Recent Posts Tagged With 'vietnam'

• DON'T YOU DARE FORGET THEM!

  Posted on Monday May 25th, 2009 at 00:00 in vietnam, memorial day

  It's been 43 years since I was in Vietnam on Memorial Day. We had hot dogs and hamburgers even then...you do the same. I salute all the vets out there and even those that weren't!...

• NOT A DAY GOES BY…

  Posted on Saturday May 24th, 2008 at 21:01 in vietnam, veterans, memorial day

  As much as it pains me, there isn’t a day that goes by that I don’t remember. On this Memorial Weekend, I remember those that I lost and those that we’ve all lost. Thank God you were born American. Thank God for those that made/m...

• COMING HOME

  Posted on Wednesday December 5th, 2007 at 07:00 in vietnam, air force security police, security police

  I intend not to go into too much detail about my relationship with my first wife. Connie is the mother of my only son, in whom, I’m very pleased (Matthew 3:17), and will always be so.Since it is possible that she and her husband, as well as my son...

• SAIL ON SILVER GIRL

  Posted on Monday December 3rd, 2007 at 07:00 in vietnam, security police, da nang, figmo, short timer

  Do you remember the song “Bridge over Troubled Waters”, by Simon and Garfunkel? Part of the hook in the song goes,“Sail on silver girl,your time has come to shine,all your dreams are on their way,see how they fly,”It is one that I will always...

• SWEEPING OUT THE CORNERS OF MY MIND - 2

  Posted on Wednesday November 28th, 2007 at 07:00 in vietnam, air force security police, security police, da nang, vc kill card

  I am preparing to leave Vietnam - still attempting to sweep out the corners of my mind. However, I have few documenting photos left to illustrate my memories. Just thoughts, wispy memories of things I saw and that will always be there waiting to be...

• SWEEPING OUT THE CORNERS OF MY MIND - 1

  Posted on Monday November 26th, 2007 at 09:07 in vietnam, air force security police, security police, da nang

  It is hard for me to come to terms with the fact that it has been over forty-one years since I left Vietnam (at this writing – Nov. ’07). If I may borrow a few lines from Bob Seger: Twenty(forty)years nowWhere'd they go?twenty (forty)yearsI ...

• PLEASE GOD, JUST LET ME DIE

  Posted on Tuesday November 6th, 2007 at 07:00 in vietnam, air force security police, da nang

  Staying sane in Vietnam was very hard because there was little to do. During the time I was stationed at Da Nang, the Air Force was restricted to base. I never got to go downtown and really experience Vietnam as a tourist. I spent a lot of my of...

• IF ROCKETS WERE NOT ENOUGH

  Posted on Sunday November 4th, 2007 at 07:00 in crash, vietnam, air force security police, security police, da nang, fred cone, c-141

  Fred Cone probably still tells the tale about a Da Nang takeoff attempt, in 1967, which almost killed him. How could the Marine A-6 pilot forget the night his aircraft, which was carrying 500 lb. bombs, hit a C-141 transport carrying acetylene tanks...