re: Any Vietnam Vets on the board?

One bit of cool info I didn't know before I started researching this, although irrelevant to what I'm actually looking for, my uncle was one of 242 servicemen named and pictured in the infamous "Faces of the American Dead: One weeks toll" issue of Life magazine

Irrelevant, but I thought that was cool

I liked it better when Norm MacDonald told that story.

Thanks my mistake. I did post a link on page two to the proper location.

I'm missing page two link.

Please post again.

Many thanks.

Cheers

This is true. Is there any chance you could just ask him? Other than that he should have a copy of his DD-214. If he ever got a VA loan or anything like that, he got an honorable discharge.

He also could have got a general discharge. That's what they do sometimes when someone screws up but isn't malicious.

Your dad sounds like my other uncle who lived through Vietnam. He refuses to talk about his time in Vietnam, even to his own wife and kids.
The fact he was able to come home and his little brother didn't absolutely wrecked him.

My dad said the only time he knows of that uncle spoke a single word about it was when the two of them were driving past some cornfields, and right as they came to the top of a hill a low flying crop dusting helicopter flew directly over them which triggered a flashback and PTSD episode in my uncle. He immediately slammed on the brakes and began hyperventilating. My dad calmed him down enough to get him to pull off the road where my uncle shut off the truck, began sobbing, and speaking of friends he saw die... Nobody else has ever been able to get a word out of him.
There's also some speculation he was on heroin while there, as so many other guys did with the easy access and high probability of dying anyway.



Vietnam was hell and I can't judge the men hardened by it.