevent untold thousands of innocent victims created the bomb. Obviously you weren't a soldier in WW2, and you haven't been forced to speak Japanese for some reason....
@@jackfrost2146 no. Project manhattan and the efforts of scientist and physician léo szilard and enrico fermi mainly created the bomb. In 1945, the war against japan was basically won. All the USA needed to do was to demonstrate the power of the bomb without actually using it, which would have made japan surrender. The bomb didnt end the war, it was already pretty much over when france was liberated amd the axis forces were trampled in the snows of russia. The atomic bomb was an inhumane creation which never was supposed to be used. Leo szilard and albert einstein themselves, the creators behind the bomb, wishex they didnt participate in ita making after it was done. Get your facts straight.
This country always sends young men and now women to fight the fight...Look at WW1 and WW2...they were always young and vibrant and are now buried on foreign soil...God Bless all of them!!!!!
I lost my best friend who was a Vet not long ago to Cancer. We lived in assisted living together and shared a porch. I practiced martial arts a little bit and showed him some stuff. I am 45 YO. He liked me because the first time I saw him I asked him if he was a Veteran? Then I asked him if he was a Vietnam Veteran? I told him Thank You So Much Sir. I started practicing martial arts when I was 9 YO. Peace. Mike.
So it's June 1965 and the school semester is coming to an end. I look over at this cute guy in our biology class, we smile, and then a month later to the day, I read in our local paper that he had just died in Nam.
@@heyitshuttz3705 Hows it going. I See you're a NS fan. Have you Seen any Heritage Units? So Far I've Seen The Lehigh Valley and Illinois Terminal Units.
Jis I wish I could find one or those helmets and have them as a memory of those who fought their and gave their lives and I would stand near one of the jungles or mountain and salute those who have fallen
Being Russian, I understand both sides of this conflict. During the Vietnam War, I was a child so I don't have many memories of that event, I was born in 1968. But in the 1980s, my brother Tuvia was injured in Afghanistan, which made me very angry. I wrote for the college newspaper, and in 1985 I published one of the first columns criticizing the war. Result? My friends abandoned me, my car was scratched, the landlord in my building dismissed me and I had to spend the night in the KGB building listening to humiliation. They didn't harm me, but they called me unpatriotic and fearful, because when I turned 18 I decided not to go to conflict. Horrible things were happening in Afghanistan, and I was right, but the Russians were too patriotic to take notice of that. However, today, I believe I would not have done that. Not to change my opinion, but I would have respect for the young people who fought there!
My grandpa was just 18 when he graduated high school. Then his number came up and he was drafted to nam. He said "Jungle warfare is like getting a ticket to see the devil up close.". I took him to Vietnam 2 years ago because he wanted to go and when he saw the jungle become a colonized city, he cried. He was and still is a one hell of a mad lad. He gave me a portrait of himself holding an M60 with on hand while he holds the belt on the other, only wearing a flak jacket with no sleeves. He is scared that war might break out and that I'll be drafted while I'm still a teenager in high school. He also revealed that one of his child hood friends got killed in combat. His body was lying lifeless on the ground, everything in one piece except his head. He said "It scares me up to this day that my best friend got killed...he wasn't any older than me. He had given me a cigarette 3 seconds ago and i look over to see him killed. I didn't even see or hear it happen, that's why it haunts me...why him but not me?! I feel sorry going home in 1970 and having to explain how much of a good man he was to his girlfriend and family." -PVT Daniel Jackson my beautiful grandfather.
Your grandfather sounds like a badass, and I'm glad he's mostly alright. Tell him that I thank him for his service and am sorry he had to go through that hell.
1:17 Really makes you feel a certain way for these soldiers. Makes you feel sad knowing the fact, they had dreams in life, only to be sent away to a war they didn’t wanna go into. Especially with the song California dreaming, a song which could relate to the soldiers feelings on missing their home, and dreams of going back one day. Thank you to all the Vietnam war veterans 🇺🇸🙏🪖
If they did not go and fight there communism would been attacking their mothers, sisters and wives in America. It was that simple. It was the most evil system ever creating killing more innocent people than WW1 and WW2 combined. It was everywhere from Asia, Eastern Europe, Africa and South America. At some point they had to step up and stop its expansion and that was the first place that they really put an effort into.
So much friendship between those boys. Can't imagine the horrors they went through when they came home. (Everyone, I'm not saying that the Vietnam War was any good. Neither am I saying that these soldiers shown in the video were good. All I'm saying is that friendship in a military conflict is the best thing those boys had.)
J S it also ruined their health they had drinks and drugs and smoking and depression the whole time so some of them didn’t make it home not just from war
@@szymonwrobel6573 War is war, and it's terrible. Those things that happened in Vietnam can never be forgiven, but remember. Those who fought it was just kids. Most of them was only 19 or 20.
Imagine you are just finished high school or in college. You never go to gym or gun training. You only have months for training. Then you sent into jungles that full of deadly traps and ghosts who wields ak47. Those are teens you see in this video.
Imagine you was live a normal live in your own town, with your family. Then a country come and send their soldier to kill the people, the town, even use the chemical weapon. Those are teens you didnt see in this video
Kreegs damn that’s my age right now. It’s so sad and kind of scary. I feel like a melancholic sense of luck knowing that I was born after a century of violence.
This video really puts Vietnam into perspective. Each servicemen was a individual person who had a family and friends. I remember this old saying that goes “old men see numbers increasing while young men see lives gone” this war was a waste of life and such a waste of a generation.
Just kids. They were just kids. Edit: The funniest thing about seeing the replies calling me a commie is that I'm in the military myself. Yet, I can still recognize the longstanding effects the senseless war in Vietnam has had.
RIP to my grandfather who died in 1966. He was a Master Sergeant and had also served in the Korean War. He got fatally wounded escorting a wounded soldier to a Huey and died on the ride for further medical aid. My father was only 6 at the time. The people within the video and the song itself are basically the only things I can imagine by grandfather through, as even my dad barely even knew him, it hits hard man.
Well at least that's one of the brighter spots of being born in this generation. Sure the music might not be that good as back then but hey, atleast we aren't forced to be dying in some remote jungle with a jammed M16 to fend against the enemy either.
South Vietnam thanks for all American soldiers! We have 20 years in freedom. They said that was a dirty war but why they didn't live in china, north vietnam, north korea to know what's communist.
I myself am from Russia, but watching videos like this, I clearly feel similar feelings to when I look at old front-line photos of loved ones. All the same faces, emotions, feelings. The same young guys who were broken by the war: someone on the battlefield, and the war ruthlessly deprived someone of their minds, and even corrupt and deceitful politicians then simply wiped their feet on them. I would like to express respect and good feelings to the guys who went through the horrors of the war, regardless of the side for which they fought. Unfortunately, in wars, it is always the common people, the soldiers, who suffer first of all, and not the puppeteers who start them.
That granpa? Nope, most ww2 veteran were still in their 40's - early 50's when vietnam happened. Average ww2 soldier were 17-28 then add 25 years. But you are correct if that granpa probably a WW1 veteran
As a 6 year old, I was watching TV in ‘72, not understanding what was going on , finding it “cool” to see war. I live now for close to 7 years in Saigon, had a direct view from my office on the platform rooftop from which the Hue helicopter evacuated people, having visited ruins of War in different areas in Vietnam and most importantly, having learned why the Vietnamese resilience and persistence must have contributed in “ winning” this senseless war. It’s a good place to live here.
The Vietcong lost the war with over 2.5 million of them dying. They surrender and then the US decided to pullouts without ensuring that the place was in stable condition.
@blv The US got the vietcong to surrender and attend negotiations in Paris. The Vietcong lost 50 times as many fighters as the US did. The US never lost any major battles in the Vietnam conflict but the Vietcong lost nearly every major battle. The Vietcong were communists and were backed by both the USSR and China.
tu tu you don’t have to be from the us to know the history of the war just research it and look at documentaries is that easy tho and be is a little rude to ask someone “how was it like” you know what i mean?
I feel like the Vietnam war is glamorised by the music and footage so much that it is covering over the cracks for how awful it must have been for those brave men. I can’t imagine how terrifying it must have been, I’ve served in the military myself but my service was NOTHING compared to what these guys must have went through. Keep the good memories brothers!
