I just got done with my 4 days of training Wednesday noon. They got us up about 6am Tuesday and we walked about 5 miles to our training grounds outside of the barrier we had classes, shot our M-16 rifles, then in late afternoon we started setting up camp for the night. We had 4 … More LZ Uplift, Foxholes, and Kool-Aid
He received his Statement of Acceptability from Selective Service and he was found “fully acceptable for induction into the Armed Forces.” It was dated 20 April 1966, he was 19. My dad was inducted into the Army on 5 January 1967 for training at Fort Bliss, Texas. I have his ‘yearbook’ from his time at … More Vietnam Soldier: Average age was 19
In September 2008, I gave the doctors permission to remove my father from life support and a few hours later he passed away ending forty years of suffering. The last time I saw my father, before he drove himself to the Emergency Room, before he went into a coma, before he died, was in May … More Comfortably numb
How Goes the Battle? 