I Am a Vietnam Veteran Stories of Experiences

Anyone going to The Wall besides me, I`ll be wearing some type of navy t-shirt and a white ball cap with a patch that says "ALL GAVE SOME, SOME GAVE ALL. I hope everyone is having a great weekend.

May 1968, Hell was upon us, our Lieutenant was unconscious, rifle platoon commander bleeding like a fire hose, and nothing left of our radioman. I recall today the cry for help.
"Charley One, Charley One, this is Lovebug, what is your...

I'm a Vietnam veteran and I think it was sad the way we were treated when we came home It was like that no one cared You're treated like murderers and rapists and cold us child killers I still can't remember them words when I got off...

I'm a Vietnam veteran and I get flashbacks every other night it is horrifying hair would wish that on nobody the things I seen over there scare the heart of younger generation can I write this story so you are younger generation...

20 JANUARY 1961

Vice President Johnson, Mr. Speaker, Mr. Chief Justice, President Eisenhower, Vice President Nixon, President Truman, Reverend Clergy, fellow citizens:
We observe today not a victory of party but a celebration...

Just curious, probably too trivial to ask, but who here obtained the highest rank in the military. I was just a lowly E-5, but at age 20 I was put in charge of 18 translators and 5 cryptanalists and so I wore hard stripes for a while...

it was my time in katong when all broke out bullets started flying from everywhere fireflight broke out 2 of my buddies got hit so I went over to help them the 1 was shot in the shoulder and the other 1 got in his neck I couldn't save...

Think many times the truly forgot our are families or the families of the vet that came straight home out of combat.  Our families have to make  have to make the same adjustments.  as we the vet erian did , but they do not...

For the First time in 25 years I`m going to go to The Wall, I went there in 1988 and did not shed a tear for all my brothers that never came home. It did effect me cause I promised myself I would never go back but the past several years...

The Wall, almost 60,000 names of young American men died in that God forsaken country and thousands more came home to die. Our country, our government, our friends and family turned their backs on us. I went to The Wall in 1988 and...

I feel are scary things I have flashbacks every night and I am so happy that I serve there I lost my leg lost half my arm I am proud I served and to the rocky into young service men are serving now I salute you Semper Fi

I lost my left leg in Vietnam War I have the Bronze Star 3 purple hearts and to marine crosses into that punk who says we didn't fight for his freedom if it wasn't for our soldiers he wouldn't have no freedom Sempner Fi my fellow vets I...

My father Donald "Hoss" Caldwell better known as "Doc Hoss" passed August 7th 2012. My dad was in my eyes the most amazing man in the world. He flew Dust Off in Vietnam. When he told me the stories he sounded like such a hero. But...

Like a lot of other young men who came home from Vietnam, I was angry; angry at the waste of young lives in a war that would eventually be repudiated by the majority of the country which had sent us there. I was bitter that the friends...

Viet Nam was a UN war right after world war 2, we went in order to help the French fight, and they left.

To me, Viet Nam it was just another  from of birth control for the working class, as you seldom saw anyone from a rich family...

I was an infantry medic with the First Cavalry in Vietnam and Cambodia in 1970. Please visit my website if interested in or teaching about the Vietnam war. Medicinthegreentime.com consists of numerous photo illustrated war and post war...

I was an infantry medic with the First Cavalry in Vietnam and Cambodia in 1970. Please visit my website if interested in or teaching about the Vietnam war. Medicinthegreentime.com consists of numerous photo illustrated war and post war...

APRIL 25. 26.27WELL hear we go a hike to the top of a norther hill in the dark this will make it interesting .we receive orders that the Chinese cannot take this hill it is the only thing keeping them outof Seoul and under no...

I THINK THAT IF IT WASN'T FOR MASH WE WOULD HAVE FORGOTTEN ALL ABOUT IT .KOREA MY DAD WAS THEIR IN 1951 hear is a couple of stores from him we moved to our new position today bloody cold every thing is frozen we came across a small...

I am very happy that our country is showing a lot of support to our troops who are willing to give their all to protect our freedom. It seems like this country has honered our veterans through almost all of our conflicts.I do feel sad...