I once asked my dad if he had ever killed someone, he looked me dead in the eye with this weird look, almost like a sadness in his gaze, then he cleared his throat and said "too many" and then after that neither me nor him ever mentioned it or talked about it, it was a very powerful moment we shared when I was just becoming a young adult; powerful but at the same time highly confusing considering the fact that my dad is a retired college professor who was never a part of any armed forces.
This is SO TRUE. My dad: “no I never did drugs.” “Ok, once but I didn’t like it.” “Ok, I did every now and then.” and then finally “Yeah, I grew marijuana.”
Tbf if my kid asked me if i ever did drugs I wouldn’t count weed in that lol. Maybe i have a weird perspective cause my dad was a junkie so to me weed is the least of anyones worries lol its like if you asked that question and someone responded “yeah i drink coffee”
@@mysty0 Agree, my Dad was in Korea and I NEVER knew, noone, NOONE said anything, I only knew about Vietnam. I didn't know about Korea until he died and it was on his headstone
Yuuuuuup too true. My dad cant stand to be around the guys who never shut up. It's the only time I've seen look like he either going to punch someone in the face or crawl out if his skin to be anywhere else
Hahahahaha op is wrong. Some are like that. Some are not. Some are extremely proud of what they did. Some dont want to be ostracized so they dont tell you they liked it. Some do. There are story tellers sure. But there are killers who are proud of their skill, proud to have survived and proud to have done something significant in their service.
My grandpa was a vet and he would talk about his time in Vietnam around the 4th of July because of the fireworks and on his birthday 11/11. The stories he told me were really sad and he lost a lot of friends and he came home to losing family members too. He was always a bright person to be around when he was alive. He died of cancer, but I was happy that I knew that I saw him when I graduated high school and got to hear his last words before I went on to my new chapter of life
@@tylergarrett8066 he's talking about fragging which happened a lot in Vietnam and was a malicious attempt to kill an officer. Pat was shot and killed in a friendly fire incident in afghanistan.. not even close to the same.
It’s good to know that your Dad waited for you to grow a bit more each time he fed you with an answer and added more detail as you matured over the years - a great example for other dads out there👍🏾
My grandfather went from the Army in Scotland to I think the UN Army and seen the horrors of the Rwandan genocide, only brought it up and talked a little about it once a couple of years ago with watery eyes, not going into the details. I think it's cause they were clearing their attic of stuff and he gave me his trench coat sort of thing that he wore back in the day or was issued to him or something
Or maybe he hadn't killed anyone when he asked him the first time, he just went over to Vietnam in the mean time and threw grenades into bunkers full of tourists.
My grandfather was in Korea, I asked him constantly. He never said shit. He recently passed and I found out he talked a lot to my cousins husband (currently in army) . I was kind of upset he didn't share anything with me but did with a married in stranger. It wasn't until after he passed I realized that he didn't want us to think any different of him for what he had to do there.
He didn't share it with that guy because he was a stranger, it's because he's a soldier and he can actually relate to what your grandpa experienced. You asked because you were nosy, getting pissed just proves that, your grandpa was able to tell that guy because he would actually understand how fucked up it was and wouldn't treat it like a movie. My friend's dad was an infantry officer in the South african army, fought in Angola and was decorated for gallantry, his grandfather fought the Germans at monte cassino with the South African Irish regiment, NEITHER of them said anything to my friend when he was a kid, it wasn't until he joined the army and fought in the Congo that they finally let him in on their stories, because they knew he finally would understand
I asked my dad once ( south African army by conscription). It was one of the few times I was afraid of him, all he said was " you never, ever, ask" I never did again.
"he had lightning bolts on his uniform so it was probably in electricity" and too young wasn't a thing the German army had. The fucking Soviets would kill 14, 13, 12 year old German "soldiers."
@@mr.frosty6681 that would be better if anything, a lot of the German soldiers had no idea about the death camps and were just following orders. Now if he was a holocaust guard that's some shit to cover up lol.
Depends what part you choose to eat 😂 closer to the blast well done farther from the black Blue rare (basically just seared on the outside, the rarest of rare won’t serve in most restaurants for health reasons)
My grandfather did not talk about Vietnam. Except on a few occasions, when it just me and him. He told me of a time he threw a child out of a helicopter, who had explosives in his basket. The necklace of ears and fingers he was made to throw away. And the time he got his forearm shattered by a trap that impaled one of his best friends. Horrific shit
My dad was a gunner as well and he had given the same summation of his service to me, not directly admitting anything but just stating the fact that he got shot at and he returned the favor.
@@The_Lite yeah it’s funny cause she kinda tried to defend her question something like “well you never know” and his response was “it was war we weren’t exactly their for tea time”
My grandpa was an infantry marine at Khe Sahn. He has stories…ended up getting wounded from NVA dropping mortars in his fox hole. Also directly participated in the infamous Hill Fights.
