there's a sadness in Beverly, but she carries it well, it hasn't broken her, she thinks, it could have been worse, so what can I do now, great attitude....
I love this woman--her laugh, her position on important topics, and most importnatly, her continued work for the betterment of Vietnam Veterans as well as other veterans. I salute her as best I can! Thank you for your service.
Listen to this when you have _time_ to relax and listen. It is a slow and reasoned description of experience in the military, a gem of a story. A veteran who doesn't talk about the unsettling reason she ended up in Nam. Also, she doesn't want to go back to visit. I don't understand who would. Thanks for your service and your story.
Many of them go back for closure. Or cause they Fell in love with the people or land. Or because they want to learn more and see the progress of the people they fight for. I don't understand why you wouldn't want to
Welcome home Beverly !! Loved your interview ! Hearing you laugh was the best thing ! God Bless You ! Thank you for your continued service to veterans ! Danang 68/69
Anyone saying mean things about her you better watch it she is a great women who has accomplished so much and she is so strong she's my grandma and lemme tell you she is a very VERY strong person and if you think anything else if we you r actually crazy
some of us are just wondering what kind of situation she got herself into at Fort Knox, Kentucky that she would want to suddenly transfer to a war zone...??? I'm not bashing her about anything...I'm a veteran to
Nuoc mam (sp) fish paste...lol. I've heard..never live down wind from one of those places where they make it! PS, I'm moving to DaNang Sept., 28 2019. Vietnam war history fiend. Probably more so that the stories of the soldiers has me drawn there inexplicably. Welcome home soldiers and God Bless the ones who did not! ❤️🙏 love to you all.
You actually get used to it and after awhile you need it in certain foods...I love Asian food and I'm a 6th Gen 1st fleeter convict but to be honest I love anything that isn't just mashed potato,peas and a grilled chop...I hated those stand up chop grills we had in the 70's lol What is a culture spin is my sons Vietnamese mates loved our plain food.. one thing we cannot beat which i am slowly mastering...Hickory smoked pork ribs,home made bbq sauce on a kettle bbq..thats something I thank Americans for besides saving our arses in vietnam OI OI OI USAUSAUSA
Nobody gave a rat's ass about combat Vietnam vets for at least 40 years. Some guys pulled through fairly well, but most did not. We'll all be dead soon and have lived long isolated lives. Did what we had too in the war and in life as well, but little else. Thank you for your service.
12 Jun 2021 Just thought I would proffer some of my ruminations aloud here if only because this is a rare session with a warrior gal, a feisty granny to boot. Clearly it's a coup for the programme host, as he himself readily and happily acknowledged. Any hint of disparagement by any viewer is in bad taste, likely fuelled by some dark agenda, I say. I concur with the sentiments of Mot Chraighe, Harold Kerr II and Dodge Mega in the comments section here. Of course women advocacy groups have won significant strides for equality for some time now. They are even eligible for combat vocations in the military, unlike Beverly's era (although I understand that not all macho males are in favour of that). That she was never good with typing or destined for the nursing ward is just the way her life's trajectory played out. What's all the fuss about it? So I'm more than a tad disappointed with the less-than-healthy attitude of those who would pigeon-hole her contributions to the war effort as less significant. Of greater dismay for me is the racial divide and uneasy undercurrents as well as the explicit expressions of hostility described so vividly by Beverly. Pilfering from one's very room-mate? Pointedly and perversely painting the entire room, ceiling to floor(!) all black - was that not an infringement of military regulations? Then to be accused of being "anti-Black" ? Just doesn't conform to common sense here for me. Granted that Afro-Americans have a genuine case for the ill-treatment by their white masters in centuries past. But surely a chain is only as strong as its weakest link, as everyone must agree. It is a sad and condemning indictment that if even the military institution cannot deal with race discrimination issues, when disciplinary code of honour and fighting and dying for one's buddy is the very proud mantra, then it clearly has failed in this aspect. Looking at 2021's headlines-grabbing long-running issues of continued racial profiling, colour bar violence and killings, police brutality against the minor ethnicities inter alia, it is plaintively clear that the USA remains mired