Sometimes in the U.S. we forget that there were people from other countries in Vietnam.
Hmmmmmmmmmmmm............... Geez, what can I say ? Dunno why I even clicked on the guest book, just read thru all the posted letters and viewed the pics, wish I could do the same. My daughter's always on my back for not talking about my experiences IN COUNTRY. It's just so difficult to do, people who have not experienced what we have, simply do not believe the stories we tell as they are just to difficult to believe. Unlike yourself, I served in an infantry battalion, though very lucky in placing myself with Company headquarters, thus minimising the times I went outside the wire. The mindless patrols outside every evening are something never forgotten, specially when the base receives incoming whilst we're outside. The endless hours spent as sentry duty on the MG and radio, the lack of sleep, the PLASTIC food, Urgh, I wish the guys who invented that were made to eat it for as long as we had to. Once the number of fatalities began to rise leaving vacancies in the platoons which were never filled quick enough, thus increasing