Sorry i missed this / came in Late.
Full respect and honor towards anyone who served in any conflict our nation has been involved with.
Good Bad Ugly or anything in between.
Anywhere.
Especially the guys who had to do Vietnam
Everyone in my families were either too young or too old for the draft.
But my best friend had an uncle who served in Vietnam.
He caught close range machine gun fire across both legs about halfway between hips and knees.
They saved him somehow.
He didn't bleed out and he didn't lose his legs.
But they were really really strange looking legs to say the least.
He was a determined man
After a long wheelchair stint, then years with crutches, he did finally start walking again around 77 or 78.
Haven't seen him in almost 40 years.
But i think about him every time i see or hear the word Vietnam.
He was a really great guy and i always hated he had to endure that.
He always let my friend and I have all their Coke bottles to cash back in for the deposits.
Every few months there would be hundreds of them.
That was cool