in deep ruts. Until and unless you sort out the complex underpinnings and root causes and address them honestly, head-on and justly, it will remain the painful sharp rock in your shoe, the Achilles heel, the Damocles Sword and the eternal Gordian knot to bedevil your great nation. I wish your country the wisdom and the courage to face up squarely to the inevitable hard truths. Beverly's assertion that one of the gravest ills plaguing America today is the gradual erosion of this sense of previously undisputed patriotism is open to debate and not for an outsider like myself to pontificate. Empirically or statistically, your social scientists certainly have their work cut out for them. And is it altogether true that the current "Black Lives Matter" revolution is to be held accountable, at least in part, for the rising movement to tear down statues of historical personages whose legacy is at best mixed and controversial? Are attempts to whitewash, reject blatantly, curse and dishonour episodes of your long, proud history the best and most sensible way to go about it? Historical revisionism may be a legitimate field of scholarship but beware the sinister dark hands of manipulative smoke-screening and political populism. Raw denial in the absence of reasoned and rational discourse can be a very vicious slippery route indeed. While prone to belly laughs and girlish guffaws, Beverly nevertheless is serious cerebral material. Even for a farm girlhand from rustic Montana. Deciding to join a war thousands of miles away from home without prior parental consultation. All of 19 years cutesy, starry-eyed newbie. Hard to beat I say. How very deliberately paced and measured in articulating her thoughts and life's philosophies, struggling at points to get it exactly right, with prolonged pauses and dignified honesty - has anyone overlooked the fact that it is an honour and privilege to be listening to her in detail, especially in today's age of attention-deficit, rude, crude, cynical, vulgar and e-device-distracted half-aware zombie-esque humans? Respect begets respect, folks. This sure is one upstanding grandma! Gracias.
Very interesting interview. I have had the same thoughts about the VA not including skin cancer in being brought on by exposure to agent orange. Seems like a no brainer - it got on your skin, it affected your skin. How in the hell can they say agent orange has no effect on it???
She's right that we don't have the patriotism today that we use to have . . . and she suggests kids go to college FIRST but that's where they get the anti-American indoctrination. She's a good woman nevertheless. This was *adlib* (without preparation) so she might have answered differently after a friendly debate about it.
Mrs Stewart makes excellent point about effect of military service on subsequent generations. Mine has a humorous element, but could be a cautionary tale… A family member was a navy flight surgeon. The only experience he ever spoke about was his responsibility for supervising military plane crash sites. He told us no one ever survived, and he was responsible for retrieving their remains. As a result, he developed tremendous fear of fire. The funny thing is, I somehow internalized his fear as pre-k child. My earliest household chore was emptying waste baskets. I feared they would spontaneously combust. So, for years I poured water in household trash bins to prevent fire! About 20 years later the wet waste baskets somehow came up in conversation. My mother’s response? “I always wondered who did that!”
I don't know whether this is true or not. During the time the United States military withdrew from Vietnam. Many U.S. veterans stay behind because allegedly they had married a Viet woman, and had kids. In other words, they did not want to leave their family behind. Allegedly they left before the North arrived.
I saw 5 states when I was in. When I got sent to Wichita I was assigned a room where my soon to be room mate was on leave. He got back and the SHTF. He had probs w/me cuz I'm not black. Our unit was integrated. Housing was not. He made a fuss and he got his way. I got my own room & he got his back. Twice I went to Colorado. Flew to Missouri w/my Capt. his wife me & John in a Cessna 150. THAT was a hoot. Drank lil Miller's all day on a horse ranch. Had the entire backseat 2 myself as John went back w/Rookie in a car 500miles. Capt. H had a wee prob landing/taking off, since I was loaded I dint care. Landing on return was EZ PZ. My Captain's pilot license was so new the ink was still wet.
That would have been tormenting to have a reverse racist crying like a bitch because he didn't have a 'brother' to bunk up with..he would have enjoyed jail so much more but Kudos to you for being strong and thank you sir! i never knew my father and I wish I knew men like you out of nothing but respect.
