About ten years ago, a student of mine of Vietnamese descent, said to me upon hearing of my past service. "Thank you boys for coming to Vietnam. If you hadn't, I wouldn't be an American today." Somehow that simple statement brought wonderful closure for me, made it all worthwhile.
@drunkcookiemonster i live were ever i feel the need for me to live i dont need a 2 bit prick like you who's dad died over in vietnam to tell me were to go to live prick.. its a free world some thing that you will learn.. i wish i can say the same about your dead dad who fought a stupid war for nothing...
@006warlord your are so tuff behind that screen i bet you cant fight for shit so you hide. you sound like a little weasel coward.probably a little scrawny shit that never work a day in his life
@006warlord you mean that just like in Vietnam the democrats withdrew the promised air support and the south was over run? Sounds more like an act of the cowardice of the American people than any problem with the American Soldier.
Hi there, my name is Michele and my Dad was also a Marine in the war. Lately, I've been searching to learn more of his experience there. He was there for the Tet Offensive in 1968 and 69'. While watching, I think I may have seen a picture of of him. It's at the 4:08 min. marker. At first I thought, "Man, that looks like Dad" But the picture is a bit grainy and it was hard to tell, until I saw the name Mike at the top. I was wondering if you could ask your Dad...His last name is Burke. THANKS!!
I have to say it is hard to hear those who ciriticize us who were there; we didn't start the war but were asked to serve and we did. Many diedm, and those of us who didn't were forever changed.
My emotions are stirred up reading some of these comments and my first reaction is to lash out at those who trash us and our service. We made what we could out of it and managed to survive....but we still live with those memories.
@jimi9746 Meh, it was what it was. I suppose it's like that in any war where there may be moral ambiguity or grey area. Although I think Vietnam should've been unified in the 50s, at the same time, it irks me when people suggest that the communist government was somehow more "humane"
I have to say it is hard to hear those who ciriticize us who were there; we didn't start the war but were asked to serve and we did. Many diedm, and those of us who didn't were forever changed.
My emotions are stirred up reading some of these comments and my first reaction is to lash out at those who trash us and our service. We made what we could out of it and managed to survive....but we still live with those memories.
War is hell and life is tough at times....for all of us........
'Thank you.......I was in the Marines as well, but in Danang in 67-68 and so much of this looked just like our experiences there complete with the beach though ours was China Beach. I was pretty taken aback at these pics as it brought back so many memories both good and bad.
Is it strange that for so many years I have carried so much guilt that I didn't carry a gun in the jungle but worked on recon aircraft that provided photos for those grunts who did the real dirty work in the boonies?
Very nice job. I went through during the exact same time period except my separation was in July 71. Hope all is well with you and thanks for sharing.
@BAIYUE1 How old are you? Are you from Vietnam? So what you're trying to say is that Americans were the only people in the war that killed civilians? If that IS what you're saying, then you're just another brainwashed person. Why did the north attack the south? You honestly believe that America went there just to kill civilians? If you respond with yes, then you're a fucking idiot.
After Vietnam win French in Dien Bien Phu battle, we have truly independence. But USA divided Vietnam into 2 part. And USA also built "puppet" government which is republic of VIetnam which is never exist before when we fought with French.
USA destroyed all of North of Vietnam by bombing, millions Vietnamese was dead and deformed by bomb of USA.
So actually I don;t know why USA came to Vietnam, and kill Vietnamese while we just gain independence from French, and we also want build relationship with USA at that time.
fuck you boland you sack of human shit. you little pussy. you dont have the testicle fortitude to even serve...for any country you fuck. Semper Fi to your dad Playinwithit.
fuck you boland you sack of human shit. you little pussy. you dont have the testicle fortitude to even serv...for any country you fuck. Semper Fi to your dad Playinwithit.
@SoCal762 Man come on don't say that we lost ,us and south Vietnam just thanks the men who gave their lives and god for making Vietnam one of trading partners and friends your comment is fucking ignorant man
Awww too bad Vietnam was bullshit and America had no reason to be there other then the supposed "mission to stop communism" truth is, communism isn't evil it's just a different form of government living.
awesome vid i got a family member who served in germany during nam because of our worries of a soviet invasion but if he didnt go to germany he would have went to nam. We only got into this dumb war is because of the french!
Thanks for the video and great music. Lots of memories. In life or death, we are all still brothers. Semper Fi and never let your Dad's memory die. 3rd MarDiv - Dong Ha & Quang Tri 5/68-6/69.
my uncle was an aviation ordnancemen on the USS coral sea in nam. we won the war no matter what others think . look at there country now still stuck in 1970
Very Nice presentation...........i was Air Force...medic with rescue and recovery...did the routes between DaNang and KheSanh.....in support of both the 1st and the 26th marines....Never Forget It.
my grandfather told me he killed 75 american invaders he is a true hero to us because the american had all the best of weapons he also told me most of them were cowards who ran from them and cry like babys when captured he was not a communists he was just protecting his family and country from american murderers who killed women and childs and bomb villages full of inocents to make us afraid americas are the war monger terrorist trash of the world
@endracismguy i know two Marine 'Nam vets and a former member of the VC, the Marines both said that the VC used children as shields and had them infiltrate US bases to booby trap equipment or their families would be slaughtered, not to mention the VC targeted US civillians along with South Vietnamese women and children. the former VC i know left in '69 because of the atrocities they were causing is South Vietnam including rape of children and senseless slaughter. Both sides have their problems.
@endracismguy no human is equal to shit, we all have equal value that is above that of anything else inanimate or living, but human's make horrible mistake and do terrible things, it is by these examples we learn and move forward. we should not admire the horrors that man commits, but we should pay respect to those willing to do them only in defense of the ones they love.
