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Colonel Burroughs just posted a very thought provoking treatise about Vietnam and the men and women who fought in the jungles, rivers, rice patties and mountains of that Country...
I bring you Creedence Clearwater Revival with a tribute to these men and women who fought that war... Some will like it, some will not and I can understand that... It was a complicated unfavorable war...and many were lost or maimed during that war...
"About Fortunate Son":
"Fortunate Son" is a song by the American rock band Creedence Clearwater Revival released on their fourth studio album, Willy and the Poor Boys in November 1969. It was previously released as a single, together with "Down on the Corner", in September 1969. It soon became an anti-war movement anthem, an expressive symbol of the counterculture's opposition to U. S. military involvement in the Vietnam War and solidarity with the soldiers fighting it. The song has been featured extensively in pop culture depictions of the Vietnam War and the anti-war movement."
Feel free to relate your feelings about the war, this song or whatever you care to share...
Kerry
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I bring you Creedence Clearwater Revival with a tribute to these men and women who fought that war... Some will like it, some will not and I can understand that... It was a complicated unfavorable war...and many were lost or maimed during that war...
"About Fortunate Son":
"Fortunate Son" is a song by the American rock band Creedence Clearwater Revival released on their fourth studio album, Willy and the Poor Boys in November 1969. It was previously released as a single, together with "Down on the Corner", in September 1969. It soon became an anti-war movement anthem, an expressive symbol of the counterculture's opposition to U. S. military involvement in the Vietnam War and solidarity with the soldiers fighting it. The song has been featured extensively in pop culture depictions of the Vietnam War and the anti-war movement."
Feel free to relate your feelings about the war, this song or whatever you care to share...
Kerry
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I 'won' that draft lottery late in '72. in '73, I was told to pack, that I was on my way to Vietnam.When the orders came down the next day they had been changed to Alaska.
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SPC Michael Terrell
Have you worked 20 hour days, and slept outside at below -40? You could freeze to death in under 15 minutes, if anything happened to you. Just the walk from the TV station back to the barracks was enough time to make you so stiff that you could barely move. Your skin would be stiff and gray. You had to go to the shower, and start with the coldest water and slowly increase the temperature to thaw out. You would lay under your wool blankets and shiver for hours, if you didn't thaw out first. It was 100 miles into town, with no Enlisted or NCO club on base. The base was only two companies, so the Army didn't spend much on anything other than the most basic needs. A couple guys there had seen multiple tours in Vietnam, and were begging to go back to get away from the cold. One told me, I'd rather risked being shot at, than freezing to death every time I go outside during the cold weather. The unofficial record low was -79F.
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SPC Michael Terrell
Sgt (Join to see) - Yes. It was in the high 90s at Ft Rucker, and it dipped below -60F at Ft Greely. About 160 degrees difference.
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SP5 Harry Treadway
Spec Terrell You, your friends,family coworkers and neighbors are very lucky to gotten that order change. Be Thankful
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SPC Michael Terrell
SP5 Harry Treadway - I was a Broadcast Engineer for AFRTS, but more than one with my MOS was killed while on duty in Vietnam. I received the bullet ridden carcass of a Gates TV transmitter destroyed in one attack.
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