A heart-rending visit for vets at Vietnam Memorial Wall
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- The Army's 359th Transportation Company saw heavy combat in Vietnam, where 14 of the unit's soldiers were killed, including Spec. 4 Larry G. Dahl, who was posthumously awarded the Medal of Honor. A visit to the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Wall in Washington, D.C., on May 11, 2016, evoked many memories for several veterans in attendance. MORE: www.stripes.com...
So young and so very brave, my brother Dennis was KIA in Vietnam, 4-30-69 delta co, big red one, RIP big brother, I miss you every day,
GOD BLESS ALL WHO SERVED IN VIETNAM
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It is NOT the memorial to Vietnam -- the country or the war. It is a memorial to Vietnam veterans. It was built with not one penny of public money because the country simply didn't give a damn. So Vietnam veterans contributed and got it done. When it was dedicated, not one single U.S. president even showed up. I was there for the dedication and only two senators (John Warner and Mathias) showed.
I'll bet that if it was our present President, the whole cabinet would have been there!
Pat Garrett lmao you mean the one that didn’t attend a WW1 remembrance ceremony in paris because it was raining? You mean the piece of shit in office now that has NEVER visited troops stationed overseas? That one? Sure thing
@@patgarrett2152 Unless they had bone spurs.
Great shot, u nailed it
Oh sure he would. And it it was raining forget it. His orange tan would wash off.
In Memory Of All My Brothers Who Never Made It Home. Rest In Peace. 25 th. Infantry Wolfhounds Cu Chi 66/69
Tet 1968Larry, I also served with the 25th. 1/14 “golden dragons”. August 1967 they switched us to the 4th inf division. I have never been able to go there. Not financially, I’ve got the money and resources, but emotionally. From July 67 to feb 1 68 our rifle battalion lost 110 Kia and 258 wia. From Jan 31 until feb 20 68 we had 40 Kia and 110 wia, at lz hardcore, just a few miles from the big marine base at lz baldy at da nang. I was wounded there feb 6 68There are just too many names. Too much heartache. Welcome home my friend, hope you are well, and not in too much pain.
@@Pointman-yf6or I was honored to receive your reply to my post after so many months I served with the 2nd. Plt. Bravo Co. 2 - 27 Infantry 25th. I.D. { Wolfhounds } 66/69 and I can tell you by my personal experience visiting the Wall is one of the hardest things I ever encountered in my entire life, but after walking by the panels and seeing so many of my Brothers who served and fought and died next to me a feeling of peace came over me and after leaving and returning to the hotel I stayed at was the first time in over 50 years I had a peaceful nights sleep. I wish I could explain how the fog of peace came over me and I left so many horrible memories there. I pray one day you can find it in you to visit the Vietnam Veterans Memorial and the same fog of Peace comes over you.@Pointman 67/68 welcome home and I truly understand your pain even after all these years please if you can go to D.C. and re-connect with your Brothers names who appear on those Black Marble Panels and may God bless you and helps you find peace after so many years.
My father in law was a COMBAT MEDIC with 25thWOLFHOUNDS in Korea. Said he regretted, couldn't get to them all in time. That's about all he ever had to say.
Current B co 2-27, 1st PLT. Thankful to the men like you.
Thank both of u for your service
The Flag does not wave because of the wind. It waves from the last breath of each soldier that has died to honor it. RIP for our brave men for your ultimate sacrafice, you will never be forgotten. For our brave men who carry one, welcome home and thank you for your service and sacrfices you also endured. You have taught us so much. THANK YOU!
Well said.
They died to make LBJ richer
I am British, I mixed with Americans boys who came over from Vietnam to train with us in our Jungle Fighting schools in Malaya. I met and liked many of them. Our Malayan war was just over and we were moving to Borneo to fight the Indonesians there, However I always felt that we as British Infantry identified with the Americans who fought in Vietnam. I always felt that we as British Infantry should have been with them in their struggle. I intend to visit the 'Wall' and to pay my respects. I will do this on the 4th of October this year. Flight booked and ready to go. I will feel better afterwards, then having done what I have wanted to do for so many years. We were all young men in those days, and none of us ever thought we would die, regrettably many did. Now so many years later sometimes at night when all is quiet, I can still hear the boys singing, as we often did when work was over, and circumstances permitted.
