I can’t stop listening, it really grabs a hold of you and never leaves. I constantly try to see myself actually being there in Vietnam for real and it just gets surreal
I love the last soldier's story. He kept his faith even admiss the horror. And I almost teared up at the atheist asking him for the prayer. That's just amazing.
@@glendaharris7219 Numbers 31 13 Moses, Eleazar the priest and all the leaders of the community went to meet them outside the camp. 14 Moses was angry with the officers of the army-the commanders of thousands and commanders of hundreds-who returned from the battle. 15 “Have you allowed all the women to live?” he asked them. 16 “They were the ones who followed Balaam’s advice and enticed the Israelites to be unfaithful to the Lord in the Peor incident, so that a plague struck the Lord’s people. 17 Now kill all the boys. And kill every woman who has slept with a man, 18 but save for yourselves every girl who has never slept with a man.
It wasn't just the vets coming back from Vietnam, it was ALL vets. I was a 20 year old sailor in electronics school in San Francisco in 1967 and the libs hated us all, just like today. One reason that doesn't happen today is that the vets from my (and G.O.F.) time is that we made up our mind the next generation of soldiers, sailors, and marines would be treated with some respect for the sacrifices they make.
Thank you men all of y’all’s stories blow my mind. I’m so sorry y’all weren’t celebrated. I’m so sorry. I’m 51 years old my Dad told me a few things. Y’all are some true warriors. Much respect.
"LT we're gonna stay right here and die with you" I'm crying. love hath no greater than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends. god fucking bless all vietnam vets.
My grandpa is a Vietnam veteran. I have never asked him about his experience there because he never brings it up. Listening to these stories is something i wish i could still ask him while he’s still alive. But i don’t think I’ll ever find the guts to do so.
Ask him! And keep asking! My father's WWII experience are mostly lost. Tell him you will help him write his story. I am a Vietnam Veteran, U.S. Navy. We had it easier than those on the ground. My father took most of his WWII experiences to his grave. I have only recently told members of my family how bad it was at times during the Vietnam War and I included some examples. One of my brothers and my granddaughter encouraged me to write my story. My granddaughter told me that she would help me write my story. Their encouragement was all I needed. I wrote an 8 page memo. Most of the pages were about Vietnam. 1970 deployment, mostly off the coast of S Vietnam was easy. Gunline off the coast of S. Vietnam, escorting carriers in the Gulf of Tonkin and many ports. The deployment in 1972 was different. It started the same for 2 months. Easy until, then came the Easter Offensive of 1972. I was an FTG aboard USS Joseph Strauss DDG-16. We set up the computer and radar to fire the ship's guns. Strauss and USS Buchanan DDG-14 were operating near the DMZ when the Easter Offensive started. On Easter Saturday, April 1, 1972 Strauss received counterbattery for the first time since I was aboard Strauss. Hundreds of close splashes nearby Strauss. We ponded back! Easter Sunday, April 2, 1972 was worse. Strauss received a call for fire like no other while I was aboard. Strauss and Buchanan were pounded by enemy fire for hours. Both ships pounded back. Later we learned that the Easter Offensive had started. Our ship's allowed Captain John Ripley to blow up Dong Ha Bridge.
I am commenting on this video in hopes that youtubes algorithm will reccomend this video to more people. I will share this video to my friends i hope more people understand these guys stories and the way war really affects everybody. No more illegal wars
I was an RTO in Nam 68-69...Being a radio operator, I was a prime target....an enemy mortar round (of many rounds fired) landed next to me blowing the radio off my back and propelled me somewhat in the air where I landed on my head....The radio took shrapnel saving my life...I was lucky enough to not get wounded except a small piece in my calf (which I didnt receive a purple heart) and a huge headache!
One of the best renditions of this war! There are no words. Humbled beyond .....I come from a historically significant military family. Which brings so many more questions
I served 20yrs army airborne ranger and I served 84-04 seen 95% of action I respect these guys listen to them it's a national treasure listening to such horror into a eloquent story thanks love you guys
I think that it’s really cool 😎 to hear these stories from the guys who served in the American Armed Forces during the Vietnam conflict because I find that what they have to say is more truthful than someone who just reads about which ever conflict that interests them. Well done 👍 guys for telling your side of events and I will look 👀 out for more of the same.
