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TEB

(12,716 posts)
Sun Nov 22, 2020, 12:28 PM Nov 2020

Reading email from our uncle who retired to Vietnam he was marine infantry in 67

Plan is my two brothers and I and our sons go next summer hopefully after we have vaccines. Reading his emails and talking to him on phone at 72 years old he is so happy. After he retired from steel mill he was a widower he traveled Europe East Europe then Asia and today he is re married to a fine woman who is physician Vietnamese a widow as well ,she is 67 maybe 68. I ramble my wife is napping getting stronger after pneumonia. Our boys hit swim club and I’m on back porch just read our uncles email. I’d love to fish in Vietnam fish are huge in our uncles pictures.

Just makes me smile how time finishes all hate the bar he drinks at is frequented by NVA and Arvin soldiers and my uncle and two other American vets. Plan is taking month just pulling a ESL extended sick leave with Union. And I asked my uncle I’d like to visit a place called Dak to ,as where our old man was with 173rd. As a infantry vet of 82nd I’d just like to see if not Dak to just a piece of the highlands the annamite range that they fought bled in died.

My time was peaceful in infantry I was lucky. I’d like to see the A.O. I can read in our old mans diary his notes the fear. Recon made contact our ambushes made contact with NVA reading between lines because I’d be in fear. That was life in the 503rd they’re coming we’re gonna be murdering each other soon is what I read and take from our fathers diary very personal those highland battles well all battles are.

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Reading email from our uncle who retired to Vietnam he was marine infantry in 67 (Original Post) TEB Nov 2020 OP
We went to Vietnam in 2012 MLAA Nov 2020 #1
So Michael was 9th infantry TEB Nov 2020 #3
I read a memoir by a Vietnam veteran once who wrote: Aristus Nov 2020 #2
I as well hope visit someday my vet friend TEB Nov 2020 #4
that seems like an odd quote Skittles Nov 2020 #5

MLAA

(17,163 posts)
1. We went to Vietnam in 2012
Sun Nov 22, 2020, 12:34 PM
Nov 2020

I had to go for work and took husband with me. He had not been there since late 60s. He was amazed how much things had changed. Nice boat tour on Mekong river. If you are a coffee drinker, the coffee was best we’d ever had 🙂

Aristus

(66,075 posts)
2. I read a memoir by a Vietnam veteran once who wrote:
Sun Nov 22, 2020, 01:03 PM
Nov 2020

“Only a fool or an idiot would choose to have a war in a country as beautiful as Vietnam.”

I really hope to visit someday.

Skittles

(152,964 posts)
5. that seems like an odd quote
Sun Nov 22, 2020, 05:09 PM
Nov 2020

seems like only a fool or an idiot (think Dubya) would choose to have a war ANYWHERE

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