@endracismguy obviously you are lost to this world because you think everything can be solved by words, it's people like you who will end up as bodies in the street when the next World War comes, think it won't if it helps you sleep at night but when a gun is pointed at your head or those of another innocent being's you would be the one to sit and watch but never take action
@endracismguy if you are ignorant to believe in all the shit that either side, liberal or conservative, pushes out then you are an idiot which was quickly proved by your ignorant and spiteful comments
very nice video to your dad - i was in chu lai 1970 - and in 71 at lz vandergrift, an x marine base in 68 (on the DMZ) - finished tour at lz snoopy - army 82nd arty
Great tribute to your father. My dad was also a marine in Vietnam. I am proud of him. I cant help but wonder how many of these folks that have made neg. comments would put their lives on the line for their country. God bless!
Nicely done, I was there about the same time as your dad. I was in the army but we took over marine operations in november 1970. We wre out of LZ Hawk Hill we wre at LZ Baldy several times all the way up north con tein, hue, quang tri and the DMZ. The Vietnamese children called us "marine".Alabama B Co. 2/1 196th LIB 23rd Division 1970-71
great video man! to bad most of the dumb shits on this page cant look past the politics for ten minutes and appreciate this video and what your father did. thanks again.
Your Dad was in the USMC about the same time I was, 1968 - 1970. Nicely done. I just drafted a related video, What Did You Do in the War, Grandpa? It's private at the moment, but I'll send you the link if you want.
This is very well done, I went in the Marine Corps February 1968 and my boot camp was at MCRD San Diego also, the shocker is that your dad and I were in the same platoon. That is assuming the boot camp platoon picture was the one your dad was in.
Semper Fi to your Pops... I was at Tustin in '68 with MACS-3 and the "Pink !$@" and on to MACS-4 up on Monkey Mountain. Great photos and history! Brings back some great times with the sad ones. Danang was, and is, visually stunning. The people there were regional and pretty decent. We all seemed to dislike the politicians from the South AND the North.
Nice rememberance for your father. I was with the 5th Marines at AnHoa and I remember alot of the areas you showed in your video. We all lived a part of life that seems so far away now but we will never forget the guys we were with and the times spent together. Semper Fi
My great uncle was in the australian SAS (ASAS) my dad was in the british army SSGT D LOVE and so am i LCPL LOVE My great uncle fought thouout all of Australian deployment as an advisor then a platoon leader but in 1974 he was killed
2 days before he was goin home R.I.P 2nd LT F LOVE he was killed while dragging an wounded ARVN soldier to a helicopter he got the ARVN on and stayed to help his platoon forgetting about his wound and bleed to death he was awarded a george cross
To playinwithit, Another happening (I think the night of the Cobra midair), a bunch of us were at the club and got into a big bar fight. After leaving, we were crossing the runway in the dark, and someone kicked out a blue taxi light. Soon, a crash crew truck with a bunch of Marines showed up, and we had another big fight. A regular rumble in the dark with everyone swinging away. When it was over, we went home. What good times we used to have.
To playinwithit, the day of the Cobra midair was tragic. They crashed on the flightline near where I was working, and burned. Crash Crew tried to rescue the four crewmembers, but munitions were cooking off and they couldn't because of explosions. All four died.
Semper fi to your Dad. We were all just children. I was at Marble the same time your Dad was there. I flew as a gunner on CH-46's. Your Dad was one of the Angels (the crash crew willing to risk their lives to save ours). I was getting drunk at the club the night the flares rained down. Scared hell out of everybody. Ask your Dad if he remembers the two Cobra's midair collision over head Marble? Tragic, and sad accident.
Your dad was a handsome man, and god bless him for his service and everything he has done. Thank you, and thumbs up and subscription for the video you took your time to make.
although i am canadian i hounor your dad as much as i hounor canadian soldiersthat have died and one of my great grandfathers died in world war 2.died from a bomb droped on the head and still have his metals
if anybody ever sees a tank with a bull skull on the front email me. its my dads tank. " the lonely bull" im looking for that deadly gook killing bull. 3rd mar. div. war is a politicians chess game.
i can see vietnam in the face of my father every day. although i didn't serve with the military i feel honored and proud to be the son of a vietnam veteran. i am sorry to those sons' and daughters' whose fathers' did not return home from the war. they were and will always be brothers in arms. i look forward to visiting the wall some day and show respect for my fathers fallen comrades.
If America had not involved the war, South Vietnam would have fallen into communism in 1954 and more Vietnamese would have been murdered in cultural revolutions like those launched by Mao in China (20 million deaths) and Khmer Rouge in Cambodia (2 millions)
Total Vietnamese democide by communists:1,040,000 (1975-87) by HCR
You're pretty stupid. If the Americans didn't fund the French to fight and make Vietnamese slaves, these things wouldn't even happen at all. I don't want to teach you history because it would just go lose on the other ear.
Thanks for the post. Sure brings back memories when I was a kid & then off into the Navy ..71-75. My father also served two tours in Thailand with the AF during the Nam War. You're fortunate to have pics of your father to post back then whereas I don't. Great job and thank you!
Thanks for sharing and in more ways than one,, God Bless,,,if anyone wonders what we were trying to accomplish in Vietnam just look at South Korea today in comparison to the north ...That being said Im not saying I agree with the Vietnam war(at least not with the politicians not being willing to win it) but I do belive that the men who fought it were fighting for a just cause.
nice job...Vietnam was a big part of the lives of Marines like your father and influenced our adult lives...Semper Fi to your father and all fellow Marines.
A drink of cool, clean water. A pair of dry socks. Something to eat that didn't come out of a can. A cold beer. The sight of some "round eye" (even ugly was good.) Freedom bird. "The World." Those are the things we dreamed about. If you didn't go...you don't know. Sin Loi, Minoi.
