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Message: <blockquote data-quote="db-2" data-source="post: 404858" data-attributes="member: 4743">I know this topic is not hunting or fishing related but found the need to post.  Not only for Vietnam Vets but for all vets no matter where or when they served. It is hard for me to imagine it has been 53 years as the memories are still so fresh and vivid.  They flash across my mind every time i think about it.The one i remember well is getting my orders to go back home.  That day came and then went and i found myself still shooting a cannon on fire base JJ Carroll.  No idea how to get home. After a mission in the middle of the night i was sitting around the gun with another beer drinker, drinking rusty steel cans of black label (i think) and the rest of the pot head crew smoking pot.  Talking stupid talk.  After a few minutes a familiar sound rang out, that being the sound of rockets leaving their pads in the distance and, in a few seconds, we knew they will be coming down on us.  Enough time to lay on the ground.In time the sound of two medic choppers coming and i watch as a hand full of GI were carried to the pad not knowing if they were alive or dead.  Never did ask. That morning i finally stop being stupid and felt the urge to leave.  I ask the clerk how to leave and he got me the first 20 miles down the road. From there it was a hop, a walk in the bush with no rifle, a jump, a decision on a side stop to Bangkok and many adventures but after a number of many, many days from the date i was to leave, i was home in the house i grew up in.So, if you see a vet tell him thanks for the job well done, glad to see you home.  A thank you is not needed as he/she already knows that and today it is said way too much IMHO.  db</blockquote>

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