Email. comments. Well, that's one side of the story. Reddit. Though it was a relatively short battle, it was by far the most intense fighting I saw during my tour. Three Vietnam War Veterans Share Their Stories W.D. My tour in Vietnam did not get off to an auspicious start. My tour in Vietnam was full of segmented stories, some crazy and hard to imagine, but most were mundane, uneventful, and hard to remember. I have difficulty remembering the names of guys I lived side by side with for months. Ehrhart, left, in October 1967 near Quang Tri, Vietnam, and today. We sent a writer out to Vietnam to speak with Nguyen Hoa Giai. One tour in Vietnam was more than enough for Janis Nark, who served as a nurse during the Vietnam War from 1970 to 1971. In 1956, the first female service members arrived in Vietnam. By far the most reported on encounters with strange creatures during the Vietnam War are those dealing with an apparent race of hairy humanoids in the forests which were known locally as the Nguoi Rung, or “the people of the forest,” as well as the Batutut and Ujit.These were hairy, ape-like creatures covered in reddish hair and … The time was September 1968. ... And that’s a Vietnam War story that’s absent from our histories of the conflict -- all 30,000 of them. It happened in the early morning hours of December 27, 1966, Near T hôn Xuân SÆ¡n, Vietnam. Here's what he … That’s a true war story. I was given command of a three-man 60mm mortar squad in the 3rd Marine Division’s Alpha Company, 1st Battalion, 9th Marines. He fought as a Viet Cong from the late 1950s to the end of the war in the mid-'70s. Haywood T. "The Kid" Kirkland from Bloods: An Oral History of the Vietnam War by Black Veterans (1984) In an article in the New York Times Magazine on March 24, 1968, reporter Sol Stern observed, "In Vietnam between 1961 and 1964, Negroes accounted for more than 20 percent of Army fatalities, … True stories of the Vietnam War. Inspired to serve others after she lost her Drama scholarship from Eastern Michigan University, Janis found herself shipping off to boot camp in the spring of 1970. The following is an account of the battle at LZ Bird. Here's another: They were a bunch of scared (mostly) young kids fighting in a massive conflict for very personal reasons. He said it was like something out of a movie. “Bill” Ehrhart joined the U.S. Marines when he was 17. He was riding down a river in a patrol boat, just talking to one of his friends on the boat, when he bent down to pick something up. Not my story, but a man that is like family to me told this story of his time in Vietnam. Stories from Vietnam. First of all, even though I was a new guy, I was promoted to corporal soon after I arrived in-country in January 1967. And that’s a Vietnam War story that’s absent from our histories of the conflict -- all 30,000 of them. On Reddit, a terminally-ill Vietnam veteran recounted a story of his time in Vietnam that he was going to take to his grave but opted to put it on r/nosleep instead. Humping through leech infested triple canopy jungle, sliding down monsoon-drenched … A Gruesome but Fantastic War Story . The place was Quang Nam province in the mountainous northern region of South Vietnam. When he looked back up, half of his friend was missing. For the uninitiated, Army Tunnel Rats were troops who would crawl into NVA and Viet Cong tunnels to eradicate the troops that hid there below the … view in app. Nguyen Hoa Giai given command of a three-man 60mm mortar squad in the 3rd Marine Division’s Company... 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