America never decared war on any of them, they attacked america, peace keepers to stop them killin there own people. For some............... read a book. Oh best boy, you speak english not american
Aerial shot of field/huts is Marble Mountain. Had the honor of serving 2 tours-'67 & '68 MABS16 radio. Detach Dong Ha&An Hoa. Grunt units & hopped helo flights to get out. C-117 night flare with Top Lurie-one of last enlisted Marine Pilots. His son flew out of MM & sad to say had his hydraulics shot out & died. Ask your Dad to go to my page & send me an email if he wants to. My Dad served at Tarawa & Saipan, brother Dessert Storm and Iraqi Freedom, Oldest son and I - all Marines. Semper Fi!
Your father , uncle and all your society had know the shame lesson about Vietnam war. You guys can not terror and bombard to destroy a nation. At any difficult time we always live by our own history and original blood. We fight and live for what we are proud of " our history & original ". U got nothing to be proud of .. your life are just dollars & dollars.
@playinwithit You say, now get back to making my Nike's.. I wonder what the unemployment rate is in the U.S right now. Petty stupid comment you said there. I pity those who are don't have a job. Respect to your father anyways since hes in the army.
@playinwithit actualy, we left nam high and dry in 75, no more support or $ children are still getting blown up today from unexploded bombs in nam... sorry, all respect....that was genocide what we did there....shamefull
@playinwithit You should leave the comments on permanently. Even Robert McNamara now admits that the whole thing was a mistake. Just like the Waffen SS, the US Marines in Vietnam were a criminal organization using the legal position of the US at Nuremberg. this "dongmk" has it right. You had NO right to be there in a war in which 3,400,000 (mostly civilians) were killed. The US whines around the world when some guys fly commercial jets into a coupla buildings. Imagine B-52 over NY city.
@playinwithit Why do so many Americans think they are so "exceptional", and the lives and freedoms of other people aren't every bit as valuable as theirs? You committed an immense war crime with the BS "Gulf of Tonkin" incident that never happened. LBJ is a war criminal like Hitler, and you OWE Vietnam HUGE billions in war reparations.. Pay them.
fuk off dude americans a liberators and thats what we tried to do...my grandpa is the bitterest one about it though yea we didnt do shit yea he lost friends but he still served no matter wat u shuld respect that...he got 2 purple hearts a bronze star just so you can even say that shit he cries every time he tells me stories and i cant even begin to fukin imagine wat he did over there he probably saw nasty shit and had to do twisted shit so maybe you shuld join the military and go threw that
Don't speak Viet Namese-remember one phrase - "Bu Cock Toi" so suck my dick. Nike's sweat shops owned by your Commi Generals. Exxon facilities were never bombed because the comrads took payoffs to leave them alone. We volunteered-we believed Viet Nam deserved democracry rather than mass burials, alive & dead, like Tet/Hue. You can post the net, but go to the town square and disagree with the comrads-don't think so. You would be re-educated. Viet Nam and we were sold out by Democrats in '73.
@dongmk U got nothing to be proud of murdering over 33,000 innocent civilians during the course of the war, and your massacre at Hue as well, murdering 2000 innocent people. The US fought honorably to help the south vietnamese stop the invasion from the north.
@gerry301 You are talking as if the united states didn't kill any civilians. Have you ever heard about Operation Phoenix? It was the United states' atempt to disable the Viet cong civilan infrastructure.
Knowing who did or didn't suport viet cong was impossible, so they just ended up killing civilans at RANDOM. Sometimes entire villages were massacred for having large stockpiles of food or for having few young adult males.
About ten years ago, a student of mine of Vietnamese descent, said to me upon hearing of my past service. "Thank you boys for coming to Vietnam. If you hadn't, I wouldn't be an American today." Somehow that simple statement brought wonderful closure for me, made it all worthwhile.
Steve Unzueta
USMC Viet Vet 1967-68
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stephenunzueta 3 days ago
I am sure if you were my son and had made this video for me...I would be truly touched.
And I bet he does feel pretty much this way towards you.
Mardet 14
USMC 1960-1964
Mardet14 4 days ago
i dont need to say nothing to any ones face ,, the viet cong already have said it to his dad..
006warlord 5 days ago
@006warlord good then since you like vietcong and the nva then go live in vietnam.
drunkcookiemonster 5 days ago
@drunkcookiemonster i live were ever i feel the need for me to live i dont need a 2 bit prick like you who's dad died over in vietnam to tell me were to go to live prick.. its a free world some thing that you will learn.. i wish i can say the same about your dead dad who fought a stupid war for nothing...
006warlord 4 days ago
@006warlord your are so tuff behind that screen i bet you cant fight for shit so you hide. you sound like a little weasel coward.probably a little scrawny shit that never work a day in his life
drunkcookiemonster 4 days ago
YOU FOUGHT A STUPID WAR FOR NOTHING KILLED MANY LIVES BOTH SIDES AND AT THE END YOU LEFT....WE WILL SEE THE SAME IN IRAQ AN AFGHANISTAN..
006warlord 6 days ago
@006warlord at least they had more balls then you hippie.also i dar you to say it to his face
drunkcookiemonster 6 days ago
@drunkcookiemonster 006warlord dont like war coz he's afraid of it... XD he is a coward shit
kaynie143 6 days ago
@006warlord you mean that just like in Vietnam the democrats withdrew the promised air support and the south was over run? Sounds more like an act of the cowardice of the American people than any problem with the American Soldier.
panzer903 4 days ago
Thanks for posting this. Many memories and flashbacks. I take much pleasure when someone said... the Marines, they tried the hardest.