@@Martin-eh9oo Defeat? The US crushed the Vietcong. It was so one sided that the US decided to make an unprepared withdrawal that really looked bad. Just like Afghanistan.
@@jackrutledgegoembel5896 I feel like many of the guys that emerged alive took home important life lessons, and memories they'll never forget. For better or for worse, being a part of one of the oldest, most respected human practices (war) carries with it a special admiration.
Found it! This played at work yesterday and brought back some good memories. I enjoyed singing along but my coworkers didn't xD reminded me of my dad. We shared my first beer together after a day of shooting on my birthday and this played on the radio. I wish i were there with him. Vinh long 68-69. Thanks for sharing
Hey, Jefferson I just wanted to say, you did a great job making this video. I showed my Grandpa who served in nam and he loved it. He said it showed so much truth, highlighting the innocence most had. How they were so young and hopeful, yet thrown in a foreign place to fight a battle that wasn’t theirs. Happy Fourth of July everyone.
I am 44 years old and my father told me about this war when he was younger. It was one of the bloodiest wars since the end of WW2. My respect for Vietnam veterans. Greetings from Brazil!
When I was a kid in Slovenia in the 1980s, I was fascinated by this war. It was a horrible war, of course, but I don't know how to explain it, but I enjoyed reading all about it. In the 1980s, many films and documentaries from the Vietnam War were on TV, and I watched them all. My brother went to a rock concert in Frankfurt in 1987, and he met a veteran, who signed a paper that my brother gave me as a gift.
Sunrise Surprise It’s not, radioman would die usually within about 5 seconds of an ambush. They were actually kept away from the rest of the squad to ensure their safety.
Fighting ANY war, war is useless since the people participating in it most of the time have less influence and parts in it than the big shots that started it War isn't flighted by rich man on the Frontline, they let the poor and easy manipulative folk fight it for them inventing badges to make them feel like they actually fight for something else than a guy with a big attitude
@@j3in725 "There is no substitute for Victory"- General McArthur. He was right because we haven't won a war since. The war on drugs, poverty and terrorist is a waste of money, time and American lives because we never seems to realize an end game victory.
@@kwerty9671 You're an idiot ? The USA was on the good side in World War II. In Vietnam, the United States was already a Nazi. The Vietnamese wanted to create their own country, get rid of the colonialists; dictatorship was sitting in South Vietnam, crazy Catholics mocked the majority of the population (This is what the USA supported). Well, the United States was afraid to attack Vietnam (soviet rockets), and fought with the forest (! Ants !) And pregnant women. (massacres) Like the Essaites. This is a complete failure. The depression, heroin, suicides and the complete decomposition of the army.
life is just memories passing through. today you could have the same feeling like this guys. take photos with your team and save your memories. today is the past to the eternity.
@@danielespinolajr1 Oh i do, i'm waiting for the mass destruction weapons of sadam. What happen in libya, sirya, iran, iraq, afganistan, corea, vietnam, venezuela now? oh i know they suppose to had a dictatorship and they need democracy.
My grandpa Freddie Lopez and his brother were drafted to Vietnam. He told me one story about watching his best friend Victor Lopez step on a landmine and blow up in front of him the look of horror and pain in his eyes said enough. We lost him a few years ago due to cancer and I still think about him on the daily and what he must of gone through. Thank you to all the veterans who fought and for those who are fighting right now. God bless
1:42 Charles colley. RIP my beautiful angel. I love and miss you more than anything . 1 year today you been gone and I find this . I know you know I needed this.. I love you old man. . Fly high and watch over me please .. . To everyone in the comments mentioning my grandad. Thank you. Thank you so much. Thank you for the respect, and the knowledge on him. Thank you for knowing his name and story . That's all I and him ever wanted . Edit : for yall ignorant fucks im not " clout" chasing. This man hated attentjok. Leave me df alone and letnmy granddad rest man
@@BelieverofLordJesus lmfao complete opposite. My grandma hated to kill. He believed you only kill it if your going to eat it. He saved many Vietnamese people. He got shot down 62 times and saved everyone on his plane everytime. He was an advocate for agent orange My granddad is a hero
I remember a girl I knew was talking about war, and romanticizing the hell out it. So, I told her about my great uncle who was drafted into Vietnam and how he was killed the moment he got there. His helicopter was dropping him off into the jungle, and before his boots touched the ground he was shot dead as he took his very first step.
Sorry for your loss man, no offense to women but they just don’t understand the fear of war that us men face. If a war broke out tomarrow I’d be drafted to that hellhole. Nothing about war is pretty, it’s a nightmare waiting to happen.
the government of all countries romanticizes the war, so that their citizens would seek to die in wars for the sake of the interests of the capitalists!
@@aleksklaby4819 I would agree that they all do, but they all aren't capitalists. Their are socialists fascists etc. All spreading propaganda to get people to do there dirty work.
One of my favorite videos on YT. There's the sense of nostalgia that overwhelms you when you look at the people smiling in this video even though you were born decades later.
Wow! Amazing you saw your dad in this footage. I hope he is doing well. I actually came to watch this video to see if I would just happen to see my dad. Probably one in a million but you never know.
If you mean because they died in the war: No, the majority of soldiers survive in almost any given modern war. If you mean because it's so long ago: No, it wasn't that long ago, most are probably in their seventies.
Drafted, sent to an insanely brutal war, and came back only to be spit on by their fellow Americans. These were the most powerful men of their time, those who retained their sanity.
Americans did not spit in their faces that is just nonsense that the media pushes. A few communist draft dodgers spitting does not account for the whole of America.
When watching footage like this I can't help but wonder how many of those young men who we see in this video returned home safely to their families ... and if they did how many of them lived with physical and emotional trauma as a result of the bloodshed they had witnessed. They were just kids. The Vietnam war was a horrific time in history.
@Azzam 111 so your tell me literal fresh high school graduates,they don’t know anything about the world,they were put through torture and had bad thoughts and were driven crazy even when they were back home. Then their life has gone to waste due to the US military using them for Vietnam?
@Azzam 111 You probably don’t have a response cause your thick skull can’t accept the fact their life’s gone to waste. Go serve in a war and come back to people like you who don’t support you.
@Azzam 111 Also,why don’t you care about their life’s going to waste?Did they do something to you or your country or something? There’s really no reason.
@Azzam 111 During the Vietnam war they couldn’t tell who the bad guys and the good guys were the enemies were disguising as normal people then ambush the soldiers.
@Azzam 111 even if it was intentional for them to kill the civilians if they knew they were innocent people doesn’t make all the soldiers during the war bad.They were a lot of hero’s during the war.
Crazy how we're just a moment in history. 40 to 50 years from now people will look back on our moment we're having right now and here we are looking back on there moment they were having at the time. Most are gone already. Makes you realize how small are problems are
Watching this and seeing the soldiers doing their thing mixed with the upbeat pre war footage got me thinking about the idea that its possible young men like myself could be in that very spot, taken away from home to fight somewhere unfamiliar with only our spirits to keep our heads up. This definitely hit. Much love to the Vietnam Veterans.
@@LeotheOrangeCat Not really. Iraq was also a message sent that America can fight a sustained war. There was backing down from that regardless of what it cost. And believe me, all options where on the table.
@@trinitrojack 885 U.S. deaths in 2005 were enough drive the U.S out of Iraq. After 2005, Bush did the surge, declared victory, and left. The U.S. public will no longer allow U.S. deaths at the Vietnam level except in the case of a truly an existential threat. Of course, deaths of non-U.S. nationals count for little in its calculus.
@@LeotheOrangeCat You have an interesting interpretation of dove out. Yes troops withdrew. Campaign results are certainly questionable. But what exactly would be the alternative here? Permanent occupation?
I like to Learn about the Both Sides of The wars to know how everything felt in thier perspective I wonder what the Nationalists thought about the Chinease civil war or how was life like For the Eastern European people in the cold war
My grandfather was extremely lucky to have served his time before Vietnam in West Germany, but my heart goes out to everyone who served in this war. Such senseless loss of young life.
if they did not serve in Vietnam the communism's would have been coming for their mothers, sisters and wife. No body wants to talk about the truth of the world.
