Vietnam, A Personal Journey

Vietnam Dog Tags.com ^ | Stacey

[Snow Bunny]

Thank you Johnny for your fabulous post.

[terilyn]

Thanks for the ping JG!

[Snow Bunny]

Thank you again Jen for this thread!!!!
Jen there is nothing wrong with this thread. It is informative and who cares if this information has been done before in a thread. For one thing each time is a remindeer of those that gave and served our country. I thank you sooooo much for your thread today.

And Thank you Johnny for your wonderful posts. Love you both.

[Victoria Delsoul]

Thanks for the ping.

Outstanding post, Jen. Thanks for sharing it with us.

[Jen]

Thanks friends!

[rockfish59]

I'm sure many are fake and the commies are typical scammers
(funny how they love the American green though, ain't it?) You hear me, Hanoi Jane?
But it's a noble try and she seems to be doing more than any of our politicians.
The line of people to see 'Uncle Ho' just shows you that communism is NOT dead by a long shot.
I'm sure that the genocide against the Montagnards continues and a peep is never heard from the so- called 'human rights' groups. Hypocrite bastards!

My brother (On the right) at Cu-Chi (1966)

[rockfish59]

You've got the right screen name!

[killjoy]

But it's a noble try and she seems to be doing more than any of our politicians.

What exactly should our politicians be doing then?

[JLO]

Hey, I don't think you're a killjoy, just someone with a good memory! There were two guys who did the same type of thing a year or so ago and this was the outcome. http://www.snopes.com/military/dogtags.htm (Sorry, I don't do correct links here, but you can get there from here, I think.)

Not to put this woman down in the story or anything, trying to do similar, but she wasn't the first one to do it. It's a wonderful idea. But, like you said, killjoy - I think the chances of finding real ones are very slim. JLO

[Inspector Harry Callahan]

‘The bravest man I ever knew’

[rintense]

IHC! Where've ya been??? I've missed you!

[rintense]

This is wonderful. One person CAN make a difference in the lives of many. God bless all of our Vietnam Vets!

[ArneFufkin]

Backpacking from the South to the Northwest Highlands of Lao Cai almost into China, provided a rare opportunity to experience the smiling faces of the Hill Tribes people of Sapa, their handmade hemp clothing, and the absolute beauty of as many shades of green the eye can possibly perceive, lining the tiered landscapes, which no photo could capture

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This story has a few plot holes in it.

Am I unclear, or does "backpacking" denote hiking? I took a cursory look at a map of Vietnam, and it is about 1400 miles from Saigon to Lao Cai on the Chinese border. If the author walked 4 miles an hour, it would have taken her 350 hours, or 35 days walking 10 hours a day just to get up there. That's 70 days round trip if she just walked every day - in dry weather. Add 20 days of torrential rain or site seeing, that's a three month getaway ... on a vacation that was originally planned as a two week stint with a stop in Thailand. Hell, she made better time than Patton's Third Army thundering on Bastogne!

I wonder if the Vietnamese guy she blew off immediately upon landing in Saigon had any flash of worry cross his mind when she wasn't back from her two week getaway after 2 1/2 months or so?

I laughed at the comment that she wasn't the type to talk to strangers, much less accept a ride from one. Backpacking alone through a rainy, densely jungled, Communist country she had never before visited and whose language she couldn't speak? Sure, but hopping on the back of a moped piloted by a quickly summoned woman ...

She also picked up an authentic Ted Williams rookie baseball card from that same guy in Hue. Surprisingly, Williams was wearing a Montreal Expos uniform! I never knew Teddy Baseball broke into the bigs with that club. Not to mention that Ted Williams was Asian.

[Euro-American Scum]

Bump and thank you Jen ( AntiJen) for this wonderful thread.

Roger that. And thank you Bunny for all you do on our behalf.

Recently, I've got the itch to jump again -- probably because the time is fast approaching when I'll be too old and feeble to do it at all -- and have been inquiring about sky diving out of Perris, California. I never did free-fall, only static line jumps, so this will be something new for this old geezer.

A colleague at work remarked to me that at the rate I'm revisitng yesterday, it won't be long until I'll be flying the friendly skies back to Vietnam.

Never happen, I told him. But then, I never thought I'd get the urge to jump out of a perfectly good airplane again, either.

[ArneFufkin]

I did my first jump this summer ... it's a "must do" item to check off as "DONE" on the life ledger.

Hmmm ... I note that my "Salma Hayek" check-box is yet empty.

[Euro-American Scum]

Airborne! (On both counts.)

[JustPiper]

Thank you so much for the ping for another feel good story!