Steve Unzueta
Combined Action Platoon (B-3) 1967-68
lst MarDiv
Tuy Loan Village
stephenunzueta 2 weeks ago
@stephenunzueta wow my dad was in a CAP unit at around the same time. Sometimes I tell people about it no one knows what I am talking about.
panzer903 4 days ago
I love this Stuff much respect to your dad for his service in the corps
projectmayhem79 3 weeks ago
Hi there, my name is Michele and my Dad was also a Marine in the war. Lately, I've been searching to learn more of his experience there. He was there for the Tet Offensive in 1968 and 69'. While watching, I think I may have seen a picture of of him. It's at the 4:08 min. marker. At first I thought, "Man, that looks like Dad" But the picture is a bit grainy and it was hard to tell, until I saw the name Mike at the top. I was wondering if you could ask your Dad...His last name is Burke. THANKS!!
Msbelle197 1 month ago
Marines killers!!!
MrMauriciomiranda 1 month ago
I have to say it is hard to hear those who ciriticize us who were there; we didn't start the war but were asked to serve and we did. Many diedm, and those of us who didn't were forever changed.
My emotions are stirred up reading some of these comments and my first reaction is to lash out at those who trash us and our service. We made what we could out of it and managed to survive....but we still live with those memories.
jimi9746 2 months ago
@jimi9746 Meh, it was what it was. I suppose it's like that in any war where there may be moral ambiguity or grey area. Although I think Vietnam should've been unified in the 50s, at the same time, it irks me when people suggest that the communist government was somehow more "humane"
AliceNchainz011 1 month ago
@jimi9746 Amen brother.
doinok709 1 month ago
I have to say it is hard to hear those who ciriticize us who were there; we didn't start the war but were asked to serve and we did. Many diedm, and those of us who didn't were forever changed.
My emotions are stirred up reading some of these comments and my first reaction is to lash out at those who trash us and our service. We made what we could out of it and managed to survive....but we still live with those memories.
War is hell and life is tough at times....for all of us........
jimi9746 2 months ago
'Thank you.......I was in the Marines as well, but in Danang in 67-68 and so much of this looked just like our experiences there complete with the beach though ours was China Beach. I was pretty taken aback at these pics as it brought back so many memories both good and bad.
Is it strange that for so many years I have carried so much guilt that I didn't carry a gun in the jungle but worked on recon aircraft that provided photos for those grunts who did the real dirty work in the boonies?
jimi9746 2 months ago
Thanks for sharing this video of your fathers military service...God bless him and your family.
ricksmach1 2 months ago
KICK ASS VID I DIG IT !
Dpigface7 2 months ago
Did he die there?
L96ShadowSniper 2 months ago
Bitchin, nicely done, Sempre-Fi mac!
idiveny2 2 months ago
my dad was in the marines from 1963-1967
he says vietnam was the worst experience of his life
yankovic1234 2 months ago
bkn
az0able 2 months ago
Great video.
pomomary 3 months ago
Very nice job. I went through during the exact same time period except my separation was in July 71. Hope all is well with you and thanks for sharing.
eccvinnie 3 months ago
Great video I'm sure your Dad appreciates what you've done. Semper Fi
beirutvet1983 3 months ago
my great granddad, ARVN translator.
sgtdanny69148 3 months ago
Your dad is trully Hero!
hatrieuluong 4 months ago
@hatrieuluong
His dad killed Vietnamese,shame on you!
With Vietnamese,his dad is only invader!
BAIYUE1 2 months ago
@BAIYUE1 Go fuck yourself, alright?
briandrum1 2 months ago
@briandrum1
Why?
It is truly. Do you know 11-9 in America. but which USA did in Vietnam, it is millions 11-9 in Vietnam.
Shame on you!. you are killer,invader!
BAIYUE1 2 months ago
@BAIYUE1 11-9? I'd assume you mean 9-11. Still though, go fuck yourself.
briandrum1 2 months ago
@briandrum1
Millions Vietnamese wá dead by bomb of USA
millions Vietnamese children was deformed by agent orange of USA
We want heal painful of war with American
But with American as you, shame on you! you are killer,invader! Shame on you!
BAIYUE1 2 months ago
@BAIYUE1 How old are you? Are you from Vietnam? So what you're trying to say is that Americans were the only people in the war that killed civilians? If that IS what you're saying, then you're just another brainwashed person. Why did the north attack the south? You honestly believe that America went there just to kill civilians? If you respond with yes, then you're a fucking idiot.
briandrum1 2 months ago
@briandrum1
You have to learn history of Vietnam before you speak
We are colony of France in 80 years, 1945 we claim independence, but French came back to invaded us again
We had war with French in 9 years, 1954, we won in Dien Bien Phu battle
But in Paris, USA and France divided our country into North and South. We-Vietnamese wait day North and South unite.
But USA came to Vietnam to break peace. So we have to fight to unite our country.
BAIYUE1 2 months ago
@BAIYUE1 The USA was just helping a fellow Allie, even though it was a slaughter house out there, we still won!
L96ShadowSniper 2 months ago
@L96ShadowSniper
It is not help.
You have to read history of Vietnam
After Vietnam win French in Dien Bien Phu battle, we have truly independence. But USA divided Vietnam into 2 part. And USA also built "puppet" government which is republic of VIetnam which is never exist before when we fought with French.
BAIYUE1 2 months ago
@L96ShadowSniper
USA destroyed all of North of Vietnam by bombing, millions Vietnamese was dead and deformed by bomb of USA.
So actually I don;t know why USA came to Vietnam, and kill Vietnamese while we just gain independence from French, and we also want build relationship with USA at that time.
BAIYUE1 2 months ago
@L96ShadowSniper Nobody won...except the polititions.
ricksmach1 2 months ago
@ricksmach1 and the greedy corporations!!!