No they didn't, young kids that went across the world and everyday had to witness the absolute worst of humanity, of course their minds would break, of course they would become numb to the things that they were doing, killing and pillaging, think about being in a place where you couldn't trust if the civilians around you were scouting you and reporting to the enemy or if they were going about their daily lives, taking a humans life is a lot easier when you develop hatred and anger in your heart for the enemy, but going into battle with a patriotic mindset of "I'm going to do good here, I'm going to be there for my squad and I'm going to make my country proud." That mindset quickly changes into "holy fuck, am I going to survive today? Are any of my friends/squad going to die today? Will I ever make it home?" They followed orders and that's what a soldier does, I'm not gonna go into my personal beliefs about the whole "hero" thing so I'll just leave it at that.
China failed to conquer vietnam. Mongols failed. Japan failed. French army defeated. And it was not a surprise America failed. Communism sucks but I have to pay my respect to my neighbors down in the South.
@@464528 I could give two shits about diplomacy. Most of these men didn't want to be there in the first place. The fact that you are willing to disrespect people who were forced to suffer and die for a cause they probably didn't believe in is absolutely disgusting. You should be ashamed of yourself.
y father served with the 3rd and 5th Special Forces Group in Vietnam,Cambodia and Laos 1964 to 1966. I know this song always held a special place in his heart because California is where my mom was living while she was pregnant with me. My pops left the Army after his last tour and attended UC Berkley. I myself served in the Army and have 2 combat deployments under my belt. This song always reminded me of my pops and of my home, Northern California. RIP Dr Levi Duran (pops) SSG B.K. Duran US Army-11B
My mother’s godfather served in Vietnam in the army. She said that when ever songs like California Dreamin came on he would become very emotional because it reminded him of his friends who died during the war
I'm from roc...so I know how the communism hurt to my country... You guys live a wonderful life. And we are suffer from communism's activity... Do you know how many people were dead because of the communism??? You guys are more luckier than us... Maybe you don't care about our fate...I don't know...but the soldiers who died in Vietnam are very brave...and they shouldn't participate the war...
back in college in 2015 i had an elective specifically about the vietnam war, and at the end of the semester our professor brought in 3 vietnam combat vets for us to just talk to and ask any questions we want. (yes even THAT question) and it was really, really cool. all three of them were the same age and saw combat at 18 yrs old. really good memory from school
Lost my father in September. He was a swamp rat (river boat) in the Navy. Never really talked about his experience, but passed away from cancerous brain tumors caused by agent orange. Now that he’s passed it really hits hard about the sacrifices these men and women made for our country. Love and respect to all those who are serving who have served in the past, and our POW’s!
Every note I play (piano therapist) dedicated to all of our military and all POWs..those who wait..those forever changed..and those who will serve in future...with deepest appreciation and thanks. 🌹
Since you Americans pulled out the civilians there are completely defenceless, you were also winning the nam war until the hippies came along. I agree that war is terrible but it’s kind of a necessary evil, imagine what would happen if we didn’t declare war on hitler. I agree that soldiers shouldn’t be drafted against their will but anyone with the slightest amount of bravery and selflessness would go to fight evil in a heartbeat. Biden is not a president, he is a spineless pervert that can’t remember last week.
@@Joe93819 tbh i feel like the US did more wrong than right when it comes to the US war. drafting the low IQ first, using Napalm and other toxic shit, firing upon innocent civilians with as excuse 'can't see who's bad or not' hell, the US shouldn't have been there to begin with. let a country solve it's own civil war and political fuckery, they weren't a threat to the rest of the world unlike Taliban .. which we saw in 2001.
@@JustaGuy1250 I agree that the chemicals and killing civilians was wrong but to say it wasn’t a threat to rest of the world is completely untrue, the war was to stop the spread of communism in Asia and if we won the war it would have discouraged people like pol pot, also if we won the war we would be a lot more intimidating to other countries that use Guerrilla warfare like Afghanistan and Iraq.
I remember that for 5th-grade chorus, we had to sing this song. We all thought it was a feel-good tune. Now I’m older, and just knowing the context of the song and the time period of when it was written, it’s just so depressing
I was very young ..a kid ..and my dad was in Vietnam .. my mother and my grand mother sometimes crying and never understand why .. and time gave me the answer .. he return after a long time , but he created his own world ..... and i grew up close to mi mother but I knew that my father was there .. but he come back ..
@@ВладимирИльичУльянов-ы2с What's your problem dude, nobody's perfect, war makes it very obvious but the Nazi's were a whole other kind of evil. What they did wasn't war or fighting to defend a honorable way of life, it was just wrong and horrid. I'm not an American but what they believe in is a good cause, freedom is a cause worth fighting for, clearly you don't see that though...
@@thewholehorse7140 Tbh hitler want russian save from massive death in russian. Lenin kill million religious people and Stalin forced people to work in gulag without getting payed
I almost fell out of my chair when I saw the thumbnail for this video... The man on the right with the mustache is actually my dad (he recognized himself when this documentary first came out and showed the whole family.) He just turned 70 last Monday and I love him to pieces. It's hard to have to wave at him and say happy birthday through a closed glass door because of Covid... I haven't been able to give him a hug in almost a year for fear of getting him sick. My heart goes out to all the Vietnam War veterans and their families who haven't been able to be with each other because of this awful pandemic. I hope it will be over as quickly as possible.
That's amazing, have you ever asked him what was going on in that clip and why they were recording?
Yeah he should ask him that!
I hope its over soon too, the next time you talk to your dad tell him thank you from the USA were very proud of our veterens! And Happy Birthday and you and your family stay safe
Tell him thanks for his service, for serving even though the country hated them
I'm happy that I was a soldier of our generation because we have a good gear and we are in better situations. Look I was in mali and Afghanistan and I was not for me, so I don't imagine what lived your dad. Thanks him for me From a fellow veteran. And you should tell him to right a book about his experience in Vietnam.
When my Grandpa got drafted, He didn't even know where Vietnam was.
Huge respect to your Grandpa, I remember seeing someone say “The Vietnam war was created to give America geography lessons”;)
America and their geography 👌👌👌
Basically vietnam is in middle east
Of course, people were way less educated back then than before.
Lt. Tom Kazansky No,pretty sure it's in Europe
“In peace, sons bury their fathers, in war, fathers bury their sons.”
Is there something about Vietnam that forces people to publish their favourite pretentious anti war quotes?
Who said this?
Colin Campbell “Is there something about Vietnam that forces people to blah blah” stfu u little geek
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But I’m right.
Colin Campbell No, you’re not.
1:42
Charles Colley
82nd Medical Detachment (Hel Amb)
Born: March 22nd, 1944 - Passed: February 25th, 2019
lemme guess he is in your family tree?
Lot of respect on his name
@@blackghost9627 Nope...
May he rest in peace
I was drafted in 1966 and was sent to Vietnam 1967 - 68 along with my brother, I can't put it in words that you would understand, but if you were there then you know what I mean, how much my life has changed in the past 53 years, this song is a grim reminder that I will never forget, just be glad that you did not have to go and the draft is over, because the agent orange would kill you as well. I am Vietnam veteran Bobby Whitney
Thank you for your service, from a U.S Marine
@Young Pappy that's a dumb idea
Bobby Whitney thank you for you service sir, it’s a pleasure having people like you to tell your stories.
RESPECT
Bobby Whitney thank you!!❤️🇺🇸
Too young to vote
, but not to die.
Too young to love
, but too old to cry
.
Saigon, 68-69.
@trump gaming a father a Marine our walk our tour our fathers tour brothers
Gotta read 'Public Opinion" by Lippmann. A government that depends on what people believe is going to really care about what the people believe in.
Thks for your service I was in Helmand 2006-2008 RCR
a marine father to family
@@harrywalker1621 the walk a father our sons a Marine father
‘Nam had the best soundtrack.
What about ww3
@@Nathan-cw7cb If that happens i will shoot myself
Lol just some 18 year old paratrooper dabbing listening to Every Day Bro as he jumps
Ricky Gervais
@@osamabinladen4769 You might want to reconsider your odds, Osama, or do you want me to link you a few compilations of modern rap in combination with war footage from Afghanistan.
I am 19 now and when my grandfather was my age he was here driving a tank for the Australian army. I can’t imagine anything to what he felt and I’m so proud and thankful for his existence and his service.
