Special Forces "Green Berets" Tribute 1952-1969

This video is a tribute to my dad and his buddies who served bravely in the United States Special Forces (Green Berets). My dad served in the 10th SFG, 77th SFG, 7th SFG, 1st SFG, SF Trng. Grp, 8th SFG & 5th SFG in that order. Many of his best friends were killed in combat and most of the ones that made it have now passed on. All but forgotten by their government and fellow citizens, I wanted to make just a small tribute to them for their courageous sacrifices for an ungreatful nation and an often corrupt government. They were the Tier 1 of their time, the best of the best, the quiet professionals. De oppresso liber - To free the oppressed.

To quote my dad from 1964 after his third combat tour in Southeast Asia: "Somehow everything looks different from up on the hill. It forms pictures of forgotten things in my mind. Cool fall days when the kids from the neighboring farms would come with their coffee sacks and all would run into the woods toward the hickory trees. I can remember those days, when the air was fresh and crisp from the first visit of Jack Frost and the colors of the trees ranging from the green of the pine on the slopes to the red of the maple and the yellow of the walnut and oak which gave the area the splendor of technicolor, only far more effective. Like the painting of an old forgotten master. Looking toward the bottom land you would expect to see shocks of fodder and stacks of golden pumpkins and maybe colorful gourds hanging from the corn. But not here. Here you see little groups of mud huts with thatched roofs, surrounded by stout bamboo fences that are guaranteed to keep out man and beast. Someone back home would think that you were hunting if they saw you with the rifle hanging from your shoulder. But it isn't for hunting, it is for killing; killing other human beings. Human beings that know of no reason why they are killing and getting killed, a reason that is ideological, reasons that are unattainable to these simple people. Reasons that are far enough above their education level that when all the fighting and killing is done, they will still know of no reason that they had to suffer the hunger, the pain and the heartbreak of war. It's not an easy task waiting beside a mountain trail for someone to kill. It seems easier to let your mind wander back to the hills and streams of your childhood. Nowhere is there a place of such beauty and memories. Not the valleys and dales of the majestic rockies nor the snow capped spires of the fabled alps. Especially this. All you do is lay back and let your mind wander and wait for someone to tap you and say "they come". They come and you kill. After the shooting is over and done, and the bodies looted of everything of any value, you start back, back into reality. And then you think, how in the hell could I have ever compared this place to my home. This is Vietnam"

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[kellov22]

de oppresso libre!!My father served SF in Vietnam around 69-72, if anyone knows anyone that served then too, i would love to hear from you. Dad doesnt talk about it. As a kid I was told he was just chosen at random.That's how dad explained it,"They just pointed YOU!,YOU!,-and YOU!"I now know differently.My father is my hero.He is amazing!Every time I speak to him at length or see him for a second, I am amazed.He is the strongest,kindest,most intelligent,sneaky,trustworthy man I have ever known

[tsasuyeda]

my dad James Huston Meeks was in the 10th in Bad Tolz in 1952- would like to speak to anyone who remembers him. email tsasuyed(at)gmail.com

[TheKILLA317]

Great video man!!!The Green Berets were the most effective soldiers in Nam.Check out my video tribute to the US pilots who served during the war.