When I was around 20 ( in the mid 80) I had a girlfriend who's father was there. He still had nightmares, at night he went crazy. He didnt spoke about it neither. Perhaps that was his problem.
My grandfather never talked to me about it either (tho I was like 14 when he died). After he died my grandma told me his one and only encounter they were ambushed at night and someone threw a grenade in his tent, so he faked his death by crawling in the river and covering himself with guts from the other bodies until morning. Tho you'd never know that looking at his letters he wrote home from the hospital.
About two years before my grandpa died from cancer, we were having a birthday party for him and I was enlisting in the marine corps and he out of nowhere started taking about vietnam, he never talked about the war, but the thing that stuck with me was seeing a Face i’d never seen him make was of horror, and staring blankly into space , and he just said “we had to fight for our lives” and I’ll never forget that
My great granddaddy was in Vietnam and he did not like talking about it. One story he told us kids was about his first night in the jungle. It was completely pitch dark and all the men camped out in this cabbage patch were getting extremely weary because they kept hearing movement close by. Finally one man fired the first shot which caused everyone to start shooting frantically out into the darkness in fear of an ambush. No movement after that. Daylight breaks and the men wake up to a bunch of dead monkey's LOL
My father would talk about the gulf war funny stories and how he learned things until he saw jarhead in theaters he changed his whole attitude towards telling my brother and I his war stories. I understand him now and it is definitely the saddest thing that a man can suffer with
Yea for murdering vast swaths of innocent civilians in a horrific death for the crime of electing someone that wasn't as profitable for US corporations. Disgusting.
My dad did the same thing when I was a kid. He didn’t want that for me and was afraid he’d glorify war. Now that I’m older and on a separate path he’s more open to talk about it.
My father won't talk about his time in Vietnam. Unless he's shit-faced then he won't shut up about it and it eventually turns into stories about being a Merc for drug cartels and transporting drugs through the Florida Everglades in late 70's early 80's.
My grandfather was in korea too, i was too young to ask about it before he died. I remember pushing him in the wheelchair down our street and he smoked his pipe, I'm pretty certain that pipe wasn't tobacco haha. Sounds like he had pretty bad ptsd, my dad told me he wouldn't go to states like north carolina because the terrain and forests reminded him of korea.
My grandpa and neighbor were both in Korea. Grandpa won't talk about it/I was always told not to ask. Whatever he saw, it made him sell all his guns when he got back. My neighbor was similar; we would always let him know whenever we were going to set off fireworks or the like. Considering the only story he really told was hiding under his supply truck during a shelling, I can understand why
I was 17 and still didn't have a job. Dad was getting on me about getting one in front of my friends. I was giving craps back so he got mad and said u know what when i was 17 i joined the marines at 18 I was fucking killing people.
I asked my dad what the war was like when I was younger and he changed the subject. After my first tour in Iraq, I was home on leave and we got talking and he completely opened up about everything he did and saw. It’s weird, but I guess having been in combat gave us something in common. My grandfather also told me about his time in Europe during WWII. It’s a way of veterans letting each other know that they’re not alone in what they saw and did.
I wish my dad would open up about his Vietnam experiences. He's a purple heart recipient was shot in the neck and arm. He had the AK bullet removed just a couple of years ago when it surfaced in his wrist under the skin. He's a tough quiet man.
@@corpsefoot758 soldiers generally try not to kill civilians but honestly the whole world has brought this upon itself. It's not the soldier's fault, its humanitie's. I'm pretty sure most soldiers would prefer to stop fighting but we don't really have that luxury do we. There is always something someone has to fight for, and there is always someone who disagrees. Evil is subjective, morality is man made. The soldiers are merely a weapon to be used by their country because they want to protect where they live, blame the wielder and not the weapon.
I didn't have to asked my Dad, he just had that look in his eyes like there's was a void. Then he just hugged me and said I love you son; I cried my ass off for like twenty minutes. Lol 😅 good times luv u Dad you were the last of a dying breed. Semper Fi
I had a similar situation with my dad as he occasionally bleeds a little bit of info here and there. One time he teared up telling me some stuff and it made me tear up too. I'm lucky to have him still. He was also a Marine. Semper Fi.
We called it the America war There are a lot of stories about the war I’ve heard from my family Like how my grandpa running away to hide from American soldiers through the tall grass and then witnessed the person in front of him got turned into swiss cheesee by bullets
@@Prosper_Dean and the Vietnamese brought their left expectancy down to 18 after we left. There was no good side, we let our soldiers do whatever they want and the Vietcong didn't have an official army protocol and never signed the Geneva convention
@@prussiaball1871 dude but they were at home. we were not, period. I'm sorry but that's that. At least they didn't pretend to follow the Geneva convention.
