Posted on Aug 4, 2015
50 years ago today, August 04, in sunny Vietnam-land - Where were you?
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President Johnson asks Congress for an additional $1.7 billion ($12.88 billion in 2015 dollars) for the war.
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Posted 5 d ago
Just got out of tech school paid for by the G.I. bill
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I was in high school and December 1969 I was there on the ground.
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SPC Lyle Montgomery
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I graduated from high school in 69 and was in the Army in sept. of 69 and arrived in Nam on Feb 14 in 70. Thats one valentines day that I will never forget.
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7 yrs old at St Claire's Catholic School being scolded by the German Nuns for Playing with those "Irish" (German Nun Speak for Both Irish and Blacks).
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SPC Lyle Montgomery
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I did 8 years with the ursaline nuns. That made 2 years in the Army, one as a grunt in Nam seem like a cakewalk. Those 8 years were undoubtedly the worse of my life.
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SFC Jo Ann Klawitter
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SPC Lyle Montgomery my grade school use was spent with the nuns, but they weren’t as bad as yours
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