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re: SIAP: A Collection of Zippos from U.S. Soldiers in Vietnam
Posted on 4/22/18 at 9:14 pm to Green Chili Tiger
Posted on 4/22/18 at 9:14 pm to Green Chili Tiger
Some of those look like fake souvenirs.
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Posted on 4/22/18 at 9:41 pm to Green Chili Tiger
REally cool collection GCT. Thanks for sharing 
Posted on 4/22/18 at 10:33 pm to chinese58
1968 - 1971
The story on how he stretched a 12 month tour into around three years would be interesting.
The story on how he stretched a 12 month tour into around three years would be interesting.
Posted on 4/22/18 at 10:35 pm to The Cool No 9
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How do you get the engraving done on those
Photoshop.
Posted on 4/23/18 at 12:13 am to CarrolltonTiger
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The story on how he stretched a 12 month tour into around three years would be interesting.
My mother's cousin did a tour with the Army, volunteered for a second tour, then went back a third time as a merchant marine. He came home with a Vietnamese wife and a crippling case of PTSD. He became an outlaw biker and did a stretch in prison on an explosives charge. He found a measure of tranquility about the time he qualified for social security.
Posted on 4/23/18 at 4:00 am to CoachKlein
quote:yes it was - that pretty well summed it up. Vietnam 66-68 (7Th ATRC Bien Hoa/Pleiku).
That last one is pretty powerful
Posted on 4/23/18 at 5:50 am to GreatLakesTiger24
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I'm so glad I wasn't born in back then. frick being drafted to fight over there.
My dad was drafted to go to vietnam. I saw the pictures he toke and all of him and his buds in the jungle. Never really spoke about it till one day we were driving through the mountains of montana. Now mind you this was some 30 years later. He talked about the guys they buried and all. It's ashame the way our country treated our troops when they came home. Alot of them had no choice to go and when they returned they were shammed, spit on and treated like crap.
Posted on 4/23/18 at 6:38 am to CarrolltonTiger
I read once that during that time there was kind of an unwritten rule that if one son was overseas they would try not to send the others, so guys would volunteer for additional tours to keep their litttle brothers from being drafted. Who knows, maybe that guy did and got to go back as an mp on airport duty if he was lucky.
Posted on 4/23/18 at 7:19 am to Green Chili Tiger
Eddie Mazzanti of West Monroe did not make it back from Vietnam, but his lighter did. it said:
"war is hell. Actual combat is a motherfricker."
"war is hell. Actual combat is a motherfricker."
Posted on 4/23/18 at 7:21 am to Green Chili Tiger
Seriously makes you appreciate life when you think about 18 year olds sent to that mess.
Posted on 4/23/18 at 7:50 am to CarrolltonTiger
He re-upped. Probably not a typical grunt. More than likely special forces of some kind, or LRRP, if I had to guess.
Posted on 4/23/18 at 8:03 am to Green Chili Tiger
That's pretty cool.
Last one says something.
Last one says something.
Posted on 4/23/18 at 8:05 am to Green Chili Tiger
Someone finished the Far Cry 5 side mission...
Posted on 4/23/18 at 8:08 am to Green Chili Tiger
I wonder if Beverly got this made for her soldier.
Posted on 4/23/18 at 8:26 am to Black n Gold
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I wonder if Beverly got this made for her soldier.
Doubtful. Since "read" was spelled wrong, I suspect it like most (all) of the others was engraved in Nam.
Posted on 4/23/18 at 8:44 am to idlewatcher
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REally cool collection GCT. Thanks for sharing
To be clear, this isn't my collection. This is a photo album of a collection I stumbled across online.
Posted on 4/23/18 at 9:18 am to skinny domino
Skinny I think every veteran of Nam should be given taxpayer paid transportation to LBJs grave and allowed to piss directly on it. McNamara too.
66-68 were the worst years too.
Hats off to you sir.
I was one of only one or two classes that didn't even have to register for the draft. I remember however as a freshman in high school the scene in the "smoking area" of my high school the day after the draft lottery. Everybody knew their number.
We all grew up talking about what we were going to do after we got back from the army not so much about what we were going to do after we finished school. What a change--two generations now have been free of the draft.
66-68 were the worst years too.
Hats off to you sir.
I was one of only one or two classes that didn't even have to register for the draft. I remember however as a freshman in high school the scene in the "smoking area" of my high school the day after the draft lottery. Everybody knew their number.
We all grew up talking about what we were going to do after we got back from the army not so much about what we were going to do after we finished school. What a change--two generations now have been free of the draft.
This post was edited on 4/23/18 at 9:27 am
Posted on 4/23/18 at 9:21 am to I B Freeman
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Everybody knew their number.
"14" here.
Posted on 4/23/18 at 9:51 am to Traveler
frick anyone back home that disrespected our troops when they came home.
Posted on 4/23/18 at 10:34 am to I B Freeman
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Everybody knew their number.
my brother was #4. joined the navy christmas eve
i was #64 in 1973, when they were expected to pull up to #110. then we pulled out of vietnam and stopped the draft in march.
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