Nice comment. But for me it begs the question...why the he$$ were you over in Malaysia and Indonesia "fighting in jungles" in the first place ?? You were a little "far" from home just like the Americans were in Vietnam. I think the term "Colonialism" applies here. Wise people know when a fight is THEIR fight...and when it's not. I resisted the Draft & Vietnam back then...one of the smartest things I did in my life. I may have been naive and foolish in my youth, but I wasn't stupid.
@@topgeardel They were tidying up operations and fixing stable governments in place, which actually happened in Malaya and Borneo, they are stable today and
democracy is firm in both places. I respect US Vietnam vets and shake their hands when I meet them. I did so at the Wall last year, the same as the British soldiers they are worriers...are you yourself a proud man these days? Draft dodging is not a style that I admire, having helped to bury many of my British friends, Perhaps you will bow your head over the coming months, once for every one of the 59000 of you countrymen that paid the price. RIP each and every one of them. Rest easy duty done!
@@overopensights Him not responding says it all. Lots of respect sir.
I didn’t serve in Vietnam, I’m a Brit, but looking at this and the feeling in the faces of the Vets, just chokes me up. They remember their buddies who didn’t come home and it takes them right back to where they were when it happened. God bless them.
I walked the Wall the day after the second anniversary of 9/11. It's a memory that will live with me forever. I'm a Brit and we ducked Vietnam but they're still my generation - treat the names on that wall and everyone else who served there with respect.
The Vietnam memorial is such a powerful place, as soon as you get there and the scale of it, all the names, who were people with lives and families, it just tears you apart.
Elibrius Project someday I will see that wall. I can't imagine the feeling it must provoke
Not a Vietnam memorial. It’s the vietnam veterans memorial.
@@daveherrin2701 I seen the traveling wall. It's a very eerie feeling. I want to see the Vietnam Veteran Memorial Wall in DC
in England we have memorials in every village of every town, just to let you know that we sure know the true cost of losing loved ones for the sake of freedom. there are only two villages from the whole of the UK that escaped loss from war. I don't think you'll find that scale of loss from the rest of the civilised world. you talk of powerful places to experience the scale of loss? you don't know the half of it.
th wailing Wall of Jerusalem too.
I knew many Vietnam veterans in my life and military career and I was in Washington, DC when the memorial was unveiled in 1982. I was in the Army then and it was very sobering to see all those names on the memorial. If you ever visit Washington, DC please do go to see the Vietnam Memorial, the Korean War Memorial, the WWII Memorial, and of course, Arlington National Cemetery.
I was too you to remember the Vietnam war but I went to the wall and saw the hurting Vets.. It was so powerful..
We don't know them all, but we owe them all.
to all vietnam veterans tankyou for your service welcome home god bless you
I am close friends with a Vietnam veteran. He won't go to the wall in DC. He almost fainted when the traveling wall came to town. He said the memories are to much. God bless him and all our veterans.
As many may remember. When The Vietnam Memorial wall opened in our capital, there was also an exact replica 1/2 scale that toured the nation for one year. This was done to accommodate millions who might never have the opportunity to visit DC. In opened here early in the tour accompanied by a full military honor guard one Sunday morning and stayed for several days.
I arrived early, but there were already thousands arriving.
Half scale was still large and it had been erected in a memorial park area of one of our local universities. A beautiful, peaceful setting.
I remember the incredible quiet, in spite of so many people. So many walking quietly along softly crying, myself included.
A deeply moving tribute so subtle and healing AND SO LONG OVERDUE.
This nation has never come fully to terms with the terrible manner in which it treated our returning Vietnam veterans.
They were scorned and alienated in the own homeland.
This nation's treatment of them was disgraceful.
Anyway, visiting the wall was a deeply felt experience for me and I'll never forget it.
I’m glad the wall was made...it has given some of these vets a place to go, remember & meet others that were there...it breaks my heart how bad we treated our service men...they needed us and we weren’t there, yet the call to arms and they fought for our country...🇺🇸
In Memory to Darrell and Eddie McWright Marines and Brothers on the Wall Forever.
To all of you vietnam veterans. I love you! So many people didn't understand what it was like there.. My dad was a vet. When I was a teenager I went to the veterans hospital and I listened to the stories about how it was there.I cant change it but i can tell you I love you and you deserved a whole lot better treatment than what you got when you came home.
My father the late Clarence Vaughn.Jr. was a veteran and this brought me to tears.
