Green River - CCR (Vietnam footage)
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- Опубліковано 27 сер 2024
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The whole video is connected with the Vietnam War.
I do not own this footage, I only edited it. I also don't own the music (it was created by a great band and American treasure - Creedence Clearwater Revival)
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Well, take me back down where cool water flows, yeah.
Let me remember things I love,
Stoppin' at the log where catfish bite,
Walkin' along the river road at night,
Barefoot girls dancin' in the moonlight.
I can hear the bullfrog callin' me.
Wonder if my rope's still hangin' to the tree.
Love to kick my feet 'way down the shallow water.
Shoefly, dragonfly, get back t'your mother.
Pick up a flat rock, skip it across Green River.
Welllllll!
Up at Cody's camp I spent my days, oh,
With flat car riders and cross-tie walkers.
Old Cody, Junior took me over,
Said, "You're gonna find the world is smould'rin'.
And if you get lost come on home to Green River."
Welllllll!
Come on home.
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Documentary from which the footage was taken.
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Please be kind in the comment section
Thank you!
Thank you, Veterans!
My respect to the guys (still young in this video) with the M-16, worthy sons of the heroes who liberated Europe and Asia with Thompson.
I wish good luck to their grandchildren in these difficult times.
God help you to hold the flags of your fathers and grandfathers firmly in your hands and carry them proudly and high.
@@paulpaulson7551 Amen! Those guys have all my respect. They made countless sacrifices for our country. 🇺🇸
@@paulpaulson7551 MERCI Monsieur
I sure appreciate these guys. "Thank you for your service" does not begin to cover it.
@@paulpaulson7551 dzz
Those men were sitting ducks on those river boats but ask any one of them and they will tell you 'It was better than humpin' in the jungle'
That is flat truth!
That was why Johnny the Wadd Heinz/kerry cheated his way into three Purple Hearts and a super fast and super early release from duty. He ran out on his squadron and men so fast we can make a case for deliberate desertion and cowardice in the face of the enemy.
“Never get off the boat”.
@@morganpirate9127 I was there! God damb it. It was better than humping the paddies. Yes I had friends that did that too. But let me tell you, when you are in the river wall you have to protect yourself is a thin metal can you are very vulnerable. There were B-40 rings, machinegun fire, recoiless rifle fire and more. Just because you were wounded doesn't make you a coward. I had friends that died out there. Inadequate it back safely, but only because of very good luck.
Don't ever say anything bad about anyone who was there, because all you know is what the media tells you.
GOOD LUCK
@@tracylemme1375 Glad you made back! I was Infantry and I had for protection was my shirt never wore the flak jak, used it as a pillow, couldn't stop a bullet and I was usually in a Four Duce pit with two hundred rounds around us fused and ready to go when I wasn't walk out of the wire.
Johnny Hienz/kerry his first Purple Heart was from a self inflicted wound. He fired an M-79 to close to a stone outcropping and the shell hit the wall and shattered, didn't detonate, never traveled far enough to detonate, 2 DEC 68. He was in a "skimmer"(?) NOT a PCF. Johnny wrote out his request for a Purple Heart his boss Commander Geant Hibbard turned it down. Jihnny later probably put himself in for it.
Second Purple Heart, during an ambush of the boats, Johnny's boat PCF 94 took an RPC in the port side, something hit his left leg. He was treated on an offshore ship and returned to duty a few hours later. The men in the boats, including Johnny's boat, enlisted and officer, reported not seeing Johnny wounded much if at all. If he had been wounded this was as close as he got to a legit hit. Johnny put himself in for Purple Heart number two, 20 FEB 69.
Third Purple Heart a mine went off near Johnny boat and he took shrapnel from it, never happened. Instead on that date 13 MAR 69, the group of boats was inspecting some samoans and doofus Heinz/kerry dropped a hand grenade in that boat, it blew up. And blew some grains of rice in Johnny's butt! On 17 MAR 69 he requested to go home while REAL sailors with real wounds elected to stay.
Before you get all hot, all this can be cleared up IF JOHNNY executed the proper form to release his military health records for public review. Your boy has NEVER, EVER released his official records! Why?
There is more but that will do for now.
To all veterans seeing this. thank you your service
🗽🗽🗽👍👍👍💕💕💕🐴🐴🐴
Semper Fi
Back when bands like CCR sang about life and the times they were in. Listen to the lyrics ... they were deep into reality. The truth was told back then.
And people don’t do that now?
@@blakedavis2447 Nope.
