How you gonna act? 3rd Platoon, Bravo Company

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

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