My Dad was a Veteran also
The second greatest generation on this Earth. Sons of WW2 vets and those who experienced its hardships. Fought communism, lived through an amazing era and came home with nothing.
Vietnam would never have became communist if the United States had helped them become independent from France after ww2. Ho Chi Minh approached the U.S. government after the war he was willing to have Vietnam under a democratic government if the u.s. was willing to cooperate with them.
All these Vietnam videos are basically BS. These veterans willingly chose to go to an unwinnable, illegal war. If they say otherwise they are promoting a falsehood. A lot of these people push the image that they could or did win the war, but the "politicians" and the "people back home" lost it. Vietnam was a national American disgrace, tragedy and defeat...and they share in the responsibility of it. The politicians and American people saw that the war was not being won, or was unwinnable. The US never really had the "hearts and minds" of the South Vietnamese people...who they supposedly were fighting for. They don't talk much about the war crimes they committed against the Vietnamese....OR even against their own personnel. Lastly, whether these guys won or lost...the Vietnam war had absolutely NO effect on American freedom, security, safety or way of life. They did NOT sacrifice anything for my...or your freedom. These veterans present themselves as victims and wrongly treated. They are big boys and went to a country to kill or be killed. They shared in the failure. Now they want to be recognized for their "sacrifice" through videos, Honor Flights, endless trips to the Wall in DC or to Vietnam itself. They never grew up and really moved on. They have made themselves an embarrassment to themselves and my generation.
It is the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
I'm glad each and every one of you made it home.. I'm 54 and have always respected your sacrifices.. maybe nothing I can say that can make the Vets feel better, but I salute you guys and women of Vietnam..All of you have my respect.. 👍
I was there 1992. I'm feeling this heartbreaking stuff. Breaking my heart!
Welcome home brothers
Today 3 out of 4 Vietnam vets are already dead. No one got a dime for agent orange. We were spit on and denied jobs. We were drugged out baby killers not to be trusted. I've lived a life of nightmares and memories that I can't forget. Tomorrow is Memorial DAY and I will remember my friends who didn't make it home alive and wish I could change places with them. Old soldiers don't die they just fade away. Enjoy your freedom because it was paid for in blood.
I personally read hats when I'm in a store or other type of crowd, looking for military insignia of any type, or war, and personally shake their hands, with a big thank you for your service! I also leave thank you notes on cars with military decals! They gave so much, its just a little recognition and gratitude!
I have occasionally engaged in very interesting conversations with vets, and it is enlightening on how they look back, and how they feel now. I am amazed at how many would do it all again!
THANKS TO ALL WHO GAVE SO MUCH IN SO MANY WAYS!
Pat Garrett hey mr pat I do the same thing. I will chase a vet across walmart to shake their hand heros every one of them!
Long live the Republic of Vietnam. Down with the communists
Đả đảo thằng cha mày, lũ rácc ruoi
From the 58000 names on that memorial some 1200 are American Ukrainians from the first and second immigrants who came to the US for a better life one was Major Myron Diduryk who with General Hal Moore faught in la Drang also two Generals Samuel Jaskilka and Krawchiv both Ukrainian, and also Steven Olek US pilot who formed a flying squadron called The Flying Cossacks who made 10000 sorties and not one losses.
Please RIP the fallen heroic soldiers 🙏🙏🙏
May God bless you all Vietnam veterans 🙏🙏🙏
I sincerely thank those who sacrificed and fought in the Vietnam war!!!
The Wall
When I see the Viet Nam Veteran Wall;
I can't help but to cry and even bawl.
As I remember my life's pathways;
My emotions are moved from memories of yesterdays.
Then; I was young and ever so bold,
I never thought about becoming old.
I went to war at the age of nineteen years,
During that year, I grew into a man and cried many tears.
People not being in a war can't possibly understand,
What a young boy did while becoming a man?
Today; I still ask myself many times,
Why did so many of the nation's young had to die?
When I see the wall; I stand proud and tall
For only some have been where I've been,
And only some have seen what I've seen.
Some people think I'm odd because they don’t understand,
The way I was raised and what I did while becoming a man.
I did whatever I had to do to get the job done,
Of seven men returning, I'm the last one.
During the holidays, I try to remember the good times I've had,
But, most of the time, my emotions become real sad.
Saddened by the memories of those which died,
Not really knowing the reason why.
Saddened from the guilt of returning alive,
When eighteen didn't out of twenty-five.
