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Anyone here lived and participated during the Vietnam era?

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I have to do an interview paper for history, and it needs to be about the Vietnam era. I'm looking for someone to interview 🙂

Interview is about the war, civil rights, etc.
 
Yeah, I was living, but I was about 13 or so when the war was over.

I think you're looking for someone about 10 years older than me.
 
LOL just go down the local vetrand post. I gurandangtee you that there is at least 15 people that are sitting around waiting to tell you about the good ol' days and that war over there. (They may get confused on which war if they havent taken their meds)

Wait do you need someone that went to the war? And do you go to a University or is this a high school thing.
 
find the local VFW. they will put you in contact with someone to talk to. wich is what i had to do when i did a paper on WWII

not many will want to talk about it. but they will know who will.
 
Not many veterans will be willing to talk about the war itself. They may be quite willing to talk about other things during that time though. I know my father does not talk about the war at all. My mom has gotten bits & pieces about his time there but it's taken 36 years of marriage for her to glean that much.

Hell, I can't even get him to order replacements for his campaign ribbons & other medals for a family history (he claims to have thrown them in a rice paddy before coming back stateside).
 
Originally posted by: Feldenak
Not many veterans will be willing to talk about the war itself. They may be quite willing to talk about other things during that time though. I know my father does not talk about the war at all. My mom has gotten bits & pieces about his time there but it's taken 36 years of marriage for her to glean that much.

Hell, I can't even get him to order replacements for his campaign ribbons & other medals for a family history (he claims to have thrown them in a rice paddy before coming back stateside).
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my father is just now doing it. I think it took the death of his best friend (my uncle) who did it before he died.
they are finally accepting what happened and how they were treated by people back home.

he has not told me much about what happened. for years he claimed he was discharged from the army before the war. found out about a year ago that was not true. that he spent 2 tours there.

 
Originally posted by: waggy
Originally posted by: Feldenak
Not many veterans will be willing to talk about the war itself. They may be quite willing to talk about other things during that time though. I know my father does not talk about the war at all. My mom has gotten bits & pieces about his time there but it's taken 36 years of marriage for her to glean that much.

Hell, I can't even get him to order replacements for his campaign ribbons & other medals for a family history (he claims to have thrown them in a rice paddy before coming back stateside).
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my father is just now doing it. I think it took the death of his best friend (my uncle) who did it before he died.
they are finally accepting what happened and how they were treated by people back home.

he has not told me much about what happened. for years he claimed he was discharged from the army before the war. found out about a year ago that was not true. that he spent 2 tours there.
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Oh, I found my dad's discharge papers when I was still in HS. I made the mistake of asking him about them and they disappeared. The only thing he ever told me about that time was breaking a war protester's nose when he got back because the protester spit on him.
 
My wife's family escape the war, she was 4 at the time and her dad was executed while escaping...

She doesn't remember much except whatever her mom tells her... i doubt thats good ?

her family was sponser here by a group of people in NJ.. which was nice..
 
I was in boot camp for 1 month before they officially stopped handing out the National Defense ribbons so technically I count as having served during the Vietnam era.
 
Originally posted by: Tobolo
LOL just go down the local vetrand post. I gurandangtee you that there is at least 15 people that are sitting around waiting to tell you about the good ol' days and that war over there. (They may get confused on which war if they havent taken their meds)

Wait do you need someone that went to the war? And do you go to a University or is this a high school thing.
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Being a combat veteran of the Gulf War in 1991, I take offense to your disrespectful attitude a$$hole.

If you had just a smidgen of an idea of what any combat veteran has done in service to his country...
 
My father in law was in the South gov. of Vietnam. After we pulled out and turned our back on those that helped us he got to spend 10years in prison for helping us. A lot did not live as they did not give enough food. My wife and the rest of their family came to the us about 12 years ago.

We were not really losing the war, as I have been told. But we did not go after the north. I think from what he has told me and what I have read we, the US, tried to have a north and south Vietnam like Korea. But the north came in through Laos using tunnels. So because we were just trying to hold ground and not be aggressive it was easy for them to over take the south with the tunnel attacks and such.
 
I had the pleasure and priviledge os spending 22 glorious and fun-filled months in DaNang as a US Marine. Not much to talk about. All beer drinking and B-girls chasing... :roll:
 
Well, the person doesn't need to have been a soldier in the war. Someone who stayed on the homefront but who actively participated or kept up with the culture at the time would be great also 🙂

I don't want to go around digging up people's old wounds 🙁
 
I was drafted in 1972, served 7 years.....grew up in the great social turmoil from the late '60's through the '70's....born in 1954, so I was 18 in '72. It was an interesting decade and a half, to say the least. Lots of good music, though.....among other things. 😉
 
Originally posted by: ThePresence
PM BoomerD and see if he's willing to talk about his experiences.
In this thread he says that he served in Vietnam.
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Heck, I admitted it in this very thread...just 2 posts above yours...


had the pleasure and priviledge os spending 22 glorious and fun-filled months in DaNang as a US Marine. Not much to talk about. All beer drinking and B-girls chasing...
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Fuzzy, shoot me a PM. I may or may NOT answer your questions...depends on what you ask...
 
If by participated you mean made a poopy in my diaper while my Mom watched a news story about those times then yes, I participated. 😀😉
 
Originally posted by: Tobolo
LOL just go down the local vetrand post. I gurandangtee you that there is at least 15 people that are sitting around waiting to tell you about the good ol' days and that war over there. (They may get confused on which war if they havent taken their meds)

Wait do you need someone that went to the war? And do you go to a University or is this a high school thing.
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Tobolo, that is a disrespectful post. If I were you I would edit that out as it contributes nothing to this thread.
 
I knew this guy who was in Vietnam. He said he got to see a lot of the countryside. They'd always take these real long walks. And they were always looking for this guy named Charly. He said the good thing about Vietnam is there was always someplace to go. And there was always something to do.

Weather there is a bit crazy though. One day it started raining, and it didn't quit for four months. He went through every kind of rain there is: little bit of stinging raing, and big old fat rain, rain that flew in sideways, and sometimes rain even seemed to come straight up from underneath. It even rained at night. Then one day, he was out walking like always, and then, just like that, somebody turned off the rain, and the sun came out.

Guy lost his best friend in Nam. Not surprising he doesn't like to talk about it much. Spends his days shrimping and cutting grass now.
 
Originally posted by: Feldenak

Oh, I found my dad's discharge papers when I was still in HS. I made the mistake of asking him about them and they disappeared. The only thing he ever told me about that time was breaking a war protester's nose when he got back because the protester spit on him.
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My father is a decorated Korean War vet.

Until recently, he would never talk about his service and after hearing some of the things that happened, i dont blame him one bit.

I laughed at some and cried at others... all in all i would not want to speak about it either if it were me.

 
On occasion, I'll talk a little about Vietnam, but never discuss specifics, nor talk about the horrors of war. Some ghosts are best left alone...
Fuzzy, replied to your PM...
 
I missed the war by two years. I had three brothers and my father over there so I spent my childhood preparing to go. I glad my brothers all came home safely and that I didn't have to go.

My father was in WWII, Korea and Vietnam in the Navy (radio operator on patrol planes and bombers).
 
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