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northeastmopar said

Welcome home harry. I served in. Quang nam in 68. Lost a lot of marines.
was on hill 37. 1/7 comm platoon. I too think about
my friends I left behind every day. Todays terrorism
is what our polititions and citizens taught them when
they turned their backs on us in vietnam. Sad. But
this is what happens when u think you can blow
kisses at people who hate you and things go away.
its a shame all our friends gave their lives and it apears
some folks did not learn a thing.
First Photo is myself at 18 with a captured AK47. Couldn't sneak them home.
Second photo is right after returning home at a ceremony at my High School dedicating a plaque to those who
were KIA from my City.
Semper Fi

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Thanks, Bro! In all these years, that's only the second time anyone has said that to me. Means more than I can say.

We were up in Quang Tri Province along the DMZ. Nearly bought the farm up on the hill at Con Thien in May of '67.

Don't know if this makes any sense, but I have this feeling that there must be parallel dimensions in time. And I have one foot in the here and now, but on one level or another, it will always be 1966 - 1967 for me. I can see and hear and smell and taste it just like I am still there. I don't talk about it and I don't like remembering but its always there, just below the surface.

My grandson is home from the Army now. He came over to see me this weekend along with his dad (my eldest son) and his uncle (my 2nd born son). My grandson told me that he understands now where I go when I get that 1,000 yard stare. I hate that he understands that. Like my father before me, I had hoped that 'our war' would be 'the war to end all wars' and future generations wouldn't have to experience what ours did. But as long as men who are too old to fight send men who are too young to die to do their fighting for them...... It will continue. So each generation does our part and that's just the way of it, I reckon.

Semper Fi,

Harry