LovePinkk80 2 weeks ago
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fuck you boland you sack of human shit. you little pussy. you dont have the testicle fortitude to even serve...for any country you fuck. Semper Fi to your dad Playinwithit.
FUGYOO 4 months ago
fuck you boland you sack of human shit. you little pussy. you dont have the testicle fortitude to even serv...for any country you fuck. Semper Fi to your dad Playinwithit.
FUGYOO 4 months ago
watch?v=GJxb7CY13uc <--- Watch this.
Vercetti667 4 months ago
this vid is awesome! thank you for sharing this! God Bless you & dad!
uncleswilly 4 months ago
your dads awsome thankyou
tirdwaud 4 months ago
Awsome Vid :) Whats The Cadence Called In The Begging Of The Video?
tooth109 5 months ago
Your dad was a sniper???
Good video.
batataed 5 months ago
@SoCal762 Man come on don't say that we lost ,us and south Vietnam just thanks the men who gave their lives and god for making Vietnam one of trading partners and friends your comment is fucking ignorant man
1992Bombardero 5 months ago
Awww too bad Vietnam was bullshit and America had no reason to be there other then the supposed "mission to stop communism" truth is, communism isn't evil it's just a different form of government living.
MrLiamBoland 5 months ago
I give respect to your dad for fighting for your country..no matter how messed up the war was.
Rey123Duncan 6 months ago
Very nice! My grandpa served in Vietnam with the 173rd Airborne.
Litterboxer529 6 months ago
awesome vid i got a family member who served in germany during nam because of our worries of a soviet invasion but if he didnt go to germany he would have went to nam. We only got into this dumb war is because of the french!
navySEALteam5 6 months ago
Thanks for the video and great music. Lots of memories. In life or death, we are all still brothers. Semper Fi and never let your Dad's memory die. 3rd MarDiv - Dong Ha & Quang Tri 5/68-6/69.
dylan2at 6 months ago
Great Video . . please join my group . .Proud Sons and Daughters Of Vietnam Vets on Facebook.
GotKyno 6 months ago
This is such a nice Video and i cant believe the first commenter knows him and i wish wen i have a son he does this for me
MrAGoodbar 6 months ago
The Brothas always have the tightest cadences man! Damn.
palmares77 6 months ago
@palmares77 They definately do
ncfreewill 6 months ago
congrats
great video and music
Deep repect for all vets
greets from Belgium
on7tq 7 months ago
wow :'(
MRparodys1 7 months ago
thumbs up if you like the army march song
zionmolioo12 7 months ago
my uncle was an aviation ordnancemen on the USS coral sea in nam. we won the war no matter what others think . look at there country now still stuck in 1970
SoCal762 8 months ago
DUDE THIS WAS GOLD IM NOT EVEN EXAGGERATING!!! THE WAY U PUT THIS TOGETHER WITH ALL HIS DOCS AND PICS
FUCKIN THUMBS UP FOR CCR!!!!
gamerjohnny7 8 months ago
Semper Fi, from an old 'Nam vet!
gamtnrider 8 months ago
4 people are the viet cong!
smythers1981 8 months ago
Very nice video. God bless all vets from all wars. By the way I would like to kick the ass of those idiots that did not like it.
Bondfanxever 8 months ago
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RIP TO THE THOUSANDS OF VIETNAMESE SLAUGHTERED BY AMAERICAN TERRORISM!!!
RESPECT TO THE GREAT NATIONAL FRONT FOR THE LIBERATION OF SOUTH OF VIETNAM AND THE NVA FOR BEATTING AMERICAN CAPITALISM
BlockedParty 8 months ago
oh please my time in afganistan was proley worse than anything in vietnam
beanbo500 8 months ago
Very Nice presentation...........i was Air Force...medic with rescue and recovery...did the routes between DaNang and KheSanh.....in support of both the 1st and the 26th marines....Never Forget It.
bro1945 8 months ago
so he was a pog cool
Harkai11b 8 months ago
FUCK OFF WAR
hu100bar 8 months ago
semper fi! i did crash crew for 4 yrs and got out in 09! i'd def do it again
9563343907 8 months ago
4 people don't have brave fathers
sintmartenslennik 8 months ago
my dad almost went to the Vietnam war but he was to young to enlist
MexicanZombieKiller 9 months ago
the first song is the song in ur description thing??? cos i listened to it and its not that..o.o and i cant believe usa lost
mr123oli 9 months ago
my grandfather told me he killed 75 american invaders he is a true hero to us because the american had all the best of weapons he also told me most of them were cowards who ran from them and cry like babys when captured he was not a communists he was just protecting his family and country from american murderers who killed women and childs and bomb villages full of inocents to make us afraid americas are the war monger terrorist trash of the world
endracismguy 9 months ago
@endracismguy i know two Marine 'Nam vets and a former member of the VC, the Marines both said that the VC used children as shields and had them infiltrate US bases to booby trap equipment or their families would be slaughtered, not to mention the VC targeted US civillians along with South Vietnamese women and children. the former VC i know left in '69 because of the atrocities they were causing is South Vietnam including rape of children and senseless slaughter. Both sides have their problems.
behindyourcurtains42 8 months ago
@behindyourcurtains42 yes they are all the shit of humanity uS as well .. my grandfather wasnt VC
endracismguy 8 months ago
@endracismguy no human is equal to shit, we all have equal value that is above that of anything else inanimate or living, but human's make horrible mistake and do terrible things, it is by these examples we learn and move forward. we should not admire the horrors that man commits, but we should pay respect to those willing to do them only in defense of the ones they love.
behindyourcurtains42 8 months ago
@behindyourcurtains42 bahahahaha admire murderers lol sick puppy
endracismguy 8 months ago
@endracismguy obviously you are lost to this world because you think everything can be solved by words, it's people like you who will end up as bodies in the street when the next World War comes, think it won't if it helps you sleep at night but when a gun is pointed at your head or those of another innocent being's you would be the one to sit and watch but never take action
behindyourcurtains42 8 months ago
@behindyourcurtains42 ok i will invade the usa then and shoot up the place kill a few kids and get a few medals and see what a hero i am on fox ok
endracismguy 8 months ago
@endracismguy if you are ignorant to believe in all the shit that either side, liberal or conservative, pushes out then you are an idiot which was quickly proved by your ignorant and spiteful comments
behindyourcurtains42 8 months ago
@endracismguy Get a life beyond your keyboard and ironing your Che T-shirt.
