Green Beret’s RARE Footage & Photos From Vietnam | Veteran Interview

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  @Thevietnamexperience · 2 years ago · pinned

  Want more stories and photos? Purchase James’ books here: Dick James’ Books: <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Slurp-Sends/dp/B08LDT5JQL/?_encoding=UTF8&amp;pd_rd_w=tn5PH&amp;content-id=amzn1.sym.9ba93102-1f13-41c3-a6ad-c5e190aced54&amp;pf_rd_p=9ba93102-1f13-41c3-a6ad-c5e190aced54&amp;pf_rd_r=131-2696104-7183924&amp;pd_rd_wg=sdbWl&amp;pd_rd_r=0f05f07a-f3b7-4b91-951a-7e4de7f4eae0&amp;ref_=kss_ap_sba">https://www.amazon.com/Slurp-Sends/dp/B08LDT5JQL/?_encoding=UTF8&amp;pd_rd_w=tn5PH&amp;content-id=amzn1.sym.9ba93102-1f13-41c3-a6ad-c5e190aced54&amp;pf_rd_p=9ba93102-1f13-41c3-a6ad-c5e190aced54&amp;pf_rd_r=131-2696104-7183924&amp;pd_rd_wg=sdbWl&amp;pd_rd_r=0f05f07a-f3b7-4b91-951a-7e4de7f4eae0&amp;ref_=kss_ap_sba</a>

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• CL

  @clawhammer704 · 1 year ago

  My cousin got killed &nbsp;in a ambush in Vietnam Jan. 1967 1st Lt. ranger 9th Infantry Division. My aunts only child. He was a West Point grad.

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• MA

  @MattLarkham-nx5uu · 2 years ago

  Something tells me his grandchildren stuck that googly eye on there without him realising...he had no idea, the man survived the VC only to be fooled by tricksy toddlers. In all seriousness, he&apos;s earned the right to wear googly eyes. Absolute living legend and hard as nails.

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• PG

  @PG-yi9iz · 2 years ago

  I arrived in the States as a fresh immigrant in 1989. My first 6 years were in DC. I used to ride my bicycle down to the Vietnam Memorial and thanked all the dead soldiers for their sacrifice. Those soldiers gave everything so people like me could taste freedom and experience a new and better life. Thank you.

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• IN

  @inlandsailor2541 · 2 years ago

  I so appreciate these men sharing their stories. &nbsp;He is so articulate and compelling.

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• JB

  @jbarrer2196 · 1 year ago

  It was horrible what Johnson and McNamara did to the young men in the Vietnam war. &nbsp;My younger brother was a marine grunt in vietnam in 1968. &nbsp;He enlisted right out of high school. &nbsp;They trained him as a radio operator and that saved his life. &nbsp;When the squad went out on patrol in V formation, he was put inside the V with the lieutenant. &nbsp;When they came under fire he would help the lieutenant call in the message. &nbsp;He was never wounded in the year he was there, but his squad members were all killed over the course of the year. &nbsp;He tells the story of being at the rear of the patrol as the whole squad in front of him walked around a large tree. &nbsp;As they all got on the other side of the tree a mortar struck and killed most of them but he was protected by the tree. &nbsp;With the help of a great VA psychiatrist he recovered from the experience and is living a pretty nice life.

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• BR

  @BrianMason3636 · 2 years ago

  My dad was there……God bless each and every one of you!!!

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• TH

  @TheHumanSynthesisProject · 2 years ago

  &quot;That was the only time I ever stepped on a mine&quot;, he says with a smile. what a man, what a soul. Its a blessing to hear these stories

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• WH

  @Whitesp44 · 2 years ago

  Fantastic pictures and story. So much happened in that war most Americans will never know. So important to document these experiences. Thank you

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• DA

  @dansullivan9026 · 2 years ago

  I served in the Navy at a Green Beret camp in the 7 Sisters Mountain region called B-43 (Chi Lang) in 1970. &nbsp;Mr. James’ recollections bring back fond memories of those long ago days. &nbsp;The topography of the area was just as pictured in his video. &nbsp;It was an awful war but a beautiful land.

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• BO

  @boldmarines · 2 years ago

  I lost my left eye in Combat with L/3/7 in 1969 while on patrol in I-Corps…. But no prosthetic I’ve ever had… has the Character of this one…. SEMPER FI

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• DR

  @Dreadheddforever · 2 years ago

  My Father was 101st. Airborne,he promised my Mother(unfairly)that he would never talk about his experience in &quot;Nam&quot; with me.I had enough sense to know enough to research on my own.I CAN&apos;T SAY IT ENOUGH,God bless these Veterans for sharing their stories! I met and became friends with R.Lee Ermey(R.I.P),now,after that?...I would be amazed if I could find ANYONE who served with my dad.

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