50 years ago
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Topic: 50 years ago
Posted By: TMiller/NC
Subject: 50 years ago
Date Posted: 23 Mar 2018 at 7:52pm
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Happened to realize that Mar 22, 1968, left home for my southeast Asia vacation, I didn't think I was that old. |
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Posted By: steve(ill)
Date Posted: 23 Mar 2018 at 8:06pm
vacations are all right.......... but SEA aint high on MY list !  ------------- Like them all, but love the "B"s. |
Posted By: Grayray
Date Posted: 23 Mar 2018 at 8:31pm
| Well Mr. Miller, thank you for taking that vacation and for everything you did relative to that vacation. Also glad you came home again.. |
Posted By: Tracy Martin TN
Date Posted: 23 Mar 2018 at 8:40pm
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Thank you for your service! Tracy ------------- No greater gift than healthy grandkids! |
Posted By: Pat the Plumber CIL
Date Posted: 23 Mar 2018 at 10:08pm
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Thank you for your service ------------- You only need to know 3 things to be a plumber;Crap rolls down hill,Hot is on the left and Don't bite your fingernails 1964 D-17 SIV 3 Pt.WF,1964 D-15 Ser II 3pt.WF ,1960 D-17 SI NF,1956 WD 45 WF. |
Posted By: Mikez
Date Posted: 23 Mar 2018 at 10:43pm
| Yes thank you |
Posted By: LouSWPA
Date Posted: 23 Mar 2018 at 11:07pm
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Yes, Thank you. Last week was the anniversary of my wife's BIL earning a Bronze Star....I didn't know that unlit last week! He never talked about it. I know he suffered tremendously over the whole experience mentally. Freedom isn't free! many pay for it for the rest of us, some pay all ------------- I am still confident of this; I will see the goodness of the Lord in the land of the living. Wait for the Lord; be strong and take heart and wait for the Lord. Ps 27 |
Posted By: shameless dude
Date Posted: 24 Mar 2018 at 2:27am
| thank you for helping to protect my fat a$$! and also glad you came back to us too! |
Posted By: Bob D. (La)
Date Posted: 24 Mar 2018 at 4:51am
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Thank You Mr. Miller. I started my Sea tours in March 1969. Final trip was in 1975. Never lost anything there and not going back. ------------- When you find yourself in a hole,PUT DOWN THE SHOVEL!!! |
Posted By: desertjoe
Date Posted: 24 Mar 2018 at 5:20am
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Well,,Mr Miller,,,many "Thank You's" for your service back and sure glad you came back safely,,,,!! I volunteered for the Navy thru their "Buddy-Buddy Plan" right after graduating in 1965 and after a big send off, they shipped 8 of us to the induction center for physicals. I was the only'ist one they sent back home cause I failed the hearing test,,,,,,3 times. Of the 7 that did go thru,,,1 of our Buddies did not come home,,,him being the first Viet Nam casualty from New Mexico,,,and he was only 17,,having forgot his age when he volunteered as a junior in High School,,,, Our second oldest Son has been in the Air Force since 1990 and has done two 1 year tours in South Korea and Germany and we are on pins and needles every day till he comes home. Freedom is NOT "FREE" Without becoming plumb political,,I just cannot understand how some people are SO against our military, yet,,,don't mind taking advantage of the freedoms our military allows them to have,,,, I read something the other day,,"THOSE THAT WANT TO CONDEMM OUR FLAG, HAVE NEVER HAD A FOLDED ONE HANDED TO THEM",,,OK,,,I'm done. |
Posted By: weiner
Date Posted: 24 Mar 2018 at 7:09am
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DesertJoe, I agree 100%. I say "love it or leave it". I love all our heroes and thank my lucky stars and Almighty God for the privilege of living in the greatest country ever. I thank all who have served. I spent 2 years in the army stationed at Ft Carson, got out in May of 65, My company was shipped to Vietnam shortly afterward. I still wonder why I was not extended. My grandson is stationed in Germany, gets out in 6 months. ------------- Real heros wear dogtags, not capes. |
Posted By: Hubert (Ga)engine7
Date Posted: 24 Mar 2018 at 7:30am
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Tim, THANK YOU for your service. A trip to SEA was not much of a vacation. I joined the Air Force in 1970 after college but never was sent over there. ------------- Just an old country boy saved by the grace of God. |
Posted By: Brian F(IL)
Date Posted: 24 Mar 2018 at 7:33am
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Mr. Miller, Thank you for your service to our country. Brian
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Posted By: darrel in ND
Date Posted: 24 Mar 2018 at 7:39am
| I, too thank you for your service. Also, agree with the other posts. Darrel |
Posted By: Dave H
Date Posted: 24 Mar 2018 at 7:52am
Well Mr Miller i think you did a couple of things poorly when you were on vacation there.  You did not end that affair and you left a lot of black label steeping in the hot sun. I will always remember how that stuff would boil out of the can when you popped the top in 69 and 70. Welcome Home to you and the rest of the brothers. |
Posted By: TMiller/NC
Date Posted: 24 Mar 2018 at 2:00pm
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Thanks for the kind words and acknowledgments, there are many of us that answered the call because it was the right thing to do. All the wounds incurred there were not evident immediately when we returned, as in the effects of exposure to agent orange and other chemical and emotional experiences. I am thankful for those who serve today and continue to protect the freedoms we enjoy today. I could get off on a rant about those who disrespect the flag and National Anthem, but wrong forum section. God Bless America!!!!!!!!!!!!! Tim |
Posted By: Ted J
Date Posted: 24 Mar 2018 at 9:50pm
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AMEN Tim. Thank you for your service also. We are finally being recognized instead of the *&*$()@ that we were handed when we came home. Too many scars and too many kids who never got back. GOD BLESS this nation once again....PLEASE ------------- "Allis-Express" 19?? WC / 1941 C / 1952 CA / 1956 WD45 / 1957 WD45 / 1958 D-17 |
Posted By: Darrell G (MN)
Date Posted: 25 Mar 2018 at 8:37pm
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Mr Miller I arrived at DaNang in March of 1965 |
Posted By: Unit3
Date Posted: 25 Mar 2018 at 8:59pm
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Add me to your thank you list. Never thanked anyone for going on a vacation before. Doesn't sound like anything I would want to do, but thank you for giving your time. ------------- 2-8070FWA PS/8050PS/7080/7045PS/200/D15-II/2-WD45/WD/3-WC/UC/C |
Posted By: CrestonM
Date Posted: 25 Mar 2018 at 9:38pm
| Thank you for your service, Mr. Miller! |
Posted By: Stan IL&TN
Date Posted: 26 Mar 2018 at 9:27am
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A big THANK YOU!! to all who have served. ------------- 1957 WD45 dad's first AC 1968 one-seventy 1956 F40 Ferguson |