1776freedom 7 months ago
@1776freedom i have great life my conscience is clean is yours lol
endracismguy 7 months ago
usa lose vietnam
hoangphuc142000 9 months ago
usa invaded vietnam
hoangphuc142000 9 months ago
vietnam was a total bullshit war, waste of money and life, and did nothing to improve the world or make it any safer...
stupidfleshmonkies 9 months ago
@stupidfleshmonkies yap.
artiejump 8 months ago
my grandapa was a dog handler in this war. he sniffed out traps and saved people :)
DistendedSnail 9 months ago
I'm sorry, How do you "dislike" this video? You must not support the men and women of the military at all
Ken106 9 months ago
my pops was in 67 to 69 US Army 1st Cavalry Division
Bravo Company, 2nd Battalion, 8th Cavalry Regiment, 1st Platoon - Aztec
became a LRRP and spent some time on the Laos border and was there/went into the fall of Saigon.
Never forget any solider, but thank/welcome home a Nam Vet whenever you can... they have not heard it enough.
warftrat87 9 months ago
omg where did you get when they say saying marine corps?
themikester06 10 months ago
super genial comment s'appelle le groupe ??
Kombak54500 10 months ago
my dad was in the navy during this war when he was 18 i mite do the same thing
1dgkonig 10 months ago
Great video of your dad and thank him for his service. I thank my dad who did 2 tours in Nam.
ewaldvonkleist 11 months ago
did your dad made all the photo's?
SuperDaryl13 11 months ago
Thank you so much for creating this.
IAforND 11 months ago
Thank your dad And god bless You very good video Whats the song after the jody?
Whiskytango12 11 months ago
@Whiskytango12 i think fortune son :)
joshke10000 11 months ago
Very good video God Bless You Whats the Song After the Marine Jody?
Whiskytango12 11 months ago
Very good video God Bless You Whats the Song Aftr the Marine Jody?
Whiskytango12 11 months ago
very nice video to your dad - i was in chu lai 1970 - and in 71 at lz vandergrift, an x marine base in 68 (on the DMZ) - finished tour at lz snoopy - army 82nd arty
spider0253 1 year ago
Wow!
Your father and I were in Viet Nam at the same time.
This slide show video is a great tribute to him.
God bless you!
writesong 1 year ago
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writesong 1 year ago
Great tribute to your father. My dad was also a marine in Vietnam. I am proud of him. I cant help but wonder how many of these folks that have made neg. comments would put their lives on the line for their country. God bless!
shellireyes 1 year ago
he died! yessssssssssssssss
sengoku17 1 year ago
Vietnam War's pain is forever America
nguyenleson1969 1 year ago
Very nicely done!
cdstump 1 year ago
thats weird!?!? me n ur dad have the same last name o.O n i also enlisted in the Marine Corps.i ship out July 18th =D
dominic970 1 year ago
Nicely done, I was there about the same time as your dad. I was in the army but we took over marine operations in november 1970. We wre out of LZ Hawk Hill we wre at LZ Baldy several times all the way up north con tein, hue, quang tri and the DMZ. The Vietnamese children called us "marine".Alabama B Co. 2/1 196th LIB 23rd Division 1970-71
kyletango 1 year ago
great video man! to bad most of the dumb shits on this page cant look past the politics for ten minutes and appreciate this video and what your father did. thanks again.
sodomizemeplease 1 year ago
Your Dad was in the USMC about the same time I was, 1968 - 1970. Nicely done. I just drafted a related video, What Did You Do in the War, Grandpa? It's private at the moment, but I'll send you the link if you want.
Semper Fi,
Phil
HotLandingZone 1 year ago
2:26 Look His dad is Strangling that black dude
Saltiag0 1 year ago
Video is awesome., Glad he made it 1st Battallion 24 Marines Detroit MI.
MrBobcanter 1 year ago
nicee video...
juliano777mjl 1 year ago
Thanks for posting this video...it brought back a lot of memories. Semper Fi to your Dad and a my brothers-in-arms who served in the USMC.
jalimager 1 year ago
This is very well done, I went in the Marine Corps February 1968 and my boot camp was at MCRD San Diego also, the shocker is that your dad and I were in the same platoon. That is assuming the boot camp platoon picture was the one your dad was in.
jarhead1948 1 year ago
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jarhead1948 1 year ago
my father served in vietnam also he died in hue city when he was 17 Semper Fi
RADDxSTEEZY 1 year ago
Semper Fi to your Pops... I was at Tustin in '68 with MACS-3 and the "Pink !$@" and on to MACS-4 up on Monkey Mountain. Great photos and history! Brings back some great times with the sad ones. Danang was, and is, visually stunning. The people there were regional and pretty decent. We all seemed to dislike the politicians from the South AND the North.