@@blakedavis2447 no and even if they do the story isnt that deep or real at all
Hell yeah truths told fake woke generation won't handle this song about the south bigotry and do as do not as not as I do
Best damn music ever. I grew up at the right time.
Sorry for the weird question, when did you grow up?
And i at the wrong time 😒
Does not matter when you grew up, still the best damn music period ever
Born 1952 , died 1970 but I’m still breathing. Saw WAY to much.
you sure did and i did
I was only a child when Vietnam War was going on I always felt the sadness around me for the soliders it was a very sad time for me RIP 🌼🕊️🌼🕊️🌼🕊️🌼🕊️🌼🕊️
A friend of mine was a .50 cal. gunner in the brown water navy in Vietnam. They were some bad ass dudes! A US Army veteran.
My all-time favorite Creedence Clearwater Revival song! And I was in Danang, Vietnam 1970-1971 -- *USAF* keeping the F4s flying.
my husband, drafted, was in nam in 1971. never could he shake off the war, you know?
When I think back, I can't believe I was 18 and he was 20 when he left for nam. were married for about
2-3 weeks. What the hell!. called me a veteran too for taking care of him for over 46 years. If politicians or their kids were the first to be drafted for a war they profitted off of, then there would be no war.
@@gcube3697 Sorry, no disrespect, but were they still drafting back in 1971? I knew a dude who came hm. In autumn of 1971 from SouthVietnam, and my uncle was kia there mid-3/1968, tail end of TET , in SouthVietnams Central Highlands, near Pleiku, 10 days before my 11th bday.
Also, knew friends bros. ,and neighbors sons that were in country from 1965-1971, the last one came hm.late 1971.
@@luiscalcano4359 my husband was drafted (I still have his draft notice) somewhere around June of 1970, went thru basic training, then, jump school in Georgia, we got married 12-70, and he was shipped to nam anywhere between 12 and 21 days after, just don't remember the small details. However, I assure you, he was on LZ Sandra, Ben wah ? on some other LZ, went
in the bush and the guys actually went into Laos at that time, so a lot of shit went down, but, yeah, he was there. He also came home to see me via his R&R, which was surreal, can't remember tho if it was 1 or 2 wks. I do want to add tho, war experience and what follows back in civiliam life is not what the goons in hollywood protrayed in their fantasy crap movies.
Thank God for the jets planes and choppers they were lifesaver s first battalion first marines I Corp
@@luiscalcano4359
I think so, but I don't remember exactly when the draft stopped.
I was in the literage div. I core Danang up to DMZ. 600 guys reported NSA Danang I was assigned to a LCU 916 We were part of 3 boats that went their Aug 1965. maybe 30 guys out of 600 were put on these Boats, We supplied different outfits up the rivers to Hue Dong-Ha and south to CHU-LAi . Perfume and Cau-viet river up north. All the years since I' never once heard anyone or talk to any one that ever heard of us . Not even any Navy people who over there. It's like we never existed. But i know and Dam proud of it. Sorry for misspelling But got the spelling from my patches.
I was stationed at NAB Coronado..ACU 1.. in the LCU Dept.."No Beach out of reach..No Bar to Far ..No Muff to tough..The Surfriders"...one of the boats I took WestPac was LCU 1616...what was interesting was the old engineering logs still in the engine room...dated 1968 from Vietnam...as you stated..we went everywhere...places off the main...some of the places..Beirut ..when the barracks got bombed..Granada..Urgent Fury...picked up from the water a mile off shore what was left of a Seal Team...Amchatka..off the Rat Islands ...the DMZ off Korea.. remember the Pueblo...delt with the Russians..delt with the Chinese gun boats in the South China Sea...worked with the MAU units..the ASDV dive teams..man I could tell you some stories...Been to most of the Pacific Naval battle sites..pill boxes and KILROY was here.....Gator Navy...I loved my job..5 50Cal mounts..M37 slam shotguns..MK79 grenade launcher and the M16 plus 2 .45cal 1911's..we had our own armory...I got to know Marine Gunny and the LT real good..The "C" rats and our 50 ammo was dated 1942...
@@billyjoejackson5477 I think am sure I L C U 1616 . boat arrived in 66 not sure. 1616 was bigger then the boats I was on I believe the boats with four numbers all were bigger then
the boats with 3 number. I was on 2 boats 916 change to Y F U 61 and on Y F U 57. the smaller boats could
run the rivers because we had smaller draft. Still we went aground a lot. sucking up sand and mud went from 3 engines down to one. more then once.
awesome both of you guys are legends would love to talk to vietnam vets
@@kelvin5005 thans no not legends just a couple of blokes who did their jobs and proud og it.