You should lesson an amazing song
Redgum-I was only 19
Yeey
Proud for what
@@yyyhh7249 For his existence and service. Did you not read?
@@oliverb.8995 Fighting in a imperialistic war is nothing to be proud of.
This really looks like it's from another world, another life.
Yeah . It’s strange how similar it looks and feels to today
True
Back before California became a shithole.
Ce fericiti erau oamenii inainte avand nimic pur si simplu nimic
Sunrise Surprise you really get the feeling that their time would’ve looked the same if they all had cameras in their pockets. They’re all getting up to the same sort of antics. They had lives just like ours and they were sent off to a far away country to die in a war that wasn’t theirs.
I’m not American and nobody in my family ever served in Vietnam but I keep coming back to this video. These kinds of videos invoke a kind of feeling I can’t describe, it’s very bittersweet. This video makes me want to cry, but also smile seeing all of these people smiling and playing around.
There is no such thing as harmless power.
graham cockroach, There is also no such thing as helpful; powerless.
This is sooo true
I feel that too
Cheval de bois ok boomer
👍🇺🇸🇺🇸 well said
My dad was drafted when he was 17 to fight in Angola (South Africa’s version of Vietnam) my dad still has nightmares to this day. He was forced to fight for a government he hated. My dad told me once he had to walk all the way from Angola to Namibia carrying his dead friend because the army didn’t think he was wroth saving. Respect for all Vietnam vets and those that didn’t make it
I'm also an Angolan vet, & looking back, was a total waste of life & resources. I saw a post earlier regarding war being a contest between old bitter men at the expense of young lives, & it is entirely accurate & incontestably accurate. I will be 60 in a few weeks, & my beloved wife, daughters & I are now staring down the barrel of Covid 19. All I have to offer them is sanctuary & sustenance until this latest abomination has passed. God Bless & protect all who read this post
@@davesouthwick970 And my uncle was on a different side there, amongst Soviet military advisors... He didn't like to talk a lot about that.
God Bless America USA USA in God we trust, and those soldiers are in Gods hands. I’m not from USA
@@ZemanTheMighty Um what? Do you know anything about the vietnam war? Not only was it totally unnecessary for the US to get involved but they got completely fucked on their first attempt when they should have been able to totally out gun Vietnam. Not only that but it led in large part to the Khmer Rouge's genocidal reign and the deaths of many innocent Americans and Vietnamese.
@@Oscar_Armstrong we're talking about the Angolan bushwar. Not Vietnam.
WHO WILL REMEMBER ME! Today this video popped up on my play list. As I listened to it and watched the video, while recovering from an overdose of food yesterday, I remembered the traveling wall had come to LaPine a few months ago. I went to the wall and was awed by it and what it represents. Being a teenager of the late 60's, I was well aware of what was going on over in Nam and all of the good men and women we had lost. One name stood out to me and I was determined to find him on the wall. With help from the nice lady assistant and the internet I found him. He went to school with my older sister and I was friends with his younger brother. This was as close as I ever got to feel the true loss of someone to the war. James Roland Golz, 3/12/49-1/27/68. Marine Private First Class. KIA after barely a month in country and not even 20 years old.
Today, James I remember you. Semper Fi
1:42
Charles T. Colley,
82nd Medical Detachment.
1944 - 2019
Get me 169 subs and I will reveal something rip
@Adam Beasley
Lmao, I've never thought of it, this comment trying to fool us
May he can rest in peace
Get me 169 subs and I will reveal something rest in peace legend
R.I.P. respect.
They were kids, and draftees, not professional troops. Draftees were civilians drafted into the military and trained hastily to be sent into war. Professional soldiers sign up voluntarily, get trained during peacetime, to a high standard, and if a war breaks out, they are sent in better prepared and better disciplined.
Pushed to do war crimes,disgusting.
John Skrelnik The Vietnamese committed quite a few of them too
That is not the reason. There are people who want to do exactly that. To fight. I'm one of those guys. I'm 24, soon 25. I live in Vienna, I have a very well paid job and I enjoy it, a nice car, I have a flat that costs me only 250 euro (that's damn little for Vienna), and had a nice one girlfriend I have left, just as I will leave everything else. To hell with it. Because I will leave Austria on 12.04.2020 and enter the French foreign legion. The reason is quite simple. The civilian life is not for me. I WANT TO BE SOLDIER. I WANT SERVICES. And that VOLUNTARY !!
american occupiers
@@Eduard15589 Remember to say goodbye to us mate, i hope you the best
miss my cousin Dan... chopper pilot. MIA 1969
Mister Sorge MIA, but not forgotten.. sorry about your loss.
LIEUTENANT DAN!!!!
We shot him down not sorry.
@@berserk6855 Charlie on sight
Mister Sorge May he rest in peace, I’m so sorry
55 years later still can't forget
Our soldiers young teens then
Music helped.
Thank you.
Can you appreciate my effort ?).( ua-cam.com/video/hv_utRlWVt0/v-deo.html
Men fighting for a country that didn’t fight for them.
Santino Chavez Not exactly
We actually had to shoot them if we were being overrun . You could never trust them to change sides
But they did fight against communism
@Santino Chavez What do you mean?
Felicity Troncao The US has always fought for for her people and the people have always fought for the US
"No one likes a soldier, till the enemy is at the gates." - Some old saying that I learned.
Very stupid saying. Soldiers are representations of the human flaw of fighting your own kind. Saying that people don't like soldiers until the enemy is at the door is meaningless, because people who don't like soldiers are actually saying that they don't like war and the inhumane acts one is forced to commit in it. A more accuraye saying would be;
The mouse would never create a mouse trap, but humans created the atomic bomb.
@@alierk542 my guy this wasn't supposed to be taken seriously.
@@alierk542 you have to fight the aggressor with something
@@alierk542 The need to prevent untold thousands of innocent victims created the bomb. Obviously you weren't a soldier in WW2, and you haven't been forced to speak Japanese for some reason....
@@jackfrost2146 no. Project manhattan and the efforts of scientist and physician léo szilard and enrico fermi mainly created the bomb. In 1945, the war against japan was basically won. All the USA needed to do was to demonstrate the power of the bomb without actually using it, which would have made japan surrender. The bomb didnt end the war, it was already pretty much over when france was liberated amd the axis forces were trampled in the snows of russia. The atomic bomb was an inhumane creation which never was supposed to be used. Leo szilard and albert einstein themselves, the creators behind the bomb, wishex they didnt participate in ita making after it was done. Get your facts straight.
The scariest thing is that these kids don’t look much older than me
thats cause they werent the youngest they drafted was 16 or 17
The draft
@@reversecloak550 The youngest drafted was 18.
This country always sends young men and now women to fight the fight...Look at WW1 and WW2...they were always young and vibrant and are now buried on foreign soil...God Bless all of them!!!!!
@@josephweaver5385 " It's old who declare war and the youth who dies "
I lost my best friend who was a Vet not long ago to Cancer. We lived in assisted living together and shared a porch. I practiced martial arts a little bit and showed him some stuff. I am 45 YO. He liked me because the first time I saw him I asked him if he was a Veteran? Then I asked him if he was a Vietnam Veteran? I told him Thank You So Much Sir. I started practicing martial arts when I was 9 YO. Peace. Mike.
So it's June 1965 and the school semester is coming to an end. I look over at this cute guy in our biology class, we smile, and then a month later to the day, I read in our local paper that
he had just died in Nam.
sorry for the loss maam
Where have all the flowers gone when will we learn :(
@@Brime69 oh hey fellow railfan
@@heyitshuttz3705 Hows it going. I See you're a NS fan. Have you Seen any Heritage Units? So Far I've Seen The Lehigh Valley and Illinois Terminal Units.
@@Brime69 waiting for one right now it’s the Wabash, I’ll tell you if it comes
Just to know that these people can be: Dead, in their 70s dying right now and their bodies still in vietnam
@Dino G It really is My Grandpa served in nam but never came back body buried up near the mekong delta
Jis I wish I could find one or those helmets and have them as a memory of those who fought their and gave their lives and I would stand near one of the jungles or mountain and salute those who have fallen
@@Unknown-lj7kq me too m8, me too...