Goo59ber 1 year ago
Nice rememberance for your father. I was with the 5th Marines at AnHoa and I remember alot of the areas you showed in your video. We all lived a part of life that seems so far away now but we will never forget the guys we were with and the times spent together. Semper Fi
TheGordie09 1 year ago
semper fi
hockeyaddict9 1 year ago
My great uncle was in the australian SAS (ASAS) my dad was in the british army SSGT D LOVE and so am i LCPL LOVE My great uncle fought thouout all of Australian deployment as an advisor then a platoon leader but in 1974 he was killed
2 days before he was goin home R.I.P 2nd LT F LOVE he was killed while dragging an wounded ARVN soldier to a helicopter he got the ARVN on and stayed to help his platoon forgetting about his wound and bleed to death he was awarded a george cross
TheCaveman49 1 year ago
my uncle was killed in the nam. res. ofcr. Zuehlsdorf. lost his life in 1967 helicopter pilot. im here to make sure his legacy lives on!!!!!!
415Riggs 1 year ago
whats the cadence in the beginning called?
kometshockeyxicy 1 year ago
nice tribute...well done
3rd Batt. 7th Marines ChuLai,RVN 10/65-11-66
soxbearshwks 1 year ago
To playinwithit, Another happening (I think the night of the Cobra midair), a bunch of us were at the club and got into a big bar fight. After leaving, we were crossing the runway in the dark, and someone kicked out a blue taxi light. Soon, a crash crew truck with a bunch of Marines showed up, and we had another big fight. A regular rumble in the dark with everyone swinging away. When it was over, we went home. What good times we used to have.
sergeantsailorman 1 year ago
To playinwithit, the day of the Cobra midair was tragic. They crashed on the flightline near where I was working, and burned. Crash Crew tried to rescue the four crewmembers, but munitions were cooking off and they couldn't because of explosions. All four died.
sergeantsailorman 1 year ago
Semper fi to your Dad. We were all just children. I was at Marble the same time your Dad was there. I flew as a gunner on CH-46's. Your Dad was one of the Angels (the crash crew willing to risk their lives to save ours). I was getting drunk at the club the night the flares rained down. Scared hell out of everybody. Ask your Dad if he remembers the two Cobra's midair collision over head Marble? Tragic, and sad accident.
sergeantsailorman 1 year ago 13
@sergeantsailorman Wow, I havent met anyone yet that was in that close of time and area to him. I will ask him today and let you know!
playinwithit 1 year ago 6
Your dad was a handsome man, and god bless him for his service and everything he has done. Thank you, and thumbs up and subscription for the video you took your time to make.
Linkvine 1 year ago
What song is this ? I've never heard it? I love it, and be proud of your dad. All those marines in Nam were brutes. I salute your dad.
codysmith80 1 year ago
nice vid though
ethan2932 1 year ago
although i am canadian i hounor your dad as much as i hounor canadian soldiersthat have died and one of my great grandfathers died in world war 2.died from a bomb droped on the head and still have his metals
ethan2932 1 year ago
GOD damn I miss the Marine Corps this cadence is making my dick hard.
USMC
2003-2007
cwood4ever 2 years ago
What? Why the hard dick man jeez.......
Mentallyawake568 1 year ago
you wouldnt understand
cwood4ever 1 year ago
very nice and touching video.
god bless all vets.
greets from germany
aRtHuRSp0oner 2 years ago 7
Nice. Semper Fi.
f4tweet 2 years ago
if anybody ever sees a tank with a bull skull on the front email me. its my dads tank. " the lonely bull" im looking for that deadly gook killing bull. 3rd mar. div. war is a politicians chess game.
cpsims1972 2 years ago
i can see vietnam in the face of my father every day. although i didn't serve with the military i feel honored and proud to be the son of a vietnam veteran. i am sorry to those sons' and daughters' whose fathers' did not return home from the war. they were and will always be brothers in arms. i look forward to visiting the wall some day and show respect for my fathers fallen comrades.
jkgr33 2 years ago
If America had not involved the war, South Vietnam would have fallen into communism in 1954 and more Vietnamese would have been murdered in cultural revolutions like those launched by Mao in China (20 million deaths) and Khmer Rouge in Cambodia (2 millions)
Total Vietnamese democide by communists:1,040,000 (1975-87) by HCR
Executions: 100,000
Camp Deaths: 95,000
Forced Labor: 48,000
Democides in Cambodia: 460,000
Democides in Laos: 87,000
Vietnamese Boat People: 500,000 deaths.
TOMP66666 2 years ago
Vietnam should've been left to fend for itself..
MentalicMike90 1 year ago
@MentalicMike90 The north and south were going to have a democratic election, until the U.S government stick their nose into it and created problems.
VNSki 1 year ago
@TOMP66666
You're pretty stupid. If the Americans didn't fund the French to fight and make Vietnamese slaves, these things wouldn't even happen at all. I don't want to teach you history because it would just go lose on the other ear.
VNSki 1 year ago
Thanks for the post. Sure brings back memories when I was a kid & then off into the Navy ..71-75. My father also served two tours in Thailand with the AF during the Nam War. You're fortunate to have pics of your father to post back then whereas I don't. Great job and thank you!
sundcekid 2 years ago
its been 40+ years
remember
NEVER FORGET
anxious2002 2 years ago
Thanks for sharing and in more ways than one,, God Bless,,,if anyone wonders what we were trying to accomplish in Vietnam just look at South Korea today in comparison to the north ...That being said Im not saying I agree with the Vietnam war(at least not with the politicians not being willing to win it) but I do belive that the men who fought it were fighting for a just cause.
Curtislowe77 2 years ago
So did your dad make it home?
