Cary S. King's interview for the Veterans History Project at Atlanta History Center
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- Опубліковано 7 сер 2024
- Catalog number: VIS 201.0506
In this interview, Cary King describes his experiences serving in the United States Army in Vietnam. He recalls his growing up years as the son of an immigrant father and a first-generation American mother and how they felt when he was commissioned. He describes his training in the United States and Germany; volunteering for duty in Vietnam; and visiting the Haight-Ashbury district of San Francisco while in uniform. He describes his transit to Vietnam and his first impressions, including the heat, the smell, and the sight of body bags on carts. He recalls his duties in the 1st Infantry Division and describes many incidents, including the deaths of friends; prisoner interrogations; and troops contracting dysentery from contaminated Army water bladders. He remembers getting a three-day pass and being recalled to his unit because of the start of the Tet Offensive. He recalls the buildup to Tet and its aftermath. He describes his homecoming experience and recalls returning to Vietnam many years later and meeting a survivor of the 273rd Việt Cộng, an enemy unit with which his unit engaged, at a cemetery there.
Vietnam Vets were my heros when I was in High School. Thank you for doing this.
Hi, Cary!! Thank you so much for your service to your country!! And thank you for all your help in dedicating the Tom Reilly Green Space in Brookhaven, Georgia in September of 2021. Hope to see you again soon!!--Tom Reilly
Thank you Cary!
King is really one of the 5 top Vietnam Vet interviews. Man is the real deal for a CPT. If still going best to you today.
He lived a lifetime in one year.
Gary if your still kicking your the best nam vet that really laid down a great story of the war! Your a great man with a great story you went thru.
He does a lot of excellent interviews with other veterans. One of the best interviewers I've heard
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Good interview to all involved.
Politicians lost this war. Our military deserved better.
Thank You SIR for your Service and Dedication to our Country !!...much RESPECT for all you Vietnam Combat Vets !!...God Bless all of you and WELCOME HOME SIR !!
You did the right thing. 🇱🇷🇱🇷🇱🇷
That so true. Y'all won the battles and the war. I don't understand how the public could have treated Y'all that way. I was only 10 yrs old in 1975. But My Dad was in the navy. And had uncles in the military at the time. The Government lost it. But welcome home from one veteran to another. Thank you for your Service
Not the U-2 at Okinawa, it was the sr-71
Best interview ive listened too
Welcome Home. Thank you for your service. I truly enjoyed your story. Yes sir I agree. If the politicians had stayed out we would have won it and been home earlier. I only had 2 paragraphs about Vietnam and 3 freakin chapters on the Civil War. 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸⚓️⚓️⚓️
The highest casualty incident in the Gulf War was FRIENDLY FIRE on the Artillery Barracks. The bomber"s coordinates were not calibrated/programmed properly 😕
Absolutely agree with Mr. King`s assessment on the Fonda,Cronkite,and the ever-loving,peaceful bomb-throwing hippie movement(akin to bowel movement)...I was born in `71 and have always felt that,for the most part,my generation,the sons and daughters of the Viet Nam vet,were taught by the brand new teachers coming in from their freshly indoctrinated college careers,and giving us a fresh new angle that denegrated,not only the Viet Nam era,but American history in general;I`ve always felt that we were not being given the truth,the WHOLE truth about the real nation we live in and can see from afar now,that not only the omission of a great deal of our country`s vital growth,and literal lies and slanted political views were introduced,slowly at the time,but also the introduction of an even greater danger,the lying biased media....It seems,to me anyway,that this all started during the Viet Nam era,and,of course today,is blatantly a real dangerous and active part now of our society......
I liked this interview and gave a thumbs up to about 12 of the positive comments and want to give a big thumbs up to the rest that I have not read yet . I am in solidarity with all who love Cary King and resent all who opposed the values and ideals that Our Veteran’s and Casualties of War sacrificed for. My question is , Name one communist government and people that have not profited from doing business with the capitalist United States? Name one of them that has advanced technologically without spying on America or stealing and copying American advancements . They all claim to hate capitalism and true Republican Government but We do not see them rejecting all the capitalist creation’s they have benefitted from and still they covet . Communism is nothing more than a euphemism for totalitarian , militaristic , imperialist authoritarian elites who still do practice slavery .
Nice interview. I just wish they would have gotten the audio squared away...... The interviewer is too loud compared to Mr. King
I never talk to anyone about my experiences in the USMC unless they were Marines. Go Gators
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King I bet got his ass back and was doing aerial coordinates at the 101 Airbourne Headquarters pretty quick. The VC took the damn Chopper pad over.
Having listened to many of these interviews, this man does the best of them AND did his very best while in country. However how do you think you made your fellow soldiers feel that are Native Americans with your comments calling the enemy indians?
Seriously? Who cares. They aren't woke babies like everyone today
Geez!!! What happened??? The American military used to have a front line & fought on to the enemies capitol!
Not Oakland....Travis AFB. Really?
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Thank you for your service, good job, however, knowing you choose not to say the word "Gooks" you substituted "Indian" you are not my kind of officer, Not in the US Army anyway. Sorry.
Tired of pilots...
UA-cam keeps pushing these kind of videos on me. I don't listen to them b/c I vomit easily. Just in case they aren't talking about "fragging"...let me do it here. From my understanding back then, and now...it was the deliberate act of mutiny by servicemen against their US officers and their orders. In other words, throw a grenade near an officer and there is really no evidence how he died (if he did). From my reading, 800 incidents were documented over a period of 5 years or so. 87 officers lost their lives.
And then, there is of course the "collateral damage" against the Vietnamese people and their property over a 10 year period. And the well publicized massacres. And.....
What was the exact reason veterans feel misunderstood and mistreated when they came home? I guess I missed that. All these things were known by the American public
Well said
You love trying to relive your draft dodging "glory days" on all these videos...nobody cares about you. And in case anyone indoctrinated by you missed it, the communist did way worse to the same people you act like you care about.
Go trip on some mushrooms and complain about Vietnam to your old commune buddies.