Quite the headline and photo of the helicopter on the roof. It seemed impossible. But, there it was. Jane Fonda and John (I served in Vietnam) Kerry were dancing in the friggin streets back home. I was stationed at RAF Upper Heyford, UK at the time. I had just left Udorn RTAFB Thailand 5 months earlier. I can still smell the klongs aka Binjo ditches. Remember the F#$K You lizards and the RRREE-Upp Frogs? Hot girls and cold beer on every street corner. Good times, eh? Things were a lot different then, not like today.
MADDOG... Agree. People like Kerry become politicians and Hanoi Jane becomes a cultural icon. Anyone paying attention could have predicted the outcome...
Chris... Weird how that works, eh? Did they both make it home?
I was at 29 Palms. I shipped out shortly after to go work with the refugee relocation. Fun times.
ReplyDeleteMost of my unit from Hood went to Fort Chaffee, Arkansas to help with the relocation...
ReplyDeleteQuite the headline and photo of the helicopter on the roof. It seemed impossible. But, there it was. Jane Fonda and John (I served in Vietnam) Kerry were dancing in the friggin streets back home. I was stationed at RAF Upper Heyford, UK at the time. I had just left Udorn RTAFB Thailand 5 months earlier. I can still smell the klongs aka Binjo ditches. Remember the F#$K You lizards and the RRREE-Upp Frogs? Hot girls and cold beer on every street corner. Good times, eh? Things were a lot different then, not like today.
ReplyDeleteI remember thinking that we had just up and abandoned our friends, the South Vietnamese. And the 58 thousand...
ReplyDeleteWe have never been the same.
I was also at Fort Hood, Texas when this happened, and I had spent two straight years in the old Republic of Viet Nam.
ReplyDeleteI used to attend church services in downtown Saigon.
Later, I joined a group of veterans seeking to assist church members left behind and whose family members were separated by the war.
John... I wonder if we ever crossed paths? Thank you for your service, good sir.
ReplyDeleteThe Man in the Doorway
ReplyDeletehttps://m.youtube.com/watch?v=qH2vbYs6ebc
God's Own Lunatics
ReplyDeletehttps://m.youtube.com/watch?v=CqYOAqxlL_Y
Good videos, David! Thanks!
ReplyDeleteI was an 8 year old kid watching this unfold on the news, hoping to get a glimpse of my two oldest brothers who were there.
ReplyDeleteMADDOG... Agree. People like Kerry become politicians and Hanoi Jane becomes a cultural icon. Anyone paying attention could have predicted the outcome...
ReplyDeleteChris... Weird how that works, eh? Did they both make it home?