The seven who returned feels the blame,
Five of them came home mentally or physically lamed.
To cope with where we had been,
And try to forget what we have seen.
Some can't forget what they did.
Doing anything trying for the memories to be rid.
So, when you see a veteran which has turned to drugs or drinking
Try to see things as he does and think what he is thinking.
Try to imagine his memories, and can you feel his pain.
Can you imagine sleeping in a foot of cold mud and cold rain?
Some have lost their usefulness,
While others have become homeless.
Some turn to drugs, while others took their lives.
Some turn to GOD and took a godly wife.
What was it all for?
So big businesses could keep their doors open?
Was it done to thin the population out?
Whatever it was for, the reason I have often thought about.
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I don’t think anyone on earth really understands,
Why things happened and why war is the nature of man.
I know one thing for sure, life is uncertain no doubt.
You can be here for one second and the next checked out.
With that thought in mind, I thank God from saving me from hell,
For giving me a godly wife, for being one of two who is home well.
You will take nothing for granted after being in war.
You will appreciate what you have much more by far.
Someday for a visit to The Wall, I will make a way to go.
Maybe I'll find the answers I need to know.
But until I do, or die, my memories will be with me,
For I know this is what God has for me in my destiny.
So, when I see the mobile Vietnam Veteran's Wall,
I'll think of all Veterans of all wars who have given their all.
May they all be blessed from God above
And receive God's grace through his love.
Vietnam. March 1969 - March 1970
William E. Reed MSgt.
United States Air Force Retired; May 2, 1968-Aug.1, 1988
Copyrighted Nov. 23 1995
BROTHERHOOD OF THE VETERAN
When you see veterans, what do you see?
People which would lay their life down for you or me.
Can you image where they have been?
What about what have they seen?
Try to image being in a war
In a country, away real far.
Being shot at day and night,
Wondering what is being done is right.
As we veterans looked at a bird in a tree;
We think as the bird does, it is nice to be free.
Remembrance of many other who believed as we.
They fought and die to be free; for this is what they believe.
They fought for freedom of country and man.
Most who has their freedom don't understand.
To have their freedom, people must fight and die
And the nation's people should sometimes have asked why.
Let's not forget why we shall fight.
Is the freedom we have, wrong, or right?
We, Americans, take our freedom for granted every day.
We don't realize what had and must be, to have freedom this way.
We can thank the veteran; because he is the nation's minuteman
Because he loves his country, freedom and he understands
Why so many had to and must die
When he goes to war, he doesn't ask why
When ones become a veteran, they understand
There is no different between colors, females, or man.
When you are a veteran; everyone is the same,
The only different is their name.
Everyone depends on each other
Everyone has or is a father and mother.
Through training, with their tears, work, and blisters,
Only then, in arms, they've become brothers and sisters
When a veteran go to war
Whether it is near or away very far.
He doesn't question the reason why
He doesn't have time to or someone may die.
Some comes from families of wealth
Some comes from families of bad health
Some are the best the nation has or had
Others are the worst because they are or were bad.
They are young, invincible and bold
They never think of dying or becoming old.
They know their life is uncertain no doubt
They can be alive one second and the next check out.
Some veterans, people don't understand,
What they had to do to survive and becoming a man.
They have been taught a hundred ways to kill or take a hill
They know when taking a hill, it will be kill or be kill.
When they went, or go on a mission, they took or will take orders
They went, or will go wherever they told, over any border.
They did or will do whatever it takes to get the job done;
Veterans forms an un-match bond between each one.
Try to image going into battle
In front of you five thousand enemy with ladder.
Mortal fire hitting all around you, vibrating the ground.
Your friends were hit by rifle fire and blown apart by mortal rounds.
Twenty-five was order to hold a hill.
You know you can only do it if it God's will.
You don't dare think of the odd against you.
They are too many against you; so, you pray God is with you.
You are cut-off and being without supplies and food for three days
On the radio, your C.O. ask if you can hang on some way.
When you say NO, you are told to dig in deep.
The enemy has sewn death; now death, they are about to reap
As you hear planes overhead
To the pilots, you give your location
The planes were sent for your protection.
If they hadn't come then, a few minutes later, all would be dead.
After everything is over; you come out and begin to cry
You were thankful, you were out the way, as you consider the sky.
Supported by Marines, Navy, Army, and Air Force as they fly away
You thank God to be alive this Christmas Day.