I’ve heard of you, saw you guys regularly up and down the coast, one of the LCU’s dropped off wounded up off Hue. USSSanctuary AH-17
My dad God rest his soul drove LCM6 for the Us Navy two tours Vietnam thanks Pop
The Good Lord has never forgotten our boys and girls!!! ... Neither have we!!! Not a day goes by that I don't think of them with a tear in in my heart!!! ... Love them and miss them!!! SALUTE!!!😍🤗
Listening to CCR reminds me of my time in Nam with the brownwater navy. I made two combat deployments there in 69 and 70. Never get off the boat! Go navy.
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People who weren’t in country don’t know how different that war was to each Vietnam Vet. Only 1 out of 10 were out in the bush, and the rest were supporting in so many different ways. Artillery, aviation, combat engineers, communication, transportation, armor, food service, and on and on. All with one goal, to survive a year and get back to the World. In Country 70-71, Ariel Rocket Artillery, ARA, 101st Abn. Div.
Did those boats have mortars on them? It looked like it.
@@richardtaglauer4061 Thank you for your service, love reading these first hand accounts from Vietnam
When I was in the Coast Guard I knew one Warrant Officer who was a Petty Officer on a Coast Guard 82 foot patrol boat. We also had 95 foot patrol boats because early in the war the Navy didn't have shallow draft boats like we had. The names of 95 footers began with "Cape" and 82s started with "Point." That Warrant Officer told me that one time his boat was about 2000 yards off the coast when his CO saw a truck on the road parallel to the shore. The Warrant was on the .50 and the CO told him to fire at it. My Warrant friend put the .50 on single fire and dialed the sight in to the range. He fired one round and hit the truck, which exploded! It was apparently carrying drums of fuel. His CO yelled "I told you to shoot AT IT! Not destroy it!" Oh well, some people are never satisfied.
Damn good shot if you ask me
@@Rondrent that's what I thought!
The Navy was so underrated with their deployment in Vietnam
and the USCG
@@Apache410 whats that?
@@norris9079 United States Coast Guard (USCG)
@@Apache410 oh thanks 💙
Many of us Marines owe our lives to our USN Corpsmen! Semper Fi, "Devildocs". TreeTop, Sgt. USMC '68-'72
"Charlie don't surf", "ah f?@kin tiger man it was ah tiger, I just wanted to cook, that's all I wanted was to cook man, just came here to cook." love that movie. Thank you service men and women, for your service to this country.
God I love Apcolypse Now
...dont get off the boat ...dont get off the boat ....
Best band and music ever!
Respect to all veteran's, they've done what we all should have done
What?
Hacer el trabajo sucio de intereses empresariales que controlan el país?
My uncle was in Vietnam he was a Marine, now he's been in prison since 1973. He was a sharp shooter instructor at Paris Island, did two tours in Nam.
Why is he in prison?
@@samcarson5847 for a sentence that long it had to be murder
@@lawrencegarcia6819 your probably right. In the defense of a man i dont know and im not excusing murder but the core trained him to kill. Then he did 2 tours in Nam. You gotta imagine his mind is jacked up. I hope that he can see the light of day as a free man " if he can be free. Some men are trapped in there minds ( of war) and can never be free. God help him.
@@geraldhoskins2021 Yes i know a few
Damn thats a though life
1/84th FA assigned to the 9th infantry 1970-1972. Artillery Surveyor. Performance Above All !
Thank you men for your service to this great nation
HONOR AND RESPECT
This group and this song so go with this footage..
I was born in culiacan sin. In 1966 I was 7 years old dancing with my bands c,c,r and Rolling stones Beatles. My favorite band was and still is till the day I died my favorite band credence Clearwater revival running through jungle with
My first girlfriend
Delfina after 50 years war still it wasn't the answer
In Vietnam in the year 1969 my parents brought me to California at the age of eleven year old kid no English it wasn't easy my life completely changed thank God I had family here uncles aunts cousins all my cousins can talk spanglish and I enjoy being here since 1970 I learne how to talk English and to
live the American lifestyle and become an American citizen and still love the 70's music collection c.c.r
CCR really rocked!
I keep looking for someone yeah right so many of you thank you for your service
I don't think it is possible to play CCR without images of the Vietnam war popping up on your device.
sad but true . . . it was just the other day that I was running through the jungle . . .