@@prussiaball1871 "the Vietnamese brought their life expectancy down to 18 after we left" what? Horse. Shit. Whatever drop they experienced was probably consequence of industrialization. Every nation pays the price. Some in 1970s, and some back in the 1800s. Don't judge without context. You would do well to consider context, bro
@@Prosper_Dean they literally killed everyone who had glasses, idiot. Not only that but it's incredibly racist to say they didn't have factories until the fucking 90s
Took him years, but he finally excepted it. I have a 71 year old friend who is a Vietnam vet. He joined the army at 17. Immediately after Boot Camp, his first assignment was fort Kentucky the republic of south Vietnam. He was sent out to this valley, where they created a perimeter near a known trail that the North Vietnamese were using to move arms. In the hills above the valley are US Army cannons. Also in the hills the US Army had spotters. The spotters would radio the parameter with the coordinates. The perimeter would radio the cannons with the coordinates, and then give the OK to open fire. When the cannons started to fire, everybody ducked in a foxhole, and sometimes the shells would land about 30 feet away. He said he had to remove branches off of him that fell out trees. He was covered in about an inch of dirt. Then when they popped up out of the foxhole, they had a fire in the direction where the bombs were landing. He told me I never saw anybody, but in the direction I was shooting they were dead bodies.
My grandfather talked about ww2 ALL the time. Different kind of war. He told me about every kill. He was a BEAST, but felt totally justified. They named a ridge, in New guinea, after him. They changed it now, but I got old map showing it. He had crazy medals. Led a group of natives, and they would sneak into enemy camps at night, and slit throats. He tripped over a wire during landing, and cut it. It was their main communication line. Pawpaw was a badass!
I realize people can lie easily over the internet, but its more fun to accept what you are saying is true. I mean it's possible, and would be pretty legendary j agree
As someone who did not grow up learning about the vietnam-us war, i would have felt some discomfort upon hearing this. But as someone who just came from a visit to vietnam (learning of all the inhumanities that happened), I can't help but remember all the haunting images and stories of the victims.
Pin me.
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Respectable.
U dropped this 👑
Understandable, have a great day
Civilian: did you ever kill anyone ?
Veteran: idk , I was a cook so probably.
😆
Ofc food poisoning count
Yeah, we kill our officer before - A Cooker
Death from within
@@whysosyria1 it’s fratricide
He was the flamethrower that's why he says it's the cook
I once asked my dad if he had ever killed someone, he looked me dead in the eye with this weird look, almost like a sadness in his gaze, then he cleared his throat and said "too many" and then after that neither me nor him ever mentioned it or talked about it, it was a very powerful moment we shared when I was just becoming a young adult; powerful but at the same time highly confusing considering the fact that my dad is a retired college professor who was never a part of any armed forces.
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Underrated as fuck comment
yooooooooooo…
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You got me, nice. Lol
Pops gave you the age appropriate response each time you asked
Or he threw the grandes after he asked….
Yes 🤭😯😯😯😯 very dark turn there, though. Very dark 😳😳😳
His dad handled it well
@@stephanieoni7804 but it got bright for a sec
😂😂right
This is SO TRUE. My dad: “no I never did drugs.” “Ok, once but I didn’t like it.” “Ok, I did every now and then.” and then finally “Yeah, I grew marijuana.”
Grew weed or do drugs is not closer to kill somebody at all
@@pacho6821 the point flew over your smooth 🧠 kiddo 🤦🏾♂️🤣
Ask him again: "I grow marijuana, want some?"
@@maitimunster every time you ask to him, he'll become more narcos than you exepted a human being could be
Tbf if my kid asked me if i ever did drugs I wouldn’t count weed in that lol. Maybe i have a weird perspective cause my dad was a junkie so to me weed is the least of anyones worries lol its like if you asked that question and someone responded “yeah i drink coffee”
He never specified the third time that the people he killed were in Vietnam
Probably took a couple de tours into Laos and Cambodia to “sight see”
@@waltersobchak3903 operation linebacker has entered the chat
Still on an active rampage
@@waltersobchak3903 If his dad was in Laos then that means he was up to some CIA shit.
Or the enemy
"There are two kinds of vets: those who never say shit, and those who won't stfu about it" lmfao
Generally speaking those who won't stfu never saw battle, and those who are silent were traumatised in tbe thick of battle
@@mysty0 Agree, my Dad was in Korea and I NEVER knew, noone, NOONE said anything, I only knew about Vietnam. I didn't know about Korea until he died and it was on his headstone
Yuuuuuup too true. My dad cant stand to be around the guys who never shut up. It's the only time I've seen look like he either going to punch someone in the face or crawl out if his skin to be anywhere else
I think there are three types of vets, the two ones mentioned at the comment, and the ones who are animals doctors.
