Gooks and Tootsie Rolls
1 February 2012
We haven’t had hot chow for the last week and tonight we are going to, I can’t wait I’m about to starve eating the C-rations 3 times a day. I thought of another thing you could send me is
Category: Vietnam War and the G.I.
Anything related to the war and the soldiers’ experiences.
Operation Wallowa
14 October 2011
Machine Gunner Cites Tough AO [area of operations], Cavalair Article, by SP5 Don Graham, date unknown LZ ROSS–For seven and a half months, SP4 Grady Gregory carried a machine gun for the 1st Air Cavalry Division‘s Third Brigade. Most guys get tired of carrying the 25-pound M-60 after a while, but Gregory has not. “It’s … More Operation Wallowa
How you gonna act? 3rd Platoon, Bravo Company
29 August 2011
I found a photocopied letter with my dad’s Vietnam stuff and I thought I would share excerpts of it. Handwritten at the top is the following: Letter from Lt Simm from hospital after he was wounded. I don’t who the recipient was. 25 March 1968 Hi Pig, I got your letter and the picture & … More How you gonna act? 3rd Platoon, Bravo Company
The GI in Vietnam
2 March 2011
Feeling in Vietnam is that most back home, including lawmakers, do not understand or accept the truth that the conflict in Vietnam is war. That the bulk of America considers Southeast Asia with confusion and mild contempt. A soldier returning home from Vietnam will find that people can’t yet point the country out on a … More The GI in Vietnam
How Goes the Battle? 