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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsIt rained a lot on us in Nam. Good thing Commander bone spurs was special.?
The Philippines, Korea, Europe, just about everywhere Americans fought for our country we got fucking rained on.
We even got rained on during Desert Storm!!!
hlthe2b
(102,357 posts)pwb
(11,287 posts)And he did some ugly shit.
1968 Pulitzer Prize, Feature Photography, Toshio Sakai, United Press International
Being a soldier in Vietnam meant trudging through unfamiliar countryside, knowing the next moment could mean obliteration by a booby trap or a mine. It meant numbing boredom, followed by terrifying struggle.
On June I7, 1967, Japanese photojournalist Toshio Sakai crouches with the men of B Company, about 40 miles northeast of Saigon. They are dug in behind sandbags and mud banks, surrounded by deep jungle. It is Sakais first tour of Vietnam: "There was a commotion in the forest, then all became silent. Birds stopped chirping and insects quieted. My heart was beating fast. A tense atmosphere filled the air."
Suddenly, shells explode overhead. AK-47s crackle. Its a Viet Cong attack. The Americans return the fire. The jungle explodes with bullets. But in the midst of battle, the heavens open up. The downpour is so intense it forces both sides to stop shooting. Minutes pass, then hours. The soldiers hunker down.
Despite the miserable wet, Sakai remembers it as a moment of peace: "I saw a black soldier lying on the bunker and taking a nap. Behind him, I saw another white soldier holding an M-16 rifle, crouching and watching. The sleeping soldier must have dreamt of better times in his homeland. I quietly released the shutter."
Victor_c3
(3,557 posts)I know mine arent.
The dreams I have of home almost always get interrupted by fighting and violence. I find myself setting up a machine gun position in my childhood bedroom because I have good fields of vision down a likely avenue if approach. The fence in my backyard is dangerous as it could conceal approaching enemy. Stuff like that permeates my dreams of home.
And lots of very realistic gore and loss.
When I was in Iraq, I thought dreams like that were almost funny. 15 years later, they are still with me and now I deal with trying to protect my children in my dreams. Its not funny anymore and they dont go away.
brewens
(13,620 posts)flu because of it. The piss stained pervert doesn't want to be in the wind and rain and let us see his baboon ass hairdo again!
jaysunb
(11,856 posts)pwb
(11,287 posts)Choppers can fly in rain. I'm sure he will say the secret service grounded his chopper? Bullshit.
Victor_c3
(3,557 posts)If it was important to him, trump would have been there.
He couldnt even be bothered to come up with a lame excuse like I was sick?!?!?
Wawannabe
(5,678 posts)My dad was in nam.
President shitshow is not my president!
pwb
(11,287 posts)Thank you! Peace.
Pope George Ringo II
(1,896 posts)Victor_c3
(3,557 posts)Well, only around December to March (and nothing like a monsoon in Vietnam).
Rain is perfect weather for a memorial service. It sets a somber mood for what the day means to those who served. BBQ, beaches, fun, and a great deal on a mattress isnt what these days mean to me.
pwb
(11,287 posts)There are so many. Thanks.
Victor_c3
(3,557 posts)But Im fundamentally a jerk and couldnt resist being more correct.
pwb
(11,287 posts)Read your profile. It saved my ass. Peace bud.
Hermit-The-Prog
(33,414 posts)Sen. Tammy Duckworth dubbed him Cadet Bone Spurs. He's earned no promotion.
(Just a minor nit I had to pick).
pwb
(11,287 posts)They can pinch.
Hermit-The-Prog
(33,414 posts)He's an embarassment to civilians; I can only imagine how vets feel.
George II
(67,782 posts)Maine-i-acs
(1,499 posts)when it was raining in Vietnam during their tours?