The ones that don’t want to talk were either “soil analysts,” or “life guards,” or the “death watchers”
There are two types of veteran. Those with terrible ptsd, and those who love telling their stories.
Oversharing is a trauma response from a lot of vets. If you go to war you get a trauma. Some have just better coping mechanism than others.
Hahahahaha op is wrong. Some are like that. Some are not. Some are extremely proud of what they did. Some dont want to be ostracized so they dont tell you they liked it. Some do. There are story tellers sure. But there are killers who are proud of their skill, proud to have survived and proud to have done something significant in their service.
"Theres no better feeling than killing the enemy"
-Tom Segura's dad
His name is also Tom Segura hahah
I get where he's coming from.
Rip top dog
"What's the first thing that you feel when you kill a civilian? The recoil"
@@Joe-zg9eq lol
"Eh he's just a kid."
10 or so years later: *"Damn right I did."*
Big character and emotional strength difference between 6 and 16. Lol
@@hoopla2671 absolutely. And arguably a bigger gap between 16 and 26. Respect for this man. 🫡
damn straight baby
Asked my grandpa if he’s ever killed anyone and he said “i don’t remember, it was so long ago” like bro whatchu mean *IT*
@@benjaminoechsli1941 Definitely agreed. You grow more mentally and emotionally from mid teens to mid 20s.
"Dozens of them, I killed all of them, I shot them until they all stopped moving"
-My dad, who was never involved in any war
they had us in both halves not gonna lie
So .. . who all did your dad kill ??
@@claudiasolomon1123 Them
So he played a lot of games
What school did he attend?
My grandpa was a vet and he would talk about his time in Vietnam around the 4th of July because of the fireworks and on his birthday 11/11. The stories he told me were really sad and he lost a lot of friends and he came home to losing family members too. He was always a bright person to be around when he was alive. He died of cancer, but I was happy that I knew that I saw him when I graduated high school and got to hear his last words before I went on to my new chapter of life
GOOD! YOUR GRANDPA DESERVED IT
"There is no better feeling than killing the enemy." The most American words ever spoken.
War crimes
It's almost as if you've never heard that warfare has been going on for thousands and thousands of years...lol
"No, but the grenade I threw did"
The next question should be : Were they the enemy or friendly fire.
@@DaviRBify *Pat Tillman just scooched to the edge of his seat in Heaven in nervous anticipation of this answer.*
I too want to know the answer
@@tylergarrett8066 he's talking about fragging which happened a lot in Vietnam and was a malicious attempt to kill an officer.
Pat was shot and killed in a friendly fire incident in afghanistan.. not even close to the same.
@@THIS---GUY I literally replied to the guy above me who asked if it was the enemy or friendly fire in a joke. Learn to read.
This is one of those "I'll tell you when you're older" stories and this time your parents followed through.
I know right, what a great dad
@@hughmungus431 dude same
@Michael Jaxton Sorry bro, that must have been tough
@Michael Jaxton 🤓
It’s good to know that your Dad waited for you to grow a bit more each time he fed you with an answer and added more detail as you matured over the years - a great example for other dads out there👍🏾
Had a buddy who’s dad was also a Vietnam vet. One night after a few glasses of whiskey he started to open up. Man they went through it.
They chose it instead of prison.
@@PROVOCATEURSK not much of a choice. Pretty sure he enlisted tho
@@PROVOCATEURSK the US prison system will mess you up for life
My grandfather went from the Army in Scotland to I think the UN Army and seen the horrors of the Rwandan genocide, only brought it up and talked a little about it once a couple of years ago with watery eyes, not going into the details.
I think it's cause they were clearing their attic of stuff and he gave me his trench coat sort of thing that he wore back in the day or was issued to him or something
RIP TOP DOG
@@ABCD-xg6nr same! wtf man
Jeans
if i may ask, who is top dog?
@@ilmiii8689 Top Dog was Tom's dad. He was often a guest on the YMH podcast.
Try it out.
Damn I'm just finding out about this, 😕😕 I absolutely love the stories about top dog
He was just waiting for you to get older
I can respect a father being conservative with their children
Very based dad
Or maybe he hadn't killed anyone when he asked him the first time, he just went over to Vietnam in the mean time and threw grenades into bunkers full of tourists.
@@willferg7347 Good one 😂
@@domvasta fucking blew dr pepper out of my nose.
Took my dad years to speak much to me about it. This is spot on
My grandfather was in Korea, I asked him constantly. He never said shit. He recently passed and I found out he talked a lot to my cousins husband (currently in army) . I was kind of upset he didn't share anything with me but did with a married in stranger. It wasn't until after he passed I realized that he didn't want us to think any different of him for what he had to do there.
