My War, by Fleabaggs
This is the most important story SLL will post this month, or maybe ever. It’s an honor to post it. Read it beginning to end and study the pictures. This is the story Americans don’t want to hear, and these are pictures from which they avert their eyes. From Fleabaggs, a Vietnam War veteran:
I have started to write this a hundred times in 49 years. I would like to have used Our War but don’t want to presume to speak for all us Nam Vets still alive who were really there for a year or more. Nor can I speak for all the families of Nam Vets and all the millions of Vietnamese whose major crime was living in Vietnam at the time.
I do presume to speak for myself and my dead buddies who told me their stories as we commiserated in a dark corner of a seedy gin mill where we had been banished. I do presume to speak for some of the families I knew and my mother and the civilians who had an impact on me while I was there. I’m going to show you a picture of a few whose story never made it to the U.S. It’s shocking so stop here if you want to remain comfortably absolved in your sweet fantasy of non-involvement. This is not about “ME,” it’s about us.
Kind of a tough read. Those guys went through alot. The guy that taught me how to cut meat in ’81 served in the navy and was a .50 cal gunner on a PBR in the Mekong Delta. Lotsa stories, pretty messed up. He was a brilliant meat cutter, but boy, what a mess. High as a kite and happy as a lamb one minute, hostile and eyes red with rage the next…irate about some crazy little thing or another. And my father in law served in a carrier group in Vietnam and he has stories he’ll only tell when he’s had enough whiskey and his daughter is no where around to hear them told. You can still see the emotion behind his eyes after all these years. Tough, tough road for those guys.
Gonna be a tough road for us.
Dana
It is hard to find words. Truth is hard. As hard as it was to read….to have lived it and write it so bare is harder. God bless all those who lived it and those who read this and try to understand.
I’m glad you posted this. It was a very tough read. This is information everyone should know. Our enemies aren’t our brainwashed neighbors. Our enemies are those doing the brainwashing. They need to be stopped.
Thanks for reposting this.