Life as a Teen in the 60s

Actually , I knew thoughout high school I would be drafted and sent to Vietnam. As it turned out that's exactly what happened.I did have a few choices to do otherwise but I decided not to. One was an offer in AIT to go to West Point, When I found out I would have to become an enlisted man an add years to my tour I told the Major , no.Later in Vietnam when we were first being assigned, a young man had looked at our 201 files and asked if I would be the Company clerk. I told the manno thanks.Believe it or not a bond had already formed with my fellow soul mates of the Infantry. I had decided I was going to be with them to the end. A teen in the sixties.

looking for any body vietnam 67 -68
. . Contributed By PEDRO CARO-ESCARREGA On Friday, November 11, 2005
looking for any of my friends serve in viet-nam 67-68 98supply depot QuiNhon

Looking for information
. . Contributed By Charlotte On Tuesday, November 15, 2005
I am doing a memorial to my Uncle who died in Vietnam.anyone who served with him please tell me about him his name was Exekeil T. Exum

40 YEARS WITHOUT A DAD!
. . Contributed By Susan Smith Eudy On Wednesday, November 16, 2005
Hello, In just a few more minutes it will be 40 years since my father was killed in Vietnam. I NEVER saw or knew my father. I was born on 9-21-65, and he NEVER saw me. I was wondering if there is anyone out there that knew my dad SGT. Henry F. Smith ARMY KIA 11-17-65 Ia Drang his Captain was George Forrest and he was with the 1/5 cav. I know that there has to be someone with pictures or stories that they can share with me, PLEASE do so, it has been TOO long not knowing anything about him and not having a THING of his either. Please contact me by email at eudy2@hotmail.com or phone 704-322-5533. Thank You and GOD BLESS YOU ALL FOR SERVING.

HAROLD "HAL" THOMAS HENESY
. . Contributed By Donald Henesy Poore On Thursday, November 17, 2005
I'm looking for anyone who knew or served in C company, 43rd signal bn, 1st signal brigade in Vietnam with my older brother Hal. We were raised seperately by our parents and didn't get to know each other. The only memories I would have of him would be through your connection to him. I'd love to hear what you have to share. I miss my brother.

Marine CAP Unit 2-3-7
. . Contributed By Jessica Scarborough On Thursday, November 17, 2005
Any Marines out there from CAP 2-3-7? My brother's unit in Vietnam in 1969-70. Schmitt,Pearson, "Pineapple",Hardwick.

Vernon
. . Contributed By Jamie Edgecombe On Friday, November 18, 2005
For Vernon Lance corporal, machine gunner, USMC; Vietnam Man, I don't where to start; if I should? Speaking into the silence that is in the inner of your friend. The silence of years, of a paddy, a hill, which are there, will always be, as long as the men who died there remain dead. It feels cheap to write, to shame you with tears from a distant land, twice removed from the soil that holds you; the family who still remember you. A long time ago? But you just died. In words, you were there, in the love that shaped them onto paper without unneeded eloquence. Is it weak to feel for those we never knew? Shameful to their memory; the actuality of their breath upon mother's skin, to put into words that someone you never met is hurting, as superficial as it may appear, for the loss of a man, washing out that hollow black-curiosity for ignorance? If only we care for even one, you Vernon, when there should be room for so many more, then at least one man has come home again -if only to the heart of another human being, who can't help but live on with revenant acknowledgement and care; you smile in his thoughts. It seems villainous to attach a meaningless scrap of words to such seemingly clichTd sentiment, but it's a song, a prayer, a smile, nod or anything that has meaning, where feeling cannot be justly communicated. It's hope. You are not forgotten.

For Some the Wall's are never Big Enough

Well this week someone called an old Marine that spent time in Nam and Korea a coward because he said we should get out of Iraq. Who are these wimps that call combat Marines cowards? It wasn't too long ago I remember a woman named Ann Coulter saying to a Vietnam Veteran "No wonder we lost that war with YOU people fighting it" . You people meaning Vietnam Vets. I wonder what her credendials are as it concerns combat? Who exactly is it in the White House with the vast combat experience to know either way what to do militarily in Iraq? Talking heads is what most these so called leaders are, and they're not even very good at that. For Some the Wall's are never big enough.

Contributed by Claudine Auger
. . Contributed By Claudine Auger On Sunday, November 20, 2005
I should be happy to know where is my pen friend Robert Mac Culloch .It's a long time I din't hear about him.I give some informations about him :he was operating of Vietnam coast aboard USS Intrepid.On the 20th of December 1965,he was in San Francisco;he sent me a photo of the Golden Gate Bridge.I don't know the date, but his squadron was in Yuma Arizona during some days or a few months:he sent me a photo from the Yuma territorial prison which is a museum now.I don't know the date ,but his squadron was in Le Moore,California:he wrote to me he was working on aircraft.In October 1964,when he was home,he sent a photo of his nephew and niece,bruce and julie.If you know him,or have informations about him,write to Claudine Auger 9 rue de Lille Estaires 59940 France,or phone0328485773,or send me a message:claudine_beve@hotmail.fr

What healing!
. . Contributed By James F.Albrigtsen On Sunday, November 20, 2005
I have been to the wall on numerous times and never did I walk away feeling in any way.healed. I am a disabled Vietnam veteran and all others I have known and know have said the same as I and feel the same. The only feeling I ever got from the wall was overwhelming sadness and a feeling of great loss. I have a book coming out soon called "No More Tears for the Dead!" It is about all I have gone through since coming back and I hope to leave some copies at the wall by the names of all I knew that didn't come back. To myself and other I know, the wall is one giant gravestone and that is it, the loss is far too great to heal anything. For some that weren't in Nam, like family and friends, this wall may help them and I hope it does, but as for all vets I know most feel as I do!