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That 2 blade helicopter noise seems to resonate in the bones. This was made by Michigan Vietnam Vets, but it says it all for every Vietnam Vet. Share it with a Vietnam Vet or a family that may have lost a Dad, Brother, Uncle or Son...I thought they did an excellent job on this. Touching, I suspect in the future this theme will be shown over and over again for each conflict. This is one of the better Vietnam videos made by and for Michigan Vietnam Veterans, but I believe all of you will appreciate this. This story could be retold by 49 other states and territories as well. If you know a Vietnam Veteran consider sending this link to them. http://www.v-prod.com/trailer_vietnam.html | ||
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whump, whump, whump... thanks for posting this. We did accomplish one thing, we have insured that no generation of servicemen and women will ever be treated like we were again. Rich Co2/Co/G 75th Inf | |||
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I have probably been thanked for my RVN service more in the past 10 years than in the previous 30 years combined. I simply reply "You're welcome" or thank them for appreciating my service. I used to say "It was my pleasure" but that really seemed to mess with their minds. 3rdMarDiv 1966-67 Semper Fi Mike ______________ DSC DRSS (again) SCI Life NRA Life Sables Life Mzuri IPHA "To be a Marine is enough." | |||
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Thanks for the link. Semper Fi | |||
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To this day, I can't hear a Huey...somewhere off in the distance...whump-whump-whump...without looking up in a completely involuntary movement...then feeling a sense of instantaneous RELIEF that goes something like.."oh yea...we don't NEED this one". For myself, I ride to The Wall every year on Memorial Day and pay respects my brothers enshrined there. This pic. is from the 2010 Rolling Thunder Run. IMHO...the Women's Memorial Statue is a powerful reminder. If you've ever had to try and help a brother hang-on, hearing the incoming slick...whump-whump-whump...desparately searching the sky.... Damn...got something in my eye. I'll just stop now. | |||
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That's powerfull. Thank you all for your service! . | |||
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Thanks for the link. I can not recall how many times I have watched the video. Living in a rural area along the I-35 corridor, I often hear the Huey flying up and down the interstate, some are converted into air ambulances and others, I don’t know. Still, there is that unmistakable thump of the blades. Listening to the Huey, I have often wondered for how many, that was the last sound they heard… "We Don't Rent Pigs !" | |||
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Nothing has that sound. Glad they are about extinct. The Lifeflights are close as their blades have sound that is a sense of urgency unlike any other helicopter. Don't limit your challenges . . . Challenge your limits | |||
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Yep, nothing like a Huey's whump, whump, whump of its blades to remind a Vietnam Vet of some memory. For me, I immediately think of the day I drove my S-2 intel captain to our 9th Division Base camp at Dong Tam to attend a meeting. I parked the jeep to wait where I was in clear view of the base hospital. With depressing regularity a Medivac Huey would land near it and the wounded on them would be quickly transported inside. That was a long morning for me. 30 or so years later, I'm at my workbench under a covered parking at my home and I hear the Hueys approaching. Soon saw 5 of them flying in formation past my home. I immediately became depressed by their sight, thinking about Nam and my experiences there. So happend, a couple of months later I attend a party held at a small airport. Sitting in the hanger where the party is held is a Huey and its owner is wearing a Vietnam era flight suit, wearing a Lt Col rank. We were asked to wear some kind of military garb, so I had on a jungle fatigue top I still had. We will talk and he asked if recognized the Huey....of course I replied, then recounted the 5 Huey flyover near my home and how there sight had depressed me. He will look down, shake his head and then tell me I'd seen him and 4 of his fellow huey pilots from Nam, that had a reunion and decided to fly around Houston area. Then he will tell me of receiving a phone call from the Houston Veteran's hospital within a week after his flyover and being asked if he knew anything about 5 hueys flying over and around Houston. He admitted to the Veteran Hospital person that he and his Nam buddies had done it. Verterans person told him they had been flooded with Vietnam Vets having flashback problems/depression caused by his flyover....don't do it again. | |||
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spent 40 years or so trying to forget the entire thing. don't need reminders | |||
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xgrunt, thanks for the link. Contrary to some information contained in the trailer......When all of the refridgerated aluminum coffins were filled, the body bags were staked like firewood outside of Graves Registration on the DMZ. Flights were sometimes delayed going in and out. Don't ask me what happened, when I left Viet Nam, we were winning. | |||
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