@@z00p_zyt68 rest in peace
Nam was a hellhole
“War is young men dying and old men talking”
Thats why i liked Vikings... old pr young all fought in the front line togather
and the international lenders count their shekels
yep
And a lot's earning money on their lives.
war: posh cunts telling stoopid cunts to shoot poor cunts. A. Non
Being Russian, I understand both sides of this conflict. During the Vietnam War, I was a child so I don't have many memories of that event, I was born in 1968. But in the 1980s, my brother Tuvia was injured in Afghanistan, which made me very angry. I wrote for the college newspaper, and in 1985 I published one of the first columns criticizing the war. Result? My friends abandoned me, my car was scratched, the landlord in my building dismissed me and I had to spend the night in the KGB building listening to humiliation. They didn't harm me, but they called me unpatriotic and fearful, because when I turned 18 I decided not to go to conflict. Horrible things were happening in Afghanistan, and I was right, but the Russians were too patriotic to take notice of that. However, today, I believe I would not have done that. Not to change my opinion, but I would have respect for the young people who fought there!
🫡
"War is where the young and stupid are tricked by the old and bitter into killing each other." - Niko Bellic
BioTeck Hey Nikoo my cousin ! Wanna come to play Bowling with me?
Russian Man In Balaclava HAHAHAHAHAHAHA
I don't they are tricked, they just don't have a choice
It’s crazy so much truth can be said by a fictional video game character
Cabbage that's what I wanted
My grandpa was just 18 when he graduated high school. Then his number came up and he was drafted to nam. He said "Jungle warfare is like getting a ticket to see the devil up close.". I took him to Vietnam 2 years ago because he wanted to go and when he saw the jungle become a colonized city, he cried. He was and still is a one hell of a mad lad. He gave me a portrait of himself holding an M60 with on hand while he holds the belt on the other, only wearing a flak jacket with no sleeves. He is scared that war might break out and that I'll be drafted while I'm still a teenager in high school. He also revealed that one of his child hood friends got killed in combat. His body was lying lifeless on the ground, everything in one piece except his head. He said "It scares me up to this day that my best friend got killed...he wasn't any older than me. He had given me a cigarette 3 seconds ago and i look over to see him killed. I didn't even see or hear it happen, that's why it haunts me...why him but not me?! I feel sorry going home in 1970 and having to explain how much of a good man he was to his girlfriend and family." -PVT Daniel Jackson my beautiful grandfather.
Your grandfather sounds like a badass, and I'm glad he's mostly alright. Tell him that I thank him for his service and am sorry he had to go through that hell.
I hope another mayor war breaks out just imagine the mems
@@atomarkanov8201 will do!
@@Sharkoon030 what the hell? war is hell, don't forget it. you won't enjoy it if your time comes.
@@ComradeRosa yeah but just imagine how it would all play out
I feel nostalgia for a time i haven’t known
Me too
Anemoia
baezineitor 34 it’s in your genes
Nostalgia for the fucking Vietnam War?
cuz u were there in another life
1:17 Really makes you feel a certain way for these soldiers. Makes you feel sad knowing the fact, they had dreams in life, only to be sent away to a war they didn’t wanna go into. Especially with the song California dreaming, a song which could relate to the soldiers feelings on missing their home, and dreams of going back one day. Thank you to all the Vietnam war veterans 🇺🇸🙏🪖
If they did not go and fight there communism would been attacking their mothers, sisters and wives in America. It was that simple.
It was the most evil system ever creating killing more innocent people than WW1 and WW2 combined.
It was everywhere from Asia, Eastern Europe, Africa and South America. At some point they had to step up and stop its expansion and that was the first place that they really put an effort into.
Él era Féliz se le nota en su cara
Right after a guy with sunglasses giving beer to a dog. Lol
So much friendship between those boys. Can't imagine the horrors they went through when they came home.
(Everyone, I'm not saying that the Vietnam War was any good. Neither am I saying that these soldiers shown in the video were good. All I'm saying is that friendship in a military conflict is the best thing those boys had.)
Well some People didnt Come home
All those people shoukd thanks to US government for PTSD and dead bodies.
J S it also ruined their health they had drinks and drugs and smoking and depression the whole time so some of them didn’t make it home not just from war
think also about the Vietnamese
@@szymonwrobel6573 War is war, and it's terrible. Those things that happened in Vietnam can never be forgiven, but remember. Those who fought it was just kids. Most of them was only 19 or 20.
Imagine you are just finished high school or in college. You never go to gym or gun training. You only have months for training.
Then you sent into jungles that full of deadly traps and ghosts who wields ak47.
Those are teens you see in this video.
today's teens only care about clout
People forget everybody was high also
Imagine you was live a normal live in your own town, with your family.
Then a country come and send their soldier to kill the people, the town, even use the chemical weapon.
Those are teens you didnt see in this video
@Fiasco Vietnamies were only commie army to ever put up decent fight.
@@justaguy1878 Vietnam was already on war...
Pfc. Little Los
1950-1971
Gone but never forgotten.
Big rip
Kreegs damn that’s my age right now. It’s so sad and kind of scary. I feel like a melancholic sense of luck knowing that I was born after a century of violence.
Channel thats how long he was alive im pretty sure
Respect from Azerbaijan
@@cavidansevdimli6416 Гагаш, тебя сюда как занесло?
This video really puts Vietnam into perspective. Each servicemen was a individual person who had a family and friends. I remember this old saying that goes “old men see numbers increasing while young men see lives gone” this war was a waste of life and such a waste of a generation.
And if they did not serve in Vietnam the communists would have been coming for their families in America.
Fue para contener el comunismo
Just kids. They were just kids.
Edit: The funniest thing about seeing the replies calling me a commie is that I'm in the military myself. Yet, I can still recognize the longstanding effects the senseless war in Vietnam has had.
They were adult , are you blind?
@@ulrich9114 Most men in Vietnam were as young as 17
@@MrJustinUSCM Actually 19. Even Paul Hardcastle knows it!
Elijah Kids with gun but still kids
@@ulrich9114 adults are kids
RIP to my grandfather who died in 1966. He was a Master Sergeant and had also served in the Korean War. He got fatally wounded escorting a wounded soldier to a Huey and died on the ride for further medical aid. My father was only 6 at the time. The people within the video and the song itself are basically the only things I can imagine by grandfather through, as even my dad barely even knew him, it hits hard man.
That is sad. He should have went to Canada and lived a full and happy life.
@@TheWhale0101 In Nam, we we would refer to you as a sorry sack of shit. Still do today!
@@TheWhale0101 May you go back to worshipping shitheads and saying thiefs n bandits are "people who didn't have an opportunity". Bastard.
@@TheWhale0101 ok Muslim.
@@TheWhale0101 what the fucks ur deal
The saddest part of this video is that they're all kids. A bunch of 20 year Olds fighting in a horrible war. Rip. Especially today. Nov 11.
WW1 AND WW2..CIVIL WAR..ETC...Always the young that are put right up on the front lines while the big wigs sit comfy making all the calls and money!
Well at least that's one of the brighter spots of being born in this generation. Sure the music might not be that good as back then but hey, atleast we aren't forced to be dying in some remote jungle with a jammed M16 to fend against the enemy either.
Many nations are now armed with nukes so it would be suicide to go to war
I never understand that, why are the soldiers drafted ? Are the US that short on men to fight Vietnam ?
South Vietnam thanks for all American soldiers! We have 20 years in freedom. They said that was a dirty war but why they didn't live in china, north vietnam, north korea to know what's communist.
I myself am from Russia, but watching videos like this, I clearly feel similar feelings to when I look at old front-line photos of loved ones. All the same faces, emotions, feelings. The same young guys who were broken by the war: someone on the battlefield, and the war ruthlessly deprived someone of their minds, and even corrupt and deceitful politicians then simply wiped their feet on them.
I would like to express respect and good feelings to the guys who went through the horrors of the war, regardless of the side for which they fought.
Unfortunately, in wars, it is always the common people, the soldiers, who suffer first of all, and not the puppeteers who start them.
Кажеш Рус си,брате где си сада,јел се сада бориш против непријатеља? Знаш на кога мислим?
@@biljajovanovic3764 Biljo, ne seri
Comunistaaa
Ptsd will be huge for once who manage to came back.
