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"VietNam in HD" on H2?


...I'm pacin' th' cage...
 
"C-rats" an' memories...

Missin' th' Colonel about now.
 
Ooof.

"every second of the night, I live another life"
 
I saw enough. Watched the rotors get blown off a Huey, went to some other show.
 
Know what ya mean. But I'm somehow compelled.

I wound up in places they depict, looking for proof the footage is genuine. My friends and contemporaries were there in some of those images. Some of them, I may have made after Tet.

So many stories. So much trauma.
 
Da Nang...

I had eggs and tomatoes thrown at me in the SanFrancisco airport on return to "The World".

"Welcome home!"

HUCK 'em!
 
I'm watching, Doc. Hard to watch, and though I was never a part of it, I feel like I need to have some idea of what you guys went through. You guys were (are) tough old bastages. Salute.
 
Jim, we are ALL brothers.

It was an unfortunate time.
 
Now we have the PBR fellas... Navy.

Patrol Boat, River.

I was priveleged. I got to sit in whatever flew to "document" the stuff.

...then somehow, someone burnt it.

there are scant records.
 
Scary times... Bad times... Thanks doc.
 
Don't thank ME, Elliot.

Thank folk like Jimmy Alley.

He did what I did but went down on a Jolly trying to haul BAT-21 outta th' sDoody.
 
I figured 3D woulda been bad enough.


I know I usually have dreams about the last thing I watch or read before bed. Might wanna change the channel to something less traumatic before hittin' th' rack.
 
kellysguy said:
I figured 3D woulda been bad enough.


<span style="font-style: italic">I know I usually have dreams about the last thing I watch or read before bed. Might wanna change the channel to something less traumatic before hittin' th' rack.</span>
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:lol:

Yeah, that'll work. :smirk:
 
I've been watching and find myself with such mixed emotions. I was there during TET and barely avoided having my backside blown off but to watch those guys go into the jungle and up Hambuger Hill leaves me humbled. I can only do my bit by remembering and appreciating what everyone went through there and those that did not return alive. Be well everyone of you still with us and those of you that have gone on, rest easy.
Roy
 
I watched some on my lunch break the other day. The part that was airing was an army unit a "Broken Arrow" call, and the first planes on scene were lined up on the wrong side of the line...

based on the description of events from the vets they were interviewing, it sounded exactly like a scene out of "We were Soldiers"...

rough times indeed... I believe I need to obtain this series so I can see the whole thing...
 
Doc,


We don't get that channel,but to me it'd be interesting to
watch it with someone who "was there",& get more insite into what
really happened.

- Doug
 
Well, how'd ya sleep?

Tercy (who's dying right now BTW) avoided things like that.

"Everybody's trying to remember and I'm tryin' to ferget!"

He's been fightin' the battle of the bulge ever since.


Hearing about the stuff all ourt guys went through is bad hard enough. I'd hate to, as the song says, "seen it in color."

Terc' was one of the first ones to come upon Auschwitz. :eeek:
(IIRC it was Auschwitz. Doesn't matter as none of 'em were campgrounds.)
 
Nunyas said:
I watched some on my lunch break the other day. The part that was airing was an army unit a "Broken Arrow" call, and the first planes on scene were lined up on the wrong side of the line...

based on the description of events from the vets they were interviewing, it sounded exactly like a scene out of "We were Soldiers"...

rough times indeed... I believe I need to obtain this series so I can see the whole thing...
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Yup. Get it if you can.

That scenerio ~is~ the story's basis. CAS made a big blunder. I had to view that "We were Soldiers" flick in small bites. Long walks in between. We learned a lot from that fracas. CAS and SAR were both changed as a result, tho ugly things still did go down... and unfortunately still do.

As a Marine, you'll have insight to a lot of the series, too.
 
I have been watching it too. I missed that mess by a very few years, being slightly too young. Over the years, I have bought some books... first person history is a hobby, and the horror of Vietnam is just overwhelming. Seeing it in footage like that helps bring it home. I have a hard time imagining how our soldiers must have felt, leaving that horror, and returning home to the treatment many recieved. It broke our country, as well as the veterans... Although I live in DC, I still have not been to the memorial. I feel that as a country, we still owe these men something, and I feel unworthy to stand where they do.
 
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