Joe Galloway: Belatedly, Some Thanks for Viet Vets

©2005 Military Advantage ^ | April 7 , 2005 | Joe Galloway

[clintonh8r]

Thanks for the article and the ping!

Semper fi!

[redrock]

I've written it before...(usually around Memorial Day)...but we never wanted glory...or statues built in our honour.

We went because our Country asked....and all we have ever wanted was a "Thank You".

Because in the end we did not fight for glory.

We fought for our Country...our families...and, most of all, we fought for each other.

Because, that part of our souls that we left 'there'....keeps us bound to one another as nothing else could.

redrock

[brazzaville]

Good evening.

Galloway was marked by Vietnam just as much as the war fighters were. Some noncombatants, like Joe Galloway, Tim Page and Michael Herr saw Vietnam in ways that Dan Rather, Morley Safer and john kerry never quite understood.

Some, like Bernard Fall and the POW Galloway writes about paid their price back in the day and some pay now but everyone pays. For some the price is too high.

Michael Frazier

[68-69TonkinGulfYachtClub]

"I've written it before...(usually around Memorial Day)...but we never wanted glory...or statues built in our honour"

Your Memorial Day Threads Brother

MEMORIAL DAY--Thread One--"Discussions With a One-Legged Man"
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1141564/posts

MEMORIAL DAY--Thread Two--"My Daddy's Finally Home..."
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1142082/posts

MEMORIAL DAY--Thread Three--"The Bodybags of Afghanistan and Iraq"--(Roger's Story)
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1142776/posts

MEMORIAL DAY--Thread Four--"Welcome Home"
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1143426/posts

MEMORIAL DAY--Thread Five--"The Luckiest Boy in the World"
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1144225/posts

MEMORIAL DAY--Thread Six--"The Betrayal of the American Soldier"
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1144923/posts

MEMORIAL DAY--Thread Seven--Final--"Fall's The Night"
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1145420/posts

[dcwusmc]

By "THIS" Vietnam Vet, I meant me... but Joe Galloway is a Vietnam Vet in every way that matters.

[octobersky]

Great article by Joe Galloway. Thanks for the ping. I'm going to have to buy his book, We Were Soldiers Once... And Young one of these days.

[brazzaville]

Good evening.
"...I believe that to be called a Vietnam Vet, one has to have been in the military."

I believe that there are many veterans of the war who never heard a shot fired or saw the elephant.

I consider my mother to be one. She watched her 18 year old only child go to Vietnam and put up with me extending three times. When the Air Force sent a couple of officers to notify her neighbor's wife that she was a widow they accidentally came to our house. That was worse for her than anything I experienced was for me and she still gets shaken when she thinks about it.

My wife lost three friends from high school in the summer of '68. She wrote to several other soldiers until she married her first husband, a green shirt on the Oriskany. He came back from his third cruise a different man and their marriage became a casualty of the war.

For the last 18 years she has had to put up with a deranged lurp.

Everyone pays.

Michael Frazier

[cibco]

Gary Owen ping!

[Alamo-Girl]

Thanks for the ping!

[ALOHA RONNIE]

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Because...

Sacrifice begets Sacrifice:


MEL's -PASSION- sparked by -WE WERE SOLDIERS-

http://www.Freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1085111/posts

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[BIGLOOK]

We lost good men during and after the conflict. Only to see a real looser succeed.

Defeat Kerry! Massachusetts is the next political battleground.

[Liberty Valance]

Thanks for posting this story FMChick. Joe Galloway is still telling the Soldier's story...as it should be.

Never Forget.

[Former Military Chick]

You are most welcome. I know Galloway has been not at his best months past but this essay makes up for it. I hope he will listen to his fan's and reevaluate what he chooses to write about in the future.

Thanks for the kind words.

[Eastbound]

Bump!

[Pajamajan]

"Nam Vets Rock!! Your Country let you down, you didn't let your Country down!!"

Exactly.

What a heartbreaking story. It's awful that our Viet Nam Vets were put through such heartless treatment by a bunch of spoiled, self-centered, hateful cowards, on top of what they had already endured during the war :-(

A great big, heartfelt

THANK YOU

AND

GOD BLESS YOU

TO ALL VIET NAM VETS!

We can also thank Nam vets for protecting current vets from shabby treatment too, because they stood up and reminded people of just how wrong it was to treat them that way.

Another way they help in our current WOT is to ensure that the press doesn't get away with slanted reporting, since they understand first hand, just how much damage biased reporting can do.
(Special thanks to our own Jim Rob and Swift Boat vets)

Speaking of people treating Nam vets badly-Didn't Jane Fonda "apologize" to the Nam vets back in the 80's when she was selling exercise videos? What's she selling now, a book? Has she ever "apologized" when she's NOT trying to sell something?( Anyone can see she's a traitor, even if she was never prosecuted.)

It might be some solace for Nam Vets to know that they are the true patriots, and honorable people, who stood by their country, even in the worst of times.

Fonda and the rest of the hippies are pathetic losers who stand for nothing, and that's all they ever will be.

[GloriaJane]

Thanks for the ping!

And may I add, "Thank You! Thank You All For Your Service"