Among your fellow veterans, you start to walk,
Some of them are dead and with the rest you talk.
Although you have lost some of the best friend you ever had.
Twenty of you were still alive, thing was not so bad.
So, when you see a VETERAN; show them their due respect
You know they has earned it, but; this they will not expect.
Look at them in the eyes and give them a smile;
And verbally thank them and God you didn't walk that mile.
Vietnam March 1969 - March 1970
William E. Reed M.Sgt.
United States Air Force Retired 1988
Copyrighted Nov. 23 1995
God bless you men.
I’ve never seen the wall in Washington but many years ago, I saw the traveling wall. I also saw the wall at the State Fair of Texas, back in the late 80s. It was supposed to have had all Texas Vets on it. Luckily, I didn’t see any names on it that I knew. I’m a Nam Vet, Chu Lai 68-69 1st MAW MAG 12 and a second generation Marine. My dad was in from 38-46.
Anyone who lived through this time in history knows how powerful this video is. Thank you for posting. We remember.
Thank You very much for your service. And a very heartfelt " WELCOME HOME " !
John Adams · I
also was a member of the 359th Transportation in Viet Nam from March of
67 to march of 68. Hanoi Hattie called us the "Whistling Christmas
Trees" on her radio show in North Viet Nam because our Diesel Engines
made a high-pitched whistle due to the super chargers. Our trailers had
clearance lights that lit up the tankers thus the name. We hauled diesel
fuel, jet petroleum 4, avaiation fuel, gasoline, and the heaviest
liquid of all water. No one liked to haul water as it really slowed our
trucks down while in the pass sometimes only running a few miles per
hour.
I remember the constant smell
of wet plywood, canvas, and the monsoon seasons. It would rain for
weeks on end. I would wake up in the am and put on wet clothing as you
couldn't keep clothes dry. I remember when one of the guys in the
barracks accidently discharged a round into another guys locker and blew
his camera all to pieces. I remember biting the end of a 5.56 M16 round
out of its casing, pouring half the powder out and pressing the bullet
inro a bar of Zest soap then shooting rats with it. Just enough power to
kill the rats, not enough power to kill a person if you hit them or go
through a wall.
I remember the 1St Atr Calvery
killing the crap out of the VC with their mini-gun equipped Choppers all
the time and watching the tracers like a steady stream of someone
urinating down from the skies. I remember when the 1St Air Cav got
re-assigned elsewhere and the 173rd. airborne took over in An Khe. We
soon learned that when the 1st. Air Cav moved out, Charled moved in. I
remember pulling guard on the hill and shooting M-40 grenade rounds into
the bush for the hell of it.
I remember dropping a
huge wrench in the mud between my legs and never finding it. I remember
driving through the back end of our shop that was just corregated steel
when the brakes of a tractor wouldn't work. I remember the "Coke" girls
who's parents would "steal" our Coke supplies and then sell us Cokes
back to us at the starting points of our convoys. We didn't care as it
kept them from selling their bodies.I remember when "Puff the magic
Dragon" did his routein while starnded in the bush.
Hey captain it wasn't Hanoi hattie it was Hanoi Hanna, the M 16 fired a 2.23 round not a 5.56 and the M 40 grenade launcher was a M 79. I know war leaves some foggy memories but you got to many things wrong. Being a full time grunt with the 4th Inf, Div. we used the mentioned weapons pretty much on a regular basis. We also got our water from the springs and streams in the central highlands and drank it without any iodine pills. Ran three man patrols out of our mountain tops firebase four three days each patrol. Back inside the firebase wire for five to six days then back out on our three day patrols. I made it nine months until we got hit hard and I ended up losing both my legs.
George Humphrey damn
George Humphrey My Dad was 101st Airborne. He served 4 tours in Vietnam. I salute you, sir!
The round was 5.56x45 NATO. The .223 is the civilian version. The 5.56 is loaded hotter and the M16 has a different chamber. The M79 fired a 40mm grenade, an easy enough mistake to make.
Thank you for your service air. Welcome home
My gpa wanted to go to the Vietnam memorial to see some of his buddies. Unfortunately he wasn’t able to go before he passed from agent orange. If I was older I would have took him myself but I was only 11 when he passed...