He didn't share it with that guy because he was a stranger, it's because he's a soldier and he can actually relate to what your grandpa experienced.
You asked because you were nosy, getting pissed just proves that, your grandpa was able to tell that guy because he would actually understand how fucked up it was and wouldn't treat it like a movie.
My friend's dad was an infantry officer in the South african army, fought in Angola and was decorated for gallantry, his grandfather fought the Germans at monte cassino with the South African Irish regiment, NEITHER of them said anything to my friend when he was a kid, it wasn't until he joined the army and fought in the Congo that they finally let him in on their stories, because they knew he finally would understand
Anyone else miss "HEY BUDDY?"
Yes.
Huh? What’s that?
@@RED-sl2le Tom's dad would answer saying "HEY buddy!"
There’s a compilation of it I’m pretty sure definitely boosts the serotonin
@@dillonings4847 ahhhundred percent! 🔥
"No better feeling than killing the enemy" best line ever
And a true one at that
Put them in the dirt, 6’ down yessir
“How do you feel about killing that endangered species” no better feeling than killing the enemy
@@trippiechris1852 everyone and everything not allied with the USMC is an endangered species.
Yeah if you're a psychopath. If you feel good about killing anybody you need serious help.
I asked my dad once ( south African army by conscription). It was one of the few times I was afraid of him, all he said was " you never, ever, ask" I never did again.
Before or after the apartheid?
@@Honorbound43 it would be before. Conscription was only during apartheid.
Lol. Tell daddy to nut up and be honest.
Damn he has better character development than most fictional characters
Me asking my dad for the 99th time: dad have you ever killed anybody?
Dad who has heard this for the 99th time: well Im about to
😂
Haha brilliant 🤣🤣
Ok winner
Liar
Lmaooo
All I got from my German side of the family are "Oh no honey, he was too young" "He was In communication" and "He might be an electrical engineer"
"he had lightning bolts on his uniform so it was probably in electricity" and too young wasn't a thing the German army had. The fucking Soviets would kill 14, 13, 12 year old German "soldiers."
Confirmed mg42 gunner !!? Maybe ?
@@mr.frosty6681 that would be better if anything, a lot of the German soldiers had no idea about the death camps and were just following orders. Now if he was a holocaust guard that's some shit to cover up lol.
Electrical engineer? Did he have like two lightning bolts on his jacket collar?
@@lousanus4069 ☠️
Seen his stand up twice and he is incredibly funny every single time
Go a third time. This will be the deciding factor.
I think after you slowly grew up, he felt it was easier to tell you.
There “were” people in the bunkers, now it’s just some undercooked meat
Lol semantics
No, it’s perfectly cooked
The moral is he cared less about lying the older he got.
Depends what part you choose to eat 😂 closer to the blast well done farther from the black Blue rare (basically just seared on the outside, the rarest of rare won’t serve in most restaurants for health reasons)
@@patrickbaklava7297
That or he got sick of Tom asking and just started giving him the answer he wanted, lol.
"I threw grenades in the bunkers"
It's like a "tell me without telling me" 😂
-Have you ever killed anybody?
-idk, I never went back to ask them
This feels like the heavier equivalent to “The Talk.” The older he got the closer he got to an answer.
nah his dad was probably just messing with him because he kept asking
Wtf is "the talk"? Lol. Like the birds and bees?
@@pimplepickerton yes kinda but without the child friendliness
@@berkal1299 yes but no
@@pimplepickerton yes
Batman: It's against my code to kill
Also Batman:
What a shit time
arkham knight batman running over goons with the batmobile:
also now I'm sad, r.i.p. Kevin Conroy 😔❤️
"Unconscious"
That's what I call character development.
I never asked my grandfather this but from the stories he would tell about being in WWII I know full well he did :)
Yeah well my grandfather shot and killed hitler
I like how it evolved from “of course not son.” To “I’m technically a serial killer” but he makes it sound so hilarious.
A soldier and a serial killer are completely different. Killing someone in battle isn’t serial killing.
@@HAL-vc3of its serial killing allowed by the government, and in this case forced upon
@@VioletValk They aren't serial killing or serial killers, look up the medical definition of a serial killer.
@@lucario2188 not medically speaking only technically speaking
Serial killer or not in the end, they both killing 😂
Most vets: *PTSD flashbacks*
Tom's dad: "I threw boom boom balls in the terror tunnels! ☺️"
His dad is fucking hilarious
The vietnamese are in their lands, how were they "terror"?
@@onlyyou200548 terror don't care where or who. A terrorist is also not innately in the wrong. Just usually
@@onlyyou200548 cause they were communists duh??