Thanks!!!! To all the Vietnam veterans and to all the men and women who served this nation when duty called!! And to all who sacrificed their lives!!! From a proud Vietnam era vet! And proud American Legionnaire!! 🙂👍👏
My scariest moments in the Nam was whenever we got hit with mortars. You would be on watch and it would be real quiet and then you would hear thoomp thoomp thoomp and you knew mortars were coming and there was no place to hid and I would just sit on my foxhole and shake. I never jumped in my foxhole because I didn't want a ready made coffin.
Hi Joe I have a passage from Ernst Jünger which left an impression on me. “…you must imagine you are securely tied to a post, being threatened by a man swinging a heavy hammer. Now the hammer has been taken back over his head, ready to be swung, now it’s cleaving the air towards you, on the point of touching your skull, then it’s struck the post, and splinters are flying - that’s what it’s like to experience heavy shelling in an exposed position.”
i was being medivac out and when we got off the ground a rocket hit the tail end and down we went. broke my leg . on top of being shot i now had a broken leg. sure i was gonna die right there. 20 yrs old. later that day, full of morphine i was lifted out safely
11:59 AM 3/4/2020 Id say just getting shot at period and not knowing where its coming from. Dying bleeding out in shock from an explosion less than 10 ft away.
@@freedomisbrightestindungeons Vietnam was a just cause. It was the way the US propogated the war with all the atrocities that was wrong. Now though they have McDonald's in Vietnam and the US is giving them weapons, so it all seems pretty pointless. They've given up on Communism and are embracing Capitalism
@@freedomisbrightestindungeons the US misread the North’s long term intentions. The US was convinced the North would be a puppet to China and the Soviets but they just wanted independence, unfortunately it just happened to be under a Communist influenced leader under Ho Chi Minh. Hi Chi Minh was hopeful the US would help propagate Vietnamese independence after WW2 but we were too focused on Communism. Even the Chinese and Soviets were a little concerned that the Vietnamese weren’t really strong communists but just using them to gain independence. US should have used diplomacy to stick a wedge in between China/Soviet Union and Vietnam, versus fighting this war, which is exactly what the US is doing now. But it was politically impossible at the time because any President would be branded as being “soft on Communism” if they attempted this versus fighting the war.
Makes me glad I was born 2 years after it was all over with. Cause I know my young self is 100% dumb enough to join the fight I Vietnam. Even though I knows it's a part of a draft too . Then my young self actually seeing combat knowing that I messed up royally. War is Hell its cruelness. I'm glad I've never seen war .
it sucks that we are still at war in the middle east and its like most forgot no one complains anymore but we have an opiate problem makes me think of american gangster if you catch my drift.
Just a question ! Is it true that the US went in to Vietnam after an attack on a US ship in the Tonkin bay ? And that McNamara later said the there where no attack on the ship ! Is this story true ???
Dan Detmer, so business as usual ! I have just been looking at a video where a JP Morgan own submarine been caught whit a lot of drugs worth billions of us dollar ! I also heard that al the drug trade around the world is been done by CIA, and that the wash the money throu the the vatican bank !? Exuse my bad English, i am Swedish :-)
Only the U.S. military can manage to fire $500k worth of their own ordinance... at their own men.... AND NOT GET THE KILL. Love this first guy though. Love them all... Right here is a real man. They are all real men who fought a war they shouldnt have but deserve all the accolades in the World. My fellow Christian brother at the end is everything that is good in the World. Maintaining Faith in the face of all things
No rich people allowed in war . No senator's sons . No Bush , no Trump , no Rothschields. Yes black men , yes poor men , yes farmers, and welders , and teachers , and lovers . If you don't hate, that will be taught .
A lot of religious people die in wars as well thinking there is a god. Ask jewish holocaust survivors how many of them quit believing in god when they saw what mankind is capable of. I am a proud atheist and will not--on my death bed--believe in god, santa, the easter bunny, the tooth fairy or any other myth or fairy tale.
Anybody else binge watching war stories at 2am.. 🇺🇸
You do not understand
Yep 👍🏾 I’m curious 😭
I can’t stop listening, it really grabs a hold of you and never leaves. I constantly try to see myself actually being there in Vietnam for real and it just gets surreal
@@UWfalcin dude... same...
I am, and I'm a 42 year guy from the UK.
Those 'Nam stories are scary.
I love the last soldier's story. He kept his faith even admiss the horror. And I almost teared up at the atheist asking him for the prayer. That's just amazing.
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God is good..He never leaves us, no matter what is going on our lives!
Welcome home all, and thank you for fighting..God bless you and the USA 🇺🇸..
