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re: Found My Dad in a Vietnam Photo That Was Published Nationally in the 60's
Posted on 10/26/22 at 7:30 pm to AUstar
Posted on 10/26/22 at 7:30 pm to AUstar
Nam fawkers are bad arse and don’t get enough respect. Just imagine being in that jungle in a war that was going nowhere in terms of conquering an enemy army.
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Posted on 10/26/22 at 7:31 pm to AUstar
I’m sorry your father has past. But I’m really happy for you to have found this amazing picture of him when he was probably younger than you are now.
Posted on 10/26/22 at 7:32 pm to AUstar
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your dad hit that?This post was edited on 10/26/22 at 11:29 pm
Posted on 10/26/22 at 7:33 pm to AUstar
Great stuff OP. Thanks for sharing
Posted on 10/26/22 at 7:34 pm to AUstar
Thanks for sharing. That’s a really good story. My pawpaw was in Vietnam and he rarely talked about it.
Posted on 10/26/22 at 7:35 pm to Keltic Tiger
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There are 17,000+ heroes' names there.
Men robbed of a future, their lives wasted in a pointless war.
Posted on 10/26/22 at 7:36 pm to Cenlabration
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Thats Catherine Leroy, she is a very famous photographer who passed away in 2006
This is a pretty decent book about her:
Amazon - Close up on war
She also wrote a book herself:
Amazon - Under Fire
Posted on 10/26/22 at 7:38 pm to AUstar
Posted on 10/26/22 at 7:40 pm to Keltic Tiger
quote:According to the National Park Service, there are 58,318 names on the Vietnam Veterans’ Memorial.
go spend some time at the Vietnam Wall. There are 17,000+ heroes' names there.
Normally I’d crack on someone for being so substantially wrong but I wish it were only 17,000-ish names…
OP: Cool find, thanks for sharing. And I would have “efforted” to see that the French chick would have got it.
This post was edited on 10/26/22 at 7:42 pm
Posted on 10/26/22 at 7:41 pm to AUstar
Great Pic !!
Posted on 10/26/22 at 7:42 pm to NPComb
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That's his bro Charlie... it's his birthday today.
Happy birthday, zipper head!
Posted on 10/26/22 at 7:43 pm to GetCocky11
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Men robbed of a future, their lives wasted in a pointless war.
Probably the least understood war in history. The common narrative believed by probably 95%+% of the public is a complete lie, nothing more than propaganda.
Posted on 10/26/22 at 7:43 pm to AUstar
What a cool find for you and a great story. Anytime I see a photo from the Korean conflict I look to see if my dad is in it but I know the chances are slim to none. Awesome pic though
Posted on 10/26/22 at 7:43 pm to AUstar
Very nice.
My Father had a police and airband VHF radio in his car. Riding down Hwy 90 just outside Morgan City one day he went tense and quiet.
Ended up turning around and went to PHI (I think). He heard a call sign on the airband he recognized. Asked for the pilot and we met him in the hangar.
Turns out it was a helo pilot that refused to leave him during an airevac after he had been wounded and slid out of the helo and was stuck in the mud up to his armpits.
Said it took them 2 hrs to dig him out. When my dad told him his call sign and where this happened the both instantly remembered and recognized each other.
It is indeed a small world.
My Father had a police and airband VHF radio in his car. Riding down Hwy 90 just outside Morgan City one day he went tense and quiet.
Ended up turning around and went to PHI (I think). He heard a call sign on the airband he recognized. Asked for the pilot and we met him in the hangar.
Turns out it was a helo pilot that refused to leave him during an airevac after he had been wounded and slid out of the helo and was stuck in the mud up to his armpits.
Said it took them 2 hrs to dig him out. When my dad told him his call sign and where this happened the both instantly remembered and recognized each other.
It is indeed a small world.
Posted on 10/26/22 at 7:46 pm to AUstar
Thanks for sharing! I’m sure you are beyond proud of your father’s service.
My uncle served in Vietnam and it’s a damn shame the way they were treated when they returned. Heroes, all of them.
My uncle served in Vietnam and it’s a damn shame the way they were treated when they returned. Heroes, all of them.
Posted on 10/26/22 at 7:50 pm to I20goon
I could listen to stories like this and the OP's all day long.
Grew up outside Benning when all this was going on. Can't tell you how many kids in the neighborhood saw their Pops leave to go to war and didn't make it back home.
Lucky my Pop did. Was in the 7th/17th Air Cav. The stories he shared when I would ask him would make the hair on your neck stand up.
All of them that went through that hell were badasses n my book.
Grew up outside Benning when all this was going on. Can't tell you how many kids in the neighborhood saw their Pops leave to go to war and didn't make it back home.
Lucky my Pop did. Was in the 7th/17th Air Cav. The stories he shared when I would ask him would make the hair on your neck stand up.
All of them that went through that hell were badasses n my book.
Posted on 10/26/22 at 7:53 pm to AUstar
Spending 3 months in the field would make me go insane....and would also make me want to bang a smelly French lady journo
Posted on 10/26/22 at 8:02 pm to upgrayedd
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Spending 3 months in the field would make me go insane....and would also make me want to bang a smelly French lady journo
When you’ve been in the field long enough, you and everyone else around you, reaches a level of funk that until you’ve experienced it, you didn’t even realize existed. But that only last for a while and then you go nose numb to it.
Posted on 10/26/22 at 8:03 pm to AUstar
My BIL is on that wall. He was a Cobra pilot running perimeter on an encampment, fire base, whatever and shot by his on men. He was 6'2. My neighbor who was also a copter pilot was in Tiger Woods daddys unit in Vietnam. Said ole man Woods had his shite together. Cool story and I bet that French chick had more hair under her arms than your dad.
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