Tet 1968

[MJ1]

I woke early today from a dream filled with faces but few names and realized how glad i am to be alive another February 4th.





.....mj.....

[Oyaji]

Yep, it's good to be alive considering all the hardships endured over the years. Thank you for your service.

[cwartyman]

Same thing happens to me every January 17. Thank you for serving bro.
Mack

[Griff Murphey]

Thanks to all of you guys for your service. The then-and-now photos are great.

[MJ1]

Not many photos survived Griff here is one of my arms room and locker in Kontum early Oct. 1967 just befor I moved to DakTo.

[joem]

MJ1; you put on a few pounds like the rest of us.

[m1grunt]

Never gave it much thought until I watched the football movie "any given Sunday" and heard the pep talk Pachino gives his players about how the game is all about inches. My life to this point has been lived by the three inches a sniper put a round above my head into the side of a wall. With todays better optics I would never have seen my nineteenth birthday. Live well brothers with no regrets.

[jon_norstog]

I was in the burn ward at Ft. Sam Houston just after Tet. The place was wall-to-wall. I don't think most Americans understand what went down, and how hard the fighting was. And I do know that the American public was kept in the dark about the extent of the casualties we took.

Years after, I think Tet broke the VC's back. The result was to hand control of the war over to the NVA, and of the post-war situation to North Vietnam.

"Alpha company was wiped out. Charlie, there was a few left standing. i was in Bravo, we only took about 60 percent casualties." What I heard from the guy in a bed near mine ..... we all talked, talked, talked. I mainly listened. I was just a Coast Guard snipe who had go caught in an engine room fire and explosion.

Years later I met woman from SE Asia, married her and moved over there. The closer I got, the more I heard. And I'm thinking that if the US had not fought in Vietnam, Thailand would have been next to go. So yeah, Tet has that same meaning for me.

jn

[MJ1]

it's only what i saw in hospital that still freaks me out.

[Nick Riviezzo]

Our 41st anniversary[see," Where were you 11 Feb.1971?", this forum] is coming up.It was great to see those folks last OCT at the Charley Horse Reunion. Nick