true vietnam war stories

Complicity is the truest war story of all, which is why a blood-drenched movie like Apocalypse Now tells only half the true war story. I don't think he saw the s -- in Vietnam that he … It is about the heart of darkness over there, in the jungle where the white man discovers that he, too, is a savage, the heart of darkness beating within him.

These stories from the Vietnam War will break your heart. Ehrhart, left, in October 1967 near Quang Tri, Vietnam, and today. Three Vietnam War Veterans Share Their Stories W.D. War in many ways is the “gift” that keeps on giving. “Bill” Ehrhart joined the U.S. Marines when he was 17. SOLDIERS TELL TRUE STORIES OF THEIR WAR.

1 / 9. Others tried whatever they could to forget – alcohol and drugs usually, but in the long run that only messed them up worse.

Still others simply went insane and parted ways with reality. The place was Quang Nam province in the mountainous northern region of South Vietnam. Andrew deGrandpre and Tony Lombardo. At aged 20, I dropped out of University and sound employment to join the New Zealand Army to fulfil a boyhood dream of “being a soldier”. About The Author – Brian Wilson I am a 73 year old Vietnam Veteran. Thousands of Vietnam veterans ended their own lives rather than live with the memory of it. It was more than that. A Gruesome but Fantastic War Story The time was September 1968. The chaplain said prayers over the body parts. Vox_Invisibilis. initiation to a combat unit — the differences between veterans and “cherries” — the ordeal of pulling guard at night — “Hand Grenade” Brown’s trick — a skirmish erupts — Lt. Pape uses me as a guinea pig The War Dance (May, 1967), by Richard Dieterle November 23, 2016 .

I have several, but I’ll go with a story from the barracks since that seems to be a …