@@glendaharris7219
Numbers 31
13 Moses, Eleazar the priest and all the leaders of the community went to meet them outside the camp. 14 Moses was angry with the officers of the army-the commanders of thousands and commanders of hundreds-who returned from the battle.
15 “Have you allowed all the women to live?” he asked them. 16 “They were the ones who followed Balaam’s advice and enticed the Israelites to be unfaithful to the Lord in the Peor incident, so that a plague struck the Lord’s people. 17 Now kill all the boys. And kill every woman who has slept with a man, 18 but save for yourselves every girl who has never slept with a man.
Thank you gentlemen for your service. You guys are all heroes in my eyes. 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
LMAO🤣
The stories these vets tell are extremely interesting.
I grew up (not really) listening to my uncle telling stories about jungle fighting against the Japanese in the Philippines and New Guinea in WW2.
Imagine what the Vietnamese could tell..
Thank you for your service gentlemen. I know you were hated when you guys came back and that was wrong
It wasn't just the vets coming back from Vietnam, it was ALL vets. I was a 20 year old sailor in electronics school in San Francisco in 1967 and the libs hated us all, just like today. One reason that doesn't happen today is that the vets from my (and G.O.F.) time is that we made up our mind the next generation of soldiers, sailors, and marines would be treated with some respect for the sacrifices they make.
ytubepuppy sure
Hatred disguised as free love.🙄
I was smokin a little, I was a little on fire.
Holy crap
"So I lit a cigarette from the flames before I put myself out, brushed off my massive balls and looked for my gun"
These are real men much respect 🇺🇸
So sorry he lost the leg..thank you for fighting in this war.
Thank you men all of y’all’s stories blow my mind. I’m so sorry y’all weren’t celebrated. I’m so sorry. I’m 51 years old my Dad told me a few things. Y’all are some true warriors. Much respect.
"LT we're gonna stay right here and die with you"
I'm crying. love hath no greater than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends. god fucking bless all vietnam vets.
WOW! What a story!! God bless these Good Men!
My grandpa is a Vietnam veteran. I have never asked him about his experience there because he never brings it up. Listening to these stories is something i wish i could still ask him while he’s still alive. But i don’t think I’ll ever find the guts to do so.
Ask him! And keep asking! My father's WWII experience are mostly lost. Tell him you will help him write his story. I am a Vietnam Veteran, U.S. Navy. We had it easier than those on the ground. My father took most of his WWII experiences to his grave. I have only recently told members of my family how bad it was at times during the Vietnam War and I included some examples. One of my brothers and my granddaughter encouraged me to write my story. My granddaughter told me that she would help me write my story. Their encouragement was all I needed. I wrote an 8 page memo. Most of the pages were about Vietnam. 1970 deployment, mostly off the coast of S Vietnam was easy. Gunline off the coast of S. Vietnam, escorting carriers in the Gulf of Tonkin and many ports. The deployment in 1972 was different. It started the same for 2 months. Easy until, then came the Easter Offensive of 1972. I was an FTG aboard USS Joseph Strauss DDG-16. We set up the computer and radar to fire the ship's guns. Strauss and USS Buchanan DDG-14 were operating near the DMZ when the Easter Offensive started. On Easter Saturday, April 1, 1972 Strauss received counterbattery for the first time since I was aboard Strauss. Hundreds of close splashes nearby Strauss. We ponded back! Easter Sunday, April 2, 1972 was worse. Strauss received a call for fire like no other while I was aboard. Strauss and Buchanan were pounded by enemy fire for hours. Both ships pounded back. Later we learned that the Easter Offensive had started. Our ship's allowed Captain John Ripley to blow up Dong Ha Bridge.
Wow amazing stories, God bless our veterans ♡
Thank you for your service gentleman.
Thank you for your service, real heros!
That was wonderful I got a few horror stories myself but it just makes me feel like I’m not alone God bless
you guys drive on Airborne all the way
Thank you all. Love you vets.
God bless these guys I owe them all a pint.
Everywhere in Vietnam was terrifying, I know from personal experience
Thank you for your Service, my friend!!
I am commenting on this video in hopes that youtubes algorithm will reccomend this video to more people. I will share this video to my friends i hope more people understand these guys stories and the way war really affects everybody. No more illegal wars
I was an RTO in Nam 68-69...Being a radio operator, I was a prime target....an enemy mortar round (of many rounds fired) landed next to me blowing the radio off my back and propelled me somewhat in the air where I landed on my head....The radio took shrapnel saving my life...I was lucky enough to not get wounded except a small piece in my calf (which I didnt receive a purple heart) and a huge headache!
namdogtag damn if that isn’t a close ass call ion know what is
It's a goddamn crime what cruel and greedy politicians do to guys like these on both sides. Even to this day.