@@biljajovanovic3764 what does it have to do with the fact that he is Russian?
This video honestly hits a lot harder now that I work at a veterans home.
@@mutt5701 you wrote this like a Nikita Hruscev told (do you know any heroes around here🧐)
In a film enemy at the Gates youknow if you watch this film
Treat them old boys good they are the last of the best
Yup.. was it worthy.. look like wars are fun isn't it..??
I salute to you👌🏼
2:01 Served in WW1 and WW2 and probably has son or grandson serving in the Vietnam war.
That’s what I thought too
That granpa?
Nope, most ww2 veteran were still in their 40's - early 50's when vietnam happened.
Average ww2 soldier were 17-28 then add 25 years.
But you are correct if that granpa probably a WW1 veteran
@@epicmetod Hey might be some kind of leader in ww2, most ww1 veterans were commanders in world war 2.
That's how it was back then just got out of high school and healthy okay son your going to war
exactly what I was thinking when I saw pops
I think the 60s had the best music ever
80ts
YES!!
60 and 80's
More like we just happen to remember the best music from the 60s
Yeah
As a 6 year old, I was watching TV in ‘72, not understanding what was going on , finding it “cool” to see war.
I live now for close to 7 years in Saigon, had a direct view from my office on the platform rooftop from which the Hue helicopter evacuated people, having visited ruins of War in different areas in Vietnam and most importantly, having learned why the Vietnamese resilience and persistence must have contributed in “ winning” this senseless war.
It’s a good place to live here.
you are insane if happy the communists came to power.
The Vietcong lost the war with over 2.5 million of them dying. They surrender and then the US decided to pullouts without ensuring that the place was in stable condition.
@blv
The US got the vietcong to surrender and attend negotiations in Paris. The Vietcong lost 50 times as many fighters as the US did.
The US never lost any major battles in the Vietnam conflict but the Vietcong lost nearly every major battle. The Vietcong were communists and were backed by both the USSR and China.
@@bighands69vietcong didn’t surrender.
@@bighands69🧠🧠🧠
Flashbacks from a time I never was
flashbacks from a time I was. 19 years old then. Now and old man . . .
this is SAUDADE😎
@tu tu Yes, 1972 and 73.
tu tu you don’t have to be from the us to know the history of the war just research it and look at documentaries is that easy tho and be is a little rude to ask someone “how was it like” you know what i mean?
@tu tu war is like a nightmare . . . a bad dream that never ends and damages everyone it touches. May you never know war.
Born around 1900
Fight in WW1
Born around 1920
Fight in WW2
Born around 1940
Fight in Vietnam
Born in 2002 and I'm getting flashbacks from this
Born around 2000
Fight in WW3
@@zlikurac4840 God I hope not. I was born in 2002.
@@SmokeyGames420 we need something to turn us into men
@@shawne02 We won't get a chance to turn into men, we'll just be disintegrated by nukes if WW3 happens.
born to live, sent to die...
@@OXY187 Well, I guess the choice is yours to make.
@@OXY187 u stupid?
@@usersif6493 how is that stupid?
@@usersif6493 how is he stupid
@@xan4thepeople ay just didnt make sense sorry if i offended anyone
Rest In Piece for those who died during the Nam war on both sides.
Im not the only one who is listening to this masterpiece in june
Nope
Nope
Nope all respect for these vets
of courde not
Nah
I feel like the Vietnam war is glamorised by the music and footage so much that it is covering over the cracks for how awful it must have been for those brave men.
I can’t imagine how terrifying it must have been, I’ve served in the military myself but my service was NOTHING compared to what these guys must have went through.
Keep the good memories brothers!
I do not blame them when losing the United States wanted to disguise their defeat and make it a little less crude, violent and horrifying
@@Martin-eh9oo
Defeat?
The US crushed the Vietcong. It was so one sided that the US decided to make an unprepared withdrawal that really looked bad. Just like Afghanistan.
I don’t think I’ve ever wanted to be involved in something so much, yet be so glad I never was
U flat footed fucking hippie
@@YourMom-jk3gh what
@@YourMom-jk3gh Actually, NOT fighting in this war was definitely the better option.
I felt like that whilst watching ww2 in color on netflix.
@@jackrutledgegoembel5896 I feel like many of the guys that emerged alive took home important life lessons, and memories they'll never forget. For better or for worse, being a part of one of the oldest, most respected human practices (war) carries with it a special admiration.
Found it! This played at work yesterday and brought back some good memories. I enjoyed singing along but my coworkers didn't xD reminded me of my dad. We shared my first beer together after a day of shooting on my birthday and this played on the radio. I wish i were there with him. Vinh long 68-69. Thanks for sharing
Hey, Jefferson I just wanted to say, you did a great job making this video. I showed my Grandpa who served in nam and he loved it. He said it showed so much truth, highlighting the innocence most had. How they were so young and hopeful, yet thrown in a foreign place to fight a battle that wasn’t theirs. Happy Fourth of July everyone.
i feel a little sad watching this video
those guys have my age ( 20 years old), and they are dying for nothing...
higopr Crying right now. Life was good in those days. My life is hell now.
Im crying too. Im from Ukraine. And this is shithole. I wish i was in 1960s.
higopr men! No kid today could do that these days! Not with out a phone or x box in hand
yes i agree
they were more MEN, i appreciated it. But i just didn't like the fact that they were going to a war. To die.
average age of a Soldier in Vietnam was 22. 75% of everyone who served in Vietnam Volunteered
I am 44 years old and my father told me about this war when he was younger. It was one of the bloodiest wars since the end of WW2. My respect for Vietnam veterans. Greetings from Brazil!
brabo
When I was a kid in Slovenia in the 1980s, I was fascinated by this war. It was a horrible war, of course, but I don't know how to explain it, but I enjoyed reading all about it. In the 1980s, many films and documentaries from the Vietnam War were on TV, and I watched them all.
My brother went to a rock concert in Frankfurt in 1987, and he met a veteran, who signed a paper that my brother gave me as a gift.
The life expectancy of a radioman in firefight was 5 seconds
That has to be exaggerated
@@MoreTrenMoreMen69 the first shots were at the radio man 99 times out of 100
@@MoreTrenMoreMen69 To be fair, there are some estimates that put their life expectancy as high as 30 seconds (as if that's better).
Sunrise Surprise It’s not, radioman would die usually within about 5 seconds of an ambush. They were actually kept away from the rest of the squad to ensure their safety.
Crusader cav scout life span today is 9 seconds
To die for a useless war is the worst thing that can happen to any man!
Fighting ANY war, war is useless since the people participating in it most of the time have less influence and parts in it than the big shots that started it
War isn't flighted by rich man on the Frontline, they let the poor and easy manipulative folk fight it for them inventing badges to make them feel like they actually fight for something else than a guy with a big attitude
Useless? then there’s no point of them fighting in ww2
@@j3in725 "There is no substitute for Victory"- General McArthur. He was right because we haven't won a war since. The war on drugs, poverty and terrorist is a waste of money, time and American lives because we never seems to realize an end game victory.
@@kwerty9671 You're an idiot ?
The USA was on the good side in World War II. In Vietnam, the United States was already a Nazi.
The Vietnamese wanted to create their own country, get rid of the colonialists; dictatorship was sitting in South Vietnam, crazy Catholics mocked the majority of the population (This is what the USA supported).
Well, the United States was afraid to attack Vietnam (soviet rockets), and fought with the forest (! Ants !) And pregnant women. (massacres) Like the Essaites.
This is a complete failure. The depression, heroin, suicides and the complete decomposition of the army.
@@ХозяинПолянки ok let the russian talk shit a out the US
They lived in the day, as there were no tomorrow, because possibly there wasn't a tomorrow.
that's dark
0:16
In thousands of cases they would be having the time of them life
And then days and in some cases even hours after that they could meet the end
life is just memories passing through.
today you could have the same feeling like this guys.
take photos with your team and save your memories.
today is the past to the eternity.