1968 was a violent year in the Vietnam War with the "tet offensive" , when there was a massive Viet-Cong & NVA attack throughout South Vietnam !!!!! This was also the time this song came out.
@@leebaker2588 **run through the jungle slowly getting louder in the distance**
@@reaperwolf7360 runnin' slower all the time my friend and I need to turn my hearing aids up
@@RonSafreed Oh how I remember...sometimes I want to run, sometimes I want to embrace...
I love the footage of the C. Turner Joy!!!! Glad to hear it's now a museum ship!!!!!!!!
Brown water. I can still smell it.
God Bless our CoastGuard!!!...Happy Father's Day, Gentlemen!!! We love and appreciate you!!!... God Bless and keep you safe!!! Love, from Dad's little Air Force brat!...he did 2 tours Korea!! Miss Tommie
Thank
the Vietnam war had the best soundtrack of all wars
🤔🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸 mad respect for these men and women and for who paid the ultimate sacafice 😪 god bless are Veterans
women? how many women sacrificed their lives in this war?
Knowing now what I did not know then ....
I would have requested PBR or Swift as a GM.
Last tour on an ARL at CanTho. Armed and put the boats back together.
Two previous WestPacs on DD's.
FTG - Blue and Brown Water.
'68 - '72.
" Only the Dead have seen the end of War".
That song goes with the action
THANK YOU VETS(from the sister of one)
Am I imagining this, or do the guys who served in Vietnam have an incredible bond that veterans of other wars just don't have? This was the war when boys I knew in high school and college served or were drafted. One or two died there. Those that came home didn't talk about it, even if I asked. They just tried to get back to living, some better than others. But 50 years later, the respect and sense of having gone through an extraordinary experience together is still there.
My best friend was in the Coast Guard on one them Patrol boats, h He wasn't afraid of nothing when he got back .He taught me how to drive a rig we did a lot dangerous stuff he gets killed I get injured I miss grief a lot he was a Chief ! baby !
My Navy outfit conducted search & rescue missions in the northern gulf. War sucks.
Nice to see some Coast Guard 82 footers in there.
No matter what branch you were in we had to support each other.
To a point, my husband told me, there were 2 wars being fought over there,one was domestic! All Ima say on that one.
I was too young to serve in Vietnam (I was in grade school and then Jr. High in the mid-60s to '73), but my older cousin Ronny served in the "brown-water navy." He was a gunner on the stern of one of those Swift boats.
Many thanks to the veterans who
fought and those did not come home...also.. the boys who did. Upu are all heros.
Mis respetos para todos combatientes
Rispetto per tutti i caduti ❤
My thanks to the officers and enlisted of the USS Turner Joy.
this song remenber me, always summers.
Thanks! It's nice to remember my youth.
we owe the greatest of debt to all that have served !!!
cheers boys...im having a drink in your honor
Thanks! Greatly Appreciated USN Vet 1969-1973
I drink for those can't but would, if they could.
@@texascclp1445 I work very much in the anti-war movement but I was never like those who greeted you disgustingly at the airport. Welcome Home Soldier
@@tanawilliams7498; Thanks; greatly appreciate that you took the time to comment. USN 69-73
Bring back memories from long ago, both music and video
my gfather was in the coast guard in the 60's
Some of the video was of the River Navy/Ar
my flotilla in the Mekong river. My first tour was with the 9th Infantry Division at Dong Tam which was the Army force in the Delta. It even shows the USS Benewah which was the river based 9th Inf units. Dong tam was the HQ for the 2nd Brig and later the whole division. I was really surprised to see theBenewah and the gun boats that supported us.
I was born in the shitty generation i was born in 2011 god bless America and all u veterans that fought in this horrible war yall don’t get the recognition u guys need to get.god bless u I love this music
You're generation is in serious trouble!
As someone born in 2008, i entirely agree.
@@5.7moy same
yep sitting ducks no trees to hide behind but think the grunts had it worse. brown water navy 1965-66-67-68.
"Green River"
Well, take me back down where cool water flows, yeah.
Let me remember things I love,
Stoppin' at the log where catfish bite,
Walkin' along the river road at night,
Barefoot girls dancin' in the moonlight.
I can hear the bullfrog callin' me.
Wonder if my rope's still hangin' to the tree.
Love to kick my feet 'way down the shallow water.
Shoefly, dragonfly, get back t'your mother.
Pick up a flat rock, skip it across Green River.
Welllllll!