Very well said
One of the best renditions of this war! There are no words. Humbled beyond .....I come from a historically significant military family. Which brings so many more questions
The last one really hit me.
Thanks for your service
Dear John letters probably killed more men then the enemy.
than
I served 20yrs army airborne ranger and I served 84-04 seen 95% of action I respect these guys listen to them it's a national treasure listening to such horror into a eloquent story thanks love you guys
What was the stupidest thing you did in Vietnam? Answer: Being there.
“I was on fire and stuff like that”
Jesus
"Hey LT, do ya have that prayer?" T_T
I think that it’s really cool 😎 to hear these stories from the guys who served in the American Armed Forces during the Vietnam conflict because I find that what they have to say is more truthful than someone who just reads about which ever conflict that interests them.
Well done 👍 guys for telling your side of events and I will look 👀 out for more of the same.
SUPERHEROES….ALL OF YOU!
THANK YOU FROM THE BOTTOM OF MY HEART❤❤❤
Can you imagine how these good men feel right now about the current state of affairs in America!?! I wanna cry 😢.
Thanks!!!! To all the Vietnam veterans and to all the men and women who served this nation when duty called!! And to all who sacrificed their lives!!! From a proud Vietnam era vet! And proud American Legionnaire!! 🙂👍👏
Welcome Home. God bless you..
Wow... God Bless you.
God Bless You & Family Abundantly I'll Never Forget Remember Forever Amen
Powerful collection of accounts, fellas. Welcome home.
My scariest moments in the Nam was whenever we got hit with mortars. You would be on watch and it would be real quiet and then you would hear thoomp thoomp thoomp and you knew mortars were coming and there was no place to hid and I would just sit on my foxhole and shake. I never jumped in my foxhole because I didn't want a ready made coffin.
Hi Joe I have a passage from Ernst Jünger which left an impression on me. “…you must imagine you are securely tied to a post, being threatened by a man swinging a heavy hammer. Now the hammer has been taken back over his head, ready to be swung, now it’s cleaving the air towards you, on the point of touching your skull, then it’s struck the post, and splinters are flying - that’s what it’s like to experience heavy shelling in an exposed position.”
Fuuuuuck! That is some scary shit man! I'm at a loss for words, but I will say thank for your service and God bless the USA.
One of the realest, most genuine comments I’ve ever read. No sugarcoating, no long-syllabled words, just pure memory. Thank you and welcome home
Thank you sir
gutsy story thanks soilder
Soldier
I saw these guys 2 to 3 years ago great fucking men
Respect.
i was being medivac out and when we got off the ground a rocket hit the tail end and down we went. broke my leg . on top of being shot i now had a broken leg. sure i was gonna die right there. 20 yrs old. later that day, full of morphine i was lifted out safely
3rd Batt. 7th Marines ChuLai,RVN 10/65-11/66
My Father was a medic did two term in Vietnam and one in Panama
My Dad's birthday is / was/ also on November 17th.
Respect
11:59 AM 3/4/2020 Id say just getting shot at period and not knowing where its coming from. Dying bleeding out in shock from an explosion less than 10 ft away.
the scariest moment was when I left Viet Nam...
The Vietnam War is so interesting
baan58adam they did the right thing defending south Vietnam
Just a reminder
South Korea would not exist if it were not for the United States
@@freedomisbrightestindungeons Vietnam was a just cause. It was the way the US propogated the war with all the atrocities that was wrong. Now though they have McDonald's in Vietnam and the US is giving them weapons, so it all seems pretty pointless. They've given up on Communism and are embracing Capitalism
22 year war has a lot of stories for sure and on both sides.
@@freedomisbrightestindungeons it was all for money for capitalism
@@freedomisbrightestindungeons the US misread the North’s long term intentions. The US was convinced the North would be a puppet to China and the Soviets but they just wanted independence, unfortunately it just happened to be under a Communist influenced leader under Ho Chi Minh. Hi Chi Minh was hopeful the US would help propagate Vietnamese independence after WW2 but we were too focused on Communism. Even the Chinese and Soviets were a little concerned that the Vietnamese weren’t really strong communists but just using them to gain independence. US should have used diplomacy to stick a wedge in between China/Soviet Union and Vietnam, versus fighting this war, which is exactly what the US is doing now. But it was politically impossible at the time because any President would be branded as being “soft on Communism” if they attempted this versus fighting the war.