They're just kids. Sent to the other side of the world, told if they win they go home.
just civilians and farmers being killed by some invaders from the other side of the world
leo p that’s a generalization, do some research
@@danielespinolajr1 Oh i do, i'm waiting for the mass destruction weapons of sadam. What happen in libya, sirya, iran, iraq, afganistan, corea, vietnam, venezuela now? oh i know they suppose to had a dictatorship and they need democracy.
leo p aka they had oil the Americans wanted
leo p *korea, Commie
My grandpa Freddie Lopez and his brother were drafted to Vietnam. He told me one story about watching his best friend Victor Lopez step on a landmine and blow up in front of him the look of horror and pain in his eyes said enough. We lost him a few years ago due to cancer and I still think about him on the daily and what he must of gone through. Thank you to all the veterans who fought and for those who are fighting right now. God bless
They done an amazing job and the media has done a horrible job.
Memories of my dear friend Oscar who I met before his ship USS Glennon DD840 left for Vietnam,always in my 💓
Somethimes time flies way too fast- I'm still so used to meeting vietnam vets in their 50's to 70's, sometimes younger.
1:42
Charles colley.
RIP my beautiful angel. I love and miss you more than anything .
1 year today you been gone and I find this . I know you know I needed this.. I love you old man. . Fly high and watch over me please ..
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To everyone in the comments mentioning my grandad. Thank you. Thank you so much. Thank you for the respect, and the knowledge on him. Thank you for knowing his name and story . That's all I and him ever wanted .
Edit : for yall ignorant fucks im not " clout" chasing. This man hated attentjok. Leave me df alone and letnmy granddad rest man
What did he do in Vietnam? He probably killed innocent vietnamese people there! He is not an angel but a devil and now he's in the hell
@@BelieverofLordJesus lmfao complete opposite. My grandma hated to kill. He believed you only kill it if your going to eat it. He saved many Vietnamese people. He got shot down 62 times and saved everyone on his plane everytime. He was an advocate for agent orange
My granddad is a hero
I reported that asshole. No matter what the case was he was there. Do you know if he was drafted or enlisted prior? RIP
@@rahman94 enlisted prior. He was in for 9 years
Can Yiğit Shut up.
I remember a girl I knew was talking about war, and romanticizing the hell out it. So, I told her about my great uncle who was drafted into Vietnam and how he was killed the moment he got there. His helicopter was dropping him off into the jungle, and before his boots touched the ground he was shot dead as he took his very first step.
Sorry for your loss man, no offense to women but they just don’t understand the fear of war that us men face. If a war broke out tomarrow I’d be drafted to that hellhole. Nothing about war is pretty, it’s a nightmare waiting to happen.
@@nonameman7114 well isn’t it better to be a solider in a garden then a gardener in a war zone.
@@lemmino1846 they are both bad
the government of all countries romanticizes the war, so that their citizens would seek to die in wars for the sake of the interests of the capitalists!
@@aleksklaby4819 I would agree that they all do, but they all aren't capitalists. Their are socialists fascists etc. All spreading propaganda to get people to do there dirty work.
One of my favorite videos on YT. There's the sense of nostalgia that overwhelms you when you look at the people smiling in this video even though you were born decades later.
Wow! Amazing you saw your dad in this footage. I hope he is doing well. I actually came to watch this video to see if I would just happen to see my dad. Probably one in a million but you never know.
"How many dreams were left behind because of this damn war"...
Anibal Aldebaran Luz now that’s the real question being asked.
Doesn’t freak people out knowing that most of these people are likely dead? That’s why war footage gets to my feels
This was in the sixties/seventies so quite a few people are still alive
If you mean because they died in the war: No, the majority of soldiers survive in almost any given modern war. If you mean because it's so long ago: No, it wasn't that long ago, most are probably in their seventies.
Amuro Ray okkkk dude.
@Amuro Ray Not that high of a percentage bro... Jesus
Amuro Ray the us government did not tell them to kill as many civilians as they could, that would be a war crime
Drafted, sent to an insanely brutal war, and came back only to be spit on by their fellow Americans. These were the most powerful men of their time, those who retained their sanity.
Politics! am I right?
And the ones who didn’t deserve to be looked on with honor. May we never forget their sacrifice
“Those who retained their sanity” seems a bit disrespectful don’t you think?
@@Riptor1998 Its the truth, no?
Americans did not spit in their faces that is just nonsense that the media pushes. A few communist draft dodgers spitting does not account for the whole of America.
born and raised in Calif thanks to all the Nam Vets God Bless from a Nam vet sister if anyone wants to know that is the late Hal Blaine on drums
When watching footage like this I can't help but wonder how many of those young men who we see in this video returned home safely to their families ... and if they did how many of them lived with physical and emotional trauma as a result of the bloodshed they had witnessed. They were just kids. The Vietnam war was a horrific time in history.
“The old who start it all, let the young fight it”
@Azzam 111 so your tell me literal fresh high school graduates,they don’t know anything about the world,they were put through torture and had bad thoughts and were driven crazy even when they were back home. Then their life has gone to waste due to the US military using them for Vietnam?
@Azzam 111 You probably don’t have a response cause your thick skull can’t accept the fact their life’s gone to waste. Go serve in a war and come back to people like you who don’t support you.
@Azzam 111 Also,why don’t you care about their life’s going to waste?Did they do something to you or your country or something? There’s really no reason.
@Azzam 111 During the Vietnam war they couldn’t tell who the bad guys and the good guys were the enemies were disguising as normal people then ambush the soldiers.
@Azzam 111 even if it was intentional for them to kill the civilians if they knew they were innocent people doesn’t make all the soldiers during the war bad.They were a lot of hero’s during the war.
Crazy how we're just a moment in history. 40 to 50 years from now people will look back on our moment we're having right now and here we are looking back on there moment they were having at the time. Most are gone already. Makes you realize how small are problems are
And how big our concerns are
Watching this and seeing the soldiers doing their thing mixed with the upbeat pre war footage got me thinking about the idea that its possible young men like myself could be in that very spot, taken away from home to fight somewhere unfamiliar with only our spirits to keep our heads up. This definitely hit. Much love to the Vietnam Veterans.
1:48 Col.Benjamin Purcell (1928-2013) and his wife; Col. Purcell was a Vietnam POW and the highest ranking army officer among them.
Jose Mercado Dianela wow thanks for sharing
José Mercado Dianela. Thanks for the info! Rip to what I hope was a good and strong veteran. 🙏🙏
The kid with the peace signs & Wayfarers is freelance photographer , Sean Flynn
Just read about him. What a man. What happened to him was unfortunate.
Wonder what happened to him after he disappeared.. really annoys me that I dont know
“War stops people,so why people don’t stop war?”
-Some Lost Zippo Lighter
Vietnam is where America said no, at least to their kids dying. If Iraq got worse, it would have stopped that too.
@@LeotheOrangeCat Not really. Iraq was also a message sent that America can fight a sustained war. There was backing down from that regardless of what it cost. And believe me, all options where on the table.
This is a true smart human being comment, the only one i found, so sad.
@@trinitrojack 885 U.S. deaths in 2005 were enough drive the U.S out of Iraq. After 2005, Bush did the surge, declared victory, and left. The U.S. public will no longer allow U.S. deaths at the Vietnam level except in the case of a truly an existential threat. Of course, deaths of non-U.S. nationals count for little in its calculus.
@@LeotheOrangeCat You have an interesting interpretation of dove out. Yes troops withdrew. Campaign results are certainly questionable. But what exactly would be the alternative here? Permanent occupation?
War is hell. You can see that in the eyes of all those that were there.
Me as a Vietnamese, The war most worthless both young Vietnamese and American die for no reason
ZAKKERLY
exactly!
I like to Learn about the Both Sides of The wars to know how everything felt in thier perspective I wonder what the Nationalists thought about the Chinease civil war or how was life like For the Eastern European people in the cold war
Big facts
Stupid politics it was that which caused the war, so many Americans and Vietnamese were killed :(
1:24 so wholesome.. i hope these men are still friends
The guy on the left might be an ARVN soldier(South Vietnamese army) so we dont know if they ever got to reconnect later on
@@luallual8180 the guy on the right is alive because there’s a comment from his son but I do hope that the Vietnamese guy is still alive
@@luallual8180 we can hope though, can’t we?
He’s not south Vietnamese look he’s black
@@Maréchal_John_Gaming Hmm, to me the eyes, face and skin tone overall just seem like features on a person from southeast Asia
So many heroes, and so many who didn't come home ....