@@turkeysandwich1998 You don’t know what communism is
The slow transition from childhood to adult hood
My Dad was a Vietnam Vet, when he returned he was so over whelmed, for the first time in my life I saw my Dad cry 😭it was heart breaking 💔💔😭
My grandfather did not talk about Vietnam. Except on a few occasions, when it just me and him. He told me of a time he threw a child out of a helicopter, who had explosives in his basket. The necklace of ears and fingers he was made to throw away. And the time he got his forearm shattered by a trap that impaled one of his best friends. Horrific shit
wow
JESUS. CHRIST! Think about Ukraine atm...
@@anthonyzullo Ukrainians are the guerillas in this situation but still not similar.
Jesus Christ that’s horrifying though.
@@anthonyzullo nowhere near as brutal
Dude my friends mom asked my dad that my dad said “ I was a heavy gunner for the humvees in the middle of Iraq of course I’ve killed someone”
249 gunner who served in Afghanistan. Can confirm good chance us gunners have caught some bodies
My dad was a gunner as well and he had given the same summation of his service to me, not directly admitting anything but just stating the fact that he got shot at and he returned the favor.
@@ash_armsen yeah I’ve never directly asked cause ik that question can be hard especially coming from your own son no matter the age
@@The_Lite yeah it’s funny cause she kinda tried to defend her question something like “well you never know” and his response was “it was war we weren’t exactly their for tea time”
@@rockyadams2825 still you went to the wrong place
Love how dad age appropriated his answers 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
That build-up was absolutely perfect!
My grandad was a veteran, my dad asked him once if he ever killed anybody and he said “probably not I wasn’t a very good shot”😂 rip grandad ❤️
At least he was honest lmao
Which war?
@@roderickstockdale1678 crusades?
@@Koroshimasu wdym
WW2? Korea? Vietnam?
My grandfather used to love telling us stories. Up until I was 11 I thought he really had a second belly button, turns out he just got hit in the war
gut shot.. damn
No surgery scars? Did it go clean through?
😂😂👌
My Grandpa was also a Vietnam Vet, he was in the First Air Cav
God bless your father we all say thank you for what he did
Thou shall not kill.
My grandpa was an infantry marine at Khe Sahn. He has stories…ended up getting wounded from NVA dropping mortars in his fox hole. Also directly participated in the infamous Hill Fights.
Semper Fi Devil
Semper Fi.
Hope he recognised the brutality of America’s actions before his passing
@@AC-fg4kg Hopefully he just suppressed his demons and passed in peace. Leave the worrying about the brutality of the U.S to us.
@@AC-fg4kg war fucking sucks, that something my family is familiar with lmao. He’s still alive and kicking
"Did You ever kill anybody"
I hurt someone's feelings once
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Ronin
@@muke392 Yes sir 😎
You monster!
Jokes aside, still possible tho, if a person is pushed to his emotional limit
I love that his dad gave him the answer that wouldn't fuck up a kid's mind early on
He was slowly getting the flashbacks with each time it was asked
"my dad stepped on a bee"
😭😥
My dad hit his knee
"my dad tells war stories"
"he killed them up in the tree"
Underated comment😂
My dad was in the Korean War and he did not and would not talk about it.
Korea is the saddest war IMO. You can hardly find anyone who knows anything about it
When I was around 20 ( in the mid 80) I had a girlfriend who's father was there. He still had nightmares, at night he went crazy. He didnt spoke about it neither. Perhaps that was his problem.
Effective human wave tactics, they seem to stick with the soldiers who suffer through them
My grandfather never talked to me about it either (tho I was like 14 when he died). After he died my grandma told me his one and only encounter they were ambushed at night and someone threw a grenade in his tent, so he faked his death by crawling in the river and covering himself with guts from the other bodies until morning. Tho you'd never know that looking at his letters he wrote home from the hospital.
War is hell my friend
He probably doesn't want you to even have to imagine what he saw over there..
He was giving you the answers that would keep you out of prison.
My grandpa also fought in the war, but he always said. It was me or the enemy. Choice was easily made for me.
"Did you ever kill anybody?"
"Yeah son, on call of duty"
That totally counts.
They were just kids...I'm a monster....*tactical nuke incoming*
I love how his father is willing to tell him more as he gets older.🤣🤣
This could give him childhood trauma
This clip lives rent free in my head
About two years before my grandpa died from cancer, we were having a birthday party for him and I was enlisting in the marine corps and he out of nowhere started taking about vietnam, he never talked about the war, but the thing that stuck with me was seeing a Face i’d never seen him make was of horror, and staring blankly into space , and he just said “we had to fight for our lives” and I’ll never forget that
Asked my dad the same question once, he response was yes, don't ever ask me about that again.
One of my cousins asked me that once; my response: "No, I didn't, but be very careful about asking that question."
Where did you fight, In Vietnam ?
@@hv4329 Iraq.
@@sappypappy8595 Appreciate your service to the USA. God bless brother. 🇺🇸
@@charlieboutin3341 We appreciate your support.