God bless good luck
You guys are fantastic
Makes me glad I was born 2 years after it was all over with.
Cause I know my young self is 100% dumb enough to join the fight I Vietnam.
Even though I knows it's a part of a draft too .
Then my young self actually seeing combat knowing that I messed up royally.
War is Hell its cruelness.
I'm glad I've never seen war .
"The hellfire rocket glanced off my right hip. 3 explosions all around me." I'd love to know what this guy's MOS was..
Probably some form of Infantry.
Another war we lost.
Orahhh devil dog. Jersey native myself
My most scariest moment was every time I climbed into the back of my ship.
Dear John letter...poor Guy. That war was so fucked up, it destroyed so many lives.
The truth of VN is when the crap hits the fan the last thing you need to do is get scared or any thing except the job.
What happened to Turner?
As an atheist I pray all the time. I pray for the Chicago Bears to win just one football game, but god calls in sick on those prayers.
LOL
Tried to take my shoe lace off to tie my leg back on. Wow. Who wouldn't do that?
What was your scariest moment? I didn't watch this. What was the next question, what was your favorite animal in Vietnam?
To be honest I don't watch these videos either. Just scroll for comment section.
Here from PKN.
Friendly fire.. OMG. 😢😢😢😢
-not sure on the correct spelling but searching for a steven boyd linski second lieutenant vietnam 67-68 from perth amboy new jersey
it sucks that we are still at war in the middle east and its like most forgot no one complains anymore but we have an opiate problem makes me think of american gangster if you catch my drift.
Bow do i ask my grandpa about his time? I dont want to be insensitve but im really curious about his time in nam
Just a question ! Is it true that the US went in to Vietnam after an attack on a US ship in the Tonkin bay ?
And that McNamara later said the there where no attack on the ship !
Is this story true ???
I heard tape between Johnson and mac and they were talking about what kind of fake attack would get us in the war
Dan Detmer, so business as usual !
I have just been looking at a video where a JP Morgan own submarine been caught whit a lot of drugs worth billions of us dollar !
I also heard that al the drug trade around the world is been done by CIA, and that the wash the money throu the the vatican bank !?
Exuse my bad English, i am Swedish :-)
Only the U.S. military can manage to fire $500k worth of their own ordinance... at their own men.... AND NOT GET THE KILL.
Love this first guy though. Love them all... Right here is a real man. They are all real men who fought a war they shouldnt have but deserve all the accolades in the World. My fellow Christian brother at the end is everything that is good in the World.
Maintaining Faith in the face of all things
Where can I hear all of Dan Edward’s story?
Can't find part one anywhere.
No rich people allowed in war . No senator's sons . No Bush , no Trump , no Rothschields. Yes black men , yes poor men , yes farmers, and welders , and teachers , and lovers . If you don't hate, that will be taught .
if you don't like then gtfo to North Korea or Cuba. The working class needs to serve its superiors. That's their function.
No Bernie, no Clinton, no Gore...
@@HereIsRick No Obama.
Why did trump dodge several drafts?
@@jross9800 Why did Bill Clinton?
First guy sounds like Carl Brutananadilewski from Aqua Teen Hunger Force
wow that last story got me. it makes me think there are no atheists in a fox hole.
Terror
Slivernare!
Sadly the US has learned nothing with the Vietnam experience
Mel Gibson We Were Soldiers best movie on this God bless all ❤🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
what are "silver nears" ??
It's a jersey accent of a SOUVENIR
Listening this while playing Minecraft🇵🇭
I love their stories and I love it when a atheist thinks or knows he's going to die looks for a prayer and refemption
A lot of religious people die in wars as well thinking there is a god. Ask jewish holocaust survivors how many of them quit believing in god when they saw what mankind is capable of. I am a proud atheist and will not--on my death bed--believe in god, santa, the easter bunny, the tooth fairy or any other myth or fairy tale.
I agree. I was in the hospital once--thought I was dying. They asked if I wanted a priest or preacher. I said, "No--I want a good doctor."
Devin Petersen nonsense. Why would anyone pray to Zeus or Poseidon just because death is near?
Hey everyone tune in next week as Marvelous Marv tells another story that didn't happen.
What can it hurt. Might as well cover all bases.
Wow
Just think, nobody up top was held responsible for this bullshit. Still aint.
brave brave teenage boys sent into battle by a horrible country...shame on you Democrats...