When young and innocent we serve. Politics playing a role in the wars was not our informed decision. Understanding the youth and their patriotism is important.
My daughter was attack by male when she talk to me over phone, I ask her is she ok, her reply he in hospital, and her side hurting,!she nearly kill him,!
Interesting interview. I've watched 30+ interviewed of the boys male service... totally sad and interesting... my dad was Vietnam vet, both grandfathers wwII. Grandma carried a gun for decades while at Tacoma school district, outside fort Lewis. ...Interesting perspective from the girls /ladies experience...probably haven't heard all three stories... BTW I'm not a feminist. But she reminds me of a strong support , real story.
Today, there’s little sense of honor, which is the reason for lack of patriotism. Patriotism without honor is shallow, easy come, easy go. Look at 9-11. Suddenly everyone was patriotic, became religious, etc. How long did it last?
there is a wall with the names of 58,300 men and 8 women. I can agree this women did something good, but be advised she went to a different war. One where the protection of her life was important, where the lives of the male soldiers were less important due to their gender. The two realties of serving are not comparable
Forty Two - you sound like someone who hasn’t served. Or maybe peace time. This woman served in Vietnam. She isn’t claiming to be infantry. She says she served. Get over yourself and your issues.
Gee,not enough women killed or maimed. Women in service were not particularly protected. In fact more so were prey from their very counterparts. Apparently you men who disparage the women were never wounded and in need of medical help or help back at base. Actually medical personnel were the most affected by combat. 24/7 365. That was their job. Women did their part as men did. Whatever the position. Get over your inferiority complex and ego and be a man.
Then you were called Men and Women at 19 years of age , Now they call them at 19 # a mere child not even an adult yet ,a child tell there 26# and beyond
hey buddy! ya knows whats sad? when people spend their time writing mean comments about someone they dont know and think they are funny....... its actually pretty depressing. That women has accomplished many more thing than you im sure, including being the best grandma..... yeah im her grandson. now watch what you say!
there's a sadness in Beverly, but she carries it well, it hasn't broken her, she thinks, it could have been worse, so what can I do now, great attitude....
A lovely lady, being an Australian Vietnam Vet, I would love to sit down and have a beer with her, Thank you for your service
I very much enjoyed this interview. Beverly is an honest and decent woman. She has courage and speaks her mind ! Bravo !!! Love you Beverly !
What a great woman. Calls it like she sees it. Tells it like it is. Thank you. Welcome home, Beverly.
I love this woman--her laugh, her position on important topics, and most importnatly, her continued work for the betterment of Vietnam Veterans as well as other veterans. I salute her as best I can! Thank you for your service.
I salute you too sir!
The old saying,"behind every successful man is a strong woman" rings true!
God Bless Bev and all the brave women like her!
I really like this gal. Thank you for your service Beverly. Your soapbox was great. May God Bless.
She is an amazing woman. I wish this type of woman was commonplace nowadays. Values and spirit is to behold😊
Thank you for your service then and now.
What a nice lady. As a Vietnam vet appreciate her service. Welcome home Beverly.
Listen to this when you have _time_ to relax and listen. It is a slow and reasoned description of experience in the military, a gem of a story. A veteran who doesn't talk about the unsettling reason she ended up in Nam. Also, she doesn't want to go back to visit. I don't understand who would. Thanks for your service and your story.
Many of them go back for closure. Or cause they Fell in love with the people or land. Or because they want to learn more and see the progress of the people they fight for. I don't understand why you wouldn't want to
THANK YOU FOR YOUR TIME IN UNIFORM OF OUR GREAT COUNTRY. WELCOME HOME !. MERRY CHRISTMAS 2020
Thank you so very much for your service and continued service. God bless you!
Thank you for your service, Patrisom and commitment, Beverly
ive been watching Vietnam testimonials for some time and seen many, all have been moving including beverlys. Thanks
thank you Beverly for your service and 4 fighting for veterans. welcome home
Thank you Beverly for your service
THANK YOU Beverly !
Welcome home Beverly !! Loved your interview ! Hearing you laugh was the best thing ! God Bless You ! Thank you for your continued service to veterans ! Danang 68/69
Blessings, Beverly. Thanks for your service.
