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This week I happen to be back in the small town where I grew up and graduated high school in 1967. It’s a solemn time of remembering those years and the turmoil. Grateful thanks today to all who served in Viet Nam. Standing in silence for Dave (Marine) who died there on a trail known only to God.

(from Rhode Island)
https://www.providencejournal.com/s...h-29-a-chance-to-say-thanks/70046067007/

Welcome Home!

101st Abn Div, 1968-69

Camp Eagle??

Some gave all, all gave some.

US Army,

Cam Ranh Bay, November 1967-December 1968.

1/501, LZ Sally-Hue to A Shau Valley

A Shau Valley was a bad A$$ place. A Shau Special Forces A-camp there was overrun in early '66. Air Force Spad pilot got the MoH landing his A-1 Skyraider on the short airstrip to pick up a downed pilot.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_A_Sau

When I arrived in July 1966, I spent two weeks in 5th SFG Hqs in Nah Trang before being sent to Ban Me Thout, then on the Ban Don A-233. By chance the debriefing files on all the SF men who exiled from the camp where filed in a dust strewn cabinet where I was supposed to "work." The stories were amazing.

No mater what country you come from on this blue Planet War seems not far in the past and in many times not far in the future, it touches all of us in one way or another. I have always thought that these few lines penned by John Maxwell Edmunds described those who only come home in other peoples memories.

When you go home
Tell them of us and say
For your tomorrow
We gave our today.

Ernie

damascus,
That is really moving. It made me immediately think of my uncle who was lost on IWO JIMA, 19 days after I was born. He gave his today for my tomorrow. I can remember seeing my dad crying and asking him "what is the matter?" and he would answer " I was thinking about Dwight." We should think often about those that gave us their todays.
Mike

Yes, and pray for those who place themselves in harm's way for the sake of freedom today. Their sacrifice of time, at a minimum, and their lives, at the utmost, is not overlooked by me.

"We sleep safely in our beds because rough men stand ready in the night to visit violence on those who would do us harm." Orwell

Nothing like the times of Vietnam, but there are still some great young Americans raising their right hand for our country. I'm going to Ft Benning on Friday for my son-in-law's graduation from his 3 weeks of parachute training; he had a night jump last night. He's a 36 year-old Army Captain and a great young man with many other opportunities that didn't require this. I know my daughter and their two little boys will also be proud when he says, "Airborne!"
I'm sure several here have been through that training.
Last night in a text to his dad he said, "“Two jumps today. Two more tomorrow then done. On track for 11:00am Friday. This is kicking my ass but almost to the end…”