Veterans

DaveHee

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18. Vietnam, the same images

Thu May 16, 2013, 04:23 PM

May 2013

The year was 1967, as an army brat I was traveling back to the states after two years in India. Pan Am from Delhi to Bangkok, then on a C-141 Starlifter to Saigon. The plane from Bangkok had a few new recruits that looked to be my age. We stayed on the ground and on the plane for two hours in Saigon while soldiers boarded the plane to return home to the states. The guys loading on were two years older than the guys loading off, but they looked to be twenty years older. BIG difference, and a strong influence to an army brat at 17. Damn the bastards who put us into Vietnam, damn the bastards who put us into Iraq and Afghanistan. Can we stop this endless war?!!

Peace,
Dave

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