@@sappypappy8595 youre a coward
My great granddaddy was in Vietnam and he did not like talking about it. One story he told us kids was about his first night in the jungle. It was completely pitch dark and all the men camped out in this cabbage patch were getting extremely weary because they kept hearing movement close by. Finally one man fired the first shot which caused everyone to start shooting frantically out into the darkness in fear of an ambush. No movement after that. Daylight breaks and the men wake up to a bunch of dead monkey's LOL
My father would talk about the gulf war funny stories and how he learned things until he saw jarhead in theaters he changed his whole attitude towards telling my brother and I his war stories. I understand him now and it is definitely the saddest thing that a man can suffer with
Imagine him asking his dad now and he just goes “Napalm is the fucking GOAT bro”
LMFAO
Yea for murdering vast swaths of innocent civilians in a horrific death for the crime of electing someone that wasn't as profitable for US corporations. Disgusting.
😭😭😭
Shit was lit fam
Greatest of all time?
I am dumb, I know the abbreviation but not what it means
"There's no better feeling than killing the enemy" RIP TOP DOG
Is this comic dead?
@@quindrudittrich6881 His father is dead.
@@gussampson5029 good
@@gussampson5029 his father deserved a lot worse. Utterly disgusting human being
@@25yo21 lmaaooo
With age comes truth and wisdom
Smart dad
The way he said "what do u wanna know?" Gets me
My dad did the same thing when I was a kid. He didn’t want that for me and was afraid he’d glorify war. Now that I’m older and on a separate path he’s more open to talk about it.
lovely modulation in his voice.
“You ever kill anybody?”
“I grew grenades in the bunkers. So probably idk they never woke up from their hammocks.”
My father won't talk about his time in Vietnam. Unless he's shit-faced then he won't shut up about it and it eventually turns into stories about being a Merc for drug cartels and transporting drugs through the Florida Everglades in late 70's early 80's.
based
What he did after the war sounds kinda awesome lol
Yep sounds like the CIA
You're dad's a hero....glad he gets beer he deserves it
Man lived in GTA Vice City after the war by the sounds of it haha
Vietnam vet myself
I seen things that I don't talk about and I can't forget those memories
Of inhumanity on both sides
TEARS ARE IN MY EYES
I remember getting my grandpa to open up about Korea. Never even told my dad the shit he told me :)
Would you like to share some of those stories here with us?
@@u.s.citizen9933 yes, please
My grandfather was in korea too, i was too young to ask about it before he died. I remember pushing him in the wheelchair down our street and he smoked his pipe, I'm pretty certain that pipe wasn't tobacco haha. Sounds like he had pretty bad ptsd, my dad told me he wouldn't go to states like north carolina because the terrain and forests reminded him of korea.
Yep, dad was a decorated hero and his remains are in a war memorial, never spoke about the war.
My grandpa and neighbor were both in Korea. Grandpa won't talk about it/I was always told not to ask. Whatever he saw, it made him sell all his guns when he got back.
My neighbor was similar; we would always let him know whenever we were going to set off fireworks or the like. Considering the only story he really told was hiding under his supply truck during a shelling, I can understand why
Dad answered age-appropriately like a good dad would 👌🏽
A+ dad honestly
Next time you ask him he'll go like, "Ever heard of Mussolinni? I took him out... with a toothpick."
That was an endangered woodpecker
damned if the ivory-billed lmao
Didn't know his audience
Like how he broke it to him softly throughout the years softens the blow tremendously.
His dad is a great wine that ages well
I was 17 and still didn't have a job. Dad was getting on me about getting one in front of my friends. I was giving craps back so he got mad and said u know what when i was 17 i joined the marines at 18 I was fucking killing people.
Based
Not exactly something to aspire to kid.
Lmao like killing people somehow makes him superior, what loser dad you had
Cool dad
@Dr. Bright If the kid aspired to shoot up a random store in the name of (insert ideology), then yeah he's taking notes 📝
I had a similar experience asking my parents if Santa was real when I was younger
True words right there👍🏼
That escalated 😂
I asked my dad what the war was like when I was younger and he changed the subject. After my first tour in Iraq, I was home on leave and we got talking and he completely opened up about everything he did and saw. It’s weird, but I guess having been in combat gave us something in common. My grandfather also told me about his time in Europe during WWII. It’s a way of veterans letting each other know that they’re not alone in what they saw and did.
The crowd goes "hahah" in reaction to talking about a bunch of Vietnamese people getting shredded to pieces
It's called a joke and they're in a comedy club.
@@BrandonTheKralik I'd laugh my ass off if it ever happened to you
@@Bloom_HD Give it a few years. Based on current American politics, you'll get the chance to shred your fellow Americans within a decade.