This woman's life story is a nice compliment to all the other vietnam vets who experienced such war.
I wish I had someone like her to explain do and don't after high-school
Thank You For Your Service God Bless You Abundantly
Great woman
Tk you so much for your service ma'am
Anyone saying mean things about her you better watch it she is a great women who has accomplished so much and she is so strong she's my grandma and lemme tell you she is a very VERY strong person and if you think anything else if we you r actually crazy
BE PROUD YOUR GRANDMOTHER BUDDY THESE ONES ON HERE BAD MOUTHING HER A JUST BAIN DEAD MORONS
👍👍👍👍✌✌😎😎
some of us are just wondering what kind of situation she got herself into at Fort Knox, Kentucky that she would want to suddenly transfer to a war zone...??? I'm not bashing her about anything...I'm a veteran to
She legit🔥👍🏾 i love her and im black
Nuoc mam (sp) fish paste...lol. I've heard..never live down wind from one of those places where they make it! PS, I'm moving to DaNang Sept., 28 2019. Vietnam war history fiend. Probably more so that the stories of the soldiers has me drawn there inexplicably. Welcome home soldiers and God Bless the ones who did not! ❤️🙏 love to you all.
How do you like vietnam?
You actually get used to it and after awhile you need it in certain foods...I love Asian food and I'm a 6th Gen 1st fleeter convict but to be honest I love anything that isn't just mashed potato,peas and a grilled chop...I hated those stand up chop grills we had in the 70's lol
What is a culture spin is my sons Vietnamese mates loved our plain food.. one thing we cannot beat which i am slowly mastering...Hickory smoked pork ribs,home made bbq sauce on a kettle bbq..thats something I thank Americans for besides saving our arses in vietnam
OI OI OI USAUSAUSA
You tend forget that women went to Vietnam also ! Including medical staff who would have seen the most horrific injuries .
Nobody gave a rat's ass about combat Vietnam vets for at least 40 years. Some guys pulled through fairly well, but most did not. We'll all be dead soon and have lived long isolated lives. Did what we had too in the war and in life as well, but little else. Thank you for your service.
Thank You For Your Service
💞✌️🙏
12 Jun 2021
Just thought I would proffer some of my ruminations aloud here if only because this is a rare session with a warrior gal, a feisty granny to boot. Clearly it's a coup for the programme host, as he himself readily and happily acknowledged. Any hint of disparagement by any viewer is in bad taste, likely fuelled by some dark agenda, I say.
I concur with the sentiments of Mot Chraighe, Harold Kerr II and Dodge Mega in the comments section here. Of course women advocacy groups have won significant strides for equality for some time now. They are even eligible for combat vocations in the military, unlike Beverly's era (although I understand that not all macho males are in favour of that). That she was never good with typing or destined for the nursing ward is just the way her life's trajectory played out. What's all the fuss about it? So I'm more than a tad disappointed with the less-than-healthy attitude of those who would pigeon-hole her contributions to the war effort as less significant.
Of greater dismay for me is the racial divide and uneasy undercurrents as well as the explicit expressions of hostility described so vividly by Beverly. Pilfering from one's very room-mate? Pointedly and perversely painting the entire room, ceiling to floor(!) all black - was that not an infringement of military regulations? Then to be accused of being "anti-Black" ? Just doesn't conform to common sense here for me. Granted that Afro-Americans have a genuine case for the ill-treatment by their white masters in centuries past. But surely a chain is only as strong as its weakest link, as everyone must agree. It is a sad and condemning indictment that if even the military institution cannot deal with race discrimination issues, when disciplinary code of honour and fighting and dying for one's buddy is the very proud mantra, then it clearly has failed in this aspect. Looking at 2021's headlines-grabbing long-running issues of continued racial profiling, colour bar violence and killings, police brutality against the minor ethnicities inter alia, it is plaintively clear that the USA remains mired in deep ruts. Until and unless you sort out the complex underpinnings and root causes and address them honestly, head-on and justly, it will remain the painful sharp rock in your shoe, the Achilles heel, the Damocles Sword and the eternal Gordian knot to bedevil your great nation. I wish your country the wisdom and the courage to face up squarely to the inevitable hard truths.