John Adams · I
remember buying an AKAI tape recorder for 258.00 and Pioneer Speakers
for 158.00 each at the PX and saving anout 1000.00 from stateside
retail. also bought a canon model QL 17 35 mm camera foe I think 19.00. I
remember having a ZIPPO lighter engraved which I still have today. I
remember the tin can opener attached to my dog-tags again which I still
have today. I remember eating "powdered eggs." But most of all, I
remember my buddies, glimpses of them, laughing, smoking, bitching, and
talking about home. Their wives, girlfriends, their states
. I remember
the guys from the Nothern States would
put our National flag in the back window of the tractors and the guys
from the South would believe it or not put the Rebel Flag in theirs.
Yes, even the black soldiers. I asked one black guy why he would put a
Rebel flag in his truck and he replied, "because it's my HOME!" Mail
took over a week to get there and sometimes I would get 4 letters at
once. My 15 year girlfriend would write me everyday and number the
letters to keep them in order. Yes, I married her in 1971 and we are
still together, 5 kids, and 10 grandchildren.
I remember it all, at least the things I want to remember.
John Adams · I
remember buying an AKAI tape recorder for 258.00 and Pioneer Speakers
for 158.00 each at the PX and saving anout 1000.00 from stateside
retail. also bought a canon model QL 17 35 mm camera foe I think 19.00. I
remember having a ZIPPO lighter engraved which I still have today. I
remember the tin can opener attached to my dog-tags again which I still
have today. I remember eating "powdered eggs." But most of all, I
remember my buddies, glimpses of them, laughing, smoking, bitching, and
talking about home. Their wives, girlfriends, their states. I remember
the guys from the Nothern States would
put our National flag in the back window of the tractors and the guys
from the South would believe it or not put the Rebel Flag in theirs.
Yes, even the black soldiers. I asked one black guy why he would put a
Rebel flag in his truck and he replied, "because it's my HOME!" Mail
took over a week to get there and sometimes I would get 4 letters at
once. My 15 year girlfriend would write me everyday and number the
letters to keep them in order. Yes, I married her in 1971 and we are
still together, 5 kids, and 10 grandchildren.
I remember it all, at least the things I want to remember.
+John Adams Fuck outta here
Ignore him. Some people don't appreciate that you guys fought and died for the US. I personally thank you for your service, sir.
Thank you for your service sir
@@carmenate70 .....Just for you "ftk'......" E.S.A.D.M.F."....................
I like to watch historical films about Vietnam, and I am also trying to make small films about life in the postwar Vietnam village to contribute a small part to introducing my country to you. rafts around the world.
my high school classmates Elmwood Park ILL RIP
1Lt. Paul Charles Bertolozzi USMC KIA 8-2-67
Cpl. Richard Clark Abbate USMC KIA 5-18-68
i was 3rd Batt. 7th Marines ChuLai,RVN 10/65-11/66
My deepest respect for all the american forces fighting against communism in viet war. From korea.
Thanks to all the Vietnam veterans and to all the men and women who answered the nation's call to duty and to all who sacrificed their lives!! I was on the military Honors team who performed the memorial service for 1st LT. Dwight W. Cook who was shot down over Vietnam on Sept 21, 1972 may God rest him and all those brave souls who payed the ultimate price with their lives!!!!!! From a proud Vietnam era vet and proud American Legionnaire!!!!👍👏
I was just a kid.I am 59 now.But it will always bother me that they came back to an obnoxious ungrateful country full of a new generation of punk's who would rather value Tim oleery or a Jane Fonda.It was beyond ungrateful and disrespectful.Of course you still have hanoi jane out there shocking us at every turn.ONLY a white girl could get away with her atrocious behaviour.But we now mostly accept it as what it always was....mental illness.
If I have to constantly shock you in order to be the center of your attention....well...This country should be ashamed of itself for how it supported these men.
i'm not religious, but God bless these men and women who went through hell. i hope they live good lives all of them. no one can even begin to imagine what they went through
Had the privilege to visit this hallowed place three times, everybody that served in Vietnam War are hero’s. Time America gave them their parade down the mall.
but no one ever talks about millions of Vietnamese lives that were taken away lmao
Thank you for serving our country
P.O.W.
M.I.A.
Never Forget
I was able to visit "The Wall" in 2020. Walking down the sidewalk I was overtaken by such a heavy heart I had to turn and walk back out. My wife asked if I was alright, I could not speak, I just shook my head. Visiting Arlington National Cemetery and not being able to visit the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier because of the pandemic may have been a blessing. So many died and we have nothing to show for it because we were "handcuffed" by politicians.