You say heroes, i say unwelcome invaders
Heroes? they didn't fight for his country, they were killers
creepy guy fucking scumbag
creepy guy fuck you
leo p fuck you too, you wouldn't last a day in Vietnam
My grandfather was extremely lucky to have served his time before Vietnam in West Germany, but my heart goes out to everyone who served in this war. Such senseless loss of young life.
if they did not serve in Vietnam the communism's would have been coming for their mothers, sisters and wife.
No body wants to talk about the truth of the world.
They didnt deserve what they got when they came home
What about people of Vietnam? Those who was killed in their homes... for nothing!
No they didn't, young kids that went across the world and everyday had to witness the absolute worst of humanity, of course their minds would break, of course they would become numb to the things that they were doing, killing and pillaging, think about being in a place where you couldn't trust if the civilians around you were scouting you and reporting to the enemy or if they were going about their daily lives, taking a humans life is a lot easier when you develop hatred and anger in your heart for the enemy, but going into battle with a patriotic mindset of "I'm going to do good here, I'm going to be there for my squad and I'm going to make my country proud." That mindset quickly changes into "holy fuck, am I going to survive today? Are any of my friends/squad going to die today? Will I ever make it home?" They followed orders and that's what a soldier does, I'm not gonna go into my personal beliefs about the whole "hero" thing so I'll just leave it at that.
Семен Мальцев им приказывали хули. Не было выбора
Loki wow, you’re so edgy...
@@SnakeP1tPoetry just watched your channel and you're the definition of an edge lord.
Vietnam was like poking a bees nest. Pointless and will only hurt you in the end
China failed to conquer vietnam. Mongols failed. Japan failed. French army defeated. And it was not a surprise America failed.
Communism sucks but I have to pay my respect to my neighbors down in the South.
Fighting for the freedoom of a South Eastern Asian country against Communist Tyranny, well it's NOT POINTLESS.
actualnotsorightguy3 if you believe in non interventionism it was pointless
@@pat7785 People hate us Americans when we don't get involved in a war and then they hate us for getting involved in the war.
THEYRE IN THE TREES
The sad thing is half of the men in this video were probably killed.
@@464528 Fuck you. These men didn't start the war. They had their lives taken from them.
@@decker4490 You dont like communism, and that gives you the right to invade a foreign country?
@@464528 I could give two shits about diplomacy. Most of these men didn't want to be there in the first place. The fact that you are willing to disrespect people who were forced to suffer and die for a cause they probably didn't believe in is absolutely disgusting. You should be ashamed of yourself.
I HAVE a GODAMN Plan
@@sfsstudios9108 yeah, just following orders, when killing innocent farmers, most of who women and children.
y father served with the 3rd and 5th Special Forces Group in Vietnam,Cambodia and Laos 1964 to 1966. I know this song always held a special place in his heart because California is where my mom was living while she was pregnant with me. My pops left the Army after his last tour and attended UC Berkley. I myself served in the Army and have 2 combat deployments under my belt. This song always reminded me of my pops and of my home, Northern California. RIP Dr Levi Duran (pops) SSG B.K. Duran US Army-11B
Always the poor, the working class, the middle class who has to sacrifice themselves in wars. Always has been.
That is why i respect McCain, a real royal
David Ma the dead guy? The same guy that was against affordable healthcare? Yeah poor bastard.
@@gsingh87 McCain & his pappy were two of the biggest shills for Israel
David Ma McCain ratted out his fellow soldiers
@@jcristero2476 that's why they called him Songbird....he was evil
My mother’s godfather served in Vietnam in the army. She said that when ever songs like California Dreamin came on he would become very emotional because it reminded him of his friends who died during the war
Seeing all these people in the comments recognize their family members is heart breaking. Rip everyone❤
That war was not necessary. So many people died for nothing.
Don Tango if it like German where the communism collapsed itseft, then then the war would be something
@@thile6742 The Communism is not like what happened in German....
Ricardo ludwig and i said "if" IF, that small word make the whole sentence
I'm from roc...so I know how the communism hurt to my country...
You guys live a wonderful life. And we are suffer from communism's activity...
Do you know how many people were dead because of the communism???
You guys are more luckier than us...
Maybe you don't care about our fate...I don't know...but the soldiers who died in Vietnam are very brave...and they shouldn't participate the war...
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Do American eat human being???
Eat human's lung...heart....in 20 century?????
back in college in 2015 i had an elective specifically about the vietnam war, and at the end of the semester our professor brought in 3 vietnam combat vets for us to just talk to and ask any questions we want. (yes even THAT question) and it was really, really cool. all three of them were the same age and saw combat at 18 yrs old. really good memory from school
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Lost my father in September. He was a swamp rat (river boat) in the Navy. Never really talked about his experience, but passed away from cancerous brain tumors caused by agent orange. Now that he’s passed it really hits hard about the sacrifices these men and women made for our country. Love and respect to all those who are serving who have served in the past, and our POW’s!
Agent orange is some nasty shit
Every note I play (pianp) dedicated ur
Every note I play (piano therapist) dedicated to all of our military and all POWs..those who wait..those forever changed..and those who will serve in future...with deepest appreciation and thanks. 🌹
This song hits different after the shitstorm of Afghanistan. Sad how we never learned our lesson from Vietnam.
looks like were on the same deep dive or recommended did you also click off of the black sabbath paranoid video?
Aged like milk
Since you Americans pulled out the civilians there are completely defenceless, you were also winning the nam war until the hippies came along. I agree that war is terrible but it’s kind of a necessary evil, imagine what would happen if we didn’t declare war on hitler. I agree that soldiers shouldn’t be drafted against their will but anyone with the slightest amount of bravery and selflessness would go to fight evil in a heartbeat. Biden is not a president, he is a spineless pervert that can’t remember last week.
@@Joe93819 tbh
i feel like the US did more wrong than right when it comes to the US war.
drafting the low IQ first, using Napalm and other toxic shit, firing upon innocent civilians with as excuse 'can't see who's bad or not'
hell, the US shouldn't have been there to begin with.
let a country solve it's own civil war and political fuckery, they weren't a threat to the rest of the world unlike Taliban .. which we saw in 2001.
@@JustaGuy1250 I agree that the chemicals and killing civilians was wrong but to say it wasn’t a threat to rest of the world is completely untrue, the war was to stop the spread of communism in Asia and if we won the war it would have discouraged people like pol pot, also if we won the war we would be a lot more intimidating to other countries that use Guerrilla warfare like Afghanistan and Iraq.
I remember that for 5th-grade chorus, we had to sing this song. We all thought it was a feel-good tune.
Now I’m older, and just knowing the context of the song and the time period of when it was written, it’s just so depressing
“War is young men dying and old men talking” - King Odysseus
"War is when the young and stupid are tricked to kill each other because of the old and bitter" - Niko Bellic
Vietnam War is one of the most underrated bands ever...
lol?
@Sky Boy in its time people literally died to see it
There's something about this song and this video which brings me back every week.
I was very young ..a kid ..and my dad was in Vietnam .. my mother and my grand mother sometimes crying and never understand why .. and time gave me the answer ..
he return after a long time , but he created his own world .....
and i grew up close to mi mother but I knew that my father was there .. but he come back ..
Respect from Russia.
I hope the war will never be again.
Hello from New York ...
Jeez bro, diz comment didn’t age to well
Respect from Russia!!Vietnam forever!Usa nazi soldirs dead
@@ВладимирИльичУльянов-ы2с What's your problem dude, nobody's perfect, war makes it very obvious but the Nazi's were a whole other kind of evil. What they did wasn't war or fighting to defend a honorable way of life, it was just wrong and horrid. I'm not an American but what they believe in is a good cause, freedom is a cause worth fighting for, clearly you don't see that though...
@@thewholehorse7140
Tbh hitler want russian save from massive death in russian. Lenin kill million religious people and Stalin forced people to work in gulag without getting payed
This is the greatest video on internet
Как же атмосферно) Такое чувство , что сам в тех годах побывал) Оч. круто)
For some reason this was really nostalgic even though I was born in 2004
It's the general human subconcious thingamabob.
Same
2005
reincarnation
Same 2004