Chickenman702 2 years ago
nice job...Vietnam was a big part of the lives of Marines like your father and influenced our adult lives...Semper Fi to your father and all fellow Marines.
hotelperson 2 years ago
thank you. I am the man I am today because I was raised by a marine. Stern, but loving.
playinwithit 2 years ago
@hotelperson
1st div USMC SSGT CHARLIE CO
Semper-Fidelis and oh-ra to all MARINES.
pappy1elmer 2 years ago 2
@pappy1elmer 2nd Platoon,1st Force Recon Co. Cua Viet, Dong Ha, FSB Alpine, Reasoner and points north. Ooh Rah Devil Dog......
okbuilder 2 years ago
Absolutely great, thanks for remembering.
seakight 2 years ago
You should be proud!
Well done!
spacecadet507 2 years ago 2
A drink of cool, clean water. A pair of dry socks. Something to eat that didn't come out of a can. A cold beer. The sight of some "round eye" (even ugly was good.) Freedom bird. "The World." Those are the things we dreamed about. If you didn't go...you don't know. Sin Loi, Minoi.
OOOORAHH!!
pops8632 2 years ago
America never decared war on any of them, they attacked america, peace keepers to stop them killin there own people. For some............... read a book. Oh best boy, you speak english not american
British Para 7th Bn sniper
cainedandunable 2 years ago
R.COTTEN E-4 USMC 4/23/1967-4/23/1971, I like your music and the video is nice.
goodtotheend1 2 years ago
Aerial shot of field/huts is Marble Mountain. Had the honor of serving 2 tours-'67 & '68 MABS16 radio. Detach Dong Ha&An Hoa. Grunt units & hopped helo flights to get out. C-117 night flare with Top Lurie-one of last enlisted Marine Pilots. His son flew out of MM & sad to say had his hydraulics shot out & died. Ask your Dad to go to my page & send me an email if he wants to. My Dad served at Tarawa & Saipan, brother Dessert Storm and Iraqi Freedom, Oldest son and I - all Marines. Semper Fi!
toughterrier 2 years ago
Your father , uncle and all your society had know the shame lesson about Vietnam war. You guys can not terror and bombard to destroy a nation. At any difficult time we always live by our own history and original blood. We fight and live for what we are proud of " our history & original ". U got nothing to be proud of .. your life are just dollars & dollars.
dongmk 2 years ago
Yeah those dollars that we put back into YOUR country. Your welcome though...
Jealousy is ugly. I am going to leave these comments on here for a few days just so others can see what an idiot you are.
Now get back to making my Nike's!
playinwithit 2 years ago
wat division was he my grandpa served in Nam and he was a part of the 1 marine division 1st batallion 1/3 alpha company
GandPproductions 2 years ago
@playinwithit You say, now get back to making my Nike's.. I wonder what the unemployment rate is in the U.S right now. Petty stupid comment you said there. I pity those who are don't have a job. Respect to your father anyways since hes in the army.
VNSki 1 year ago
@playinwithit actualy, we left nam high and dry in 75, no more support or $ children are still getting blown up today from unexploded bombs in nam... sorry, all respect....that was genocide what we did there....shamefull
THXcooper 10 months ago
@playinwithit You should leave the comments on permanently. Even Robert McNamara now admits that the whole thing was a mistake. Just like the Waffen SS, the US Marines in Vietnam were a criminal organization using the legal position of the US at Nuremberg. this "dongmk" has it right. You had NO right to be there in a war in which 3,400,000 (mostly civilians) were killed. The US whines around the world when some guys fly commercial jets into a coupla buildings. Imagine B-52 over NY city.
historatia 9 months ago
@playinwithit Why do so many Americans think they are so "exceptional", and the lives and freedoms of other people aren't every bit as valuable as theirs? You committed an immense war crime with the BS "Gulf of Tonkin" incident that never happened. LBJ is a war criminal like Hitler, and you OWE Vietnam HUGE billions in war reparations.. Pay them.
historatia 9 months ago
@playinwithit Don't you just love people mocking you in their limited command of English?
RangerThompson 9 months ago
fuk off dude americans a liberators and thats what we tried to do...my grandpa is the bitterest one about it though yea we didnt do shit yea he lost friends but he still served no matter wat u shuld respect that...he got 2 purple hearts a bronze star just so you can even say that shit he cries every time he tells me stories and i cant even begin to fukin imagine wat he did over there he probably saw nasty shit and had to do twisted shit so maybe you shuld join the military and go threw that
GandPproductions 2 years ago
Don't speak Viet Namese-remember one phrase - "Bu Cock Toi" so suck my dick. Nike's sweat shops owned by your Commi Generals. Exxon facilities were never bombed because the comrads took payoffs to leave them alone. We volunteered-we believed Viet Nam deserved democracry rather than mass burials, alive & dead, like Tet/Hue. You can post the net, but go to the town square and disagree with the comrads-don't think so. You would be re-educated. Viet Nam and we were sold out by Democrats in '73.
toughterrier 2 years ago
It was Bo CAC.
CAC PLTS, were re named CAP. Combined Action PLTS were amde of of marines and PFS. The word CAC, Viet, meant a certain part of the male body.
ErnstBecker 2 years ago
tell that to the politicians AND not to a few guys who are just trying to honor some of the baddest wariors of the 20th century...
anteracmacash 2 years ago
@dongmk U got nothing to be proud of murdering over 33,000 innocent civilians during the course of the war, and your massacre at Hue as well, murdering 2000 innocent people. The US fought honorably to help the south vietnamese stop the invasion from the north.
gerry301 1 year ago
@gerry301 You are talking as if the united states didn't kill any civilians. Have you ever heard about Operation Phoenix? It was the United states' atempt to disable the Viet cong civilan infrastructure.
Knowing who did or didn't suport viet cong was impossible, so they just ended up killing civilans at RANDOM. Sometimes entire villages were massacred for having large stockpiles of food or for having few young adult males.
marcus8374 1 year ago