I volunteered at the wall that heals traveling wall in paducah ky. I was a guide helping vets and vets families find name on the wall and assisting with rubbings of the names. It was a privilege for me to do that. It was the most rewarding thing I have ever had the priviledge of my entire life. That wall is pure magic. I would do it again in a heart beat. Thank you and God bless our viet named vets. I was there for 4 days what an honor to serve these American heros!
There country turned there back on these vets. SHAME ON YOU AMERICIA.
Vietnam is what the unfortunate have instead of happy childhoods...
When my dad was alive he didnt have the guts to go there when we took his ashes there we took him finally 😭💔
Well done!
Your dad had guts or he wouldn't have been a soldier. I avoided going for over 40 some years because of reasons I'm sure your dad shared...it is a place that breaks our hearts to see our brothers names.
oh it wasnt for that reason nona, god bless him and may he r.i.p. know that your dad died a hero
Bravo Zulu! Well done!
I hated visiting this memorial in DC, i hated the feeling of sorrow and dread that I felt while walking the wall, I hated seeing the letters left for loved ones lost at the wall, I hated seeing the ones much older than I wobble weakly along the wall recalling some distant memory, I hated choking up at something I will never understand
That's why we never forget, i'm sure those who we there hated what they seen and did, but they did it anyway, for their country for each other
All you can really do now is talk to them and listen and if not for anything else but to learn.
To my friend Larry Harrison. He gave is life for us. I have had the privilege to visit the wall twice and paying my respects to my life long friend. I am sorry Larry that you didn't get to see your family grow and as you look down on us I am sorry we didn't take better care of the American you have your life for. 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
Can't thank these veterans enough. Did the best they could in a place where none wanted to be. Treated like shit when they returned home. Disgraceful.
They have my deepest respect and gratitude.
The number of names is shocking.. I had no idea how costly it was for American troops.
Thank you guys for your service.
just before i was discharged i had a lot of friends among the cooks in my battalion and the top Sargent told me to see them before i left and i did not now i am so sorrowing over the fact years ago i let them down>
what hits me most is how they are embracing each other.
My heart breaks over and over. It hasn’t eased even with all the years passed. 💔
Let me offer an alternative view to all this. None of this did not have to happen...and especially should not have happened. The US had NO legitimate right or reason to be in Vietnam. The US did not have the integrity or the guts to officially declare war against a country it beat the s*** out of for 10-11 years. These men had a choice to refuse to go...like me....and yes face the consequences. The Vietnam war had absolutely NO influence on American security, freedom, safety or way of life. Win...or lose...NONE. Many of the South Vietnamese did not care if they were over there being US government sacrificial lambs. Boo hoo all you want....they had choices and made them.... to go there.
@tg......don't have to read your bs. I notice many times you"re on Vietnam Veteran sites. You must have "GUILT" possessing your minuscule heart & mind ( you don't have a SOUL); so why do you bother ? Take you worthless self to a worthless place that you are more fit to be a part of.......don't dirty up what's Honorable, Respectable, Noble, Worthy, Patriotic, & more........................................
Heart wrenching..
Thank you to ALLLLL United States Military Veterans.
Let us never forget
Bless all of the Service members the ones that did not survive and the ones that returned to a hostile country. Thank you for your Service.
It took me over 20 yrs. to get up enough courage to go to The Wall. I will remember that day for the rest of my life. (U.S. Marines 70-76)
Thank you for your service, welcome home.
Welcome Home Heroes. God bless you all.
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It is the Vietnam Veterans Memorial, not the Vietnam Memorial.
Respect!
Ohh my lord look how long that wall is with so many names 😭
To all Vietnam Veterans you have my 100% Respect i do think you for your service
I have a grandpa who was in the war! I was crying when I was which it. I am 9so tell me if I made mix
Autumn Smith you don't know what death is upon friends and brothers. don't comment
Tyler Johnson he Said hes granspa was in the war have some respect for this Young kid.
God bless our active Military and retired veterans as well as those who gave the ultimate sacrifice. You will never be forgotten. I'm so proud to be an American knowing we have you guys fighting for us a d keeping us safe, past and present. 🇱🇷🇱🇷🇱🇷🇱🇷
It is the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
Good bless you all and thank you for your services
These brave American Men!!!!!!!! I will never forget our Veterans!! NEVER!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I've made it my personal mission to say thank you for your service to all our vets regardless of the war they fought in. I always want to hear more stories that they have to tell me. Rip to all our brave men and women who have served so I can enjoy my freedom. You're all my heros.
