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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 |
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Related to going back to the world. Do you guys remember the short-timers ribbon off a bottle of Seagrams VO ?
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'70 TA / 505 cid / same engine but revised ( previous best 10.63 at 127.05 ) Old information here: http://www.hotrod.com/articles/0712p...tiac-trans-am/ Sponsor of the world's fastest Pontiac powered Ford Fairmont (engine) 5.14 at 140 mph (1/8 mile) , true 10.5 tire, stock type suspension https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qDoJnIP3HgE |
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Holy crap you hopscotched all over !
My trip over was a contract flight in a Boeing 707 that originated at McChord Air Force Base in Washington, a stop at Yokota Air Base outside Tokyo, then direct to Taipei, the capital of Taiwan. About 19 hours. Then a 100 mile ride in a civilian bus to the Air Base, a harrowing experience as the driver swerved all over the road and passed cars with little room to spare ! .
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'70 TA / 505 cid / same engine but revised ( previous best 10.63 at 127.05 ) Old information here: http://www.hotrod.com/articles/0712p...tiac-trans-am/ Sponsor of the world's fastest Pontiac powered Ford Fairmont (engine) 5.14 at 140 mph (1/8 mile) , true 10.5 tire, stock type suspension https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qDoJnIP3HgE |
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The only good flight he had was his final trip out of Saigon. It was on a Pan Am flight, first time he got to fly commercial. The Captain told them to hold on and they took off full throttle getting as high as they could as fast as they could to avoid small arms fire. Said it was the best flight he ever had. He never told any of this stuff to anyone else. His daughters never were told any of this. Told me of huge underground bases we have in the upper Midwest he was at that you would not believe. Would not give me the state though. He kept a lot to himself. |
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So I missed out on a carrier landing that would have been a great Bucket List item LOL.
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Related and a good read.........
"The World, of course, was anywhere but Vietnam and a Freedom Bird was any aircraft which took you to the World." Vietnam “Freedom Bird” – Why can’t I remember the ride? https://cherrieswriter.com/2012/03/0...mber-the-ride/ .
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'70 TA / 505 cid / same engine but revised ( previous best 10.63 at 127.05 ) Old information here: http://www.hotrod.com/articles/0712p...tiac-trans-am/ Sponsor of the world's fastest Pontiac powered Ford Fairmont (engine) 5.14 at 140 mph (1/8 mile) , true 10.5 tire, stock type suspension https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qDoJnIP3HgE |
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It's hard to believe it's been 47 years since I got back from my second tour. I have vets coffee every Wed and seems like there's getting less and less of us. Thanks for posting
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Great feeling sailing under the Golden Gate Bridge into San Francisco Bay after a 10 month deployment. Families crowded on the bridge with banners. My parents waiting for me at the pier in Alameda with the GTO
Memories, memorabilia and the scars are all that's left.
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I came back to a west pac widow and a divorce.
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When I returned (from Germany, not 'Nam) in 1967, I didn't dare be in uniform- too many eggs being thrown at uniformed troops by draft-dodgers.
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OG68 - when were you on the Hancock?
My father was on several cruises including CV-19 '70-71 Vietnam. |
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From April 72 to Aug 74. What squadron was your dad in?
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Ed 1968 GTO (Thanks Mom) 2006 Silverado 2007 Cadillac SRX 2015 Chevy Express |
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Bob Hope USO Shows: The One-Man Morale Machine and a link to home.
"While only a small fraction of the 2.5 million troops who served in Southeast Asia actually got to attend Hope’s performances, for those who did he managed to break the monotony, ease the loneliness and give the troops in combat zones across Vietnam a couple of hours of laughter—and a memory for a lifetime." https://www.historynet.com/bob-hopes...tmas-tours.htm In 1969 Bob Hope performed a Christmas show at CCK AFB in Taiwan. I missed the show, I got a 'early out' and was sent home a few weeks prior. .
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'70 TA / 505 cid / same engine but revised ( previous best 10.63 at 127.05 ) Old information here: http://www.hotrod.com/articles/0712p...tiac-trans-am/ Sponsor of the world's fastest Pontiac powered Ford Fairmont (engine) 5.14 at 140 mph (1/8 mile) , true 10.5 tire, stock type suspension https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qDoJnIP3HgE |
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