Beverly's assertion that one of the gravest ills plaguing America today is the gradual erosion of this sense of previously undisputed patriotism is open to debate and not for an outsider like myself to pontificate. Empirically or statistically, your social scientists certainly have their work cut out for them. And is it altogether true that the current "Black Lives Matter" revolution is to be held accountable, at least in part, for the rising movement to tear down statues of historical personages whose legacy is at best mixed and controversial? Are attempts to whitewash, reject blatantly, curse and dishonour episodes of your long, proud history the best and most sensible way to go about it? Historical revisionism may be a legitimate field of scholarship but beware the sinister dark hands of manipulative smoke-screening and political populism. Raw denial in the absence of reasoned and rational discourse can be a very vicious slippery route indeed.
While prone to belly laughs and girlish guffaws, Beverly nevertheless is serious cerebral material. Even for a farm girlhand from rustic Montana. Deciding to join a war thousands of miles away from home without prior parental consultation. All of 19 years cutesy, starry-eyed newbie. Hard to beat I say. How very deliberately paced and measured in articulating her thoughts and life's philosophies, struggling at points to get it exactly right, with prolonged pauses and dignified honesty - has anyone overlooked the fact that it is an honour and privilege to be listening to her in detail, especially in today's age of attention-deficit, rude, crude, cynical, vulgar and e-device-distracted half-aware zombie-esque humans? Respect begets respect, folks.
This sure is one upstanding grandma!
Gracias.
Mr Gung Ho (the goat) unthinkingly enthusiastic and eager, especially about taking part in talking of warfare.
Very interesting interview. I have had the same thoughts about the VA not including skin cancer in being brought on by exposure to agent orange. Seems like a no brainer - it got on your skin, it affected your skin. How in the hell can they say agent orange has no effect on it???
No one is taking the Vietnam War out of US history. But, thanks for your service.
She's right that we don't have the patriotism today that we use to have . . . and she suggests kids go to college FIRST but that's where they get the anti-American indoctrination. She's a good woman nevertheless. This was *adlib* (without preparation) so she might have answered differently after a friendly debate about it.
...good for her.
Mrs Stewart makes excellent point about effect of military service on subsequent generations. Mine has a humorous element, but could be a cautionary tale…
A family member was a navy flight surgeon. The only experience he ever spoke about was his responsibility for supervising military plane crash sites. He told us no one ever survived, and he was responsible for retrieving their remains. As a result, he developed tremendous fear of fire.
The funny thing is, I somehow internalized his fear as pre-k child. My earliest household chore was emptying waste baskets. I feared they would spontaneously combust. So, for years I poured water in household trash bins to prevent fire!
About 20 years later the wet waste baskets somehow came up in conversation. My mother’s response? “I always wondered who did that!”
I don't know whether this is true or not. During the time the United States military withdrew from Vietnam. Many U.S. veterans stay behind because allegedly they had married a Viet woman, and had kids. In other words, they did not want to leave their family behind. Allegedly they left before the North arrived.
I saw 5 states when I was in. When I got sent to Wichita I was assigned a room where my soon to be room mate was on leave. He got back and the SHTF. He had probs w/me cuz I'm not black. Our unit was integrated. Housing was not. He made a fuss and he got his way. I got my own room & he got his back. Twice I went to Colorado. Flew to Missouri w/my Capt. his wife me & John in a Cessna 150. THAT was a hoot. Drank lil Miller's all day on a horse ranch. Had the entire backseat 2 myself as John went back w/Rookie in a car 500miles. Capt. H had a wee prob landing/taking off, since I was loaded I dint care. Landing on return was EZ PZ. My Captain's pilot license was so new the ink was still wet.
That would have been tormenting to have a reverse racist crying like a bitch because he didn't have a 'brother' to bunk up with..he would have enjoyed jail so much more but Kudos to you for being strong and thank you sir!
i never knew my father and I wish I knew men like you out of nothing but respect.