Up at Cody's camp I spent my days, oh,
With flat car riders and cross-tie walkers.
Old Cody, Junior took me over,
Said, "You're gonna find the world is smould'rin'.
And if you get lost come on home to Green River."
Welllllll!
Come on home.
SHAEF...!?
My uncle served in the first "NUCLEAR SUB!" THE NAUTILUS I believe
Nam and CCR. God bless all vets. Great soundtrack tho
Thank you It was my Honor is serve our country. Vietnam 71/72
Thank you was there in 69 & 70
That's so true as each soldier had a story to tell even ones who are no longer here who seen and more they you guys have my understanding and more
I tip my hat to anyone and everyone who has gone to war for the USA !
and Cody was a real person John met when he was a kid
Esta música é dimais sensacional
THANK YOU ..FOR YOUR SERVICES...TO MY BROTHER, WHO HAD TO BEAR ARM'S
Why this group split after 2 years amazes me; they were that Good! John Fogerty had Copy rights Problems, but finally got that settled. But as Musicians they were Really good!
...very good song.....
Long live the Vietnamese people and their leaders Ho Chi min and General Giap..... Southamerica loves You ! Thank You girnthe great example!
I m erom europe helium born in 1962..vietnamwar on tv. By respect i wear a jacket with badges of that war.. i met an american tourist who said to me..why do you wear that jacket..this is wrong..i said asked him when he was in nam and where..he answered..i didn t went... i said him coward you made money or went to college while those men gave theire lives for you.. it was the end of the discussion. Thank jou all vets..respect
Fun fact: You cant listen to any CCR song without thinking about vietnam
Swift Boats, I like seeing it in a music video. All details maintained and ready. Main-tame is the name and the game. Clean, fast, swift with popular mechanics on duty. Brian Koller
Summer, 1969...playing baseball from sun up to sun down, swimming at rich kid Eddie Benson's house, crawdad giggin', smoking cigs, acting cool...trying to get a kiss from girls....i was 11 yrs old...time of my life and CCR was there as background music.
" Can Do" .. The Seabees We build and we fought, We ate a lot of mud..
TO THE ENLISTED MEN AND WOMEN HONOR THE BRAVERY
The true heroes in Nam were the nurses and corpsmen.
@@billsanders5067 TRUE
@@billsanders5067 nah, army medics
UNKNOWN ❤️
Do not know my Hero’s ❤️ them then and now in Memory
Say is that "Swift Boat John Kerry"?.................OH that's right he left the party early!
Lamento no entender nada de inglés. Si puedo afirmar que con 15/16 años de la guerra de Vietnam tampoco sabía casi nada, pero ¡ay, amigo! en los guateques con los CCR nos lo pasábamos en grande. Qué bien.
Proud USCG vet here
Know Veteran should ever be disrespected by any means.
so glad I was too young, I am 65 next month
Hats off to these badass men God speed
Ant Neeee.Still on Patrol....................Brooklyn......... We dont forget here
Great time mid- Summer 1969, and Vietnam raging bloodily on!
Fun facts: The CG had 7 casualties in 10 years in VN: three were by friendly fire. They also ate 900,000 gallons of ice cream! Guess how much ice cream the Marines ate? Semper Fi!
Yawn
USN and CG are so underrated in Vietnam War
The MFR:. Mobile RIVERINE FORCE.
B co 2nd Bn 47th Infantry 9th Infantry Division, that was my Dad's outfit 1968 hell yeah!!!
Thank you Vietnam Veterans, any fight against Communism is a good fight!
How about WW2?
@@alexkorman1163 People say fight communist is good
German : so why can't i :)
@@FRFFW because they tried to commit a genocide along the way.
Fish - What to do now that the U.S. election was stolen January??
@@roddiemc91 little facist my guy
from Russia with love
I remember
That's a bad ass riff .
Welcome home boys
🇵🇭🇺🇲🇻🇳 ❤️❤️❤️
Me love it long time
Righteous
Dreadful war-I remember it well as a teenager !
AHO,TO ALL OUR WARRIORS..
My shop teacher in high school was on a river patrol boat in Vietnam. He just said he "shot a bunch of leaves" Im sure he seen some shit.
Great!
Впервые я ее услышал в 1971 -что изменилось?
Brown-water navy
Served aboard a Destroyer. When I found out she got scrapped, it felt like I lost a friend. We lost 3 shipmates.
NICE !!
CCR💜💙🧡💛💚
CCR: The official band of the Vietnam war.
Just like we are now ... NEW WAVE!!!