@@tacitus_ "fellow"
I think if I ever somehow woke up to being a mutt I'd probably jump off the nearest building
@@Bloom_HD 4chan dweller
The way he said "I threw grenades in the bunkers" got me
Bunkers. The famous vietnamese bunkers.
"just little pieces by the time i got in there" and the crowd roars
I wish my dad would open up about his Vietnam experiences. He's a purple heart recipient was shot in the neck and arm. He had the AK bullet removed just a couple of years ago when it surfaced in his wrist under the skin. He's a tough quiet man.
When I was like 5 I asked a guy at my church if he killed anyone, all he said was never ask a soldier that
He was a good man
Because they want to hide their war crimes?
@@hotepstories What? Why lol
Murdering civilians is always evil, doesn’t matter if you’re wearing a uniform
@@corpsefoot758 i agree. He's not bragging. He seems to repent. This is why
@@corpsefoot758 soldiers generally try not to kill civilians but honestly the whole world has brought this upon itself. It's not the soldier's fault, its humanitie's. I'm pretty sure most soldiers would prefer to stop fighting but we don't really have that luxury do we. There is always something someone has to fight for, and there is always someone who disagrees. Evil is subjective, morality is man made. The soldiers are merely a weapon to be used by their country because they want to protect where they live, blame the wielder and not the weapon.
Well that escalated quickly. 😂
That’s a question you never ask a veteran.
I didn't have to asked my Dad, he just had that look in his eyes like there's was a void. Then he just hugged me and said I love you son; I cried my ass off for like twenty minutes. Lol 😅 good times luv u Dad you were the last of a dying breed. Semper Fi
I had a similar situation with my dad as he occasionally bleeds a little bit of info here and there. One time he teared up telling me some stuff and it made me tear up too. I'm lucky to have him still. He was also a Marine. Semper Fi.
We called it the America war
There are a lot of stories about the war I’ve heard from my family
Like how my grandpa running away to hide from American soldiers through the tall grass and then witnessed the person in front of him got turned into swiss cheesee by bullets
Wow. I never hear any from Vietnam's side. We Americans were doing something so evil over there.
@@Prosper_Dean and the Vietnamese brought their left expectancy down to 18 after we left. There was no good side, we let our soldiers do whatever they want and the Vietcong didn't have an official army protocol and never signed the Geneva convention
@@prussiaball1871 dude but they were at home. we were not, period. I'm sorry but that's that. At least they didn't pretend to follow the Geneva convention.
@@prussiaball1871 "the Vietnamese brought their life expectancy down to 18 after we left" what? Horse. Shit. Whatever drop they experienced was probably consequence of industrialization. Every nation pays the price. Some in 1970s, and some back in the 1800s. Don't judge without context. You would do well to consider context, bro
@@Prosper_Dean they literally killed everyone who had glasses, idiot. Not only that but it's incredibly racist to say they didn't have factories until the fucking 90s
Lol that escalated nicely.
Took him years, but he finally excepted it.
I have a 71 year old friend who is a Vietnam vet. He joined the army at 17. Immediately after Boot Camp, his first assignment was fort Kentucky the republic of south Vietnam.
He was sent out to this valley, where they created a perimeter near a known trail that the North Vietnamese were using to move arms.
In the hills above the valley are US Army cannons. Also in the hills the US Army had spotters. The spotters would radio the parameter with the coordinates. The perimeter would radio the cannons with the coordinates, and then give the OK to open fire.
When the cannons started to fire, everybody ducked in a foxhole, and sometimes the shells would land about 30 feet away.
He said he had to remove branches off of him that fell out trees. He was covered in about an inch of dirt. Then when they popped up out of the foxhole, they had a fire in the direction where the bombs were landing.
He told me I never saw anybody, but in the direction I was shooting they were dead bodies.
My grandfather talked about ww2 ALL the time. Different kind of war. He told me about every kill. He was a BEAST, but felt totally justified. They named a ridge, in New guinea, after him. They changed it now, but I got old map showing it. He had crazy medals. Led a group of natives, and they would sneak into enemy camps at night, and slit throats. He tripped over a wire during landing, and cut it. It was their main communication line. Pawpaw was a badass!
What was his name? Does he have a wiki page?
That's a nice argument senator
I realize people can lie easily over the internet, but its more fun to accept what you are saying is true. I mean it's possible, and would be pretty legendary j agree
This dude's grandpa was the protagonist
This story screams fake
As someone who did not grow up learning about the vietnam-us war, i would have felt some discomfort upon hearing this. But as someone who just came from a visit to vietnam (learning of all the inhumanities that happened), I can't help but remember all the haunting images and stories of the victims.
Thank you for educating yourself and acting accordingly 🙏🙏
I think that he just never stopped fighting, and he told the truth every time he answered