To all of you from one veteran to another much love and respect! !
I’ve been to every memorial in DC at least twice and some like the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier no less than 8 times but never to the wall not even the traveling wall. I did 3 tours in Nam but what I remember most about that period was the disrespect I and others experienced from my fellow Americans, I remember every vile name and every threat I received. I have forgiven those persons but by God I have not and never will forget the vile speech and actions directed towards me and my comrades.
It’s my hope that our service members never experience what we went through. God bless all that serve this country and our communities.
My husband is an Army veteran who served in Afghanistan and he is proud to call you and all other Vietnam veterans his brothers in arms. He and I are so sorry for the shameful treatment that you and other Vietnam veterans received when you came home.
@@emilyvogt66 Thank you and the best to you and yours.
@@geru2000 You're welcome...wishing you and your loved ones all the best as well.
It's very emotional to visit the traveling wall..my brother & his best friend who enlisted together are on it...but go every time it is close to where I live. Even tho I visit his gravesite it's a different feel among all those heroes that made it home. To ALL of them..my deepest THANK YOU for your SERVICE and SACRIFICE and a huge WELCOME HOME !!!
It's sad to watch them..
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So much pain....thank u for your service and sacrifices during a very unpopular war. I hope u find peace and teach others the lessons of the Vietnam War
Great respect Earned by our Vietnam Veterans !!!!
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All those names. Sadly, 3 times that many took their own life when they got home........🪖
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THIS VIDEO IS GOING TO MAKE ME CRY AND THANK YOU ALL THAT SERVED IN THE Vietnam WAR THANK YOU ALL!!!
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@@mattgerald2460 .....You have everything you need or want ........until you don't.
RESPECT
May those brave Soldiers Rest In Peace
To all the veterans and their families, thank you for your service and sacrifice. Put your faith in and hold on to GOD'S SON JESUS CHRIST now.loluv. Be Blessed
The ABCs of Salvation, or how to be right with God, and know for sure you're going to Heaven:
A. A-dmit that you're a sinner.
As it is written: There is none righteous, no, not one. Romans 3:10
For all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God. Romans 3:23
B. B-elieve that Jesus Christ died for your sins and rose again.
He Himself bore our sins in His body on the cross. 1 Peter 2:24
For I delivered to you as of first importance what I also received, that Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures, and that He was buried, and that He was raised on the third day according to the Scriptures... 1 Corinthians 15:3-4
C. C-all on the Lord Jesus Christ to save you.
If you confess with your mouth Jesus as Lord, and believe in your heart that God raised Him from the dead, you will be saved; for with the heart a person believes, resulting in righteousness, and with the mouth he confesses, resulting in salvation. Romans 10:9-10
For whoever calls on the name of the Lord shall be saved. Romans 10:13
The moment you decide to "believe" (which means to put your trust in what Jesus has done for you) God saves you and your eternal destiny in Heaven is assured. You go from spiritual death to eternal life the moment you believe.
Jesus said it this way: Most assuredly, I say to you, he who hears My word and believes in Him who sent Me has everlasting life, and shall not come into judgment, but has passed from death into life. John 5:24😀
Respect all VETS thy put there lives on the line mny died bless you all
Imagine the controversy around the time the wall was proposed. It may have never been built and we would’ve been left with some generic over bloated soulless tribute. I’m so glad for the VVMF and Maya Lin. Her genius and foresight at such a young age gave us not just a memorial to look at but an immersion of reflection and healing
Ken Burns Vietnam is a good place to start if you like to learn. I just wish the BLM movement in UK would respect our memorials & stop graffitiing & vandalising them. They are the only places in most small towns where people can go to remember as so many of them never dame home & their bodies were buried abroad.
not only were many people lost to that war...we also lost the last great Democratic Leader...takin out by his own VP who was makin money from the worthless war !!
I had a bad time in 'Nam, with the 101st Airborne Division in the A-Shau Valley, 1969.
God Bless the Vets.
God bless all of you and WELCOME HOME
In memory of robert e. Hewitt dec.14,1969 you old squad leader
They were a transport unit meaning they werent direct combat troops. But in Vietnam there was no safety in the “rear” because guerillas were everywhere.