When young and innocent we serve. Politics playing a role in the wars was not our informed decision. Understanding the youth and their patriotism is important.
I would like Mrs.Stewart to meet my sister-in -law.
My daughter was attack by male when she talk to me over phone, I ask her is she ok, her reply he in hospital, and her side hurting,!she nearly kill him,!
Not the blood and guts like the other videos, but interesting none the same.
Interesting interview. I've watched 30+ interviewed of the boys male service... totally sad and interesting... my dad was Vietnam vet, both grandfathers wwII.
Grandma carried a gun for decades while at Tacoma school district, outside fort Lewis. ...Interesting perspective from the girls /ladies experience...probably haven't heard all three stories... BTW I'm not a feminist. But she reminds me of a strong support , real story.
Today, there’s little sense of honor, which is the reason for lack of patriotism. Patriotism without honor is shallow, easy come, easy go. Look at 9-11. Suddenly everyone was patriotic, became religious, etc. How long did it last?
She has a nervous laugh. Life in fact was serious and trying,stressful,and not a lock.
Hoo boy.
Military base not safe for woman on America soil, my daughter went thru hell until she move off base ,
Wait what happened to her at Fort Knox that was so bad that going to Vietnam was better?! Wtf
yeah, I'm wondering about that also? Lol's I wonder if she got involved with some guy and then changed her mind or something...weird!!! Lol's
Yea wondering the same.
Something that interfered with her religion, and that she didn't feel safe.
Probly alot of partying going on.
sixties...some special persons were acting up and getting stirred... in the end it followed her there. listen the whole thing you'll get it
@@ragimundvonwallat8961 Special persons? Acting up? You mean fighting for Civil Rights? Or outraged about the assassination of all our…nvm 🤦🏾♂️
I live in ft knox
an officers child probably had been tagged for the other assignment, so they found someone they had no political "pull".
There is Credence to your words! 8op
$12000 for medicine! Here in Scotland we have free prescriptions.
Usa is sad
Vietnam being preferable to clerical work at Fort Knox. Jesus that's the biggest red flag I've ever heard.
Red flag as in woah....I want my lady sewing socks otherwise I am screwed
there is a wall with the names of 58,300 men and 8 women. I can agree this women did something good, but be advised she went to a different war. One where the protection of her life was important, where the lives of the male soldiers were less important due to their gender. The two realties of serving are not comparable
Forty Two - you sound like someone who hasn’t served. Or maybe peace time. This woman served in Vietnam. She isn’t claiming to be infantry. She says she served. Get over yourself and your issues.
@@nmartin5551 male disposability is not an issue to be gotten over, its an issue to be fixed. Where do you stable your white charger ?
Why weren’t the feminists complaining about the men being killed at a ratio of 10,000 to 1 compared to women? Seems very unfair.
Gee,not enough women killed or maimed. Women in service were not particularly protected. In fact more so were prey from their very counterparts. Apparently you men who disparage the women were never wounded and in need of medical help or help back at base. Actually medical personnel were the most affected by combat. 24/7 365. That was their job. Women did their part as men did. Whatever the position. Get over your inferiority complex and ego and be a man.
I was at Ft Eustis in 1989 and know who messed up my pay hehehe
Then you were called Men and Women at 19 years of age , Now they call them at 19 # a mere child not even an adult yet ,a child tell there 26# and beyond
TV TV TV I hi
This is a strange woman.
it's a man
hey buddy! ya knows whats sad? when people spend their time writing mean comments about someone they dont know and think they are funny....... its actually pretty depressing. That women has accomplished many more thing than you im sure, including being the best grandma..... yeah im her grandson. now watch what you say!
Yeah, really doubt it's a dude.
To qualify that...I live on Capitol hill in Seattle, so have to know the difference. Come on
@@johnmcx8809 No kiddin man. Seattle's Capital Hill is the *QUEER CAPITAL of the Pacific North West Likely only 2nd to San Fran FREAKO....*
Your grandma is one helk of a lady. Great stories of history. Wish her tje best. I thank her for her.service.
Up yours